In Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum, Maria Mitchell, the first female professor of astronomy in the United States, narrates and describes the solar system and then tells a short myth about the Roman god or goddess about who is the planet’s namesake. Each page alternates a scientific explanation with a myth.
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Sample for Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum
Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Astronomia contains a two-page spread from the novella, covering non-fiction text about the planet Jupiter and a short myth covering the birth of Minerva. For more information about the novella, including all the myths covered in the novella, visit this post.
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Protected: Week 1: Introducing Maria Sibylla Merian’s Life and Legacy
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Sample for Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis
Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis contains two pages of the novella. These pages introduce the reader to the narrator, which occurs after four pages of vocabulary and pictures to orient readers to the vocabulary in the novella. It contains all the images used in the novella as well as the glossed vocabulary.
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The Index Verborum for Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis
Although Bombax Press typically includes both indices and dictionaries for Latin novellas, Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis differs from this precedent. Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis contains an Index Verborum, and some words are grouped together in order to conserve space and reduce the cost of printing in color. This then reduces the overall cost of the book. The complete Index Verborum for Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis is reproduced here. The Index Verborum provides readers with the opportunity to look up any word form that is unfamiliar.
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Romana Cena
What did Romans eat for dinner? How did Roman dinners differ depending on socioeconomic status? To follow the readings and activities for Romanum Prandium and Romanum Ientaculum, we introduced some common dinner vocabulary to teach about the Romana Cena. We aren’t teaching synchronous classes to our students, so we created videos and short readings for our students to allow for repetition of the vocabulary. We introduced the students to the list of vocabulary. Students watched a short video on Cena Coreana and read about the cena Magistri Smith. Students also watched my husband’s video (with outtakes) and read his story. I also made a video about dinner, with outtakes, and…
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Romanum Prandium
What did the Romans eat for lunch? To follow our discussion of Romanum Ientaculum, we introduced students to common lunch-related vocabulary and taught about the Romanum Prandium. We aren’t teaching synchronous classes to our students, so we created videos and short readings for our students to allow for repetition of the vocabulary. There are four of us in our upper schools, so we each had a hand in creating the reading and listening materials. We introduced the lesson with a video aimed at our novice students, which included the food labeled with post-its. If you’re looking for a harder video, there’s also a Coquamus video with some of this same…
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Romanum Ientaculum
Like every other teacher, we have also changed our expectations to match the realities of a pandemic and virtual teaching at our school. We had been preparing as a department to teach Via Periculosa with our students. We ultimately decided to scrap reading it online with the hope that we would be able to better teach it in the fall–whatever that may look like. The solution we came up with was to talk about travel, which would have been our segway into Via Periculosa, and food. Let’s start by talking about the Romanum Ientaculum, the Roman breakfast.
