by Anne Rabe | Sep 24, 2020 | Classical Christian, Education, Elementary School, Private Schools, The Classroom, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Whitefield Academy’s New Latin Curriculum Caecilius est pater. Metella est mater. Quintus est filius. Thus begins the first textbook in Whitefield’s new Latin curriculum. This Latin is so simple that you probably don’t even need me to...
by Anne Rabe | Aug 27, 2020 | Classical Christian, Education, Elementary School, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Reading in Latin? That’s Legit Okay, for all of you who aren’t immediately cracking a smile at this blog post title, let me explain the humor: reading Latin is cool and impressive (duh!) and therefore “legit” in English slang, but legit...
by Anne Rabe | Jun 18, 2020 | Classical Christian, Education, Private Schools, Reading, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog What Does it Mean to Study Latin? Welcome to Latin story time, round two! Today we’re going to look at a tale most famously told in Livy’s enormous (yet fragmentary) work of Roman history, Ab Urbe Condita. Livy, our primary source for Rome’s...
by Anne Rabe | Jun 4, 2020 | Classical Christian, Education, Reading, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Whitefield’s New Latin Teacher: Why I Love Latin In August of 1995 I walked into Latin class for the first time. A native of Lawrence, I attended Lawrence High School and so was privileged to sit under the teaching of Dr. Anne Shaw who,...
by Anne Rabe | Feb 28, 2019 | Classical Christian, Education, Reading
Whitefield Academy Blog Latin and Greek: Why Study Them? Why do we study Latin and Ancient Greek? As a classicist, I have been asked this question countless times, and I can rattle off the standard answers – studying Latin and Greek beefs up students’ English...
