Resources for South Carolina Classics Teachers

Greek and Latin Text Sites

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Ancient History Sourcebook. Paul Halsall's site at Fordham University. An excellent place to find translated texts.

Latin Library. A terrific place to find Latin texts of most Roman authors. No more typing the Latin texts for tests!

Perseus Digital Library. Has translated and original Greek and Latin texts, dictionaries (including Liddell and Scott and Lewis and Short), and more.

TextKit: Greek and Latin Learning Tools. A site with primary texts in Latin and Greek in .pdf files, Greek and Latin grammars and other materials.

White Trash Scriptorium. A site with hypertext files (requires Windows) of various texts, notes, dictionaries, and commentaries. Also has an interesting place name list.

Textbook Help Sites

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Artes Latinae. A Yahoo discussion group for those using this series.

Cambridge Latin Course. Access to information about the series and the discussion group.

Classical and Christian Latin Teachers. A Yahoo support group designed for homeschoolers.

Ecce Romani. Another Yahoo discussion group.

Latin Study. A discussion group with subgroups including Wheelock's Latin Grammar, Caesar, Vergil, Tacitus, Medieval Latin and more.

Oxford Latin Course. The official site.

Teacher Resources

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AP Central. The advanced-placement pages of the College Board. The place to go for information on the Latin AP exam. Includes downloadable files and other information, including the AP audit. Be sure to check for syllabus changes and errata notices. You can also sign onto the AP Latin discussion list (very low volume).

Bryn Mawr Classical Review. An electronic review of books pertaining to the Classical world. One can search the archives, receive reviews via email, or write reviews.

Classics Technology Center. Free teaching and learning materials, systems, and applications. Updated regularly.

eLatin eGreek eLearn. Exchange your ideas on the role of technology in the Classics classroom here.

Free Latin. A site full of free resources for Latin teachers, including games, Powerpoints, audio files, texts, software, and movie.

LatinTeach. An invaluable help for lonely Latin teachers. There is a website and a high-volume discussion list, including searchable archives. You can have contact with Latin teachers around the world.

Rogueclassicism. David Meadow's Classics blog. Keep up to date on what's happening all over the world.

Silva Rhetoricae. Brigham Young's excellent site on figures of speech.

Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists. A searchable database of articles pertaining to Classics. A good first place to start research on most topics. Housed at the University of Toronto.

Resources for Graeco-Roman History

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De imperatoribus Romanis. A site containing scholarly biographies of the Roman emperors and their families, including stemmata and coinage.

Forum Romanum. An excellent place for students to begin their research on Roman topics.

Lacus Curtius. Bill Thayer's extensive and growing site, full of essential and esoteric information on the ancient world. Now with increasing numbers of dependably edited primary sources.

Stoa Consortium. A digital place for Classicists to meet.

VRoma (Virtual Roma). A virtual community for teaching and learning Classics, including virtual tours of the city of Rome.

K-12 Certification for Latin Teachers in SC

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As of 5/2009,

1. Latin teachers are not currently required to take the Praxis II subject examination in Latin in order to obtain certification in Latin. They are required to take the Praxis exam "Principals of Learning and Teaching."

2. Potential Latin teachers who have not pursued a traditional education cursus can still be certified to teach Latin via PACE. For complete information, check out the SC Teacher Quality Office.

3. National Board Certification is currently not being offered for Latin.

4. All public-school Latin teachers at the high-school level will be evaluated by the State Department on their implementation of performance-based instruction and assessment. To see the schedule by which schools will be assessed, click here.

5. All Latin teachers at public schools who wish to teach Advanced-Placement Latin will need to submit a syllabus for review to the College Board. To view their audit page, click here.