An Easter Hymn

For those that didn't take their sheet home with them:

Song: O Filii et Filiae

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Men:
O filii et filiae,
Rex coelestis, Rex gloriae
morte surrexit hodie. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Women:
Et Maria Magdalene,
et Iacobi, et Salome
Venerunt corpus ungere. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Men:
In albis sedens angelus
praedixit mulieribus:
In Galilea est Dominus. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Women:
Discipulis astantibus,
in medio stetit Christus,
dicens: Pax vobis omnibus. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

A Canon lawyer encourages the study of Latin

For everyone.

Winning Drawing at the WJCL

Winning Cerberus Costume

The Latin Club's Prize-Winning Catapult

WJCL Latin Convention - GMCHE Results

The GMCHE Latin Club or it's Various Members Received the Following Recognitions at the 50th annual Wisconsin Junior Classical League State Convention in Madison:

WJCL Scholarship

Spirit Award, Small Schools - first place

War Machines - first place

Costume - couple - third place

Costume - boys - first place

Door Decoration Contest - second place

Scrapbook - third place

Group T-Shirt - seventh place

Drawing - first place

Impromptu Essay - Level 1 - 10th place
Level 2 - 10th place
Level 3 - 6th place

Written Test Place Results (Member scores falling among the top ten scores of all those who took the particular test):

Level One:

Latin Derivates - 5th place, 7th place

Latin Literature - 7th place

Mythology - 1st place

Pentathalon - 3rd place

Reading Comprehension - 8th place

Roman History - 3rd place, 9th place

Roman Private Life - 7th place, 9th place

Vocabulary - 9th place


Level Two:

Greek Derivatives - 2nd place, 5th place

Greek History - 7th place, 10th place

Latin Derivatives - 3rd place, 6th place

Latin Literature - 10th place

Mythology - 3rd place, 8th place

Pentathalon - 3rd place

Reading Comprehension - 8th place, 9th place

Roman History - 5th place, 9th place

Roman Private Life - 4th place, 10th place

Vocabulary - 7th place

Level Three:

Grammar - 10th place

Greek History - 3rd place

Latin Derivates - 5th place

Latin Literature - 8th place

Mottos - 6th place

Mythology - 2nd place

Pentathalon - 2nd place

Reading Comprehension - 7th place

Roman History - 10th place

Roman Private Life - 10th place

Roman Holiday Party

Many thanks to all who made the Roman Holiday Party/Feast Day Celebration a great success - particularly Fabiola, Poseidon, Corvinus, Persephone and Philomena. Congratulations to Saints Sebastian and Daria for winning the costume contest and Fabiola for cooking the best dish (ham with a plum sauce). The skits were excellent and very entertaining. Special acting mentions should go to the gray sisters from team #2, "The Wind God", Fabiola, and Julius Caesar for their fine performances.

Please click here to see a few photos from the occasion.

Saturnalia/Solemnity party!

JOIN US FOR...

The Dead Language Latin Club
A Roman Holiday party at the J. and A. Van H's (e-mail jvanhecke@sbcglobal.net for directions)!
Saturday, December 8
1:00-4:00 p.m.

· Roman Feast
· Games
· Piñata
· Costume contest
· Skit
- Celebration of the Solemnity

If you are currently homeschooled, studying Latin, and in grades 7-12, this is just the thing for you! An afternoon filled with fun, food and games! Meet other kids who study Latin just like you. Dress and do as the Romans did! Please wear a Roman costume and bring a Roman dish to pass! (If you’re not sure what to wear or bake google “Roman food and dress”.)

To RSVP please contact Lauren (see directory)

Please click here to view photos of last year's party.

October Meeting

somebodies vs. nobodies

Victors:

Certamen: The Nobodies

Skit: The Somebodies

A New Generation Discovers Latin

After all, if we do witness an increase in the number of masses offered partly or mostly in Latin over the next generation, the recovery of this beautiful and richly meaningful practice will surely be aided by the growing numbers of children — including many children of Catholic families — studying the Latin language today. Why the upsurge in interest? Turns out Arrius Potterus (as he is known in the new Latin translation of Rowling's first book) gets a good deal of the credit. (more)

[Editor's note: I am not hereby endorsing reading Rowling's work! Anyone in my family or who reads my blog knows of my reserve about the Harry Potter series. I also don't think that Hogwarts has a classical curriculum, even if they use a lot of Latin. In fact, I think many of the problems in the stories stem from an alienation of the wizarding educational system from both classical and religious thought--very similar to the problems that beset our own educational system.]

Some neat online quizzes

Here. I found this on the Ohio State Latin page.

Now, why the cursor says "You go, girl," I don't know.

Perseus Project

"Perseus Classics Collection: An Overview
"The Perseus Classics collection began as an integrated collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Named for the Hellenic hero who explored the world to its most distant reaches, Perseus made it possible for specialists and non-specialists alike to move between traditionally distinct types of information, such as images and texts, and across traditionally distinct disciplines, such as classical archaeology and philology. Building on the success of the tools and resources developed for Ancient Greek source materials, the project expanded into the Roman world, with additional art and archaeology materials as well as new collections of Latin texts and tools.

"The collection contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps. Art and archaeology catalogs document a wide range of objects: over 1,500 vases, over 1,800 sculptures and sculptural groups, over 1,200 coins, hundreds of buildings from nearly 100 sites and over 100 gems. Catalog entries are linked to tens of thousands of images, many in high resolution, and have been produced in collaboration with many museums, institutions and scholars. Catalog information and keywords have been taken from standard sources, which are cited in the entries for each object.

"Numerous secondary sources supplement Perseus catalog entries. Prominent art and archaeology works include the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Attic vase paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, selections from Attic Document Reliefs: Art and Politics in Ancient Athens, by Carol L. Lawton, One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works, by Andrew Stewart, and more. All art and archaeology materials are extensively linked to the Perseus atlas, which contains over 5,000 classical sites.

"In addition to art and archaeology sources, essays, and tools, the classics collection features several hundred works of classical Greek and Roman authors, both in the original language and in translation. Moreover, Perseus has created a suite of powerful linguistic tools, all extensively linked to lexica, which permit the careful study of Greek and Latin. All word study tools are documented; please visit the help and information center for the latest information on the scope and functions of these tools. Text based secondary sources include Greek and Latin grammars, commentaries, and Thomas R. Martin's popular An Overview of Classical Greek History from Homer to Alexander, which acts both as an introduction to Greek History and an tool for accessing clasics resources in Perseus; it's a great place to begin exploring the classics collection.

"Nearly all the classics materials are interlinked and accessible from any given resource. For example, a user reading Julius Caesar's Gallic War in English, may wish to check the particular Latin word Caesar employs to describe a military formation. Simply by switching the version of the text, users may see the original Latin (De Bello Gallico) and select a word of interest. This word is linked to the word study tool for Latin, which presents information on the form of the word, gives a brief definition, and provides links to other tools, such as the dictionary and word frequency chart. Or, a student may wish to plot all of the sites Caesar mentions on the Perseus atlas. A link on every text page makes this available. Additionally, users can access art and archaeology information such as numerous coins which depict Julius Caesar."

Lisa M. Cerrato, Robert F. Chavez