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Altamont Classics


Last year 80% of our students received some commendation on the National Latin Exam.  Altamont students earned twice as many state titles as our nearest peer at Alabama Junior Classical League Convention.  We continue to lead the state as the premier Classics program in Alabama and our attendance and placements at the National convention the past two years marks us as a program of distinction that can compete and collaborate with students anywhere.     
  
With all that out of the way, I'm most thankful for your approach to the study of antiquity.  I wouldn't call Latin and Greek difficult, but they aren't easy either.  Our younger students work diligently to master enough of the languages so as older students we gain a deep appreciation and understanding of our nature through these classical texts.  They're classics because they're good, not just because they're old.  I almost can't believe we get to grapple with the human condition on a daily basis in the upper levels.  It's sustaining and refreshing.    

As always, I’m appreciative for your interest but not surprised.  Studying the Classics is one of life’s pleasures; foundational yet innovative, challenging and fun, Latin and Greek are the keys to enjoying the most outlandish histories and most expressive poetry the world has produced.

Important Dates
15-17 September GREEK FESTIVAL
5 November MOBILE REGIONAL CONVENTION (optional)
12 November CERTAMEN TOURNAMENT @ ALTAMONT
12 December EXAM WEEK
20 January AJCL CONVENTION REGISTRATION DEADLINE
3 February CLASSICAL LITERACY EXAM
24-25 February AJCL CONVENTION @SAMFORD
15 March (Ides of March!) NATIONAL LATIN EXAM
25 May GRADUATION

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Links for Altamont Classics 

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The Alabama Junior Classical League: 
http://alabamajcl.weebly.com/

Cool Comic of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter with excellent translation by Nagy: 
http://glynnisfawkes.wordpress.com/homeric-hymn-to-demeter-2/

Latin Core Vocabulary: http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list

American School, Athens: 
http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/publications/hesp-open-access
 
From the alma mater: http://wheatoncollege.edu/classics/resources/ 

Great stuff: http://mythfolklore.net/

Roman art and architecture slide show: http://www.csun.edu/art/05/faculty/Wyshak/Roman%20Final%20review.ppt.pdf
Cool kids know all of these.

Learn how to make a proper toga and tunic with the measurement engine: http://rabbitoriginals.com/toga/
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Toga.html

Directions for the Stola and Palla: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~chrisandpeter/radical_romans/female/female.htm
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~lwittie/sca/garb/
http://www.roman-empire.net/society/soc-dress.html

The cheap and cheerful toga pattern (it isn't great but it works): http://www.theweebsite.com/earlygarb/images/toga.gif

Visit Athens...or wherever:  http://www.stoa.org/metis/index.html

Get ready for a new way to translate: http://nodictionaries.com/

Be ready for class projects with Google Earth!!  Download it now.  http://earth.google.com/

Fun and Games: http://www.lnm.bolchazy.com/lnmstudents.html

Mythology just got fun.  Move over, Edith: http://www.clewpublishing.com/

Dive Deeper into the Lacus Curtius: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html

Don't forget to sign up for the Certamen Team!!  Learn this: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/certamen/certamenquestions.html

Listen to the Geezer: http://oyc.yale.edu/classics

Image Databases: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/arthistresources.html#imagedirectories

Know your Praxiteles from your Polykleitos : http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/

What's a soffit?  He keeps talking about soffits...and guttae!!   http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menuglossary/INDEX.HTM

Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman

Giotto lives: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceitaly.html#Italy13-14

Going to Egypt any time soon? : http://egitalloyd.com/about%20us.htm

Classical internet resources: http://web3.cc.utexas.edu/depts/classics/links.html

Your easy guide to hairstyles:  http://www.beastcoins.com/Topical/RomanWomen/RomanWomen.htm

Did you leave your dictionary at school? http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform

I can't believe they posted it!  Best pasta in Rome that Katia and Cristiano didn't make: http://www.lamatriciana.it/ricetta.shtm 

Konstantinos Kavafes, modern Greek poetry: http://www.cavafy.com/poems/list.asp?cat=1

Reminders

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1.  All classes are based on total points. 
2.  Don't lie, cheat or steal or curse or do anything that ain't jaunty.  The Honor Code is omnipresent...like a Jove.   
3.  I endeavour to return all assignments the next day.  This is especially true with tests.  Student grades are accurate to the week.
4. All Latin tests will occur at the end of each rotation.  I will always shoot for G day on the rotation calendar but will always be flexible.  History tests will fall roughly every two rotations.   
5.  If you make below a 68, I will give you half the points you missed back up to a 70 if you rework the test with me and then prepare a one page biography on a person we both deem fit.  So if you make a 60, then do the work, you wind up with a 65.  The rationale behind this is twofold: a) one bad test won't sink you and b) you learn the material on the back end of the test insead of before hand.  It's easier just to do the work in the first place or come to me with questions before the test. 

6.  Each class will have one major assessment per rotation and no more than four quizzes.  Expect homework, reading, or an assignment every night.

News


Follow the debate for the restoration of the Elgin Marbles: http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/parthenon-marbles
 
Simply transliterate to help save the past of Greek Egypt: http://ancientlives.org/

Ultra distance running at its best:  http://www.spartathlon.gr/main.php

Great exhibition in New York about Byzantine Icon painting and the Origin of El Grecohttp://onassisusa.org/occ.art.htm

Learn Modern Greek!!  This is a nifty site:  http://www.greeklanguagetutor.com/

More news about Pavlopetri: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/mysteries-of-worlds-oldest-sunken-town-20091017-h23s.html

Go to the Pistachio Festival:  http://www.aeginafistikifest.gr/online/

Watch the Parthenon evolve, or devolve, from 439 BC to Elgin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-0PLz-5u7A

Oldest copy of the New Testament has just been e-released: http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/

Brush up your Classics.  Take the Quiz http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/2009/06/do-you-need-a-better-classical-education-take-our-quiz.html
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