u/poissonperdu

▲ 8 r/latin

Latin Class for Kids

Salvete omnes! I'm about to start an after-school class introducing 8-10-year-olds to the Latin language, and could use some advice on where to turn for resources.

When I learned the language as a teenager, I largely used Wheelock before moving on to readers and primary texts; I know a lot of K-12 schools base their intro curriculum on Ecce Romani. This is going to be a less structured program, there are definitely no textbook orders in the works, and the key imperative will be to make Latin *fun*.

If anyone has experience with a program like this and can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it! Any source of inspiration will help me along this journey :-)

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u/poissonperdu — 23 hours ago
▲ 150 r/geology

How To Recognize Glacial Striations?

A little while ago someone posted an ordinary fractured rock here asking if it was scratched by glaciers. This got me wondering, how do you reliably recognize glacial striations? This outcrop, for instance, in Edinburgh, has a pattern on it that I could easily imagine to be glacially carved, but I expect you all will tell me it’s a bedding surface. Meanwhile a few miles away, I look all over Agassiz Rock and see nothing that would give me the insight that an Ice Age improbably occurred.

u/poissonperdu — 11 days ago
▲ 653 r/beaverton

Putting the 🦫 in Beaverton

Just spotted this friend along the Hall Creek path 😍 my first confirmed sighting here!

u/poissonperdu — 2 months ago
▲ 212 r/beaverton

They're coming for us.

First Waymo I've seen in PDX, and I was behind it all the way down Burnside/Barnes back home. It turned into the Peterkort shopping center at Cedar Hills.

I know some people love these things, but I think they're creepy.

u/poissonperdu — 3 months ago