This page is about connecting with other areas of learning and gaining new experiences and information because of the interchange.  You will find our colloquy themes on this page as we connect with the field of Roman culture, history, values and philsophy and ask what this has to do with our lives. You will also find my notes on Power.  We will discuss and work at using our power in authentic and challenging ways over the year.  Here's the way it works.

MINERVA: The goddess of wisdom, medicine, the arts, science, trade and war.

Certamen--Latin Culture and History Contest Questions
Use the following links to prepare for contests that we are participating in this year.
Certamen Questions (Virginia)
Certamen Questions Database (Duncan's)

Colloquy Themes
A colloquy is a discussion.  From time to time we will hold organized discussions around a theme in our classroom.  These themes should relate somehow to our study of Latin and Roman culture, but they may also be very related to our life today.  They may be themes from PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, LANGUAGE, ECONOMICS, ENTERTAINMENT, RELATIONSHIPS, SPORTS, HEALTH, and so forth.  If you have a topic you would like to discuss, let me know, and we will start making our list here.

• Values: What values help you survive in your world?  If a value helps you survive, then you will be interested in preserving it and passing it on.  This is true of human experience, in general.  Click here for a page of notes on the early Roman values that grew Rome from a small farming village into a massive empire.

Latin and Rome in Coweta County
A place for photographs of statues and architecture in Coweta County that are influenced by Greco-Roman styles.
A list of mottoes found around Coweta County that are in Latin.
 

Mr. Patrick's Power Plan

Over the years I have done workshops all over the place in which the models below are the key.  We all have power (def. the capacity to affect).  The question is how we use our power.  Our culture teaches one kind of power, power-over, and it is destructive. We all know how to do it. There is another kind of power, power-with, which is authentic and it is creative.  Look at the models below and see how it works.  There is no place where the power-with model cannot be used.  I use it in my classroom.
 

POWER

 

OVER	Kind	WITH
Fear	Motivation	Love:going the extra mile for the good of another
With rules		With invitations
With Punishment	How we do it	With participation
With rewards		With sharing
Isolation: I am alone	Results	Community: I belong

Probationes Verborum

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