Encounter the ancient Roman practice of augury, or bird divination entirely in Latin!
Marcus, a young Roman boy, couldn t care less about birds or their significance, even if they convey the divine will of Jupiter himself! He d much rather train as a Roman soldier, just like his dad Titus. His dad, however, has other plans: he has arranged for Marcus to learn the ins and outs of interpreting bird signs from skilled augur Lucius. As Marcus finds, deciphering the gods plans for the future is hard enough will he and his dad ever be able to come to an understanding about his own future?
Using fewer than 150 unique Latin words, this Encounter Latin novella introduces an important aspect of ancient Roman religion while exploring a multifaceted father-son relationship. Evocative illustrations and a variety of text supports make the story readily comprehensible to novice learners. An introduction by Dr. Robert Patrick, drawing on his decades of experience teaching Latin, explains the pedagogical underpinnings of the text and describes how novellas can be used to further language acquisition.
Special Features
- Original artwork
- Introduction describing ways to use novellas in the Latin classroom
- A Latin-to-English glossary listing all inflected forms used in the text along with standard dictionary entries
- An overview of repeated grammar structures with examples
Emma Vanderpool has been teaching Latin since 2017 two years at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a year at Trickum Middle School in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and now back in her beloved New England at Springfield Honors Academy, Springfield, MA. Vanderpool earned her Bachelor of Arts in Latin, Classics, and History from Monmouth College in Illinois and her Master of Arts in Teaching for Classical Humanities from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Among her awards, Vanderpool is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from UMASS Amherst (2019) and was honored as the Lincoln Laureate for Monmouth College (2017). She serves on the Executive Board for Ascanius: The Youth Classics Institute and the Classical Association of New England and is an organizer for Lupercal. She has self-published nine novellae and is pleased to be an author for Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Explore Latin: Av s (2020) and Encounter Latin: Augury Is for the Birds: Marcus de Avibus Discit (2020)
