Friday October 25, 2024
Binghamton University
University Downtown Center (UDC), room 220
8:30-9:30 am Registration (UDC Atrium) and Continental Breakfast (UDC 220A/B)
9:30-10:30 am Session A (UDC 220A/B)
David Pellegrino
In this workshop you will incorporate methods that you already know with some new ones to help students read Latin better with scaffolding (catered to your own students’ needs) along the way. Let’s finally be honest that we need to find more level-appropriate authentic Latin so that there is no longer a chasm between textbook Latin and Latin written by Roman authors. Whether you teach beginning Latin or upper-level Latin, let’s discuss ways to help all students feel success in reading authentic Latin.
10:45-11:45 am Session B (UDC 220 A/B)
Bill Heller
Designing Interpersonal Speaking Tasks for Locally Developed Checkpoint A Benchmark Assessments
Using the documents Principles and Guidelines for Adopting or Creating Locally Developed Benchmark Assessments for Checkpoint A and the Guidelines for Writing Quality Assessment Items as a framework, this session will offer practical advice for designing Interpersonal speaking tasks for locally developed Checkpoint A Benchmark Assessments aligned to the Revised NYS Learning Standards for Classical Languages. In addition to going over the guidance documents, participants will critically examine some sample tasks and consider a draft scoring rubric aligned with the Master Rubrics document.
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch and CAES Business Meeting (UDC 220A/B)
1:00-2:00 pm Session C (UDC 220A/B)
Brian Serwicki
2:15-3:15 pm Session D (UDC 220A/B)
Shenendehowa Latin Program
Integrating the New Standards in Classroom Practice
The Shenendehowa Latin teachers have been integrating the new standards into their curriculum since they were released. One of the most challenging aspects of the new standards is how to assess students. Therefore, they will present rubrics for each checkpoint A, B, and C that are useful to both teachers and learners. Speaking, listening, reading and writing will be discussed. They will present on assessments and the use of rubrics that are aligned to the new standards and provide resources for teachers to develop their own materials. They will discuss how the standards apply at the Checkpoint A, B, and C levels in both the middle and high school.
3:30-4:30 pm Session E (UDC 220A/B)
John H. Starks, Jr.
Mime, Women, and Song: Female Voices and Bodies in Hellenic Performance Culture
While men, as we have long been taught, were performing all roles in 5th/4thc. BCE Athenian comedy and tragedy, women were also performing as singers, dancers, choristers, and mimes in many venues and “genres” around the Hellenic-speaking Mediterranean—including later in some of those tragedies and comedies. Widely scattered vases, inscriptions, papyri, mosaics, graffiti, and literary texts attest to these performers and their performances across a long continuum of theater history. Highly skilled female performers of Hellenic ethnic and performance heritage are attested, recognized, and rewarded with honors as “multi-talented” (polyidris: Theocritus 15.96-146), essential leaders for civic success (Polygnota: FD3.249), victors in children’s singing competition (Hedea: FD3.1.534.2), popular favorites in the theater (Kyrilla—EKMBeroia399), and like Sappho the “Tenth Muse” (IG 14.2342; Agathias AP7.612) in public festivals and private symposia across centuries of rapt spectatorship.