Classical & Modern Languages | Cushing Academy

Classical & Modern Languages at @CushingAcademy, a private, coeducational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students. #PowerOfCushing

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Students leverage their French learning to give five minute presentations of their family trees to their classmates.

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Ms. Fralick spent the last week on an archaeological dig in Malta! The site is a Roman house (domus) and was first discovered in the early 1900s. Here are some action shots! She will bring back the knowledge to her students in the fall!! #CushingLatin #CushingFaculty #RollPens

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#Classics #RomanHolidays #FinalProjects #CushingLatin

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Ms. Fralick’s Latin classes celebrated the end of the year by completing projects on a few Roman Holidays!! Students had to create an informative poster and a physical representation related to the holiday!! Super creative kiddos!!

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A fun, creative way to end the year!

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Ms. V’s Spanish classes finished the year with a hands on soccer vocabulary lesson!! #CushingLanguage #VocabLearning #FinalWeek

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Ms. Fralick held a Roman Banquet for Latin 1 last week! There were an assortment of Roman breads, goat cheese, olives, grapes, and garum!! #RomanBanquet #HistoryandCulture #CushingLanguages #CushingLatin

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In Latin 2, Matt Haigh held down the fort with a Gold Summa Cum Laude! And finally, in Latin 3, Patrick Monahan and Sue Kim earned Gold Summa Cum Laude and Peter Wang earned Cum Laude! #NLE #CushingLatin #awardwinners #RollPens #PoweredByPeople @CushingLanguage @CushingAcademy

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THE RESULTS ARE IN!! #CushingLatin students, along with thousands around the world, took the National Latin Exam before Spring Break. Here are our award winners:
In Latin 1, Brady Horgan and Carolina Ortiz earned Magna Cum Laude and Dorothy Kuwana earned Cum Laude!

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Ms. Fralick’s Latin classes took the National Latin Exam today!! Latin students from around the world at every level take the exam! Hope to hear about some medals and certificates we won after the break!! #NLE #NationalLatinExam

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This Valentine’s Day, Latin 4/5 played a famous love lines matching game. The candy hearts have lines of Latin from famous authors like Ovid, Catullus, and Virgil. They then match the lines to their translations!

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Ms. Fralick’s Honors Latin 4/5 played some Latrunculi (Roman checkers) after writing some Thanksgiving cards in Latin! Hope you have a great break! Felicem Gratulationem!! #CushingLatin #PoweredByPeople #CushingLanguages

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Feliz Dia de los Muertos!! Check out the shrine in Señora Reinoso’s classroom!! #CushingSpanish #CushingLanguages #RollPens #PoweredByPeople

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Ms Fralick’s Latin 2 class needed a mental health day, so they played I Piscatum! (Go Fish!). They practiced asking and responding to questions, in Latin, and learned some new animal vocabulary words! #CushingLatin #PoweredByPeople #CushingLanguages

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modern Italy’s colatura di alici which was called garum (fermented anchovies) in Ancient Rome. It was THE MOST popular ingredient in their diet! The students were able to smell and taste this “liquid gold”!! #PoweredByPeople #CushingLatin #RomanFeast

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Ms Fralick hosted a Roman Feast in Latin 2 on Monday! She gave a presentation about common foods, cooking and prep, and eating out in the Roman world. Students were able to try foods that are as close as we can get to what they ate: a stew, grapes, olives, cheese, and…

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Ms. Fralick’s Latin 1 class had a Declension Competition today! The class was split into teams and one member from each team got up and declined a random noun. First done and correct wins a sesterce for their team! Some good fun to learn our noun endings!! #CushingLatin

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Congrats to Sarah Potter '20 on being named Holy Cross' Crusader of the Week!! #rollpens #CushingFH
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We’re glad to welcome Carmela back to campus, our remote student winner of the Cinco de Mayo Celebration draw from the academic year 2020-2021. We hope she continues to be committed to her Spanish learning experience and enjoys the goodie bag from all over Hispanic countries!!

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Lizzo and Cardi B’s new song pays homage to Classical mythology and Disney’s Hercules; Ms. Fralick is looking forward to discussing the imagery with her students in a couple weeks!