Dr. Brenda Fields

Latin teacher, IB Educator, JCL sponsor, Gator🐊 Alumna, runner🏃🏻‍♀️, reader📖, yogi🧘🏻‍♀️– she/her/hers

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@toutovlepo I’ve found dictatio to be immensely helpful for me and the students. Once we start reading poetry and students learn to scan, they are so much better now at feeling out what must be long.

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@howie_hua 15*4=60
60*2=120
Answer: 1200

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@MagisterConway I too took it with nil.

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

https://t.co/9bDjbhn49Q

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@MagisterConway @toutovlepo @jacquesderridad Not limited by time but instead expressing generalisms or habitual facts

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@MagisterConway @toutovlepo @jacquesderridad I feel like present is the closest tense to being gnomic, so that’s why I’d learn FLV. Really isn’t FLV the closest approximation to a future CTF anyway? The future can’t be CTF since the future is unknown, but FLV covers the things that would be CTF if they could be known.

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

For years, I’ve played around with timed writes but this year I’ve gotten serious about it so that my students have more consistent practice with it. It’s amazing how quickly students improve in output if you give them regular opportunities.

[TeacherFit @TeacherFit_]

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” ― Heraclitus
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How are you changing this year?

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@heymrsbond We named our son Rowan. It fit some of your conditions but I honestly have no pulse on the too white part.

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@lindzmcleod I couldn’t even read them without setting it to song.

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

Today #Latin2 students were given these notecards (1 per person) and had to figure out how to separate themselves in five groups but I didn’t tell them what defined each group. They had to figure that out too. #wpshs @WPSHighSchool

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@CSMFHT @neilhimself Certe.

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

A little Vergil Aeneid book 6 Easter egg in @neilhimself’s #TheSandman

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@MagisterConway Trial by fire! Today I got to explain to students what a lintel and a threshold are immediately after discussing bodily fluid metaphors. You couldn’t plan such randomness but Catullus has it ready for you. Up next: stereotyping people based on the color of their eyebrows.

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

Everyone: If only walls could talk!

Catullus: I have a door for that.

[Natalie Haynes @officialnhaynes]

Nymphs are usually being pursued by lascivious gods or satyrs, so instead here is one stepping into some water, which seems to be flowing over her toes. The statue is by Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1864) and can be found in Brescia.
Mythological being of the week 💧

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@tutubuslatinus Interesting. Thus, when we read of other cattle sacrifices they must’ve been oxen or heifers.

[Windermere Preparatory School @WPS_Lakers]

Senior Parking Paint Day! The newest tradition to WPS.

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@CSMFHT @xiane1 Too inconvenient to have your wife with you on your not-Odyssey 🙄

[Dr. Brenda Fields @macte_virtute]

@FoundnAntiquity Found another gem today: lay low/strew for “sterno”