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Welcome, Patricia Klucas!

Sep 6, 2009

Patricia Klucas is now a member of eLatin eGreek eLearn

Sep 5, 2009

Welcome Them!

About Me:: I returned to school after many years of working in health care to study my passion--theology. I found that I needed to take a foreign language, not ever having studied one and, at nearly 50, I panicked. I decided that in studying theology, Latin might be helpful. Ready to take it pass/fail--I fell in love with it. I have since graduated with a degree in theology, a minor + in Latin, and have been studying Koine Greek on the side. Now in a Masters of Theology program, my life has taken a turn. A long term sub position opened for a high school Latin teacher. I fell in deeper love teaching Latin. I now am the Latin teacher on staff at C-DH and I find that I can not only teach the language but teach students how to think critically about what they are taught.

Best/worst computer-related classroom happening:: My favorite experience in the classroom was last year, teaching Cicero's First Oration. We had an extra long class one day so I showed my students "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." They loved it. It was about 4 weeks before the end of the trimester and they asked if they could do a video of "Cicero--the Musical" instead of a final. I gave them a list of what they needed to show. They went from reading 15-20 lines a day to 30 and began to take on the emotion of the reading. They made an incredible video, with flashbacks to historical precedents, rhetorical devices, and creative interpretation of the story behind the oration. They wrote the music and made parts in Latin and in English. I gave them what was to be a take home exam just to gauge where they were--they sat and did it right then and not one scored under a B+.
This year we are studying Virgil. On the first day of class they were already talking about a new project.