SS #37: Livin’ La Vida Latin (with Angela Reed!)

Brandy is talking at length about Latin today with Angela Reed. Angela is a homeschooling mother of five in the Sunshine State of Florida. A former classroom teacher, degreed in Classics and Latin and persuaded by Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy, she channels these enthusiasms onto Instagram: building community with friends @charlottemasonirl, researching how Latin fits within a CM paradigm @thecmlatinproject, and documenting family life, homeschooling, and the day-to-day @athena_amidstthereeds.

Brandy asks Angela some of the tough questions we all want answers to: Why Latin first is the New Testament is in Greek? Can I do a modern language instead of Latin? Why Latin at all?? Can I do Latin with my children when I don’t know Latin myself? We tackle these, plus Angela helps us decide which pronunciation to you and shares about some of her favorite curricula.

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Show Notes:

• Scholé Everyday
  • Angela:
    • Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  • Brandy:
    • Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

• Topical Discussion: Livin’ La Vida Latin
  • CM Quote on all roads leading to Rome:
    • “All roads lead to Rome, and all I have said is meant to enforce the fact that much and varied humane reading, as well as human thought expressed in the forms of art, is, not a luxury, a tit-bit, to be given to children now and then, but their very bread of life, which they must have in abundant portions and at regular periods. This and more is implied in the phrase, ‘The mind feeds on ideas and therefore children should have a generous curriculum.'” (Vol. 6, p. 112)
  • I, Claudius
  • Dynamation:
    • Clash of the Titans
    • Jason and the Argonauts
  • American Classical League
    • National Junior Classical League (JCL)
  • Dwane Thomas
  • Hans Ortberg
    • Lingua Latina
    • Roma Aeterna
  • Ecce Romani series
  • Minimus
  • I Speak Latin
  • Wheelock’s Latin

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