Nearing the End of Another School Year

I have about four books going right now and feel a failure for not posting regularly as I read through Russell Kirk's The Roots of American Order.  There is wonderful information in that book and I hope to get back to writing about it soon.  Summarizing information is a challenge for me; so much of the chapter is good that I have difficulty sorting through it and getting to the essential.  This slows me down.

I am about three weeks out from finishing up another year of Latin classes.  I say it every year, but truly, this year has flown by.  The students are saying the same thing, which is cause for worry!  This has been one of the smoothest years I've had.  I think this is my eighth year teaching at PREP, so maybe I'm finally settling into a workable system.  It takes time to work out the kinks and feel like you are doing something well when it comes to teaching.  But, not a year passes that I don't think of ways to improve my teaching and students' participation and understanding.  Next year I plan to incorporate composition into our weekly work and make Latin writers out of these scholars!  And I discovered a terrific project for the Middle School classes that I can't wait to see completed. 

Next week will be distribution of awards — both National Latin Exam and Classical Literacy Exam.  I'm very proud of these hard workers.  I'll post a picture of our winners.