tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90080047366805778782024-03-05T19:42:47.518+00:00Classics ClubGCA's journey into Classics and beyondcharlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-61586646631740423342017-07-17T12:11:00.005+01:002017-07-17T12:12:24.845+01:00Lessons 20 & 21 - Caecilius et al.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These last two lessons, we've taken a slight departure from our usual lessons. We're close to the end of term and our time together in Classics Club 😢 so we're thinking a bit about next year. Time to meet these guys...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Say hello to Caecilius, Metella, Quintus, Clemens, Grumio and the mighty Cerberus - characters from the Cambridge Latin Course. If you carry on with Latin in Y8, you'll find out all about their lives and (spoiler alert!) deaths in the Roman city of Pompeii.</span><br />
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<br />charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-50779040565522814282017-06-16T13:35:00.002+01:002017-06-16T13:35:29.834+01:00Lessons 18 & 19 - Good gods!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can't study Classics without at some point coming up against the Greek and Roman gods. They seem to get involved everywhere in human stories, both ancient and modern. So, after a quick game of Name That Deity (bonus points for getting both Greek and Roman names), we had a go at filling in their family tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Actually, we concentrated mainly on the Olympians (highlighted in green on the family tree, and named after their home on Mount Olympus), but we also explored the Titans (the generation before the Olympians). Devon astounded us with his knowledge of the Titanomachy ('Titan battle'), where Zeus and his brothers overthrew the previous generation. But hold up a minute, don't we know that sometimes myths tell us something about the world around us, including human nature? So a myth that talks about a younger generation getting angry with the older members of their family... perhaps this is one way the Ancient Greeks recorded and explained the natural phenomenon of teenagers rebelling against their parents. I mean, if Zeus got mad at his tyrannical father, isn't it normal that adolescent humans do, too? Mind you, from the evidence of this video, I wouldn't want to take on Kronos (I think I'd just get on with my homework/chores):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We kicked off with a quiz, identifying Ancient Greek mythological characters and their modern-day descendants. Then, a</span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">lways keeping an eye on the modern as well as the ancient, we investigated why these intriguing and often scary tales play such an important part in so many cultures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After listening (again!) to the excellent Ken Taylor (see last' week's entry), we considered the ways in which regular people are not always straight-thinking, rational beings. We dug deep into the Card Experiment (thank you, Isaac, for a wonderfully clear explanation!), which shows us that the human mind tends to look for confirmation of what it already believes to be true ('confirmation bias'). "So what?!" you may think. "What does a bunch of cards have to do with how people vote? Well, we then discussed the issue of fake news, and how people tend to look for stories that confirm, rather than challenge, their political beliefs.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We then took a quiz that illustrated some of the other human biases discovered by psychological research: attribution bias (when I do well, it's because I'm awesome, but if I don't it's because my external circumstances were to blame), overconfidence bias (I overestimate my ability to get things right), ingroup bias (favouring people in my group) and primacy/recency bias (remembering the first and last things you heard/saw, but not so much the bit in the middle). If you're interested, you can read more <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, bringing it all back to Plato, Ken Taylor ends on a note of optimism. Humans may be biased, but hey, at least we now know it. Maybe now we can try not to be like this and democracy will be a better system. What do you think?...</span>charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-3543111804849253772017-05-08T15:47:00.000+01:002017-05-08T15:47:36.941+01:00Lesson 14 - Encountering the irrational<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Half this lesson was devoted to translating Latin sentences (no warm-ups, straight in at the deep end).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After that, time to philosophise... We've been thinking over the last few weeks about the best ways to govern a country (topical!), and it's safe to say that we all accept Plato's point that democracy's a less-than-perfect system: people don't always think straight when choosing their leaders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After a quick entree of Latin verbs, we got down to more important matters i.e. solving the mysteries of the universe (with a little help from Aristotle). Recalling our previous lesson (how we use memory and experience to make sense of the world), we explored how Aristotle disagreed with his teacher Plato about how we perceive reality. In Aristotle's world, it's all about experience, and not about some mystical, pre-existing 'ideas' or 'forms'. "Ask questions!" Aristotle urges us. "Ask what things are made of! Ask how they got here! And most importantly, ask WHY they exist!" Cue an epic class debate on the nature of the universe (which Devon has 100% figured out, apparently, but which the rest of us are still struggling with). Anyhow, your "What's The Point Of Flies And Spaghetti Bolognese?" worksheets should make for some interesting dinner conversations this weekend...</span><br />
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half of our lesson with a quiz to see just what a Roman might have had in his or her kitchen cupboard. No jacket potatoes, popcorn or ketchup for these guys, as all these ingredients were native to South America, a land unknown to the Romans. No sugar either. They had to sweeten their food with fruit juices, fruit syrups and honey. Which we then tasted, along with authentic Roman bread (not to everyone's taste, but Daniel couldn't get enough!), pomegranate, dates and a fresh cheese. On the way out of the lesson, more dates and a recipe sheet of authentic Roman recipes translated from the original Latin of Apicius. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We're back (finally!) after half-term and INSET, starting with a quick game of Wood Roots Challenge (score = 18), and refreshing our memories about Latin verbs. With boards and markers, we played Quick Fire Verbs, looking at the beginning of the verb to see what is happening, and the end to see who is doing it. If you ever liked Lego (I still do!), you'll love Latin. The two are really similar: just use different 'bricks' (word stems, word endings) to change grammatical information (e.g.person, number, subject/object). Today we learned about a new set of 'bricks' - </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">endings that show </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the imperfect (the Tense Formerly Known As Past Continuous Or Past Progressive), which translates as 'was .....ing'. 'Imperfectus' in Latin actually means 'incomplete', giving you an idea of the action of the verb being ongoing rather than done and dusted. So, after a verbal run-through of the endings, we played a game of Imperfect Quick Fire Verbs before settling down to an exercise sorting and translating verbs in this tense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next, a brain-break... or was it? In a visual quiz, we looked at close-ups of objects and tried to work out what the object was. Fun, sure, but what on earth did this have to do with Classics (an excellent question asked by one of the class!)? Well, in working out whether that blue scaly stuff was from a snake, a dragon or a shoe, and in assessing if the brown wrinkly material was a leather sofa or an elephant, we all had to do the same thing: go back into our memories and search through our life experiences. Next week, we'll look at how the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle came up with the idea (radical for its time) that all of our knowledge is based on experience.</span>charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-37640118521123764282017-02-09T13:42:00.002+00:002017-03-30T11:46:45.807+01:00Lesson 8 - Number time<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Today we looked at numbers in Latin and in Ancient Greek, and discovered that they're still all around us in the modern world. Firstly, Latin, where we played a game of Word Roots Challenge, trying to find as many English words that come from...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This then led to several of the students asking, puzzedly, "If 'octo' means eight, then why isn't October the eighth month?" Two reasons for the confusion: (1) Romans started their year in March, and (2) these guys inserted their not-immodest egos into our calendars and got rid of the names for months 5 (Quintilis) and 6 (Sextilis).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For more details behind the months' names, <a href="http://www.pantheon.org/miscellaneous/origin_months.html" target="_blank">click here</a>. We then turned our attention to Ancient Greek numbers. This time, working in reverse, we used English words as clues to help us work out Greek numerals:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So now, we put them all together, to work with sentences. But remember the number one rule in translating Latin sentences: find the verb (usually at the end), see <u>who</u> is doing the action by looking at the ending, then see <u>what</u> is happening by looking at the rest of the verb. By the end of the lesson, we were happily translating sentences that were four words long.</span>charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-24034631619484026732017-01-17T13:08:00.001+00:002017-02-09T13:48:15.153+00:00Lesson 6 - Dinosaur discoveries<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Quite a lot packed into our session today. We warmed up with a game of Quick Fire Verbs: look at the beginning of the verb to see what's happening and the end to see who's doing it. The class has got impressively quick at this - looks like the o-s-t chant has done its job of giving you an earworm! (For more information on earworms - also known as brainworms - have a look here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">about dinosaurs. But this is <u>Classics</u> Club, right? What have dinosaurs got to do with anything? Well, you knew that the word 'dinosaur' meant 'terrible lizard'. We then discovered that this comes from the Ancient Greek 'deinos', meaning 'terrible' and 'sauros', meaning 'lizard'. Many dinosaur names are compounds with their parts coming from Ancient Greek (and the odd bit of Latin). 'Tyrannosaurus rex' means 'king-lizard-king', just in case there was any doubt that he's at the top of the food chain. 'Velociraptor' means 'speedy thief'. And my personal favourite, the brontosaurus, or 'thunder lizard'. We then had a go at synthesising (putting together) compounds to create new dinosaurs. There were some pretty terrifying creatures, with more than two compound parts in many cases! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">First of all, though, we tackled our language work, decoding the endings of Latin nouns to find out whether the noun was a subject (nominative) or an object (accusative). We then had a go at changing Latin words to show who was doing the action in a sentence, and who or what was having the action done to it.</span><br />
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of <u>science</u> which deals with celestial objects and space) </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and astrology (t</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">he </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">study
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having an influence on humans). Both contain the root 'astro-', which is Ancient Greek for 'star', but the class went on to discuss what the difference is between science and belief. Do you believe that all people born under the sign of Taurus are stubborn? Are all Virgos perfectionists? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We warmed up at the start of the lesson with one of my favourite games, Word Roots Challenge. As Latin words (and their English meanings) appeared on the board, we all tried to think of as many modern words (English or any other European language) that have descended from these Latin 'root words'. There was no shortage of excellent answers, as you can see from the picture on the left. And, thanks to the amazing linguistic talents of Classics Club students, I now know the word for 'pig' in both Spanish (<i class="">puerco</i>) and Portuguese (<i>porco</i>, so very similar to its Latin root, <i>porcus</i>).</span><br />
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sorting things into categories can be very complicated. We then looked at how the eighteenth-century scientist Charles Linnaeus came up with a seven-part system for categorising everything that can be found in nature. We also saw how that system is still in use today, and how these category names are in Latin (and sometimes ancient Greek) as this was the shared language of European scientists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Then, using our powers of deduction, we matched some Latin scientific names up with various pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We then turned our that very important type of word, the noun. We played 'If It's A Noun, Sit Down', a game that cunningly blends grammar learning and physical exercise. The game initiated some fantastic critical conversation amongst the students. Is maths really a thing? What part of speech is 'yesterday'? You can't touch bravery, so can it be a noun? Learning Latin will make you a grammar ninja, guaranteed! So once we had established that we could all spot a noun at twenty paces, we then looked at how Latin changes word endings to show whether a noun is doing the action in a sentence (the subject), or whether it is having the verb done to it (the object). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tum nobis cenandum erat! (And then it was lunchtime!)</span>charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-4226676166573669652016-11-19T15:25:00.002+00:002016-11-19T15:25:49.991+00:00Lesson 2 - everywhere you turn... Latin!
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our mission in Classics Club today? To realise just how much Latin we already know. We're surrounded by Classical influence, from the coins in our pocket to the words that we speak. We emptied out our pockets in search of a particular kind of pound coin, one that read around its rim:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We found several! This inscription means 'beauty and security' (i.e. what money is supposed to be). And what language is this in? Latin! We weren't lucky enough to find:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We did, though, find the Welsh pound coin which Devon bravely read out loud:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We then moved on to an exploration of the English language, to show just how much Latin we already know in the form of modern words that have their roots in the ancient language. Students flew through the task of matching familiar English words to their etymological ancestors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We also explored the notion of language as an organic entity that is constantly changing, from the transition of Latin into French, and then the imposition by the Normans of their language on the English from 1066 A.D. onwards. And, of course, more l8ly, the impact of technology changing language 4eva.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Making a bold start in our Latin language work, learning the first and most important rule of Latin: it's not the word order that's important, but the word ending. Then, using this rule, and looking at two model Latin sentences, the class showed its amazing code-cracking skills to work out that 'a' shows that a noun is the subject of a sentence, and that 'am' shows that a noun is the object.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, we turned our attention to another way in which Latin lives on in modern times: scientific categorisation. We just about had time to have a go ourselves at sorting a diverse bunch of objects/creatures/plants into categories, just to prove to ourselves how hard a job it is (How do we group the objects? Size? Colour? Function? Intelligence?). Next week we'll have a look at how Carl Linnaeus tackled this problem, with the help of Latin and Ancient Greek, to create a scientific naming system that is still in use today.</span></div>
charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-34931222790995701422016-11-13T13:24:00.002+00:002016-11-13T13:24:33.736+00:00Lesson 1 - Here we go again!A new term and a new crop of budding Classicists at Greig City eager to learn about the influence of Ancient Greece and Rome in our modern world.<div>
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We spent the first lesson taking a trip back in time, past the Victorians, past the Elizabethans, way, way back to the point where A.D. becomes B.C. On the way, we registered the fact that A.D. stands not for 'after death' but for <i>anno domini</i>, which means 'in the year of our Lord' in... Latin! We discovered how language is a living, breathing tool that develops and changes over time, which spreads across countries with conquests and learning. Most importantly, we found out how English is a mixture of words from two sets of invaders: the Vikings and Nordic raiders, who gave us Anglo-Saxon, and the Normans who brought the French language, which in turn was descended from Latin.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-89180248330922248722016-06-26T15:36:00.002+01:002016-06-26T15:36:36.439+01:00Museum of London trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last Friday saw us leave school behind and spend an amazing day at the <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/" target="_blank">Museum of London</a>, experiencing life in Roman Britain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First stop was an object handling session, where we played historical detective to work out the uses of the objects we were given. Some were easier than others. Mystery objects turned out to be an amphora, a roof tile (with an accidental pawprint), a glass makeup bottle and spatula, a brick from a hypocaust system, a key for a lock, and a strigil. A quick dress-up session followed, where the workshop leader made Jamellia up as a noble lady, complete with stola (dress), palla (cloak) and fibula (brooch). Adrian was transformed into a Roman soldier, with metal armour and helmet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then on to our next session, a dramatic retelling of the story of Boudicca and her revolt against the Romans. The storyteller left out absolutely none of the gory details, telling us all the nasty, certificate-18 behaviour of both Romans and Britons alike. Once we'd contemplated this outrageous behaviour, we divided into groups of Romans and Britons, each group tasked with giving a rousing pre-battle speech before the forces of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus clashed with the baying Britons, led by Boudicca. And look what I found on YouTube - not quite as good as you lot, though ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then, lunch and some free time to explore the museum. One quick photo opportunity taken, we then marched back along London Wall (guess why the road has this name?!) to Moorgate station and our homebound train.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-33238856912059458532016-06-20T11:16:00.004+01:002016-06-20T11:16:52.931+01:00Lesson 25 - All together now<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since this was our last lesson before out end-of-year test, we spent the majority of it revising the language work we'd covered this year. And here it is:</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday 24th June (all day): trip to Museum of London</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday 1st July: end-of-year test</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday 8th July: INSET day, no school</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday 15th July: Y9 taster Cambridge Latin Course lesson</span></div>
charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-87453654594893172492016-06-13T11:02:00.000+01:002016-06-13T11:02:11.382+01:00Lesson 24 - Being and means<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">After putting it off for way too long, we finally encountered 'esse' (to be) in all its present tense glory. It was interesting to see how many European languages' versions of 'to be' have their roots in the Latin forms:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><br />
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We then had a go at describing celebrities using the right part of 'esse', also remembering that the adjective has to agree in number and gender.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Then onto matters philosophical, specifically Aristotle and his notion of the Golden Mean. This idea is drawn from the ancient Greek idea of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">μηδὲν ἄγαν </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">(<i>meden agan</i>), doing nothing in life to excess. In the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle proposes that we should aim to tread this 'middle way', and explores the impact that this approach might have on our everyday actions. For example, in situations involving bravery, he argues, it's not a good idea to be too feisty, nor is cowardice helpful: instead, somewhere in the middle of the two lies courage. Here are all of Aristotle's 'golden means':</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">The notion that personalities can be measured on a sliding scale persists in modern life, where there is a thriving industry in the development and application of psychological personality testing. So in the true spirit of mixing ancient and modern, the Classics Club took an Aristotelean Personality Test, marking ourselves against various Golden Means (<i>gnothi seauton</i>!), and then trying to guess from the numbers whose name was on the test. I have to say, you lot were pretty good at reading the tests!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">I realised after the session that I hadn't filled in a test myself, so in the spirit of fairness, here you are:</span><br />
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charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-64070126066701164962016-05-30T11:22:00.002+01:002016-05-30T11:22:54.401+01:00Lesson 23 - Marvellous mosaics<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've come to four inescapable conclusions about mosaic-making, each confirmed again by today's session:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(1) It's almost impossible to make a mosaic without breaking into song. Jaszmine's grouting-themed lyrics were quite something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(2) There's always someone who tries to eat a tessera (mosaic tile), thinking that they look like sweets/breakfast cereal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(3) There's always one perfectionist in every mosaic class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(4) For some reason, I can't remember the term 'tile cutters', and always end up calling them 'snippety-snips'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is a selection of the amazing creations:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hannah's unicorn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'A' for Ashantae</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hassan's silver & gold pattern</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'D' from Adrian</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-73587637571266185702016-05-30T11:09:00.003+01:002016-05-30T11:09:34.382+01:00Lesson 22 - Gnothi seauton<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">We started today's class with language work that mixed the present and the imperfect tenses, culminating in creating our own 'sed nunc' ('but now') sentences. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">This was followed by some more work on the imperfect tense, including putting present tense Latin sentences into the imperfect.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Then on to matters more weighty in the shape of Aristotle. Here's a useful flying overview of the man and his work:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">We then discussed the concept of 'gnothi seauton', or self-knowledge, which is a concept of fundamental importance to Aristotle's philosophy. Seneca (a Roman philosopher) claims, "Other men's sins are before our own eyes; our own are behind our backs" - a statement that the class confessed was true. So in the spirit of Aristotelean self-knowledge, we explored the idea of cognitive bias (i.e. irrational thinking), a notion mentioned by Ken Taylor in last week's lesson, and which we discussed in the context of Milgram's 'electric shock' obedience experiments.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">We took part in a quiz that sneakily demonstrated the following biases from which humans unknowingly tend to suffer:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: 0in;">Using internal personality characteristics to explain others’ actions, but to ascribe our own failure to external factors only. It was interesting to see how many of you didn't succumb to this bias, but instead showed insightful (maybe overly-harsh!) levels of self-criticism.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">The mistake of being more confident in your actions than experience or logic would dictate to be appropriate.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: 0in;"> A useful bias, which helps us get out of bed in the mornings and face a day packed with problems.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Aristotle advocates understanding our weaknesses and excesses in order to correct them: fortunately, the last century has seen an explosion in psychological research to provide evidence of these. If you're interested in this kind of thing, you can read more about them <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/68705/20-cognitive-biases-affect-your-decisions" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div>
charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-55308737737466787012016-05-13T15:20:00.000+01:002016-05-13T15:22:07.714+01:00Lesson 21 - What's wrong with democracy?<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">We spent a whole lesson today contemplating human imperfection. In the last couple of weeks, we've seen how Plato explores the idea that people are flawed creatures, with a complicated relationship with 'truth' and 'goodness'. As a result of this human frailty, in Plato's ranking of government systems, democracy (i.e. 'rule by the people') is only one step up from anarchy (i.e. 'no rule at all'). We discussed the Platonic notions of oligarchy, timocracy and aristocracy (which, don't forget, means 'rule by the best': it could be argued that the word is mis-applied in its modern context!). We also explored some of the possible pitfalls in Plato's ideas. As many in the class protested, saying that people are too stupid to govern themselves in a democratic system can be argued as </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="background-color: white;">highly disrespectful. Yet it is possible to reconcile the idea of human irrationality with a workable version of democracy, thanks to Ken Taylor of Stanford University and the application of the modern science of psychology:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">We'll explore this notion of human imperfection and cognitive bias more next week as we encounter Aristotle's important idea of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">γνῶθι σεαυτόν'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> ('gnothi seauton') or self-knowledge. </span>charlie74http://www.blogger.com/profile/02616186429220142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008004736680577878.post-4209976538452600522016-05-07T16:12:00.001+01:002016-05-07T16:12:09.234+01:00Lesson 20 - an imperfect world<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-right: 1em; padding: 5px; position: relative;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">I <i>used to walk </i>the dog ever day</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Today, after recapping the third declension, we tackled a new tense. The imperfect tense is used to describe past actions that are in some way unfinished or ongoing: so the ending on a Latin verb not only tells us who's doing it, but also when the action happened. We did a few quick-fire matching exercises on the board, then we tackled a worksheet, matching imperfect verbs to their English translations, and then turning present tense verbs into the imperfect.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">Democracy: not Plato's first choice</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the last couple of weeks, we've seen how Plato postulates that humans are more complicated than we may at first seem on the surface: the reasons why we do 'the right thing' are debatable, as we saw in the tale of Gyges. In The Republic, Plato goes on to consider methods of rule and which one is the best. Next week, we'll consider the five systems analysed by Plato, and debating on whether we agree with his (some say controversial) ranking of them. In the run-up to next week's lesson (which has changed to P2, AF04 for Week 2), get busy Googling and see if you can identify the methods of government that Plato subjects to scrutiny. In the meantime, have a look at the brilliant Ken Taylor below, and hear his modern take on Plato's opinions.</span><br />
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