1. “A gentleman need not
know Latin, but he should
have at least forgotten it.”
-Brander Matthews

2. Fessenden Latin
Program Grades 6 -9
Text In Context

4. Teaching the Text in
Context: A Three-
Fold Approach
Study Skills
Classical Civilization
the Latin Language

5. Various Lenses
Roman Religion
The Roman Army
Ancient History
The Issue of Empire
Daily Life in Ancient Rome

6. Grade 6 - Villa
Project

7. I.Roman Villa:
A Way To Teach
Study Skills

8. ROMAN VILLA PROJECT
OBJECTIVES
1. To work together to create a beautiful villa.
2. To create a model of a villa that one might see in Ancient Rome.
3. To learn about the daily life of a Roman person on a villa.
4. To use creativity with the model, yet to maintain authenticity.
5. To utilize study skills, i.e. long term planning methods to achieve your goal.
DIRECTION
1. Research villas (with information from me, books, slide show, and the internet) and gather your information.
2. Gather your group together.
3. Brainstorm, as a group, how you want your villa to look like.
4. Decide roles for each person. BE FAIR with assignments.
a. Who will do the final floor plan?
b. What rooms will be done by which person?
c. How can you help each other to make a fantastic model?
5. Draw a neat and orderly floor plan of your model.
a. The floor plan must be drawn with a sharp pencil/colored pencils on plain paper or drawn on the computer.
b. Label each part of your villa with the Latin name. (It can be in the form of a key or a labeled diagram.)
The due date for the floor plan is _______________
6. Create your model of the rooms according to your groupʼs assignments.
You may use paper, cardboard, shoe boxes, Legos, sugar cubes, wood, pasta, etc.
If you need the help of Ms. Brophy, or the art room, YOU MUST ASK HER WAY AHEAD OF TIME.
The due date for the model is _________________
Your model will then be presented to your classmates and put on display in the library hallway.

9. Villa Grading Rubric
Criteria: Floor plan Authenticity Creativity Knowledge Presentation
Organization
Finished Product
Due Dates Met
Effort and Fairness
with all participants
The highest mark for each box is 4 points.
Give the score and comment on the reasoning.
4 = best 3 = good 2 = just ok, needed some work 1 = unsatisfactory
What did you learn about the project itself, the process and you as a Latin student?

10. Collaboration
Library
Fundamentals of Research
Research Organizer, Project Specific
Art Department
Learning How to Utilize Cross-Curricular
resources in the School

11. II. Roman Villa:
A Way to Teach
Classical Civilizations

12. Reconstructing the Past Through
Archaeology

13. How Archaeologists Interpret Non-Literary
Evidence

14. Example: House of The Silver Wedding In
Pompeii

15. Cubiculum

16. Peristylium

17. Tablinum

18. III. Roman Villa:
A Way to Teach the
Latin Language

19. Latin Used in Daily Life

20. Graffiti
Campaign Advertisement

21. Examining the Language
culina, -ae, f. - kitchen
hortus, -i, m. - garden
Atrium, -i, n. - Main Room

22. Villa Project
Afterlife: Grade 7

23. Ecce Romani, Book I
Textbook presents a continuous narrative
of a Second-Century, Upper Class Roman
Family
Book i finds the family in their summer villa
in the south of Italy

24. Baiae

25. Pliny, Letters ii.17
Pliny: Roman Author 61 A.D. - 112 A.D.
Letters provide a Unique Look into Everyday
life in the first century

26. Villa usibus capax, non sumptuosa tutela. 4 Cuius in prima parte atrium
frugi, nec tamen sordidum; deinde porticus in D litterae similitudinem
circumactae, quibus parvola sed festiva area includitur. Egregium hac
adversus tempestates receptaculum; nam specularibus ac multo magis
imminentibus rectis muniuntur. 5 Est contra medias cavaedium hilare,
mox triclinium satis pulchrum, quod in litus excurrit ac si quando Africo
mare impulsum est, fractis iam et novissimis fluctibus leviter alluitur.
Undique valvas aut fenestras non minores valvis habet atque ita a
lateribus a fronte quasi tria maria prospectat; a tergo cavaedium
porticum aream porticum rursus, mox atrium silvas et longinquos
respicit montes. 6 Huius a laeva retractius paulo cubiculum est
amplum, deinde aliud minus quod altera fenestra admittit orientem,
occidentem altera retinet; hac et subiacens mare longius quidem sed
securius intuetur. 7 Huius cubiculi et triclinii illius obiectu includitur
angulus, qui purissimum solem continet et accendit.

27. Reconstruction of Pliny’s Villa:

29. Roman Fresco Project

30. Villa Project
Afterlife Grade 8

31. Ecce Romani, Book II
Movement in the Narrative from the
Countryside to the City
Transition from An Agrarian Project to
Urban Rome

32. Ability TO Contrast Villa Life Against
Urban Poverty

33. Horace, Satires ii.6
Hoc erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus,
hortus ubi et tecto vicinus iugis aquae fons
et paulum silvae super his foret. auctius atque
di melius fecere. bene est. nil amplius oro,
Maia nate, nisi ut propria haec mihi munera faxis. 5
si neque maiorem feci ratione mala rem
nec sum facturus vitio culpave minorem,
si veneror stultus nihil horum 'o si angulus ille
proximus accedat, qui nunc denormat agellum!'
'o si urnam argenti fors quae mihi monstret, ut illi, 10
thesauro invento qui mercennarius agrum
illum ipsum mercatus aravit, dives amico
Hercule!', si quod adest gratum iuvat, hac prece te oro:
pingue pecus domino facias et cetera praeter
ingenium, utque soles, custos mihi maximus adsis. 15
ergo ubi me in montes et in arcem ex urbe removi,
quid prius inlustrem saturis musaque pedestri?
nec mala me ambitio perdit nec plumbeus auster
autumnusque gravis, Libitinae quaestus acerbae.
Matutine pater, seu Iane libentius audis, 20
unde homines operum primos vitaeque labores
instituunt—sic dis placitum—, tu carminis esto
principium. Romae sponsorem me rapis: 'eia,
ne prior officio quisquam respondeat, urge.'
sive aquilo radit terras seu bruma nivalem 25
interiore diem gyro trahit, ire necesse est.
postmodo quod mi obsit clare certumque locuto
luctandum in turba et facienda iniuria tardis.
'quid tibi vis, insane?' et 'quam rem agis?' inprobus urget
iratis precibus, 'tu pulses omne quod obstat, 30
ad Maecenatem memori si mente recurras.'

34. Villa Project
Afterlife Grade 9

35. Villa As Bucolic Ideal
Golden Age Latin Poetry - The Country Villa as
Prelapsarian Retreat from the Corrupt City

36. Horace, Odes 3.13
Velox amoenum saepe Lucretilem
mutat Lycaeo Faunus et igneam In swift passage Faunus often changes
defendit aestatem capellis Lycaeus for fair Lucretilis, and wards off
usque meis pluviosque ventos. from my goats the fiery heat and rainy winds
during all his stay.
impune tutum per nemus arbutos
quaerunt latentes et thyma deviae Harmlessly through safe thickets do the roaming
olentis uxores mariti, consorts of the rank he-goat hunt the hiding arbutus
nec viridis metuunt colubras and thyme. Nor do the kids have fear of poisonous
snakes or of the wolf, the war god's favourite,
nec Martialis haediliae lupos,
utcumque dulci, Tyndari, fistula when once, O Tyndaris, sloping Ustica's
valles et Vsticae cubantis vales and smooth-worn rocks have echoed
levia personuere saxa. with the sweet pipe.
di me tuentur, dis pietas mea
et Musa cordi est. Hic tibi copia The gods are my protection; to the gods both
manabit ad plenum benigno my devotion and
ruris honorum opulenta cornu. my muse are dear.
hic in reducta valle Caniculae
vitabis aestus, et fide Teia In this spot shall rich abundance of the glories of the field flow
dices laborantis in uno to the full for thee from bounteous horn. Here in retired valley
Penelopen vitreamque Circen; shalt thou escape the dog-star's heat, and sing on Teian lyre
Penelope and Circe of the glassy sea, enamoured of the self-same hero.
hic innocentis pocula Lesbii
duces sub umbra, nec Semeleius Here shalt thou quaff bowls of harmless
cum Marte confundet Thyoneus Mellow wine beneath the shade, nor shall Thyoneus,
proelia, nec metues protervum child of Semele, engage in broils with Mars. Nor
shalt thou, watched with jealous eye, fear the
suspecta Cyrum, ne male dispari
incontinentes iniciat manus wanton Cyrus, lest he lay rude hands on
et scindat haerentem coronam thee, a partner ill-suited to his cruel ways, or
crinibus inmeritamque vestem. lest he rend the garland clinging to thy locks,
or thy unoffending robe.

37. Villa as Socio-Political
Entity
As boys deepen their understanding of
Roman history, they learn that these villas
were only made possible when the wealthy
pushed poorer farmers off their land and
into the crowded cities
The “villa,” then becomes a symbol, the
abuse of power by the wealthy, the
dislocation of the poor, the subsequent
political unrest generated by these
Country Pleasure Palaces

38. Study of Julius
Caesar in 9th Grade
Studying Caesar and reading his
commentaries on the Civil War, the boys are
able to see how the massive disparities
between the Upper and Lower classes
resulted in turbulent, political urest
Boys are also able to read, in Caesar’s own
words, how he manipulated the political
situation to become dictator for life, thus
ending the Republic