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Title: New Blog: The Tolstoy Commons
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The Tolstoy Commons is a new online community designed to foster conversations about the Russian author Lev Tolstoy and to serve as a clearinghouse for scholarly activity related to his life and works. The site moderators welcome announcements of new books, articles, reviews, and conferences, as well as discussions of new pedagogical approaches to teaching Tolstoy. The Tolstoy Commons is a companion website to the Tolstoy Studies Journal, the peer-reviewed organ of the Tolstoy Society of North America.
Explore this new website at http://tolstoy.ku.edu/
Source: University of Kansas
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Title: Halloween Vocabulary in German
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Here is a short list of Halloween vocabulary in German: https://blogs.transparent.com/german/halloween-vocabulary-in-german/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: Step Into German Award of Excellence Contest
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From http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/stg/ger/awa/enindex.htm
The Award of Excellence is an annual contest dating back to 1991. Every year a short video portrays some aspect of German life and students complete a quiz on the video. The grand prize is an all-expenses paid, three-week chaperoned trip to Germany including flight, a German language course, meals and accommodations.
The theme for 2017 is Future Cities: Transatlantic Exchange for Change.
Go to http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/stg/ger/awa/enindex.htm to participate.
Source: Step Into German
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Title: Slideshow: Berlin's Festival of Lights
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The theme of the 13th Festival of Lights in Berlin is “Creating Tomorrow.” See a slideshow of some different displays at http://www.dw.com/en/festival-of-lights-let-there-be-light/g-40867860
Source: Deutsche Welle
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Title: Sentence Picture Relay
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From http://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com/
This activity is described as post-reading, but it can be used any time you want student to practice their interpretive reading skills: basically students match sentences to pictures they best describe, but in teams and in relay format. Read a description of the activity at http://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com/2017/10/sentence-picture-relay.html
Source: Todally Comprehensible Latin
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Title: Digital Roman Heritage Portal
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From https://digitalromanheritage.com/
The Digital Roman Heritage portal is an international research collaboration network that brings together Digital Humanities initiatives with regard to the physical, artistic and literary legacy of Rome. The main aims of this network are to share best practices, and to facilitate the digital linkage between projects from various disciplines related to the city and symbol of Rome.
Explore the resources on the portal at https://digitalromanheritage.com/
Source: Digital Roman Heritage
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Title: Free Roman Ghost Story
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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is providing readers of their newsletter (https://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1413190855) a lesson that you can download and share with your classes. Trimalchio's ghost story, excerpted from Gilbert Lawall's Petronius: Selections from the Satyricon, consists of twenty-five lines of Latin accompanied by generous notes and vocabulary aids.
Access the excerpt at http://www.bolchazy.com.phtemp.com/pdf/TrimalchiosGhostsStory.pdf
Source: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
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Title: Écriture Inclusive
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English doesn’t use grammatical gender, and French does. New French learners often have questions about how grammatical gender relates to social norms, gender equality, and perception through a gender-aware language filter. French teachers may want to follow the current discussion in France about écriture inclusive, a set of new usage norms meant to avoid using masculine forms when talking about humanity in general. Read about the issue in English here:
http://www.french-word-a-day.com/2017/10/the-movement-to-feminize-french.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gender-neutral-version-of-french-language-angers-traditionalists-ggv5xdhgt
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gender-neutral-version-french-language-backlash-gibberish-a7987896.html
Read and listen to some different views on the issue in French here:
https://www.challenges.fr/politique/ecriture-inclusive-le-langage-suivra-l-evolution-de-la-societe-pas-l-inverse_507614
http://www.rtl.fr/actu/societe-faits-divers/ecriture-inclusive-on-complique-la-vie-de-nos-enfants-deplore-alba-ventura-7790581765
http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/video/2017/10/13/ecriture-inclusive-la-langue-faconne-t-elle-les-mentalites-ou-les-mentalites-faconnent-elles-la-langue_5200232_3224.html
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Title: The Names for French Punctuation Marks and Symbols
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From https://www.thoughtco.com
French teachers may want to discuss punctuation with their students, but may not know the French vocabulary for this very specific domain. Here is a list of French words for different punctuation marks as well as a short discussion of differences between punctuation in English and French: https://www.thoughtco.com/french-symbols-and-punctuation-marks-4086511
Source: ThoughtCo.
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Title: Les Impressionnistes: Unit for Intermediate Low French Students
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From http://madameshepard.com/
Lisa Shepard is sharing another French unit. She writes, “As regular readers of this blog know, I teach a unit on French Impressionism each year in my French 3 class. I have once again modified this unit to better meet the needs of my students.” Access the latest version at http://madameshepard.com/?p=1389
Source: Madame's Musings
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