Fēlēs Cūriōsa
By Abbi Holt; Editors include Ben Auger
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Welcome to Fēlēs Cūriōsa, a Latin I introductory, open source, very beta set of stories and resources for the first year of Latin. Feel free to use any or all of it, just credit me as author and artist. I provide all of this under the "ShareAlike" 4.0 creative commons license.
Please send me edit or suggestions via email or in the link provided, both are in the footer. I am practicing that "being unafraid to make mistakes and take risks" I always tell my students about by putting this out here so early, but I know the feedback will make it better. The ancillary materials for this story under "Curriculum and Resources" will always be in flux as I adjust them for new understandings of language acquisition and cultural changes. Their transitional nature is their strength.
About the Author:
Abbi Holt has studied Romans at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University and Umass Boston. Along the way she has managed to acquire a BA in History and Anthropology and a MAT in Latin and Classical Studies.
She has been drawing most of her life, especially in meetings so she doesn't talk too much. Her favorite illustrators include Edward Gorey and the Russian architectural illustrators Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin. She recently published a ancient Greek and Roman adaptation of Edward Gorey's Abecedarius, the Abecedarius Letifer.
If you are interested in asking her to help implement this curriculum or any curriculum that combines active Latin and authentic sources feel free to reach out via the email below.
She is also best friends with a tiny rescue dog named Zucchini. He is the best boi.
About the Editor:
Ben Auger has been teaching Latin and Spanish at Pembroke high school for the last six years, but he is teaching in the middle school next year where only Spanish is offered because the district got rid of Latin from the middle school a few years ago. However his hope is to re-introduce Latin after a year or two, if he can convince the powers that be. He got his bachelors in Classics and history at UNH and then got a masters in Classics at Washington University and then took a bit of a detour and spent two years teaching English in Austria, but enrolled in the UMass MAT program when hecame back. He taught for two years in Salem, three years in Walpole, and then moved to Portland, Oregon for a couple of years before moving back east and starting at Pembroke.
He has a black and white kitten named Tuxedo!
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