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Gregory Stringer

@gregorystringer.bsky.social

Latin Teacher, historian, slow runner, hack drummer, amateur essayist, allstar Trekkie. 🖖 https://gregorypstringer.medium.com/fathers-and-sons-98e89b258a6d

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Magistra Cohen@magistracohen.bsky.social · last wk.

Welcome to Bluesky! If you read Latin, you may be interested in my book, which comes out THIS TUESDAY, November 10! Selections from The Student's Catullus for AP and College Latin by Daniel H. Garrison and Nava R. Cohen Preorders at www.oupress.com/978080619739...

I am incredibly excited, delighted, and honored to announce the forthcoming publication of Selections from The Student's Catullus. Working on this project with my teacher Dan Garrison has been the best project in which I have ever been privileged to participate. Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 5mo Selections from The Student's Catullus contains 31 poems appropriate for use in an intermediate Latin classroom. Extensive vocabulary and reading support appears on the page along with the poems, providing contemporary readers with the tools necessary to approach Catullus' language and artistry. Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 5mo I am especially excited that we offer four beautiful newly conceptualized maps by @greenleejw.bsky.social ! All of our place names are in Latin! There are no sea monsters, though. As John Wyatt said, sea monsters cost extra. Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 5mo Finally, stay tuned for future announcements regarding the forthcoming fifth edition, which will, of course, contain all 113 poems.Selections from The Student’s Catullus for AP and College Latin by Daniel H. Garrison and Nava R. Cohen. Image of cover: a light purple with a line drawing of a woman dressed in a sheer gown, cradling a small bird in her hands. She stands between two columns and there is landscape implied in the background. Her face is angular and her hair is gathered into a sort of bun. This image is by Zhenya Gay and if you are interested in quite a story, look her up on Wikipedia. A volume of 31 poems offering teachers and students a sampling of what they can expect from the forthcoming 5th edition of The Student’s Catullus. 15 poems are recommended by the College Board for the revised Advanced Placement® framework, effective fall 2025. 16 additional poems included are particularly appropriate for use in the intermediate secondary and post-secondary Latin classroom by virtue of content, language complexity, and length. Commentary alongside the poems includes reading support focused on vocabulary, grammar, usage, and cultural background. To assist the reader further, the commentary is supplemented by end materials appropriate to these 31 poems: a list of Catullan persons (appendix A), a guide to Catullan meters (appendix B), a glossary of rhetorical and other classical terminology (appendix C), a guide to Catullan usage (appendix D), and four maps by John Wyatt Greenlee with place names in Latin. Poems included: Recommended by College Board for Use in A.P. Classrooms: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 31, 46, 51, 64 lines 1-30 and 132-250, 85, 101, 107, and 109. Selected for Use Intermediate Classrooms: 2, 8, 49, 50, 60, 70, 72, 73, 75, 77, 82, 83, 86, 87, 92, 104. Note on 64: The College Board follows a different understanding of the structure of the poem, recommending that classes read lines 1-24 and 132-240, but the authors’ understanding of the poem’s structure makes the lines listed above preferable division points.Image of cover: a light purple with a line drawing of a woman dressed in a sheer gown, cradling a small bird in her hands. She stands between two columns and there is landscape implied in the background. Her face is angular and her hair is gathered into a sort of bun. This image is by Zhenya Gay and if you are interested in quite a story, look her up on Wikipedia.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last wk.

You should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.

Haley Stevens@haleyformi.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What Michigan would look like if Mike Rogers is elected: 🚫 National Abortion Ban 📈 Skyrocketing health care costs 💰Tax breaks for the top 1% ⚒️No support for Michigan manufacturing

Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)@portlandken.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

opb.org

Gregory Stringer@gregorystringer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#StarTrek has meant the world to me, taught me how to be mature & optimistic when I was a morose teen, helped me process so many different emotions & experiences as an adult, including especially my relationship with my long deceased father. #StarTrekDay gregorypstringer.medium.com/fathers-and-...

Fathers and Sons

Making meaning of my relationship with my father via Star Trek.

gregorypstringer.medium.com

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is insane. When I was in first grade my parents let me walk 3 blocks to school in the mornings, and home after it was over. The independence that I got as a child helped me so much in my life. No parent should face charges for something like this, let alone be convicted!

In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar—and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child—she and her then-youngest, Sam, went for a bike ride, as they often do. They stopped for her son's favorite activity: collecting goose feathers from the path near their community pond. When they got home, he asked if he could walk back and get some more. Parkinson said yes. It's a short walk, along a sidewalk separated from the street by 10 feet of grass. Sam would have to cross two streets with crosswalks, which she'd seen him do safely hundreds of times—including six times that morning, she says. Off he went while she made lunch. A passerby saw Sam and alerted security. One of the community's security guards escorted the boy back and gave Parkinson an earful. Pretty soon there were three cop cars, just as many cops, a security vehicle, and two Child Protective Services (CPS) workers at Parkinson's door. CPS ended up investigating her for abuse and neglect. The cops, meanwhile, charged her with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. CPS found the allegations substantiated and placed Parkinson on the state's child abuse and neglect registry. She will remain there for seven years.
Reason Magazine@reason.com · 2mo ago

A mom of five was convicted last week of delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. The government also placed Karyann Parkinson on its child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years.

Casa Carlini@casacarlini.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Curious about the lasting legacy of ancient epics? 🤔 Meet Joel Christensen, a renowned expert on Homer, in our latest interview! In "The Wrath and the Wanderer," he explores why Homer's stories continue to captivate us 3,000 years later. Read the full interview — link in bio!

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Dan Diffendale@diffendale.bsky.social · 7mo ago

from 1957-1977 the Italian broadcaster RAI ran 1000s of "caroselli" ads, often with famous personalities of the period... my favorite is the series for Barilla (yes, the pasta brand) featuring the singer Mina, particularly her Se Telefonando, filmed (1967) on the roof of the Naples train station...

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"...professors at my mini-viva questioning my use of the term 'Asian American canon', insisting that 'canon' was the remit of white authors (and reciting names to me as I fought back tears)..." www.vogue.co.uk/article/camb...

I Aspired To Get My PhD At Cambridge – I Left Because Of The Racism

“I could write a second memoir solely on the racism I experienced at Cambridge University as a Master’s and PhD student,” writes Jill Damatac, a Filipino-American author who was a student at Cambridge...

vogue.co.uk

Dean Barker@deanbarker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Google on a mission to destroy one of its only products that has been an unqualified success. Classroom has basically become K-12 public school infrastructure at this point. Parents need to tell their districts about this so they can turn that setting off. Teachers must be able to disable it too.

Hypervisible@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

“…a new Gemini tab within Classroom will allow students of all ages to seek A.I. help on math problems and writing assignments. They can also generate course aids like study guides, quizzes and flashcards, as well as produce images.”