No, I am not done entering grades and, yes, I have been accepting some last minute extra credit. A couple of examples from my inbox this morning:
1. Mysterious altar found in Roman fort. Ooo... Spooky... Ok, not really, but pretty cool when you think that Gauls based in northern England were grooving to a deity from central Asia. It's easy to forget how cosmopolitan the Empire was.
2. Making Ireland Roman. A book review blog post on a scholarly book. Granted, there are more exciting items out there for your summer reading, but consider this statistic the author cites, "Around 1,000 printed books in Latin were written by Irish authors between 1490 and 1750..." May not sound like a lot now but... Ven did Herr Gutenberg beginz hiz printingz? Ja. Iz veeery interesting.
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