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MEDFORD, MA - January 30, 2002 Caroline Kelly is the winner of AbleMedia’s annual Gold Chalice Award for You Really Expect Me to Read All that Latin Strategies for Reading Latin Texts published on the Classics Technology Center on the Web (CTCWeb, http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb). Kelly is a Latin teacher at The Covenant Day School in Matthews, North Carolina. “For Kelly it is not the length of the text but the depth of knowledge that is the key to reading long Latin passages using her award-winning technique,” said Wendy E. Owens, CTCWeb Editor-in-Chief. “We are delighted to laud this exceptional contribution to CTCWeb.”

In You Really Expect Me to Read All that Latin, Kelly examines daunting issues that students confront when faced with a long Latin passage. To help educators empathize with students, Kelly provides a poem in Russian and encourages educators to use textual cues to decipher as much as they can about the text without actually translating it. She demonstrates that this “pre-reading” is a way of getting the gist of the text to ease the challenge of translation. To help educators implement the pre-reading strategy with their students, Kelly provides exercises on pre-reading for content, history/culture, vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. In addition, exercises covering noun, verb, and adjective recognition, translation, and derivatives are available on CTCWeb.

"Mrs. Kelly's accomplishment exemplifies Covenant Day School's commitment to scholarship and to the use of modern technology to promote and to enhance the study of the Classics and of Latin,” said Barrett Mosbacker, Headmaster of The Covenant Day School of Kelly’s Gold Chalice Award. “We are proud to have a teacher of her caliber on our staff and are delighted to share the fruit of her considerable gifts with the broader educational community."

“We have said many times that the school is only going to be as good as its teachers. I also believe that the students can only be as good as previous teachers have allowed them to be,” said Scott T. Dillon, The Covenant Day School Middle School Principal. “It is a joy to know that our middle school Latin students have been prepared at a grade-appropriate level to excel in foreign language in high school. I am confident that the students who are learning ‘to read all that Latin’ will be stronger for having Mrs. Kelly as their teacher."

Each week AbleOne’s sponsor, AbleMedia, salutes contributors for outstanding submissions to the AbleOne Consortium (http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/), the CTCWeb Showcase (http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/), and CTCWeb Netshots™ (http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots.html). Each receives the Bronze Chalice award. AbleMedia awards Silver Chalices for the outstanding submissions of the month. At the end of each year, AbleMedia awards Gold Chalices for the outstanding submissions of the year.

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