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4. My latin teacher taught those kids while the movie was made

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 16, 2025, 12:15 PM

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Paul Wade was one of my better teachers. He realized we wern't able to handle the traditional latin curiculum and he simply altered it to a focus on phrases in English that come from Latin, he had a handwritten notebook of many and some details of how they entered our language. I wish I had the foresight to encourage him to make a book of it. My notes might still be at my Mom's house.

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