{"id":9,"date":"2017-04-18T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T12:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/?p=9"},"modified":"2017-04-18T12:56:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T12:56:50","slug":"latin-students-deepen-classics-study-at-five-college-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/2017\/04\/18\/latin-students-deepen-classics-study-at-five-college-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin Students Deepen Classics Study at Five College Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/files\/2017\/04\/20170418_classics-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/files\/2017\/04\/20170418_classics-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/files\/2017\/04\/20170418_classics-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/files\/2017\/04\/20170418_classics.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Williston students investigate ancient cultures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Honors Latin IV and AP Latin students took a field trip to Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges to deepen their study of ancient cultures. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The group\u00a0enjoyed a guided tour of the &#8220;Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii&#8221; exhibit at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/artmuseum\" target=\"_blank\">Smith College Museum of Art<\/a>. &#8220;A\u00a0highlight was when the students were given a scented jar and told to identify the scent and then locate an object in the exhibit related to it,&#8221; said Latin teacher and Head of the Language Department Beatrice Cody. Scents included frankincense, olive oil, and fish sauce (the Romans&#8217; favorite condiment). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After a quick tour of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/garden\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smith College Botanic Garden<\/a>&#8216;s exhibit on plants of Pompeii (and a bag lunch outside in the garden), the group\u00a0headed to <a href=\"https:\/\/artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Holyoke College Art Museum<\/a>, where Ellen Alvord, Curator of Education and Academic Programs (and a Williston parent) had arranged an exciting visit. Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/people\/bettina-bergmann\" target=\"_blank\">Bettina Bergman<\/a> gave them\u00a0a tour of the Lares (household gods) exhibit. Then Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/people\/geoffrey-s-sumi\" target=\"_blank\">Geoff Sumi<\/a> sat down with students\u00a0to examine Roman coins minted under Julius Caesar and Augustus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;We are lucky to be able to\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">access world-class museums and interact with\u00a0highly esteemed scholars to enhance our investigation\u00a0of classics<\/span>,&#8221; Cody added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honors Latin IV and AP Latin students took a field trip to Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges to deepen their study of ancient cultures. The group\u00a0enjoyed a guided tour of the &#8220;Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii&#8221; exhibit at the Smith College Museum of Art. &#8220;A\u00a0highlight was when the students were given a scented jar and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/2017\/04\/18\/latin-students-deepen-classics-study-at-five-college-museums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Latin Students Deepen Classics Study at Five College Museums<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-colleges"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistontravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}