Develop. "It enables them to be confident in sharing their thinking," a skill that will serve them well as they enter middle and high school. Many legal terms are in Latin. Latin was thelingua francaof the West for over a thousand years. A daily challenge for crossword fanatics. Seventh grade students in the Global Perspectives course researched the lives of individual Syrian refugees and told their stories using a programming language called Scratch. It's an ancient source of wisdom. My apology; my error. But from age 11 schools must teach a modern foreign language which means ancient languages would have to be taught on top of that. Along with logic and rhetoric, grammar (as Latin was then known) was included as part of the Trivium the foundation of a medieval liberal arts education. Of course, this meant that I had to start working other Latin phrases into my conversations with him. Determination is the sine qua non of entrepreneurship. Its probably not what my high school Latin teacher expected us to use the language for, but I found it empowering. While strides have been made to translate legal writing into plain English, youll still see old Latin phrases thrown into legal contracts every now and then. The upper school honors precalculus classroom discussions are entirely student-led. Delivered to your inbox! To incentivize this behavior, students are encouraged to utilize the classs marble jar, dropping in a marble each time a mistake is shared. Among their suggested changes was eliminating Latin as a required course for all students. Your web browser does not support the