Teaching Schedule 2008-2009
(tentative)
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Tutorials |
8:24
am-8:54 am (30 min.) |
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1st Period |
9:00
am-9:50 am (50 min.) |
Latin I |
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2nd Period |
9:56
am-10:50 am (54 min.) |
Latin I |
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3rd Period |
10:56
am-11:46 am (50 min.) |
Latin I |
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4th Period B Class |
11:52
am-12:17 pm (25 min.) |
Conference |
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4th Period B Lunch |
12:17
pm-12:47 pm (30 min.) |
LUNCH |
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4th Period B Class |
12:52
pm-1:17 pm (25 min.) |
Conference |
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5th Period |
1:23
pm-2:13 pm (50 min.) |
Latin III/IV-AP |
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6th Period |
2:19
pm-3:09 pm (50 min.) |
Latin II |
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7th Period |
3:15
pm-4:05 pm (50 min.) |
Latin II |
Contacting
Magistra Lindzey
The
best way to contact Magistra
Lindzey is by email:
Classroom Phone: 512-858-3163 (You will
only get a message during class time.)
School Fax: 512-858-3199
School Mail:
Dripping Springs
High School
P.O. Box 479
Dripping Springs, Texas 78620
About Your Teacher
Ginny Lindzey
began the study of Latin at
Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio with
Mrs. Doris Kays, known as "Dea" to most of the Latin
teachers and students in Texas in later years. Why
Latin? Her siblings were studying Spanish and she
wanted to study something they were NOT studying. A
few years previously she had seen "I, Claudius" on
PBS, a show which, combined with her Greek heritage,
definitely influenced her choice of foreign
languages.
Mrs Lindzey
studied Latin for three years in high school, 2 of
them independent study, and participated in Junior
Classical League events. Most notably, she won in
Dramatic Interpretation of Latin poetry 3 years in a
row at national competition. While some of that
credit goes to Mrs. Kays, much of it goes to another
Latin teacher who greatly influenced her life, Bob
Hicks, the teacher at rival Winston Churchill High
School. Mr. Hicks believed passionately in reading
Latin out loud and in the proper pronunciation of
the language. He instilled in her a passion for
speaking the language that she has carried with her
to this day.
The
University of Texas at Austin Department of Classics
welcomed the future Magistra Lindzey in the fall of
1983. She pursued a degree in Latin after deciding
that the theatre department didn't have high enough
academic standards to suit her. Besides, as she has
said many times, she could study Roman theatre in
the classics department. While attending UT, she
received an Endowed Presidential Scholarship, having
been nominated by her department chair, the renowned
Prof Karl Galinsky. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in
the summer of 1987.
Magistra
Lindzey began her career as a Latin
teacher at Roosevelt High School in San Antonio,
Texas that fall.
Although she left teaching after that first year in
the classroom for about a dozen years (ran away
screaming, she sometimes says), she stayed involved
with classics. By
1992 she became the editor for the
Texas Classical Association (TCA).
Magistra Lindzey edited
Texas Classics in Action
for 10 years, during which time the publication
won national acclaim for quality both
in the types of articles published and
the journal's design. In 1994, she established the
TCA Website which is also home
to other spin-off
websites, including the
Latin ExCET Prep website. In addition, she
maintains the
National Committee for Latin and Greek (NCLG)
website, on which one can find
promotional materials and recent online
articles about Latin and Greek.
But she
couldn't stay away from the classroom forever. In
the year 2000, Magistra Lindzey returned to teaching
with a passion. For six years she taught at Porter
Middle School in the Austin Independent School
District. Once Porter was slated for closure (it is
now the Ann Richards School for Young Women
Leaders), she decided to make a bold step up to
teaching high school at Dripping Springs in 2006.
Along the
way there was one other person that served as dear
friend and mentor, who has inspired both Magistra
Lindzey's teaching and creativity. Roger Robison,
her high school biology teacher and long time
friend, continues to challenge and inspire her with
games and clever things he designs for people who
love the ancient world. Among the
Games of Senex Caecilius you will find games of
logic, history, and mythology; jigsaw puzzles,
derivatives, and word searches; matters military,
religious, and geographic. (Do take a look!)
Magistra
Lindzey has
received several awards including the Outstanding
New Teacher award from the
Texas Foreign Language
Association (TFLA), the Outstanding
State Newsletter, Outstanding State Website,
and
Outstanding State Vice President
awards, plus the coveted
Ovatio for service to the profession from
the
Classical Association of the Middle West and
South (CAMWS).
In
addition, Magistra
Lindzey has also
published numerous articles on pedagogy and has
presented on multiple occasions at the
TCA Fall Conference, the American Classical
League (ACL) Institute, CAMWS, and TFLA.
She has also served as the chair for CAMWS’s
Committee for the Promotion of Latin (CPL).
On the CPL website as well
as the NCLG website one can find free
downloadable posters of her
design (some in conjunction with Magistra Vitt,
Magistra Lindzey's friend and colleague in
Minneapolis), promotional materials for supporting
the study of Latin and the
classics, as well as information on what to do if
your program is under threat of
closure. During the summer
of 2007
Magistra Lindzey served on a TEA committee to
develop the TExES certification exam for Latin which
will replace the current Latin ExCET. For the first
time in recent memory there will be an oral
component on the certification test for Latin
teachers!
Growing concern over
shortages of Latin teachers led
Magistra Lindzey to propose a
National Latin Teacher
Recruitment Week (NLTRW). NLTRW is now a
cooperative venture of the American Philological
Association (APA), the ACL, CAMWS and other
regional and state classical organizations. The
NLTRW committee, consisting of
Magistra Lindzey, the
current ACL President, the current APA President,
Tom Sienkewicz, and
others, have developed promotional materials, ideas
for presentations, posters and more
which can be found on the
NLTRW website. The 6th
annual NLTRW will take place March
3-7, 2008.
As if she
doesn't have enough to do with teaching plus raising
two sons, Magistra
Lindzey also
maintains the
Official Website of Lindsey Davis
for author and dear friend
Lindsey Davis, who writes Roman set fiction, and the
Official Wheelock’s Latin Series
Website, for revisions
editor and dear friend/mentor Rick LaFleur. Her latest creative project is
Anima Altera: Latin T-shirts and More, which
features not only Latin
t-shirts for the discerning classicist but also
beautiful posters of Pompeii and Rome, note
cards,
mini-buttons, spiral
notebooks, etc. But that's
still not enough: Magistra Lindzey keeps a blog site called
The Latin Zone for teachers, especially new
teachers, where she chronicles her adventures in
teaching, explains her teaching philosophy, and occasionally
just plain
rants about whatever strikes her fancy. And in
her spare time she maintains online Latin Scrabble
games with students and friends.
Magistra
Lindzey
can be found teaching Latin and
sophomore English
at Dripping Springs High School
in Dripping Springs,
Texas, southwest of Austin.
And if you look for her at
Halloween or the occasional JCL convention, you may
find instead Achillea,
Gladiatrix de Londinio, wielding her famous
spongia in fuste. Otherwise,
check the soccer fields around the Austin area when
the over 30 women's teams are playing.
Magistra's Websites
Texas Classical Association:
www.txclassics.org
National Committee for Latin
and Greek:
www.promotelatin.org
National Latin Teacher
Recruitment Week:
www.promotelatin.org/nltrw.htm
Lindsey Davis:
www.lindseydavis.co.uk
Wheelock’s Latin:
www.wheelockslatin.com
Anima Altera:
www.cafeshops.com/animaaltera
The Latin
Zone:
ginlindzey.livejournal.com
Curriculum Vita
(currently needs updating)
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