Winter 2016
The Ultimate Convention Contest Survival Guide
Tests
(Also go through the answer keys on the ojcl.org website)
Derivatives:
http://www.etymonline.com/
Grammar:
http://books.google.com/books?
id=Q7cAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Allen+and
+Greenough%E2%80%99s+New+Latin+Grammar
Creative Arts
or
h t t p : / / w w w. p e r s e u s . t u f t s . e d u / h o p p e r / t e x t . j s p ?
doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059
Just practice and practice and practice some more. The
more you practice, the better off you are.
or
Costume:
Library ISBN: 978-1585100279, 978-0198642244,
978-0764137426
• Avoid buying online to minimize shipping costs.
Latin Literature:
Library ISBN: 978-0198600817, 978-0801862533,
978-0231018487, 978-0521273756, 978-0865163171
Myth:
Library ISBN: 978-0415391122, 978-0195308051,
978-0452009271, 978-0140512359
• Look at Pinterest, but be honest with yourself as to
what extent of DIY you can handle.
• Making things is generally better:
A) It’s easier to stay under budget
B) You are so much more proud of your product even
if you don’t win
C) Judges love that kind of stuff
Roman History:
Dramatic Interpretation
Library ISBN: 978-0198606413, 978-0312383954,
978-0130384805, 978-0195118766, 978-1112108211,
978-0521228169, 978-0816050260
• Practice!!!
Roman Life:
https://books.google.com/books?
id=523VvIIJqmQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_
summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Ask others for honest feed back.
• Translate the passage so you know what to stress
• Print it out and write on it while you’re still memorizing
• Monologue
• Ask for help if you need it!
or
• Write it in English first!
Library ISBN:
978-0198606413,
978-0816050260,
978-0195215823
• Be passionate! If you’re trying to move someone, move
yourself first!
English Oratory
Vocab:
• Fill in the dramatic ‘beats’ when you change tone and
FEEL it!
Read your dictionary over
and over
Library ISBN:
978-1567654332
Graphic Arts
• Great Resource: Your English teacher
Latin Recitation
• PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!!!!
• Practice the middle the most! (Serial Positioning Effect)
Latin Sight Reading
Brush up your vocab and grammar it’ll help!
START EARLY! I CANNOT
STRESS THIS ENOUGH!
By Solly Solomon, OJCL Historian, New Albany
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