Sam Sharma
@ClassicsSharma
Classics teacher in the North of England. On Twitter for the Virgil memes. He/Him.
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The evolution of the Mycenaean octopus is just progressive stages of a drug trip.
My students somehow struggle with the ‘were Greek temples more impressive than Roman temples’ style essay q that writes itself, so I made a comparative visual of the four Prescribed Source temples. Don’t think I even realised how massive the Pantheon is and I’ve been to all 🤯
P.S. A quick reminder that the CAWS book is completely open access (i.e. available for free online), so you don't have to rely on anyone else's 'reading' (I think this is a generous term for certain engagements) you can just read it for yourself: taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/…
If McWhorter would like to engage with musicological scholarship on the subject in his class on, uh, musicology, he is welcome to read my book, especially the chapter “Making Sense of Silence.” academic.oup.com/book/9007/chap…
Very interesting argument from Hamilton, @dylanwiliam , and Hattie. osf.io/preprints/edar… I find it pretty compelling.
Getting ready - for the Rumble Lecture 2024. On 19 March Prof. Michael Squire will discuss 'The Eye of the Mirror: Sight and Subjectivity in Classical Greek Art'. kcl.ac.uk/events/rumble-…
Can we read archival archaeological notebooks against the grain? What other histories do they hold?
The new careers board is going up outside T3. Take a look!
For Christmas Eve, a festive-ish 🧵 about my trip to Dumbarton Castle. The fortress sits on Scotland’s west coast, controlling the river Clyde. It is one of the oldest inhabited areas in Scotland, with history that runs from ancient Arthurian legend to 1860s invasion scares 1/10
‘socioeconomic status does not play a role in children’s language development’. yet people who continue to believe in word gap narratives and interventions will always find ways to frame working- class children and families as linguistically lacking. science.org/content/articl…
For an end-of-year project, my students researched Roman coins and recreated them in Oreo. They did an amazing job!!!
Andrew is also an incredible scholar beyond his editorial work, with multiple sole-authored volumes (Read Sickness, Suffering and the Sword if you havent!) and edited collections and volumes to his credit. 9/10
The beauty of Attic acrophonic numerals. (IG I^3 460, summary account of Pheidias’ statue of Athena Parthenos, 438/7 BC)
I will never not love this revision task - pupils fill their blank snakes and ladders boards with progressively more difficult questions about a text, and then we get the dice out and play everybody’s boards 🥰 such a wholesome time
In the lead-up to the 50th anniversary of the Fitch Lab, we have been exploring our history using the BSA archives. Our blog post published today, explores the pioneers and pivotal moments that led to the laboratory’s establishment - go check it out 👇 bsa.ac.uk/2023/12/07/an-…
The character of Ancient Greek and Classical Latin prose style, reduces to a single page by H.F. Guite:
In the last 4 months I've read *loads* of twitter threads on teaching. To ease you into the holidays, here're 40 of the finest: ↓
RESOURCE: I’ve been reflecting on @Lukey_B21’s talk at PiXL about students including irrelevant points in their exam responses. Thinking about how to explicitly model the idea that some things they know won’t be needed. Scribbled this rough plan during Luke’s talk and have made…
Discussed this from an old blog by @jdurran with a teacher at one of the Trust schools and was delighted to see she had put it into practice already - to support pupils’ understanding of purpose and selecting methods to support it 🤩
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