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Michelle M.
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Participle enthusiast. 7th-12th grade Latin + Greek teacher.
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Almost done with end of year grades 🫡
Bernie Sanders standing in a coat. The meme reads ‘I am once again asking you to give me viewing permission’.
May 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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It’s like I was there
May 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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It’s AP Latin day and I’m posting through it
May 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Ovid would have written Von Dutch, I won’t be taking any questions.
A photo from Coachella. From left to right: Troye Sivan wearing a shirt that says ‘protect the dolls’, Lorde in a grey t shirt, charli xcx in black club attire, and on the far right is Billie Eilish sticking her tongue out. Above them are labels of Latin poets: Troye as Tibullus, Lorde as Vergil, Ovid as charli xcx, Billie as Propertius.
April 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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My mom passed away on Valentine’s Day. And that was emotionally wrenching and everyday is a winding road.

But my first day back was today and I came back to a whole bunch of Latin valentines from my silly students
A red heart with a white scalloped edge inside that reads on the left “Will you be the Nisus” and then on the right it reads “to my Euryalus”
February 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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It’s simple.
Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs meme. A pyramid is shown, there are five tiers, from bottom to top: purple, green, yellow, blue, orange. The bottom purple tier is “iced coffee and a little treat”, the green tier is “walkable city”, the yellow tier is “beers with the homies”, the blue tier is “2am hot dogs”, the final orange tier is “$2 Jell-O shots”.
January 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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The other side says “Babygirl Nosferatu”.
A theater marquee of an art deco style building is depicted. The theater’s name “Esquire” is glowing in bright red letters. The marquee’s first line, in black block letters, reads: “QUEER MUFASA”. The second line reads “F L O W”. The third line reads: “THE END”.
December 29, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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#Loebsprachen
June 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Do you know anyone doing some cool things in the Classics classroom *at any level*? Nominate them for the Charles Humphreys Innovative Pedagogy Award by Feb 1st. We’d love to see many nominations of all the great work out there. The nominee must be a member of ACL.
A dark blue background with white text reads “Charles Humphries Award for Innovative Pedagogy: nominate a candidate by February 1st”. It says: awards@aclclassics.org. A white graphic featuring a compass, a protractor, a ruler is in the top right corner.
January 14, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Starting my SCSAIA with some serious deli eats
A light grained wood table features two plates, o. The left a bagel with cream cheese and lox in deli wrapping, on the right two latkes flanked by sour cream and apple sauce. Aeneid grading lurks in the foreground
January 4, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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They’ve learned
A shocked face hand drawn on a test, next to an arrow pointing to the verb “fovere”
December 16, 2023 at 6:44 PM
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Most popular 8th grade boys haircut this year is what I call the Boy Meets World.
A character from Boy Meets World with a quintessential 90s haircut - middle part, long on the sides, like a bowl cut’s cooler cousin.
September 1, 2023 at 2:15 AM
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Inside you there are two wolves
Justin and Hailey Bieber make an appearance at Krispy Kreme. Justin Bieber, left, walks with head bowed, a backwards pink hat roguishly twisted backward. He wears a grey zip up hoodie and grey sweat shorts, white ankle socks, and bright yellow crocs with decorative giblets. Hailey, on the right, wears a bright red mini dress and matching red leather handbag she holds in her left hand and red pumps. She gazes to the side, challenging anyone who crosses her path to Krispy Kreme.
August 29, 2023 at 2:55 AM
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Thanks to Plato’s Fire (www.platosfire.co.uk/ancient-epic...) for making the first day of diving into the Aeneid so fashionable. These are *so cool*
A close up photo of a woman wearing an earring shaped like the page of a book. A red bookmark hangs from the page slightly and a purple book cover is peeking out. On the earring laser engraved is “Arma virumque cano Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit litora”. The top of the earring is round, gold colored resin. You can see dark shoulder length hair behind the earring and a beige cinderblock wall as the background.
August 23, 2023 at 2:28 AM
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“How does this word mean “happy, fertile, fat, *and* sleek?” a student asked.
Another student replies immediately, “It’s the perfect word to describe a seal.”
YES!!! I’m obsessed with this idea of a happy seal
A rotund seal lies on smooth rock with grass in the distance. He is white with splotches of gray and his head is pleasantly smushed into his body. His eyes are closed in a peaceful way and he has a slight smile on his face. His whiskers are barely visible sprouting from his cheeks. A screenshot of the most common words in Vergil from the AP syllabus starting at labor and ending at litus. Highlighted is the word “laetus, a, um: happy, fertile, fat, sleek”
August 22, 2023 at 3:13 AM
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Okay it’s happening. I’ve been assured this will destroy me (in an exciting way?)
The book cover of R.F. Kuang’s Babel. In golden letters it reads “Babel” and below in a serif font it reads “An Arcane History.” These words are superimposed on a black and white sketch of 19th century Oxford with crowded buildings and roofs, at the center is the fictional tower of the Department of Translation with birds circling it. The style is that of an etching.
August 21, 2023 at 2:27 AM
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I just needed to get this off of my chest.
A marble statue of Plato on a sky blue background. He holds his left hand slightly up as he ponders. In bright pink letters with white outline is the logo of the popular tween store Justice. A blue heart dots the I dramatically.
August 9, 2023 at 4:27 AM
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I’m here and I brought my Barbie memes.
The skeleton mosaic from the Baths of Diocletian is pictured, photoshopped to be in light pink background with a hot pink skeleton. He points to a now hot pink γνωθι σεαυτον reminding us all to know ourselves. Ryan Gosling as Ken clad in light pink and green striped beach wear reclines just like the skeleton and looks up at the Greek quote and newfound buddy above him. At the top in Barbie font in English it reads, “Know thyself.”
July 25, 2023 at 1:19 AM