Edutopia - October/November 2008 - (Page 43) the Thirteenth, when Catullus invites his friend Fabullus to dinner but makes it clear that he’s going to have to bring the food with him. Horace is more sobering as he advises a woman to stop worrying about the future: “Carpe diem,” he says: “Seize the day, trusting tomorrow as little as possible.” The students set this melancholy ode to a pensive melody by Ludovico Einaudi. While listening closely to match rhythm and content to music, the students were more than a little surprised to discover that poets of more than 2,000 years past could echo their own thoughts today. Perhaps the most interesting piece, from the point of view of their Sicilian roots, is the anonymous poem “Pervigilium Veneris,” or “Vigil of Venus.” This work, which some scholars date around 400 AD, was possibly sung near Hybla (near Ragusa, Sicily) during the three-night festival greeting the advent of spring (April 1-3). Not only does it elaborately describe the natural world awakening, it contains the emphatic refrain “Tomorrow let him love who has never loved, and let him who has loved love tomorrow.” “It gave them a chance to feel like protagonists,” Vento says with a smile, “and to see that private passion can be connected to school, to daily life.” There were some other bene⇒ts to singing together, primarily the fostering of teamwork. Principal Franca Valenti says, “Working together in a chorus gives discipline. They need to be sensitive to each other, and to synchronize with each other without speaking.” (“We correct each other,” one student says. “We want to make a bella ⇒gura,” or good impression, adds another.) In other words, they must practice what we in the States call social and emotional learning. PHOTOS BY ERLA ZWINGLE The Quid Pro Quo When you get down to it, though, the students are still studying Latin. I ask them what point they see in that. “It’s useful for learning about our origins,” Dalia says, “and the study of a new language always opens the mind.” “It helps us study Italian,” adds Alessandra, “because there are lots of rules, more than in Italian.” EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA 43 http://www.EDUTOPIA.ORG
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