WVJCL

You all will be pleased to hear that three girls (including myself) from our school went to the West Virginia Junior Classical League Convention(WVJCL) in Morgantown, WV this past week. And guess what... I am now the Secretary!!! Also, one of my friends is now the WVJCL Parlimentarian. We are avaible to sign autographs if anyone would like. Okay, that may be a little too much, so let me just write about what we did.

Before I begin I would like to note that this convention was not what my 10yr old brother would call a "nerd alert"(I promise you he does that anytime I metion latin). Everyone was VERY entergetic and very passionate about reviving this so called "dead language". There were five schools that were represented in the convention. Some of my friends that I have known since first grade were even there with another school. But, let me stress, that there was alot of work that we had to do while we were in Morgantown. There were numerous tests that we had to take and two certamens that we competed in. In all, our little school brought home 13 ribbons. Not too shabby, girls!

It was no wonder that the Lakeview Resort was the venue of choice for the 2011 WVJCL: There was a SpaROMA (get it Rome, Roma haha!) and on the lamps outside of each room, there was a greek key. This picture was taken ouside of my hotel room.

They call it Lakeview Resort for a reason...




There was also a very informative presentation about Cleopatra by Vicky Alvear Shecter. I recommend that you visit her blog and website- she has a post about the WVJCL on it!

http://www.historywithatwist.blogspot.com

From there you can visit her website. Thank you once again Ms Shecter for such a wonderful presentation.


Our school won these awads:

Toga Fashion Show~
Most Romanesque Outfit

Certamen!~
3rd place

Projests~ I will post a picture of our projects later
Models
1st:
3rd:

Mosaics
2nd:

Written Tests
~Derivatives-3rd place

~Grammer(level 3&4)-1st

~Reading Comp- 2nd

~ Vocabulary (level 3&4)
1st
2nd
3rd