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Latin Immersion Comes to Lord Tweedsmuir

Philo_medievThe Surrey School Board is pleased to announce that the District’s first ever Latin Immersion Program is starting this September at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School. All incoming Grade 8 students will receive instruction in Latin for all classes.  All Grade 9 students will have Latin instruction in all the core academic classes.  Meanwhile students on the Graduation Program will have Latin instruction in subjects chosen at random. In the cases of Provincially examinable courses, the Provincial Exam will also be written in Latin. When interviewed, Lord Tweedsmuir Principal Buggie was very excited about the plan, exclaiming, “vero nihil verius.” Then he added, “quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.”

 

 

J.R.R. Tolkien

One of the most popular authors of the 20th Century, J.R.R. Tolkien was born to English parents in 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State. The family moved back to Britain at age 3. He studied at Oxford and eventually taught there as well. He would go to author some of the English language’s most read books, including The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. For more on Tolkien, click here.

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Jo Walton

farthWriter Jo Walton was born on this day in Wales in 1964. She is the author of many different award winning fantasy, science fiction and speculative fiction books. Her novel Farthing, set in a Britain that has descended into the horrors of fascism, is the first book in an alternative history series that includes Ha’penny and Half a Crown. Walton has lived in Canada for more than a decade.