My Students

The main building block of the English language is Latin. For a school like our high school, where English skills are lower than the national average, our first-ever Latin course will assist students in vocabulary building, grammar knowledge, and overall reading comprehension.

My students are some of the hardest-working, most-driven young people who have fought through a lot in one of the most impoverished regions in North Mississippi.

Although our school has fought through the issues that remain from segregation in the past and low funding even today, it has grown into a Mississippi "Successful School." The biggest reason is that the students are motivated and realize the importance of their education. Last year, our graduating seniors earned 1.48 million dollars in collegiate scholarship money.

My Project

This year, my principal and I decided to create our first-ever Latin Course. The benefits that this course will offer are as follows: students will have greater capacity to understand other modern languages such as French and Spanish that stem from Latin; students will gain a greater understanding of the past and of Western Civilization; lastly and most importantly, students will obtain a far stronger grasp of English grammar and vocabulary, assisting them in all facets of literacy and comprehension, and preparing them for a college-level curriculum. In order to achieve this goal, I envision every student in my class with a top-notch text book, such as the Cambridge Latin text. This text will help students relate the language and culture of Ancient Rome to their own everyday lives. This text helps to build the students' knowledge of Latin from the ground up. The workbooks will provide the necessary exercises for students to strengthen their skills on a daily basis.

With your donations of these textbooks, my students will have something tangible to which they can relate their lives to the Latin language.

These textbooks will give students more structure in a course that requires a lot of discipline. In the end, these textbooks will have the students place more value on the Latin language. With a passion for learning this language, my students will continue to grow towards being productive members of collegiate life and of society in general.