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Webinars - Celebrating the Second Decade!
2025 Webinars
Join us for our 14th year of providing the classics community this complimentary professional development series of webinars.
Webinar Registration
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
"Introducing Pliny and Vergil LUMINA"
David Pellegrino
Master teacher David Pellegrino will provide insight into how he developed Pliny and Vergil LUMINA, designed to be a comprehensive and thorough online guided practice and review resource. He will present representative examples of the multiple choice questions students will encounter in this self-grading program. Pellegrino has taken great pains when framing explanations for why an answer is correct or not so as to maximize the learning experience. He will also discuss and give examples of the kinds of free response questions asked. Learn about LUMINA, praised by students for how well it prepares them for the AP® Latin Exam.
David R. Pellegrino recently retired after a successful career as a middle and high school Latin teacher and language department chair in the Pittsford Central School District. In 2011, the school district was honored with the June U. Stillwell Outstanding New York State Latin Program Award. Pellegrino received a BA in Latin and an MA in Latin Education from the State University of New York, Albany. He is past President of the Classical Association of the Empire State for which he has also served many years as treasurer. In 2015, he was honored as an American Classical League Meritus Award winner. Pellegrino is the author of Catullus Vocabulary Cards for AP Selections (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2006), Cicero and Horace Vocabulary Frequency Lists for AP Selections (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2008), and coauthor with Dennis De Young of Caesar and Vergil AP Vocabulary Cards (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012). Pellegrino served on the New York State Latin Review Committee that produced Latin for the 21st Century: Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. He has been a regular presenter on Latin for the New York State Department of Education. The College Board posted his AP Latin Course Planning and Pacing Guide (2012) on its website. He has presented regularly at the ACL Institute and the Classical Association of the Empire State Institute. In his retirement, Pellegrino has regularly contributed “short, doable Latin” passages on Facebook. Pellegrino is creator, of Bolchazy-Carducci’s forthcoming LUMINA: Pliny and Vergil Selections online content designed for the new AP Latin curriculum.
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Please note: The Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Webinar Program is intended to be a live interactive endeavor in which presenter and attendees ask questions, make comments, seek clarification, share examples, etc. Thus, by design and in order to protect the presenter's intellectual property, Bolchazy-Carducci does not make recordings available to non-attendees. Bolchazy-Carducci encourages those interested in a given topic or presenter to plan to attend the live webinar.
