Resources

Here are several useful resources for preparing for convention.

General: [|PAJCL Website] [|NJCL Website]

Academics: [|Latin Library] [|Forum Romanum] [|Roman Empire]  

Athletics: 

Certamen: [|Latin Library Certamen Questions]   <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Graphic Arts: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Miscellaneous Competitions: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Creative Arts: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tips for Oratory:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Three styles of oratory <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Three kinds of orations (according to Cicero) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Five qualities were essential to the orator <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A typical oration: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Body language:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Asiatic - elaborate, artificial, and emotional
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Attic - clear, forceful, and direct
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Rhodian - combination of Asiatic and Attic
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Demonstrative - praises or criticizes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Deliberative - supports or attacks a measure or proposal
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Judicial - employed in the courts
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Invention - the power to gather facts and line up arguments
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Disposition - the ability to arrange contents in the most effective order
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Expression - the choice of words most suitable to the thought and occasion
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Memory - the firm grasp of content, words and arrangement
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Delivery - the perfect control of voice, features, gestures, and bodily movement to reinforce each phase of the speech
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduction
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Exordium - win the attention of audience
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Narratio - summary of the facts
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Body
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Partitio - outline of the treatment of point to be proved
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Confirmatio - affirmative argument
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Refutatio - rebuttal against opposite side
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Conclusion
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Peroratio - conclusion (brief recapitulation, arousing emotion, appealing to the sympathies of the audience)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Hands not too expressive
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Arm extended forward a bit
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Stomp foot at the beginning or ending of an energetic passage