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October 2020
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in hoc opere
3 First Latin Club Meeting
4 Romulus Bops
5-6 Fall Forum
7 Pumpkin Palooza
8-10 Meet the Officer
11 Puzzle/Comebacks
12 Family Standings
13 Acta Diurna

staff:
Audrey Lie
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 FIRST LATIN
CLUB MEETING!
Audrey Lie
Although the first latin club meeting of the year did not have its usual
energy with the buzz and excitement for the Freshmen about to get
sorted or the joy for the upcoming slices of cake, WJCLers all joined the
zoom with warm and smiling faces. The JCL officers quickly introduced
themselves, and a rundown of the entire year for the WJCL was
presented. All the perks of Latin Club like State Convention, Certamen,
and Farnsworth hyped the new JCLers up for an exciting year. Then,
the awaited sorting hat ceremony began. VPs Isabel Buyers and Grace
Shen presented the 8th and 9th graders with their house of either
Valerii, Fabii, Claudii, Cornelii, Aemilii, and Iulii. Check out page 12 for
the current family standings!

WJCLers smiling during this year's first Latin club meeting!

Picture Creds: Cynthia Ruan

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 Romulus' BOPS
Have you ever wondered what the first king of Rome would listen to if
he had a spotify? Here are some bops I think Romulus would have had
on his Spotify playlist!

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Among us players prepare to get divided into
breakout rooms.
Latin students wait for the GA Assembly to begin...
fall forum
All the Latin Scholars across Georgia
woke up bright and early to head to the
awaited virtual Fall Forum. WJCLers
excitedly sat on their computers, filled
with excitement for the fun games,
academic tests, and events. 104
participants of the zoom all felt the Latin
spirit, even if we didn't get to shout our
chants this year. Wheeler High School
hosted this year's Fall forum, and the
GA assembly began with GJCL President
Sanjay Srihari giving an opening
statement of welcome. Our very own
Waltonjcler, Rebecca Lee, GJCL
Parliamentarian, represented Walton
very well!

Then came the academic tests!

With the Latin 1s and 2s testing on
subjects of History/Culture, Latin
Language, and Mythology and the
Latin 3s and up testing in the
Pentathlon, everyone used their
intelligence to ace these said tests.
Certamen, the superior quiz bowl,
was still competitive as ever, even
in an online setting.
Congratulations to all Walton
teams! With the intermediate team
receiving 1st place along with the
advanced and novice team
receiving 2nd, all teams performed
extremely well.

A few snapshots of the opening GA Assembly 5

 After proving our smartness, it was time for everyone, including
non-certamen players, to get competitive with some fun games!
This year's games included Skribbl, Scavenger Hunts, Mafia, and
the iconic Among us. In my games of Skribbl, all members were
friendly, and there were certainly some interesting words and
drawings alike to guess. Doodles ranged from lemons to William
Shakespeare. In the game of Among us, Latin scholars were
divided into groups of 8 with 2 people being the imposter. It was a
fun game of master trickery and persuasion to either save your
crewmates or fool all others to victory.

Picture creds: Elise Park

Students focus while

playing a competitive
game of Among us. Who
do you think is currently
the imporster?

JCLers are surprised

when they find out the
correct word during a
game of Skribbl.

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 pumpkin palooza
On Wednesday October 21st, many high-achieving Latin scholars joined
together on zoom to decorate their own pumpkins! With the choice of
drawing the pumpkin on paper or painting on an actual pumpkin,
WJCLers took it upon themselves to incorporate their Roman knowledge
with spooky festivities. Some painted and drew the JCL logo while others
drew a picture of a Roman man! Latin V Aric Ting specially made a
pumpkin origami! It was a fun way to have Halloween fun while
celebrating the Classics!

Pumpkin party full of happy students and wonderfully decorated Latin IV Aric Ting's origami pumpkin!
pumpkins!

Latin IV Isabel
Buyers in the process
of making her
pumpkin and the
final product!

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 Meet the Officer:
Aric Ting
Any advice for other certamen players?
I'm not a certamen top tier by any means, but
here's what I've learned from talking with
people way better than me:
For starters, don't be afraid. Obviously you
shouldn't buzz on a question that you haven't
studied for at all, but in general you shouldn't
be afraid to get a question wrong. You and
your friends might think you're dumb, or get
mad at you for messing things up when one
of your friends actually knew the answer, but
in the end it doesn't matter that much and it's
more important you learn how to buzz fast.
For practical advice, always write down every
question that you miss, and go over them
WJCL PRESIDENT
As president during this abnormal year, how do you
plan on keeping spirits high for everyone in the WJCL?
Things definitely won't be the same as they were
when it was in person (even then the "spirits" could
have been higher). I'm trying to get more people to be
active on our Discord server because having more
people can definitely enhance the experience, and
being on the server is a great way to hang out with
fellow Latin Club members. We also occasionally meet
up for games to play (currently we only play Among
Us but in the future I hope we can expand our roster).
If you're into certamen, we also have weekly
scrimmages outside of practice with Mr. Farnsworth!
Aside from the server, we're planning on having fun
and interesting activities at our monthly meetings. For
instance, we're going to host our first ever Latin
Spelling Bee at our next meeting! I'm pretty excited
and I hope we can make it a fun and memorable
event. If this gets published after the Spelling Bee is
over, then I hope it was memorable.

later. I've probably said this enough times to

annoy people who've heard it, but it's a great
way to practice more effectively, and most of
top tier certamen teams in the country do it.
If you start doing this early on, you can pretty
much use it to review for any competition or
convention exam.

From all the characters in the Cambridge

Latin Textbooks, who would you be and why?
I would be Quintus, Caecilius's son. He's an overall
pretty good guy and I agree with most of the
decisions he makes throughout the story. There's

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another reason that I won't disclose out of
consideration for you Latin Is, but it's pretty obvious
once you finish Latin I.
 Meet the Officer:
Isabel Buyers
WJCL VICE PRESIDENT
What is your favorite JCL memory?
What is the most rewarding thing about
Although State Convention and Fall Forum getting involved in the JCL?
are always a lot of fun, my favorite JCL
memories have to be from National
The most rewarding thing about being
Convention. NJCL Convention 2019 was involved in JCL for me is planning events.
particularly fun because it was the first It's really fun to see things that once only
time that I was traveling with only my existed in your mind come to fruition, and
friends and because that year, I stepped it's great to see people having fun at an
out of my comfort zone more than ever. event you planned.
Since I was willing to start conversations
with people I didn't know, I became friends
with so many interesting people. If I had to
pick my single favorite memory, it would
probably be the last night of convention
when most of the Georgia delegation
celebrated the end of summer on the
dance floor. Less than 36 hours later, I was
back at Walton for the first day of school.

What project/s are you excited to

work on or have worked on this year?

Without giving too much away, I'm

looking forward to planning an event
for Walton Latin Club members to
teach younger students more about
the cultures of Greece and Rome.

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 Meet the Officer:
Grace Shen
WJCL VICE PRESIDENT
Since you were also WJCLs 2019-2020 editor, Why did you choose Latin in the first
what are your favorite responsibilities of place?
each officer job. Both editor and vice
president. I joined Latin for a variety of reasons -
I loved the creativity that came with being probably because a lot of my friends were
editor! Writing and designing the newsletter taking it, and I heard that it was good for
with Abhinav was a blast because we got to SATs and college haha. But I really ended
review each others' work and spice it up. up staying because of the JCL, the many
Also, hearing that people enjoyed reading interesting things to learn, and Mr.
the De Rebus is still one of my favorite Farnsworth's teaching. I don't think I've
memories of sophomore year. ever met a teacher equally as passionate
about teaching and helping his students
For vice president, there's also a surprising as Farns.
amount of creativity that I am enjoying, along
with the fact that I can make people smile
from the projects I plan. As VP, there's also
more involvement in the JCL. This year, I've
had much more exposure to other chapters'
leadership, and it's really fun to make friends
with JCLers around the state!

The typical question,,, but I must ask, If you

were a any Roman mythical character,
goddess, or person, who would you be?

I would totally be Vesta haha. I like to

think I'm pretty independent but also
warm-hearted :)

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Try this Rebus Puzzle!!
Do you know some common Latin phrases? Try solving these Rebus puzzles
that represent a phrase said in Latin that you have probably heard before...

2 ubi
always...
ubi
3
hardship
Comeback Time!
Here are some comebacks for when a fool questions why you take Latin (a dead
language).Feel free to use these when necessary ;).
"Yes, it is a language only spoken by the
"Duh, so I can talk to the
dead and I am interested in the language
dead, you plebeian. "
of Roman ghosts."
-Melika Kojoori, Latin III -Chloe Jane Fife, Latin I

"Latin is actually not a dead language. It is the root of "Why are u learning a language that can
learning other languages or understanding them
only be spoken in specific countries
better. For example, while I was doing Social Studies
when the language im learning is apart
there were some Latin phrases that came up and I
actually kind of understood them."
of every language"
-Vidya Valeti, Latin I -Megan Reddy, Latin V
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 Iulii Family
Standings

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48 points !!!
3
Valerii Fabii
36 points
48 points
1 Tied for first with Iulii
4
Cornelii
32 points
Aemilii
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44 points
2 Claudii
***shoutout to Latin IV Pranav Malladi 28 points
(WJCL Censor) for providing these
numbers!!
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acta diurna
"Astra inclinant, sed non obligant"
The stars incline us, they do not bind us.

Shoutouts Meetings
Huge shoutout to Melika Join us for our next
Latin club meeting on
Kojoori and Aric Ting for November 18th for our
completing the unscrambling first annual Latin
spelling bee! Fill out the
puzzle from last month's De interest form on
Rebus! Edmodo to sign up!

Important!! Joke of the

Make sure to sign up for
month
your Topical Study Topics!
What was the most
The google form is on
popular book store in
edmodo. Also, have you
the Roman empire?
signed up for the NCEE? It's a
great way to test your Latin
etymology!
Barnestantinoble.

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