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Latin, Greek programs soar at Portland High School

"This is my least stressful class," said freshman and first-year Latin student Annette Denekas. "It's definitely a comfortable atmosphere in here."

Denekas takes Latin with Michelle Tucci, who has worked at the school for 15 years. She teaches Latin and Greek to some of the school's hundreds of foreign-language scholars.

"The classes are brain-based," Tucci said. "It's a theory of flow, like in sports, when you're in the zone – except you're in the Latin zone."

Tucci believes that students' cognitive powers increase when they connect emotionally with their teachers. Her class is laid back. Her students call her "Mama Tucci."

While some may see that as coddling the students, Tucci gets results.

This school year, 82 percent of the PHS students who took the Medusa Mythology Exam, a Latin test, earned national awards and 48 percent of students who took the National Latin Exam earned national awards. All of the students who took the National Greek Exam earned national awards.

But for Tucci and the other Latin teachers, it's not all about the awards. More than 90 percent of students who take Latin return to the program the following year.

Next year 277 students have signed up for Latin, 66 for Greek. That's more than Spanish and French. As a result, Tucci has asked the School Board to hire another Latin teacher. If her request is denied, she said she would have to cut the Greek program.

Tucci realizes that to engage what she calls the "millennial kids," she needs to utilize modern technology. Her Latin 1 textbook is an e-book, which includes interactive games, video and a fictional story the students can follow that helps them learn about the social aspects of Roman life.

To save money, Tucci uses an online Latin/English dictionary rather than ordering traditional textbooks.

She is also creative with the ways she engages kids. The students created a "Trivial Pursuit" game with Latin questions in a variety of categories. She also plays "trash ball," a "Jeopardy"-like game, and Utz, another quiz-show style game.

"It gets them out of their seats, which is good," she said. "(The class is) rigorous, but if you give kids a ball, they'll do anything."

And Tucci's students like the way they're perceived by the public and college admissions offices when they say they're taking Latin.

"People are really impressed," said Meghan Kelly, a sophomore who has been studying at her own pace and finished her Latin 2 program ahead of schedule.

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