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Magistra Cohen (she/her)
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Formerly working w/@/for many, now writing about myth & YA @ NU. 3rd gen. Chicagoan. Self-styled Tom Joad of Latin teachers. Spirit of '76. Immoderata mulier, proud of my alumnx, #confelicity. Reminding you to💉NOW. I salt vibes.
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Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "chicago" (32×), "kids" (27×), "novavax" (22×), "latin" (22×), "those" (18×), "favorite" (17×), "reading" (16×), "thinking" (16×), "song" (15×), "paper" (15×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest).
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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But the boy is packing his shirts, he is looking for his keys. Are you a god, the man screams, that I sit mute before you? Am I a god that I should never disappoint? But the boy is here. Please, Baba, a story?
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Love the charge to speak directly about learning strategies & metacognition!

I did some of this type of work w/my Latin 101 students this quarter. Besides talking about study strategies, I provided articles (& my take-aways) about why the strategies work.

URL in alt-text.

#MagistraGetsToTeach101
https://magistracohen509.weebly.com/study-resources-for-students.html Articles on Effective Studying (and my take-away from each) 3 Ways Learning a New Language Helps Your Brain (Making mistakes is an important part of learning) To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test (The process of taking a test helps students learn) Why Teachers Should Help Students Learn Effective Study Strategies (Forgetting helps support learning) Sleep and Study Schedules: Both Matter for Memory ("Time plays a key role in learning") 15 Quick (and Mighty) Retrieval Practices (written for teachers, but helpful: spacing out your studying is important) Effects of explaining a science lesson to others or to oneself (teaching someone helps you learn).
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Really appreciated the opportunity to discuss linear reading, explicit reading strategies, & my favorite 19th c. professor William Gardner Hale at the #LatinPedagogyWorkshop

Go read Hale's The Art of Reading Latin: How to Teach It
at drive.google.com/file/d/1ghPA...
Title slide. A Return to Reading: Approaching Latin Text Like a Roman. Slide: Reading Latin is engaging in human communication. Images of children (and one ancient red figure) reading. Are These Habits Reading Strategies? Image of distracted boyfriend meme: attractive girl is verb. Distracted boyfriend is me, advocate of linear reading. Angry girlfriend is Latin sentence. Thank you slide. Rickie Crown. Caroline Kelly. Deborah Ross. Donka Markus. Susan Shelmerdine. Glenn Knudsvig, of blessed memory.
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Pretty sure my top word on the other website used to be 'delighted.' I'm chuckling at 'those.' The emojis track.

My most-used words in 2025 were: 1. "chicago" (32×) 2. "kids" (27×) 3. "novavax" (22×) 4. "latin" (22×) 5. "those" (18×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "chicago" (32×), "kids" (27×), "novavax" (22×), "latin" (22×), "those" (18×), "favorite" (17×), "reading" (16×), "thinking" (16×), "song" (15×), "paper" (15×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest) Emoji bubble chart for 2025 showing 50 different emojis used 445 times total, visualized as bubbles sized by frequency. Top 10: 💜 (125×), 📌 (84×), 🎉 (34×), 😍 (33×), 😭 (22×), 😬 (17×), 🙃 (11×), 💉 (10×), 😷 (10×), 💖 (9×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest).
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Oh, if ONLY!
Cover of new McCarter Penguin edition of Catullus. At the bottom it says "Never miss a new book by Gaius Valerius Catullus.
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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She is watching the parade #Thanksgiving #MacysParade
Cat watching Thanksgiving parade.
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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my pie crust, but she’s still sleeping so I might make a shortbread nut crust instead of her roll out. I have no patience for a roll-out butter crust. But check out the amazing sweet potato purée my husband prepared for the pie!! #Thanksgiving
Sweet potato purée .
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. (Beta-release version because I took another picture in the middle of composing this tweet.)

This tracks.
A 15 year old boy in a Von Steuben basketball uniform. The number on the uniform is 23. His arms are outstretched and he holds a basketball in the palm of his hand. His shoes are multicolored and chaotic. His hair is long and brown. There is a blank look on his face.
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
A scene of SO many potential causes of mortality! Which one would it be? Bills, clean laundry, dirty laundry, Plutarch, messy desk, dissertation research covered up by distractions and competing responsibilities? The confluence? Pick my poison!!
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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What are these and where can I get one? #ThanksgivingParade #MacysParade
Scene from Macy’s Parade with hosts wearing some sort of long purple headdress.
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Is it just me or does every Arrowsmith song evoke the grossness of the current political moment? 🤢
Skip track.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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"You will be visited by three spirits."
Mosaic of Vergil and two Muses.
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I should hope so. (At least for the most recent one.)
PABA 🍌 🍋

#RealBirdFakeBird
You got 7/7 Penguin Classics . Real Bird Fake Bird. You got 7/7 Acronyms . Real Bird Fake Bird. You got 7/7 Bananas . Real Bird Fake Bird. You got 7/7 Acids . Real Bird Fake Bird.
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A movie that takes place where you're from
A large two-tined fork pierces an enormous hot dog. Underneath a sign reads "Wolfy's. Vienna Beef." The name Wolfy's also appears on top of the roof next to the sign. The geography of this movie was fictionalized, but that's okay.
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Seems kinda Roman, no?
Cicero Pro Caelio. For what you have said in reference to filial affection is a matter on which we may form an opinion, but it is the parent who is certainly the judge. What we think, you will learn from the evidence of witnesses on oath; what his parents feel, is plainly shown by the tears and indescribable sorrow of his mother, by the mourning garments of his father, and his misery that you see before you, and by all these signs of grief. As for your reproach that my young client5 is not esteemed by his fellow-townsmen, there is none of their own burgesses upon whom theyb have ever conferred higher honours when he was with them, than upon Marcus Caelius when he was away from them.
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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What's your sign?
Manbag.
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Me too!!
Sony Dream Machine.
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Tuxedo cat. Tabby cat.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band.
captain geech and the shrimp shack shooters.
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Here's my Penny, who is also a scowler! (And Pete, for good measure.)
Scowling tabby and bemused tuxedo cat.
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Night on Earth original soundtrack recording. A film by Jim Jarmusch. Music by Tom Waits. Original songs by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Cats.
October 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Will no one stop me #MagistraGetsToTeach101
(P.S. I can't get any of my kids to respond to my GenX pop culture question: is that lady problematic or am I okay to include her on a slide?)
Bizarre mnemonic to teach the Latin word IGITUR, which means therefore. Some lady named Iggy pictured with the word IGITUR on her forehead, highlighting the fact that the syllable fore appears in the meaning of igitur and in the word forehead. Bizarre mnemonic to teach the Latin word IGITUR, which means therefore. Iggy Pop pictured with the word IGITUR on his forehead, highlighting the fact that the syllable fore appears in the meaning of igitur and in the word forehead.
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM