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Father of his Country

A Presidents' Day Latin escape room for Latin IV

Works with: Cambridge Latin Course, Book 4, Stages 35–40

5 February, 2 BC: the whole Senate comes to Augustus' house on the Palatine to give him a new title, one that George Washington would share eighteen centuries later. Solve seven puzzles to hear what it was.

Play the free taster (2 of 7 locks)Members: full room

The taster runs in the browser, with nothing to install. Members share a private class link that opens all seven locks. Sound adds to the atmosphere.

What's inside

  • 7 self-grading locks, all in Latin
  • Vocabulary from Cambridge Latin Course Books 1–4 (to Stage 40)
  • Grammar: the deponent verbs loquor and cōnor
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson
Illustration from the picture-count lock of Father of his Country

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

  1. Crossword — the emperor, the Senate and the state, in Latin from Book 4.
  2. Anagrams — unscramble seven words from the ceremony.
  3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
  4. Matching — two deponent verbs, loquor ("speak") and cōnor ("try"): passive in form, active in meaning.
  5. Picture Count — reassemble the house on the Palatine, then count what you see.
  6. Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
  7. Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters spell the final word.

Most classes take about 50 minutes. Students can work alone, in pairs or in small teams on any device with a browser, or you can project the room and solve it together as a class. Every answer checks itself, so you are free to circulate, and progress is saved in the browser, so a room can be split across two lessons.

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