Aequora at Don Bosco

About Our Site and Aequora 

Our Aequora site is located at Don Bosco in Port Chester, NY. It is a community center that provides many after-school programs and opportunities to its students, now including Latin. 

Aequora is a K-8 program focused on literacy via Latin. At Don Bosco, we have chosen Aequora because we believe in the benefits of a classical education. Through The Paideia Institute’s Aequora curriculum, our volunteers harness the classical languages’ power to improve literacy, cultural understanding, and equity in education — all while making the ancient Mediterranean world fun and accessible to students of all backgrounds. 

Led by independent site coordinators, Aequora envisions Classics as an inclusive, diverse, and socially engaged field. Our textbook, Aequora: Teaching Literacy with Latin, introduces the basics of Latin vocabulary and grammar, Roman culture and mythology, and connections between Latin, English, and Spanish, all through games and activities designed to show students that learning Latin is fun! 

How We Teach Aequora 

Sessions are held Fridays from 4:30-5:30pm at Don Bosco. Don Bosco is a Catholic community center that has after school programs for elementary and middle school boys and girls. Fifth graders enjoy learning Latin, with fun and active games that combine the Spanish that many of them grow up speaking with English to learn Latin. 

Photos 

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Site Coordinator 

Our site coordinator, Peter Salame is a student at Brunswick School in Greenwich, CT.

Peter Salame

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Student

Peter Salame

Hi, I’m Peter and I’m a sophomore at Brunswick school. In 5th grade, my entire grade was required to take Latin, and I loved how such a morphologically rich language like Latin can feel like solving a puzzle when translating. So, I chose Latin for the rest of middle school, and all of high school. I’ve also always found different alphabets and scripts interesting, plus my brother had taken Ancient Greek at school and loved it, so I attended LGiGHS 2025 and realized how much I loved Ancient Greek too. I enjoy studying Syriac, fishing, and playing piano in my free time, and I’m excited to both improve English literacy and introduce Latin to kids who otherwise never would have had that opportunity.