PHOTOS, VIDEO: Students Close Out Week with Latin Christmas Carols

At the end of the school week leading up to holiday break, students and staff at were treated to Latin Christmas carols by Ted Zarrow's Latin IV class.

This is the fifth annual performance by Zarrow's class. Zarrow explained that in Latin III, one of the major projects at the beginning of the year is to create Latin adaptations of modern songs to allow students to appreciate the differences between Latin and English expressions. The original idea for creating Christmas carols was an offshoot of this idea.

"I was able to find some Latin holiday carols both in books and online, but most of the songs that we perform have been put into Latin either by myself or by my students, and we add to the list each year," explained Zarrow. "The real trick is to 'sync-up' the Latin with the actual number of English syllables in the original songs."

Songs performed this year included "Dominick the Donkey," "All I want for Christmas is You" and "Auld Lang Syne."

In the past, songs performed included "Jingle Bells," "White Christmas," "Deck the Halls," "Christmas Tree," "Frosty the Snowman," "Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer," "Last Christmas," "The Grinch" and "Feliz Navidad."

Also, in addition to the Latin singers, the Tri-M music honor society sang carols. There was even a special guest singing "Blue Christmas" by Elvis, the King himself.

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