We read the immersion section we are working on to start the lesson, then spend a few minutes reviewing the margin notes which define vocab and illustrate how the grammar works. This year, with a 7th and 8th grader, the technical grammar benefits from a little explanation in English.
We pick Latin up and down as much as we can.
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Plus the CD of the author reading the text (a funny story involving sibling rivalries in a Roman family among other things) is wonderful. Another exercise book, well-written, targets one change at a time. No problems jumping from the "Christian" Latin to the pre-Christian variety. We jumped into Lingua Latina by Hans Orberg last year. We needed to say goodbye to workbooks because the kids minds were not engaging very deeply after a few years. When our brains got tired of puella, puellae, we did English language readings from Memoria's Men of Ancient Rome history book, which has a lot of language enrichment in it. Along the way we dabbled with Lingua Angelica, which parses Latin hymns (along with a singing CD) and this is best used toward the last half of Cristiana. By the time we cleared this, I felt that we needed to change from the workbook format. I forgot all my HS Latin - perhaps as far back as - high school! Prima lessons lasted about 15 minutes and the memory work that you as the mom/teacher lead is invaluable for imprinting declensions and verb endings. For me, it was a no brainer, because it is designed for moms who are not Latin experts. I used Prima starting with DD 5 and DS6 and it was what I call Just Enough.
Other Resources for Learning Challenges.Resources (and Curricula) for Processing Difficulties.Science Courses: Text/Online Support Packages.Apps, Learning Games, and Online Enrichment Activities.Getting Started: Beginning the Home Education Adventure.Stories and Tales From Around the World.Students will also need access to a USB headset microphone (built-in microphones also work well). Fix It! Grammar Cards are an optional supplement.
Required Materials: IEW Structure and Style for Students: Year 2 Level B, a Dictionary, Thesaurus, Grammar reference book. Students should also have a parent available to proofread for spelling and basic grammatical mistakes if needed. While initial assignments and others during the year will be shorter, eventually students should plan to spend at least 60 minutes per school day on their work. Prerequisites & Workload: Foundations of Composition is not a remedial writing course and there are prerequisites with respect to grammar. Students who struggle with English grammar and naturally require more time to complete assignments should consider taking Foundations of English and our Fable and Narrative class instead of Foundations of Composition. Students must be organized and able to follow and check their work against a rubric with specific requirements. There are weekly writing assignments and the course workbook will provide source material for some of the assignments, while other assignments will allow students to choose a topic.
This class is worth 1 high school credit. Students will learn key word outlines, paraphrasing, narrative writing, summarizing a source, writing from pictures, research papers, and inventive writing. We will review the parts of speech, phrases and clauses, sentence structures, as well as figures of speech, and students will have the opportunity to deliver oral presentations from their prepared outlines. Students will be provided with outlines that organize content into effective, logical, and coherent presentations and will learn to outline as well. Using the extremely practical and effective materials of Institute for Excellence in Writing, students will be guided through sequential, step-by-step lessons that provide firm structure, thus creating confidence. Description: This course covers a variety of skills and types of writing to prepare a student to take on almost any type of modern writing assignment.
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