What's included
8 live meetings
10 in-class hoursClass Experience
This class is for students who have completed Lingua Latina I c. If you have not attended that class, but have studied Latin previously, please contact me, and we'll see if this class can work for you. Onward! Using the Natural Method to learn Latin, you will have conversations, read, play games, and even prepare for the National Latin Exams, if you so desire. Along the way, we'll uncover declensions and noun-adjective agreement; prepositional phrases; Latin verb conjugation, starting with the most essential (!) verb in all languages ("To be, or not to be . . . "); Roman food and shopping (apples, pears and pearls -- mAla, pira margaritaeque) and the best known stories of gods and goddesses -- while noting Latin roots that lie beneath so many of our own language. Homework will involve reading short passages, listening to audio clips of our readings being read and explained, and short exercises to reinforce what we did in class that week. A quiz will be sent home at the end of each chapter. Quizzes are for diagnostic purposes and can (and should :) ) be retaken until mastery is achieved. It is important to stay on top of work for the class, and, as with all languages, the best way to absorb them is to work at them a little bit every day -- but I don't expect students to be working more than 2-3 hours a week total outside of class. ValEte! Be well!
Other Details
Supply List
For this fourth series of classes, all materials will be provided, though students may buy or borrow from the library the two texts we will be using: Lingua Latina by Hans Orberg D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Mythology [Why not Roman? It is good to know both Greek and Roman names for the gods; this book gives the best known stories for Greek and Roman gods; and finally, it is just so darn good.] Other materials, such as vocabulary lists and audio files, will be supplied by me as needed week by week.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Teacher expertise and credentials
I'm a homeschooling mother of four with a PhD in Classics from Columbia University. After teaching at the college level, I started teaching Latin to kids ages 6-18 in our homeschool coops. I love the creativity of sharing a 'dead' language in very lively ways, through conversation, reading stories, games, and song.
Learning Latin does lead to success in so many ways. Latin is the at the root of a large chunk of our words in English, it is the source of all the Romance languages, and, with Greek, Latin gives the building blocks of scientific, philosophical, legal, and theological vocabulary. Latin grammar helps students understand English grammar.
Good news: it does not have to involve brute memorization and thick textbooks.
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Live Group Class
$80
for 8 classes1x per week, 8 weeks
75 min
Completed by 6 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-17
3-9 learners per class