High School Latin 1 (NW)

Class Year:  2010-2011
Time:  Wed 08:00 am - 09:30 am;
Teacher:  Jennifer Jones
Tution:  $45/month or $405/year
Supply Fee:  $25/semester
Location:  PREP North West (Cypress)

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BOOKS: Henle First Year Latin & Henle Latin Grammar
/ /(Loyola Press)
/ /Text ISBN: 0-8294-1026-0 (List Price: $16.95)
/ /Grammar ISBN: 0-8294-0112-1 (List Price: $9.50)
/ /Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith
Hamilton (readily available used) / /

/ /Latin I is a first year high school level course. Utilizing Henle?s method, students will cover about the first six units of First Year Latin which covers all noun and adjective declensions, and the active/passive verb tenses for all four conjugations. Most, if not all, of the subjunctive mood, the infinitives, and irregular constructions are saved for second year of study. / /

/ /Henle?s method is excellent in many ways; one is that it introduces and reinforces Latin grammar concepts utilizing a limited vocabulary. Students are not overly burdened with countless vocabulary lists to memorize on top of their grammar study. The vocabulary is carefully chosen from Caesar?s Gallic Wars and Christian writings/doxologies and prayers. Through this, Henle develops for the student patriotic themes, love for God and His Son, our Savior, and the contrast between these and secular leaders whose desire it was to seek glory for themselves. / /

/ /Latin is a highly structured language and it is taught in this same systematic way. The motivated student can anticipate refining their study skills through careful discipline.  Homework is estimated at 60 minutes each day and will include memorization work, keeping a detailed notebook, copywork, translation exercises and some composition. We use the Ecclesiastical pronunciation in class; however, those students already accustomed to Classical pronunciation are very welcome to use it. / /

/ /There is much crossover in the dialectic and rhetoric stages of the classical trivium model of education in this level of Latin. When approaching any new subject there will always be memorization and those things that fall in the grammar and dialectic stages, but it isn?t until halfway through the text that the student really meets up with the rhetoric stage. And this continues to a greater degree as we progress through the book and culminates in book two as the author compares the lives of three great leaders: Julius Caesar, a great military and organizing genius, Vercingetorix, a noble and tragic figure, and Jesus Christ, whose claims rest upon no human authority. / /

/ /For questions about this class or Latin, in general, email me directly at MagistraJones@gmail.com / /