High School Latin 1 (W)

Class Year:  2012-2013
Time:  Tue 11:30 am - 01:00 pm;
Teacher:  Jennifer Jones
Tution:  $450/year or $50/month for 9 months
Supply Fee:  $25 twice a year
Location:  PREP West (Katy)

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BOOKS: Henle First Year Latin & Henle Latin Grammar
/ /Loyola Press Text ISBN: 0-8294-1026-0
/ /Grammar ISBN: 0-8294-0112-1 / /

/ /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 teaches all noun and adjective declensions, and the active/passive verb tenses for all four conjugations. Most of the subjunctive mood, infinitives, and irregular constructions are saved for second year of study. Comprehensive English grammar is taught in this class. / /

/ /Students will study Classical terminology, Greek & Roman mythology, Roman culture and history as time allows, and will prepare for the annual Classical Literacy Exam as well as the National Latin Exam. There will be one special project assigned in the spring of the school year. / /

/ /About Henle. 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 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, 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. / /

/ /As with any new material, there is a crossover of Grammar and Dialectic work, yet with every successive lesson students are steadily drawn into the Rhetoric stage. This continues to a greater degree as we progress through book one and culminates in book two where 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. / /

/ /I typically organize a group purchase mid-summer through an online bookseller that offers good pricing. By combining our orders and sharing the shipping/handling charges, we can save a bit. / /

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