Latin for Children
Ted Kerwin
three years in High School. I was wondering if anyone would suggest a basic
Latin text to allow me to slowly reintroduce myself and hopefully my
daughters to Latin.
Johannes Patruus
Although I haven't sampled it myself, I believe that the "Minimus" series
is popular with children. To see the product range, enter 'minimus' in the
"Quick search" box on this page:
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/
It seems to have spawned its own fan/support site:
http://www.minimus-etc.co.uk/
There are reviews out there, e.g.:
http://www.homeschoolchristian.com/Reviews/Minimus.html
For your own revision, I would suggest Moreland & Fleischer's "Intensive
Course":
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/1298.html
Johannes
Alan Jones
"Johannes Patruus" <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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"Minimus" for your daughters, certainly, but perhaps not yet, even for the
4-year-old. For yourself, work quickly through the Cambridge Latin Course as
a supplement to the M & F Intensive Course; it's not concerned primarily
with grammar, at least to start with, but is very good on vocabulary and
Roman life. (Get the "Teachers' Books" at each Stage for in-depth
commentary, as well as the pupils' course books.) In the later Stages, the
reading is e.g. Pliny the Younger and Catullus rather than Caesar and
Virgil, something that greatly appealed to the teenagers I used to teach,
and, I must say, also to me, much though I love Virgil.
I would suggest that you don't bother very much about grammar with your
daughters - ideally not at all. Do as you would if you were gently
introducing them to a modern language: speak correctly, but don't correct
them. They will eventually get it more-or-less right by imitation, as they
will with English and as Roman children did. Tell them stories; show them
pictures; make models and talk about them.
Alan Jones
John Westerlage
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Group Listings:
Group: Caesar's Gallic War / De Bello Gallico Book VI (Caesar)
Coordinator: Steven Kavchok <sto...@aol.com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
6.13 for April 27, 2005
6.14 & 6.15 for May 4, 2005
6.16 & 6.17 for May 11, 2005
6.18 - 6.20 for May 18, 2005
6.21 & 6.22 for May 25, 2005
Group: Caesar's Civil War / De Bello Civili Book III (BC, Bellum
Civile)
Coordinator: Kirk Lougheed <loug...@pobox.com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
De Bello Civili 3.1 for Monday, May 2 (Incipit Liber III)
De Bello Civili 3.2 & 3.3 for Monday, May 9
De Bello Civili 3.4 for Monday, May 16
De Bello Civili 3.5 & 3.6 for Monday, May 23
no assignment for Monday, May 30.
De Bello Civili 3.7 & 3.8 for Monday, June 6
De Bello Civili 3.9 for Monday, June 13
De Bello Civili 3.10 for Monday, June 20
De Bello Civili 3.11 for Monday, June 27
no assignment for Monday, July 4
De Bello Civili 3.12 for Monday, July 11
Group: Wheelock's Latin Reader (WLR)
Comment: Selections from Cicero, Livy, Ovid, Pliny, & Medieval Latin
Text: "Wheelock's Latin Reader, 2nd ed" by Wheelock, ISBN 0060935065
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcut...@us.net>
Assignments:
Midas and the Golden Touch:
ll. 127-145 -- 30 April
Pliny the Younger:
ll. 1 - 20 -- 7 May
ll. 21 - 44 -- 14 May
ll. 45 - 66 -- 21 May
no assignment 28 May (Memorial Day)
Group: Vergil / Aeneid Book X (Vergil)
Coordinator: Meredith Dixon (dix...@pobox.com)
Text: posted, http://www.ravendays.org/latin/lists/veriam.html
Assignments:
Apr. 30: Lines 550-579 (29 lines), ending "... apparuit hasta."
Aeneas continues his advance.
May 7: Lines 580-605 (25 lines), ending "... nequiquam
obsessa iuventus."
Aeneas fights Lucagus and Liger.
May 14: Lines 606-635 (29 lines), ending "... Laurentia
castra petivit."
Jupiter and Juno have a talk.
May 21: Lines 636-664 (28 lines), ending "... se immiscuit
atrae."
Juno tricks Turnus into retreating.
May 28 -- Memorial Day
Group: Tacitus, Annals I (Tacitus)
Coordinator: John Isles <jis...@voyager.net>
Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.ann1.shtml
Assignments:
I.38 for April 27
I.39.1-5 for May 4
I.39.6-9 for May 11
I.40 for May 18
I.41 for May 25
Group: Hyginus' Fabulae (Hyginus)
Comment: Summaries of mythological stories.
Coordinator: Yvonne Rathbone <yv...@earthlink.net>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/hyginus5.html
Assignments:
April 30 - Alcimena : Sentences 1 - 7
Hercules : Sentences 8 - 11 (to be con't.)
May 7 - Hercules (part 2) : Sentences 1 - 11
May 21 - Parerga Eiusdem : Sentences 1 - 12 (to be con't.)
June 4 - Parerga Eiusdem (part 2) : Sentences 1 - 2
Megara : Sentences 3 - 6
Centaur : Sentences 7 - 11
June 18 - Nessus : Sentences 1 - 4
Iole : Sentences 5 - 7
Deianira : Sentences 8 - 12 (to be con't.)
July 2 - Deianira (part 2) : Sentences 1 - 4
Aethra : Sentences 5 - 8
Thesei Labores : Sentences 9 - 10 (to be con't.)
June 16 - Thesei Labores (part 2) : Sentences 1 - 7
Daedalus : Sentences 8 - 9
Pasiphae : Sentences 10 - 14 (to be con't.)
June 30 - Pasiphae (part 2) : Sentences 1 - 4
Minos : Sentences 5 - 8
Thesues : Sentences 9 - 9
Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Text: posted, see also
http://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/nova-vulgata_index_lt.html
Coordinator: Gary Bisaga <gbi...@yahoo.com>
Comment: http://www.clients2you.com/wheelock/vulgate.html
Assignments (from Luke):
May 4, John 5:41-47, 6:1-13
May 18, John 6:14-31
June 1, John 6:32-51
June 15, no assignment
June 29, John 6:52-71
July 13, John 7:1-19
Group: Augustine's Confessions (Augustine)
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/august.html
Coordinator: Marilyn Phemister <mphem...@cox.net>
Assignments:
1.6.8 through 1.6.9 Due April 27
1.6.10 Due May 4
1.7.11 through "aspectu conlactaneum suum." Due May 11
1.7.11 "quis hoc ignorat?" throuth 1.7.12 Due May 18
1.8.13 Due May 25
Group: Medieval Latin (MedLat)
Text: A Primer of Medieval Latin by Charles Beeson, ISBN 0813206359
Coordinator: Meredith Dixon <dix...@pobox.com>
Assignments:
May 8: "De Integro Amico," pp. 86-87, from "Homicida..." to
the end.
May 22: "De Maimundo Servo," p. 88, to "... permitte me
dormire."
May 29 -- Memorial Day
June 12: "De Maimundo Servo," pp. 88-89, from "Alia vice..."
to the end.
Group: De Viris Illustribus (DVI)
Text: http://www.quasillum.com/latin/dvi.txt
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcut...@us.net>
Comment: easy, post-Wheelock Latin
Assignments:
Numa:
ll. 3.1 - 3.15 -- 30 April
Tullius Hostilius:
ll. 4.1 - 4.20 -- 7 May
ll. 4.21 - 4.34 -- 14 May
ll. 4.35 - 4.46 -- 21 May
No assignment due to Memorial Day -- 28 May
Group: Wheelock 2004 Beginners: (WH2004 Lilac)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., ISBN 0060956410
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcut...@us.net>
Comment: http://www.ravendays.org/latin/wheelock/wh2004.html
Comment: Send completed assignments only to li...@quasillum.com
Assignments:
Apr 30: Ch. 31, TR 1, "Give Me a Thousand Kisses"
TR 2, "Ringo"
TR 3-5, "Facetiae"
May 7: Ch. 31 GM 1-14, "Lucretia, Paragon of Virtue"
May 14: Ch. 32, PR, SA (33 sentences)
May 21: Ch. 32, TR 1-8, "The Character of Cimon"
TR 9, "A Vacation...From You!"
TR 10, "Please...Don't!
GM 1-9, "Vergil Praises the Rustic Life"
May 28: no assignment; Memorial day holiday
June 4: Ch. 33, PR, SA (24 sentences)
Group: Wheelock 2004 Beginners: (WH2004 Steel)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., ISBN 0060956410
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <steelgr...@yahoo.com>
Comment: http://www.geocities.com/steelgroup2004/Steel.html
Comment: Send assignments to: steelgr...@yahoo.com
Assignments:
May 1: Ch. 22: TR 1: A Visit From the Young Interns
TR 2-4: On Ambition and Literature....
GM 1-11: Cicero Reports His Victory....
May 8: REVIEW WEEK (explanatory e-mail to come)
Happy Mother's Day!
May 15: Ch. 23 - PR & SA (28 sentences)
May 22: Ch. 23 - TR 1-12: Laocoon [and] the Trojan Horse
GM 1-9: Watching the Orator at Work
May 29: Happy Memorial Day! (no assignment)
Group: Wheelock 2004 Beginners: (WH2004 Viridis)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., ISBN 0060956410
Coordinator: Tim Haas <spo...@pobox.com>
Assignments:
April 26: Ch. 12, TR 1-8, "Pliny Writes to Marcellinus"
TR 9, "Diaulus Still Buries His Clients"
GM 1-10, "A Gift Bearing Greeks"
May 3: Ch. 13, PR, SA (25 sentences)
May 10: Ch. 13, TR 1-5, "Alexander the Great and the Power....
TR 6-9, "The Authority of a Teacher's Opinion"
GM 1-15, "Echo and Handsome Narcissus"
May 17: Ch. 14, PR, SA (25 sentences)
May 24: Ch. 14, TR 1, "Store Teeth" (2 lines)
TR 2-6, "Cicero Imagines the State of Rome..."
GM 1-15, "Europa and the Bull"
May 31: No assignment -- Happy Memorial Day!
June 7: Ch. 15, PR, SA (23 sentences)
June 14: Ch. 15, TR 1-4, "Cyrus' Dying Words on Immortality"
TR 5-8, "Fabian Tactics"
GM 1-14, "How the Aegean Got Its Name"
June 21: Ch. 16, PR, SA (31 sentences)
June 28: Ch. 16, TR 1-7, "Juvenal Explains His Impulse to
Satire"
TR 8, "On a Temperamental Friend"
GM 1-12, "The Wrath of Achilles"
July 5: No assignment -- Happy Independence Day!
July 12: Ch. 17, PR, SA (26 sentences)
July 19: Ch. 17, TR 1-5, "On the Pleasures of Love in Old Age"
TR 6, "It's All in the Delivery"
GM 1-9, "The Myrmidons"
Group: Wheelock 2005 Beginners: (WH2005 Crimson)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., ISBN 0060956410
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <HariS...@gmail.com>
Comment: http://www.geocities.com/crimson2005latin/Crimson.html
Comment: Send assignments to: HariS...@gmail.com
Comment: One chapter every week
Assignments:
May 1: Ch. 15 - PR, SA (23 sentences)
TR 1-4 Cyrus' Dying Words on Immortality
TR 5-8: Fabian Tactics
GM 1-14: How the Aegean Got Its Name
May 8: Happy Mother's Day! (no assignment)
May 15: Ch. 16 - PR, SA (31 sentences)
TR 1-7: Juvenal Explains His Impulse...
TR 8: On a Temperamental Friend
GM 1-12: The Wrath of Achilles
May 22: Ch. 17 - PR, SA (26 sentences)
TR 1-5: On the Pleasures of Love...
TR 6: It's All in the Delivery
GM 1-9: The Myrmidons
May 29: Happy Memorial Day! (no assignment)
June 5: Ch. 18 - PR, SA (28 sentences)
TR 1-6: On Death and Metamorphosis
GM 1-11: A Wedding Invitation
Group: Wheelock 2005 Beginners: (WH2005 Amber)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., ISBN 0060956410
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcut...@us.net>
Comment: http://www.ravendays.org/latin/wheelock/wh2005am.html
Comment: Send completed assignments to esjo...@nc.rr.com
Assignments:
April 30: Ch 3, PR, SA (22 sentences)
May 7: Ch 3, TR 1-2, "The Grass is Always Greener"
GM 1-15, "Pandora's Box"
May 14: Ch 4, PR, SA (26 sentences)
May 21: Ch 4, TR 1-3, "The Rarity of Friendship"
GM 1-21, "The Tragic Story of Phaethon"
May 28: no assignment -- Memorial Day
June 4: Ch 5, PR, SA (28 sentences)
June 11: Ch 5, TR 1, "His Only Guest Was a Real Boar"
TR 2-4, "Thermopylae: A Soldier's Humor"
GM 1-15, "The Adventures of Io"
June 18: Ch 6, PR, SA (24 sentences)
June 25: Ch 6, TR 1, "'I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell'"
TR 2-5, "Historian Livy Laments the Decline
of Roman Morals"
GM 1-13, "The Curse of Atreus"
July 2: no assignment -- holiday
July 9: Ch 7, PR, SA (27 sentences)
Group: Wheelock's Workbook (Alba)
Text: "Wheelock's Workbook 3rd Ed. Revised" ISBN 0060956429
Comment: Wheelock's Workbook class, very slow for beginners.
Coordinator: Lilith Saintcrow <liliths...@comcast.net>
Assignments:
April 29- Wheelock Ch 2 TR (Catullus Bids His Girlfriend
Farewell)
May 6-Workbook Ch 3 VV & LE
May 13- Wheelock Ch 3 PR
May 20- Wheelock Ch 3 SA & TR
May 27 Workbook Ch 4 VV & LE
June 3- Wheelock Ch 4 PR
June 10- Wheelock Ch 4 SA & TR
June 17- Workbook Ch 5 VV & LE
June 24- Wheelock Ch 5 PR
Group: Collins' Ecclesiastical Latin Beginners: (Collins2004)
Text: A Primer of Ecclesiastic Latin by John F. Collins, ISBN
0813206677
Coordinator: Joe Riegsecker <joe...@pobox.com>
Comment: http://mysite.verizon.net/joepye1/Collins2004.html
Assignments:
April 27, 2005. Unit 33, Exercises: Exercise I, 1-28 Latin
to Eng. sent.
May 4, 2005. Unit 33, Exercises: Exercise I, 29-45 Latin to
English
sentences; Exercise II, 5 English to Latin Sentences.
May 11, 2005. Unit 33, Readings: Reading 1, Asperges Me, 5
sentences;
Reading 2, Salutis Humanae, 5 sentences; Reading 3, Peter's
Discourse in Caesarea (II), 7 sentences.
May 18, 2005. Unit 34, Exercises: Exercise I, 1-25 Latin to
Eng. sent.
May 25, 2005. Unit 34, Exercises: Exercise I, 26-50 Latin to
Eng. sent.
June 1, 2005. Memorial Day holiday. No assignment due.
June 8, 2005. Unit 34, Exercises: Exercise I, 51-64 Latin to
English
sentences; Exercise II, 5 English to Latin Sentences.
June 15, 2005. Unit 34, Readings: Reading 1, The Conversion
of Saul
(I), 11 Sentences; Reading 2, Christum Ducem, 5 sentences.
June 22, 2005. Unit 35, Exercises: Exercise I, 1-26 Latin to
Eng sent.
June 29, 2005. Unit 35, Exercises: Exercise I, 27-40 Latin
to English
sentences; Exercise II, 6 English to Latin Sentences.
July 6, 2005. Independance Day holiday. No assignment due.
July 13, 2005. Unit 35, Readings: Reading 1, The Conversion
of Saul
(II), 8 Sentences; Reading 2, The Lord's Prayer, 3
sentences.
Group: Collins' Ecclesiastical Latin Beginners: (Collins2005)
Text: A Primer of Ecclesiastic Latin by John F. Collins, ISBN
0813206677
Coordinator: Joe Riegsecker <joe...@pobox.com>
Comment: http://mysite.verizon.net/joepye1/Collins2005.html
Assignments:
April 28, Unit 6, Exercises: Exercise I, 30 Latin to
English; Exercise II,
6 English to Latin
May 5, Unit 7, Exercises: Exercise I, 26 Latin to English;
Exercise II,
5 English to Latin
May 12, Unit 8, Exercises: Exercise I, 25 Latin to English;
Exercise II,
5 English to Latin
May 19, Unit 9, Exercises: Exercise I, 25 Latin to English;
Exercise II,
5 English to Latin
May 26, Unit 10, Exercises: Exercise I, 25 Latin to English;
Exercise II,
5 English to Latin
June 2, Memorial Day holiday. No assignment due.
June 9, Unit 11, Exercises: Exercise I, 27 Latin to English;
Exercise II,
5 English to Latin
June 16, Unit 12, Exercises: Exercise I, 31 Latin to
English; Exercise II,
5 English to Latin
Group: Latin via Ovid: (LVO)
Text: Latin Via Ovid, 2nd ed. by Goldman & Nyenhuis, ISBN 0814317324
Coordinator: Mark Lybrand <m.ly...@comcast.net>
Comment: http://www2.shore.net/~maryesme/lvo/
Assignments:
Apr 23: Ch. XX (20), TR 1-23, "Midas et Pan"
Group: Moreland & Fleischer (MF2004)
Text: Latin: An Intensive Course by Moreland & Fleischer, ISBN
0520031830
Coordinator: Stuart Floyd <floydsn@ mail.ctsfw.edu>
Comment: http://www.ravendays.org/latin/lists/mf2004.html
Assignments:
March 27: Break
Group: Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition (BA Argentum)
Text: Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition by James Mountford
Pub. by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 61 Frith Street London,
W1D 3JL
Coordinator: Eldon Wyman <ewy...@telus.net>
Assignments:
May 03, Exercise 46, page 202-3 Reflexive and Emphatic Pronouns
May 15, Exercise 47, page 206-7 Indefinite Pronouns
May 29, Exercise 48A, page 209-10 Idem,alius,alter, ceteri
June 12, Exercise 48B, page 213-214 Quisque, uterque singuli
July 10, Exercise 49, pages 217-8 Gerunds & Gerundatives
Group: Bennett's New Latin Composition (Bennett Electrum)
Text: Bennett's New Latin Composition, http://www.textkit.com/
Coordinator: Andrew Pearson <latpe...@att.net>
Comment: http://www.ravendays.org/latin/lists/bennett.html
Assignments:
As of 4/18/05 the group is active; contact Andrew for more
details.
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Klaus Scholl
Children in this Age dont "understand", they rather soak up,
what they are hearing, when the hear it often repeated enough
they start to imitate it. So the best Way is you repeat the most often
needed Expressions in Latin as
"Ubi est ...?" "Quod est ...?" "bene! / male!" etc.
Expressions the Child can USE be itself very often.
I would do it thie Way:
When the Child asks you something in his Motherlingua,
then translate HIS Question into latin, speak it out
(communicating something: look, that is how you should ask it ,
you should ask it in latin ...) then you give the Answer it latin.
Pretending that you dont understand English much,
and your Motherlingua is Latin.
Example:
CHILD: "The Cat is fat!"
YOU: "Felis crassa est? Recte dicis, duntaxat est quam Cupam cum quatuor
Pedibus."
Greet from Klaus.
Ted Kerwin
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