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In Reply to: Latin posted by Carol on April 8, 2009 at 2:56 pm:
I've used Latina Christiana, Wheelock's Latin, and Henle Latin. I don't care for Latina Christiana. The teacher's manual doesn't do a good job of explaining concepts, which is why I decided to buy Wheelock's. It also has very little practice material. Ds#2 and I couldn't stand the teacher on the DVD's. I'm glad I only borrowed them. I liked Wheelock's, but I didn't want my 7th grader using it. It is a college textbook, and there is a *lot* of vocabulary to memorize. I bought Henle for ds#1 for 7th grade. I love it! Ds liked it. I had an answer key but no teacher's manual. However, a teacher's manual wasn't necessary. The textbook has thorough explanations of every grammar concept. Ds almost always understood it and needed very little additional explanation from me. The amount of vocabulary isn't too much, and there are oodles of exercises to make sure the grammar is mastered. We did most of the Latin-to-English exercises orally. The format of the book is not very good. I wish someone would re-format the book to make it user-friendly. The reading and translation exercises in book 1 have a heavy emphasis on the Roman army and Christianity, with some specifically Catholic doctrine. That could get rather tiring. It has been five years since I looked at Latin curricula, so there have probably been quite a few new curricula published since then.
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Re: Latin April 18, 2009 at 12:26 pm PST
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