Latin suggestions from my rising 9th Gr.?

[Laurel-in-CA]

My ds has done LC I and 1/2 of LC II, 1 unit of Henle (hated it), and will have completed Cambridge Latin I and II by the end of this school year (taking 2 years to do it and mainly translating rather than focusing on grammar or memorizing vocabulary). I am looking for an engaging program to use with him in high school, one with maximum teacher helps and one that my charter school will pay for (which means fairly well known/sold thru amazon and secular). Can you help me with suggestions and pros/cons?

[Nan in Mass]

You might try asking Jane in NC. She has a set of well-known readers that she is using with her son. They sound like they might be what you are looking for. She posted about them recently, and I think the thread had the word myth or mythica in it, if you want to try a search.

[Laurel-in-CA]

BUMP....Still looking for suggestions!!

[Nan in Mass]

I did an advanced search for "reader" limiting it to the high school board and Jane in NC and it pulled up the posts I remembered reading recently by Jane that I remember reading. She's using the Legamus series by Bolchazy and talks about them and how they work and what her son had done previously. If you still can't find it, let me know and I'll ctrl C/ctrl V it for you.
-Nan

[Jane in NC]

Here is the post with some suggestions...

http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showpost.php?p=107405&postcount=15

[Moira in MA]

My ds has done LC I and 1/2 of LC II, 1 unit of Henle (hated it), and will have completed Cambridge Latin I and II by the end of this school year (taking 2 years to do it and mainly translating rather than focusing on grammar or memorizing vocabulary). I am looking for an engaging program to use with him in high school, one with maximum teacher helps and one that my charter school will pay for (which means fairly well known/sold thru amazon and secular). Can you help me with suggestions and pros/cons?

Laurel, this is a tough situation since your son is already heavily vested in Cambridge Latin. What are your goals for him in Latin? What are his?

Every Latin program teaches the grammar (and vocabulary) in a different order, so switching mid-way is difficult. You tend to end up spinning your wheels. No matter what approach you choose, it is a foreign language and learning any foreign language takes time and effort.

I think your viable choices are to continue with Cambridge, switch to Wheelock's Latin (most helps) or Lingua Latina (is it sufficiently well known?), or call an end to Latin studies.

In my not so humble opinion, not learning the vocabulary means that you tie yourself to a dictionary which means that reading is slow and in all likelihood seems to take longer than the results merit -- ask me how I know this; not comprehending the grammar, either through explicit instruction or induction, means that, no matter how much time you spend with the dictionary, your comprehension will be poor.

HTH

[Laurel-in-CA]

Yes, I totally agree with the pitfalls you describe. This is as much my fault as his, as I haven't had time to learn the stuff *with* him. I am rather between a rock and a hard place as I can't really provide the conversational component of a modern language, but can only chase him from behind on the latin and that doesn't seem to be providing enough motivation for him to really learn it. I wish I had the $$ for an online class!!!!!!!!!

I was looking tonight at Latin Alive, the new course from Classical Academic Press...but they only have year 1, which would be mostly review, and there's no guarantee they'd have year 2 by the time we'd be ready for it. I think I am coming down on the side of Cambridge III, with more whip-cracking and oral reading to mom and lots of vocabulary review. Sigh. I wish I were a decent teacher or had a pocketbook that could support an online class.