Help! What text to use following Elementary Greek?

[Susan in SoCal]

My son is nearly finished with Elementary Greek 3. What text should I move him into? I have on hand Mounce's Biblical Greek (and there are so many readily available helps to accompany this text). My son is not thrilled with Mounce, but we could use it. I've debated Machen's New Testament Greek for Beginners (since that is the text EG is based upon), but older editions are hard to find, the current text is costly ($70ish) and additionally I would need to buy an answer key (perhaps David Thompson's Study Guide, another $30ish).

Any words of wisdom? experience to share? been there done that? Please guide me. I'm just now pulling my head out of the sand. I've been pretending all summer that school is NOT happening again in September...

Thank you :-)

ps. I cross-posted this on the high school board.

[Hot Lava Mama]

would like to know the answer!

[Beth in Central TX]

We are using these three books this year for my 6th & 7th graders:

http://www.amazon.com/Testament-Greek-Beginners-Gresham-Machen/dp/B000O2W7HI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218508812&sr=8-5

http://www.amazon.com/Testament-Greek-Beginnings-David-Thompson/dp/0024206504/ref=pd_sim_b_1

http://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Original-Greek/dp/0759800774/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1218508853&sr=11-1

My DH (our Greek teacher) thinks that it is a great follow up for the EG series. We plan to work through the 33 lessons over 3 years. The first few chapters are review from EG, but the rest of the text will be challenging to master. My DH put together a schedule to work on each lesson over 3 weeks. The boys are reading and copying out of the NT in Original Greek and building their own vocabulary list. They are enjoying the study, but they are also putting in a lot of work this week to memorize the accent rules.

HTH!

[Susan in SoCal]

Beth-
Thank you!! I tried giving you some reputation love, but the machine told me I needed to spread more of that around elsewhere before giving you some :-{.

Anyway, I appreciate your feedback. I've just bought a copy of Machen...