Favorite High school Latin course....

[brendafromtenn]

Heh, ya'll coming from icy TN!!!(It was 80 degrees here this week!)

Anyway, what is your favorite high school Latin course. I need something that is EASY for ME. In other words, easy to implement for the TEACHER.

Any ideas?

Blessings,

Brenda

[Kelli in TN]

Brenda,
This weather!!! What is up with this??

My daughter, Bekah, who went to public school used and loved Cambridge Latin. She showed it to me and I like the looks of it. So I think I am going to try that with Gabriel. Sarah tried Wheelock's and it just did not work out for us. She ended up going to community college and taking Spanish instead. Rainbow Resource has Cambridge, that's where I plan to order it from.

[Gwen in VA]

My favorite Latin program that is VERY easy on the teacher is Regina Coeli's online Latin courses (reginacoeli.org)

My dd did Latin 3 with them years ago. Currently dd2 is taking Latin 1 and ds2 is taking Latin 2. We intend to have them take Latin through RCA until they are done with AP Latin.

[brendafromtenn]

Is this weather crazy or what? (Just so folks know....Kelli and I live about an hour away from each other....:seeya:Hi, Kelli!)

Anyway, thank for the information on Cambridge. That is what we are presently using with Rachel. And she loves it and seems to be getting it but it is SO different from any other approach it almost seems as if she is not doing enough. But the "whole to parts" approach is the way she learns, so it seems to be a good fit.

But her left brain mother, (That's me!) who learns by "parts to whole" wanted another approach.

(O.K. you know confession is good for the soul....Is there anyone here who every once in a while goes to look for another curriculum because the one you are using doesn't fit YOUR learning style.....but your child is perfectly happy with it????:001_huh:)

So, after typing that last paragraph, I think I just need to let my little right brain DO HER THING! :001_smile:

Blessings,

Brenda

[latinteach]

Anyway, thank for the information on Cambridge. That is what we are presently using with Rachel. And she loves it and seems to be getting it but it is SO different from any other approach it almost seems as if she is not doing enough. But the "whole to parts" approach is the way she learns, so it seems to be a good fit.

But her left brain mother, (That's me!) who learns by "parts to whole" wanted another approach.

(O.K. you know confession is good for the soul....Is there anyone here who every once in a while goes to look for another curriculum because the one you are using doesn't fit YOUR learning style.....but your child is perfectly happy with it????:001_huh:)

So, after typing that last paragraph, I think I just need to let my little right brain DO HER THING! :001_smile:


Your different learning styles will likely complement each other. The "parts to whole" approach (deductive style) helps to develop grammatical accuracy, whereas the "whole to parts" approach helps with syntactical fluency. The strength of the "parts to whole" approach is the ability to recognize the forms (declension and conjugation endings, etc.) whereas the strenght of the "whole to parts" approach is how the words all fit together to form ideas. (Latin grammar involves learning not just the forms, but also the way the forms fit together, so actually, the fact that you both have different learning styles means that you can help each other.)

[Frontier Mom]

Wow, one weekend it was snowing, the next I got my arms sunburned, now rain and cold. Crazy!!!

Anyway, I can't qualify it as my favorite because I haven't used it but I just got my BETA version of First Form Latin from Memoria Press. It is new and coming out in the final form soon but it looks great. It is by Cheryl Lowe and there will be four in the series to complete the high school years. I'm excited about using this in the fall. You might want to check it out:

First Form Latin (http://www.memoriapress.com/descriptions/first-form-latin.html)

[brendafromtenn]

I take it that this First Form Latin (1st in the series) would be Latin I for high school credit.....Or would it only be one semester of Latin I?

Just wondering.....

Brenda

[Frontier Mom]

I take it that this First Form Latin (1st in the series) would be Latin I for high school credit.....Or would it only be one semester of Latin I?

Just wondering.....

Brenda

I called and talked with Brian Lowe. He indicated each year was equivalent to one high school year and it is intended to follow LC I & II, effectively replacing Henle Latin that they suggest now.

[brendafromtenn]

Got it!

Thanks for the information!

Brenda

[Chris in VA]

Not Henle, that's for sure.

It was good because of the limited vocab, and it wasn't terribly, terribly hard to use, but we still gave up after a semester. I needed bells and whistles, something dvd or online or irl.

Ymmv

[Nicole M]

Wow, one weekend it was snowing, the next I got my arms sunburned, now rain and cold. Crazy!!!

Anyway, I can't qualify it as my favorite because I haven't used it but I just got my BETA version of First Form Latin from Memoria Press. It is new and coming out in the final form soon but it looks great. It is by Cheryl Lowe and there will be four in the series to complete the high school years. I'm excited about using this in the fall. You might want to check it out:

First Form Latin (http://www.memoriapress.com/descriptions/first-form-latin.html)

Never mind. I read farther and realized the answer to my question was on the page that you linked.

[anissarobert]

My dd is taking an online class from Aaron Wells at Artesian Wells Tutorials. She has really enjoyed it, and seems to be learning the material. This class uses Wheelocks.

http://www.artesian-wells.com/index.html