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kristinannie
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Posted: July 31 2012 at 9:39pm \| IP Logged

Latin is going to be a big part of our homeschool. I hadn't planned on doing grammar in early elementary since I do CM style LA, but I am wondering if a little grammar would be good before starting Latin. I had planned to use Junior Analytical Grammar starting in 5th and doing the rest through copywork and, later on, dictation. I was looking at the Kolbe grammar workbook at the IHM conference and they look pretty painless. What do you think?

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Posted: Aug 01 2012 at 1:19am \| IP Logged

At our conference a few weeks ago, guest speaker Martin Cothran of Memoria Press pretty much said studying Latin is grammar and he doesn't feel you need anything else. But if you feel you want to, that is fine and had some suggestions, which I'm not remembering off the top of my head.

Asking others who attended, that is pretty much it in a nutshell, right? That is just his option but thought I'd share.

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Posted: Aug 01 2012 at 8:33am \| IP Logged

MaryM wrote:

Yes, I was going to write the same thing. He convinced me!

Was Shurley Grammar was one that he mentioned? I have to find my notes, I may have scribbled something down.

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Posted: Aug 01 2012 at 8:36am \| IP Logged

Oh, just to add, he thought adding a grammar book would be redundant. I was thinking Diagramming might be good reinforcement.

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Posted: Aug 01 2012 at 9:56am \| IP Logged

We've been studying Latin and I find that the Montessori grammar boxes are a great visual (even if they are made from posterboard ;) ), that can then be applied to other languages. So my son sees how the declensions and such work in comparison to English, for example. As we move into the Montessori sentence analysis (elementary level, not the primary level), he is really picking up on how the parts of the speech in each language work together. It's really neat :)

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