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Bookswithtea
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Posted: Feb 19 2007 at 5:42pm \| IP Logged

I would like my ds to have a year of some Latin exposure before he takes 2 years of high school Spanish. But I don't want to do Latin 1. I was hoping it could be an academic elective rather than a foreign language requirement.

Do you think I could do Latina 1 and 2 with a 9th grader in one year and call it "Introduction to Latin" or something like that?

Or is there another resource that would be better for this? Or should I just skip it entirely...its too late...since I couldn't get to Latin with this child before high school?

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Posted: Feb 19 2007 at 8:25pm \| IP Logged

I know it's sort of a basic text, but my older kids really benefitted from starting with "Latin Road to English Grammar". They were 11 and 14 years old. I was a languages major, but I'm the first to say that Latin can be confusing to the new Latin student! I thought the explanations in LRTEG were gentle but helpful. My younger child really glommed onto the text and soared when she started highschool Latin-she's in 9th grade and in highschool Latin III. My older boy, not linguistically oriented, but determined, has stayed the course, finishing Latin II---but love or hate Latin

, he has a very good grasp of declensions, direct objects, tenses and so on---this I credit to LRTEG.

Just my 2 cents worth!

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Posted: Feb 20 2007 at 8:57am \| IP Logged

Do you think having an Intro. to latin elective is weird on a high school transcript?

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Posted: Feb 20 2007 at 10:29am \| IP Logged

You could call it "Foundations of Modern Languages" or something like that.
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Posted: Feb 20 2007 at 12:11pm \| IP Logged

MODG has had us call classes 'Intro to Spanish, Latin, etc." for that first year, maybe even 8th gr with highschool credit. Our tenth grader got highschool credit in 8th for Intro to Spanish and then in 9th Spanish 1. He plans to go to school next year so, although we are doing some spanish he has decided not to call it Spanish 2 or even take credit for it so he can take Spanish 2 next year in highschool. But he will have his Intro class count towards his college requirements for years of a foreign language.
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