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Wheelock’s Latin
Wheelock’s is the Latin text beloved by classics professors in universities, and is best for late dialectic or rhetoric stage beginning Latin students, or adults wanting to teach themselves Latin. It teaches Latin through deduction - grammar instruction - and provides ample translation practice from the classical authors - Cicero and Seneca, Virgil and Livy - from the very first chapter. The Wheelock’s Latin text has been designed for independent study, and there is a special appendix in the back of the book, containing extra exercises and their key, for self-learners.
The text contains 40 chapters of grammar instruction, at the end of which the student will be able to read the classics in Latin. The appendix of special self-study exercises for each chapter and their key follow these 40 chapters. Then comes a hefty appendix of additional readings in the Latin classics, followed by a complete grammar guide, with all the word forms, declension and conjugation patterns, and so on learned throughout the book gathered together in a convenient chart for fast look-up. The text ends with a Latin-English dictionary of all the vocabulary introduced.
Each chapter begins with grammar instruction, which is brief -- the student’s knowledge of English grammar and his access to an English grammar reference will help him in understanding the Latin lessons. (The Wheelock’s Latin Study Guide completly explains the English and Latin grammar more thoroughly, and is a great help when working through the text.) Then the new vocabulary is introduced, with its English derivatives. Following that are a set of practice and review sentences in Latin to translate, specifically crafted to practice the grammar and vocabulary unique to that chapter. Sententiae Antiquae - the classic sentences - are the next translation exercise, all taken from the great Latin classics, followed by a paragraph from the Latin classics for translation practice. Students are translating sentences and paragraphs from the Latin classics from the second chapter. Each chapter concludes with some interesting information about the Latin language and its relevance to our own language, culture, and society.
The Workbook for Wheelock’s Latin is not necessary to complete the course, but is useful because it provides so much more practice in each chapter’s grammar, vocabulary, and translation.
Neither the text nor the workbook contain keys to their exercises (except for the key to the special self-study exercises in the appendix of the text.) The key to the text translations is posted on the internet. I am loathe to give out the address in case it circulates among not only our students, but university students everywhere who study Latin using this course. If you are a Latin teacher or homeschool parent using Wheelock’s, join the CCS Latin Teachers e-mail list - it will be great support while working through the text, and the address to the key is posted there once in a while. If you are a Latin teacher in a school, or studying Latin on your own independently, you may write to the publisher for a key to the workbook - the information is inside the front cover of the workbook.
Have I answered your curriculum questions about Wheelock’s Latin? If not, please ask me your question. I am sorry that I cannot tell you which curriculum to buy, but I try to describe the curriculum as completely as possible so that you can make up your mind as to which are best suited for your children.
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