Session Summary
Sunday, January 21, 2018
9am to 10:45am EST
Topics covered:
Session Summary:
An absolutely SUPERB session this morning! After our typical review, I launched the young ladies into the "Sequence of Tenses" explanation/exercise set, which Emma and Jillian met with exactly the degree of difficulty with which I expected them to do so. They handled the material superbly, and they demonstrated to me a firm grasp of the concept after we painstakingly translated an indirect question written in the primary sequence. The painstaking nature of the translation allowed me the chance to demonstrate to these sharp, astute young ladies the very reason we study a logical language like Latin (and, by extension, study the classics period), which is that, long after the grammar, syntax, and morphology of the language are long since forgotten (as I told Emma and Jillian, "five minutes after the start of summer break"), what they will NOT forget is how Latin taught them to think, namely logically, deductively, creatively, and outside the box. *THAT* is the magic of Latin. Thanks, Emma and Jillian, for your good, hard work today. I couldn't be more proud of you.
9am to 10:45am EST
Topics covered:
- General Review (cont'd)
- Sequence of Tenses
- Indirect Question
Session Summary:
An absolutely SUPERB session this morning! After our typical review, I launched the young ladies into the "Sequence of Tenses" explanation/exercise set, which Emma and Jillian met with exactly the degree of difficulty with which I expected them to do so. They handled the material superbly, and they demonstrated to me a firm grasp of the concept after we painstakingly translated an indirect question written in the primary sequence. The painstaking nature of the translation allowed me the chance to demonstrate to these sharp, astute young ladies the very reason we study a logical language like Latin (and, by extension, study the classics period), which is that, long after the grammar, syntax, and morphology of the language are long since forgotten (as I told Emma and Jillian, "five minutes after the start of summer break"), what they will NOT forget is how Latin taught them to think, namely logically, deductively, creatively, and outside the box. *THAT* is the magic of Latin. Thanks, Emma and Jillian, for your good, hard work today. I couldn't be more proud of you.