Session Summary
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
6pm to 7:30pm PDT
Topics covered:
Session Summary:
A TERRIFIC first session with Matthew. We launched into a review of verbs and nouns and their respective characteristics. We didn't do too much work with all that, because it was clear Matthew had the basics. What he, his mom, and I jointly decided was, we would take a backward-design approach, namely Matthew and I will work on authentic Latin sentences together and tease apart each word to determine its function in the context of that sentence, then bring the whole thing together in order to derive a good, smooth English translation. It's clear to me Matthew will quickly master this aspect of his study of Latin, namely bringing all the disparate components together in order to create a coherent sentence. Thanks, Matthew, for your good, hard work this evening. I look forward to our next session.
6pm to 7:30pm PDT
Topics covered:
- Introductions
- The Latin Noun System
- The Latin Verb System
Session Summary:
A TERRIFIC first session with Matthew. We launched into a review of verbs and nouns and their respective characteristics. We didn't do too much work with all that, because it was clear Matthew had the basics. What he, his mom, and I jointly decided was, we would take a backward-design approach, namely Matthew and I will work on authentic Latin sentences together and tease apart each word to determine its function in the context of that sentence, then bring the whole thing together in order to derive a good, smooth English translation. It's clear to me Matthew will quickly master this aspect of his study of Latin, namely bringing all the disparate components together in order to create a coherent sentence. Thanks, Matthew, for your good, hard work this evening. I look forward to our next session.