Session Summary
Saturday, January 9, 2016
1pm to 2:30pm CST
Topics covered:
Session Summary:
Another great session with Sam today! Sam arrived, rearing and eager to go, and he kept up the pace and enthusiasm the entire session. We covered third-declension nouns and third-declension adjectives, with some work on first- and second-declension adjectives as well as noun-adjective agreement thrown in for good measure. Sam had made quite a few mistakes with the work he did in preparation for the lesson, but that was fine—as I told him, "You learn more from the mistakes you make than the ones you got right." I've noticed that Sam tends to abandon proper English in his work, mostly in such instances as not capitalizing the first word in an English sentence or providing punctuation at the end of the English sentence (Latin had no such conventions, so I don't worry about those—the exercises I use in these lessons provide capital letters and punctuation in the Latin sentences only as a matter of convenience, (in my opinion) as a crutch, a crutch off of which I'm more and more going to weed Sam. Sam and I ended the session with mapping out the date and time for the next two sessions. Great job, Sam—as usual!
1pm to 2:30pm CST
Topics covered:
- Third-declension nouns
- Third-declension adjectives
- Noun-adjective agreement
Session Summary:
Another great session with Sam today! Sam arrived, rearing and eager to go, and he kept up the pace and enthusiasm the entire session. We covered third-declension nouns and third-declension adjectives, with some work on first- and second-declension adjectives as well as noun-adjective agreement thrown in for good measure. Sam had made quite a few mistakes with the work he did in preparation for the lesson, but that was fine—as I told him, "You learn more from the mistakes you make than the ones you got right." I've noticed that Sam tends to abandon proper English in his work, mostly in such instances as not capitalizing the first word in an English sentence or providing punctuation at the end of the English sentence (Latin had no such conventions, so I don't worry about those—the exercises I use in these lessons provide capital letters and punctuation in the Latin sentences only as a matter of convenience, (in my opinion) as a crutch, a crutch off of which I'm more and more going to weed Sam. Sam and I ended the session with mapping out the date and time for the next two sessions. Great job, Sam—as usual!