This year, Latin was hard, and for a student, hard often means that they did not like the class. My experience could not be further from this common belief. I absolutely loved my time in Advanced Latin II, and it made me enjoy Latin for the first time since seventh grade. Eighth grade Latin was bad. We have certainly alluded to it in class, but we have never truly expressed the terribleness of 2015-2016 Latin I and Ib. Mr. Moore, in 7th grade, was fantastic, but I learned the Latin Ib material by reading my textbook. Going into this year, I was worried that I would be put in the same situation, but Latin II exceeded all of my expectations. The class was interesting and never boring. I loved that we could be extremely productive and learn a lot of material all while having fun and laughing.
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I thought that the way we learned them was very complicated. In my opinion, we learned too many of them at the same time. A few at a time would not have been a problem, but all at once was a bit much. I think it would be great to teach the datives the same way that the genitives were taught the second time. The genitive syntax chart was wonderful in helping me to understand how the words worked together. We talked about it in the dative lesson, but it would have been very helpful to have it written out in a chart. My favorite thing about this class was the amount we translated. At some times, it was a ton of work that I definitely did not want to do, but I feel that it was incredibly helpful in forming my understanding of the Latin language. I also enjoyed the Quizlet vocabulary. It saved me a huge amount of time because I would have made Quizlet sets anyways. On a side note, I second the idea for a play or acting out Caesar’s Gallic
I thought that the way we learned them was very complicated. In my opinion, we learned too many of them at the same time. A few at a time would not have been a problem, but all at once was a bit much. I think it would be great to teach the datives the same way that the genitives were taught the second time. The genitive syntax chart was wonderful in helping me to understand how the words worked together. We talked about it in the dative lesson, but it would have been very helpful to have it written out in a chart. My favorite thing about this class was the amount we translated. At some times, it was a ton of work that I definitely did not want to do, but I feel that it was incredibly helpful in forming my understanding of the Latin language. I also enjoyed the Quizlet vocabulary. It saved me a huge amount of time because I would have made Quizlet sets anyways. On a side note, I second the idea for a play or acting out Caesar’s Gallic