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Latin for the New Millennium: Student Text, Level 1
Latin For The New Millennium Series
This new two-year comprehensive introductory Latin series is designed with both high school and college students in mind. The curriculum is complete with student texts, student workbooks, teacher's manuals, ancillaries on Roman history and mythology, and complemented by a website, test bank and generator, and student internet activities.
Written by world-renowned Latinists, Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg, and drawing on the authors specialty, this series features an oral activity in each chapter. Under the supervision of Editors LeaAnnOsburn and Elisa Denja, Latin for the New Millennium has been carefully vetted by seasoned teachers and a team of teachers who piloted the curriculum.
The fusion approach to Latin is built into both levels, combining the best practices of the reading method and the traditional grammar approach with a cumulative vocabulary foundation that will ensure a smooth transition to upper-level literature courses.
Each chapter presents vocabulary found in the works of ancient Latin authors studied in both college and Advanced Placement courses. Exercises designed for oral use accompany a set of plentiful traditional exercises in each chapter. The Latin readings drawn from original Latin works span the ages from early Rome through the medieval and Renaissance periods, demonstrating the vitality and universality of the Latin literary tradition. The readings, illustrations, and inserts on Roman literature, history, mythology, and daily life seamlessly present the connection between the Latin language and its culture. Essays written by university scholars probe the connections between Roman cultureand the modern world. To promote an enriched English vocabulary, each chapter features sections on derivatives, the influence of Latin vocabulary on English, and selected proverbs or common Latin sayings.
The Latin for the New Millennium website will feature a student section, a teachers-only section, the Teachers Lounge for sharing materials, networking with other teachers, posting student work, accessing a test generator.
This new two-year comprehensive introductory Latin series is designed with both high school and college students in mind. The curriculum is complete with student texts, student workbooks, teacher's manuals, ancillaries on Roman history and mythology, and complemented by a website, test bank and generator, and student internet activities.
Written by world-renowned Latinists, Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg, and drawing on the authors specialty, this series features an oral activity in each chapter. Under the supervision of Editors LeaAnnOsburn and Elisa Denja, Latin for the New Millennium has been carefully vetted by seasoned teachers and a team of teachers who piloted the curriculum.
The fusion approach to Latin is built into both levels, combining the best practices of the reading method and the traditional grammar approach with a cumulative vocabulary foundation that will ensure a smooth transition to upper-level literature courses.
Each chapter presents vocabulary found in the works of ancient Latin authors studied in both college and Advanced Placement courses. Exercises designed for oral use accompany a set of plentiful traditional exercises in each chapter. The Latin readings drawn from original Latin works span the ages from early Rome through the medieval and Renaissance periods, demonstrating the vitality and universality of the Latin literary tradition. The readings, illustrations, and inserts on Roman literature, history, mythology, and daily life seamlessly present the connection between the Latin language and its culture. Essays written by university scholars probe the connections between Roman cultureand the modern world. To promote an enriched English vocabulary, each chapter features sections on derivatives, the influence of Latin vocabulary on English, and selected proverbs or common Latin sayings.
The Latin for the New Millennium website will feature a student section, a teachers-only section, the Teachers Lounge for sharing materials, networking with other teachers, posting student work, accessing a test generator.
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200 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2008
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September 2, 2019
Updated Review: Feb 2021
Still using this textbook for my Middle School Class. Thoroughly fed-up with it. The exercises given in the textbook (and the workbook too, though less often) are very inintuitive. Grammatical concepts are not introduced in an ideal order (no reason to learn the passive voice before the imperfect tense, and it's a very difficult concept for 6th graders to master - suddenly the subject isn't doing the action anymore!).
There is an entire section spent on the irregular noun vis, but this noun is rarely used again in the textbook. Which is part of another problem - the vocabulary introduced isn't used consistently, and often isn't common (why do we learn gremium in Chapter 7?)
I would rather craft my own curriculum for middle school based on Wheelock. It wouldn't be any more difficult, since I'm already creating my own exercises, and modifying the presentation of the syntax and grammar presented in the textbook.
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My opinion of this text is colored by the fact that I am teaching 6th and 7th grade, and this is not a middle-school Latin textbook.
It's ... alright. It doesn't do enough to distinguish itself from the old standby, Wheelock's, to really justify its existence. I can't imagine preferring it to Wheelock, and I think the latter is structured far better than this is.
It's also simply not good for teaching middle school Latin. But probably slightly better than Wheelock in this regard.
Still using this textbook for my Middle School Class. Thoroughly fed-up with it. The exercises given in the textbook (and the workbook too, though less often) are very inintuitive. Grammatical concepts are not introduced in an ideal order (no reason to learn the passive voice before the imperfect tense, and it's a very difficult concept for 6th graders to master - suddenly the subject isn't doing the action anymore!).
There is an entire section spent on the irregular noun vis, but this noun is rarely used again in the textbook. Which is part of another problem - the vocabulary introduced isn't used consistently, and often isn't common (why do we learn gremium in Chapter 7?)
I would rather craft my own curriculum for middle school based on Wheelock. It wouldn't be any more difficult, since I'm already creating my own exercises, and modifying the presentation of the syntax and grammar presented in the textbook.
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My opinion of this text is colored by the fact that I am teaching 6th and 7th grade, and this is not a middle-school Latin textbook.
It's ... alright. It doesn't do enough to distinguish itself from the old standby, Wheelock's, to really justify its existence. I can't imagine preferring it to Wheelock, and I think the latter is structured far better than this is.
It's also simply not good for teaching middle school Latin. But probably slightly better than Wheelock in this regard.
February 9, 2016
I will be teaching out of this textbook, starting next year. It will be like teaching the way I had been taught my first and second years of Latin as a middle school and high school student. The readings don't follow a family or set of characters like the Cambridge series or the Ecce Romani series. Instead, the readings are adapted from Roman authors. I like the amount of grammar and exercises, and I also like the attention it pays to history and culture.
June 26, 2011
Reading this for the state textbook adoption committee review.
Having enjoyed the continuous plot of the Cambridge and Oxford Latin Courses for years, I'm having trouble with the disjointed selections of Latin readings. Grammar presentation is DENSE but clear and thorough. LOVE the derivative exercises.
Having enjoyed the continuous plot of the Cambridge and Oxford Latin Courses for years, I'm having trouble with the disjointed selections of Latin readings. Grammar presentation is DENSE but clear and thorough. LOVE the derivative exercises.
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