Product Description
*The First Year Henle text is required for some translation practice. If you already own Henle and would like to purchase only the Fourth Form Latin Complete Set, click here.*
Written by Cheryl Lowe (author of the best-selling Latina Christiana), First Form and its sister Latin products have been used by more than 100,000 students across the world to learn Latin! First Form’s grammar-first approach focuses on grammar forms and vocabulary because these are the skills suitable for the grammar stage student. All beginners—regardless of age—are in the grammar stage of learning. Syntax (how to use the grammar) and translation are logic and rhetoric stage skills, respectively, and quickly overwhelm the student unless introduced at a slow, gentle pace and taught for mastery. First Form is the ideal text for all beginners, grades 5 & up, or is a great follow-up to Latina Christiana at any age. Now every school and homeschool can have a truly successful Latin program that creates Latin scholars instead of Latin drop-outs.
Based on twenty years of teaching experience, this revolutionary “grammar-first” series will be your guide as you and your students successfully climb the mountain of Latin Grammar all the way to the top! The uniqueness of the Forms Series lies in two features: (1) Commitment to the trivium model of teaching grammar systematically in order to facilitate retention and understanding, rather than topically, to facilitate translation; and (2) Extensive workbook exercises to ensure skills mastery and rapid recognition of inflected forms.
This Fourth Form Latin + Henle Latin First Year Complete Set includes the following:
- Fourth Form Materials
- An 9×7.5 inch Student Text, which is small, concise, and unintimidating with two-page lessons on facing, uncluttered pages.
- An everything-you-could-possibly-need Teacher Manual that includes Student Text inset with answers in color, “Chalk Talk” scripted lessons, recitation schedule, extensive teaching notes, and an “FYI” (For Your Information) section for extra background.
- A full-size Student Workbook with 4-6 pages of exercises per lesson. These exercises teach concepts through practice and mastery learning.
- A Quizzes & Tests booklet with reproducible weekly quizzes and unit tests that ensure material is being mastered.
- A Teacher Key (for Workbook, Quizzes, & Tests) with answers to the workbook and quizzes/tests.
- Streaming Pronunciation Audio that includes all vocabulary and grammar forms for each lesson.
- Digital Flashcards for the vocabulary, Latin sayings, and grammar forms. You will access these flashcards on the Memoria Press App!
- Streaming Instructional Videos with superb explanations by Cheryl Lowe.
- Henle Materials
- The Henle Latin First Year Text
- The Henle Latin First Year Answer Key
- The Henle Latin Grammar, designed for student use through all four years of the Henle Latin Series.
Fourth Form mastery:
- Relative and interrogative pronouns
- Defective verbs
- Participles
- Infinitives and their use
- Gerunds and gerundives
- Deponent verbs
- Irregular verbs
- Indefinite pronouns
- Purpose clauses
- Sequence of tenses
Corrections
Fourth Form Latin Errata
Resources
Blank Drill Forms
First-Third Form Recitation List
*The Fourth Form Latin Workbook Key is not needed if you buy the Fourth Form Latin Teacher Key (for Workbook, Quizzes, & Tests). We make this version available for our customers enrolled in Memoria Academy or similar courses.
Catherine Glass –
My daughter has really taken to Shakespeare. So, while on vacation I was looking for some copies of Shakespeare to pad her library. While sitting in a shop reading the introductions to various editions I was taken with the introduction of the Folger Edition, “Reading Shakespeare’s Language”. The editor claims that for most people reading the language of Shakespeare can be a problem but those who “have studied Latin and those who are used to studying poetry will have little difficulty understanding the language of Shakespeare.” The editor goes on to argue that English syntax, particularly because English places such importance on the positions of words in sentences, contributes to the difficulty in understanding Shakespeare. He also states that Shakespeare uses a lot of inversions, like placing a verb before the subject, which contributes to its complexity for the modern reader. The editor does not make any further link to Latin study and understanding Shakespeare, but I would argue that studying Latin, which does invert words frequently and is an inflected language, really contributes to my daughters ability to read his works with such ease and joy. Catherine