Comments - Latin Compositions - eLatin eGreek eLearn2024-03-29T06:34:21Zhttp://eclassics.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=727885%3ABlogPost%3A11994&xn_auth=noHi Evan, I've taught just fir…tag:eclassics.ning.com,2007-12-05:727885:Comment:120852007-12-05T23:06:23.989ZLaura Gibbshttp://eclassics.ning.com/profile/lauragibbs
Hi Evan, I've taught just first- and second-year college Latin with just very very basic compositions. Many Latin courses involve no composition at all, and so the students who landed up in my third-semester Latin course were a bit horrified at the idea.<br />
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My goal, though, was to avoid exactly the awful business in the recent Latin "version" of Mount's letter to the New York Times the other day - composition is NOT translating from English into Latin.<br />
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The strategy I used was to have the…
Hi Evan, I've taught just first- and second-year college Latin with just very very basic compositions. Many Latin courses involve no composition at all, and so the students who landed up in my third-semester Latin course were a bit horrified at the idea.<br />
<br />
My goal, though, was to avoid exactly the awful business in the recent Latin "version" of Mount's letter to the New York Times the other day - composition is NOT translating from English into Latin.<br />
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The strategy I used was to have the students write in response to images or to do some writing based on a reading passage we had done.<br />
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Here's a sample for the week on Hrabanus Maurus - there are Latin "question and answer" sentences first, and then the composition topics below:<br />
<a href="http://www.mythfolklore.net/medieval_latin/07_hrabanus/assignment_2.htm">Hrabanus Maurus: Questions & Composition</a><br />
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I will be creating similar prompts for the Aesop's fables book I am doing for Bolchazy-Carducci this spring! :-)