Recommendations for summer review after Third Form Latin?

[kraigb]

My ninth grader and I are down the home stretch with Third Form Latin and are looking for options to keep everything fresh over the summer. The last two years we've have the First Form and Second Form Review books to work with, which we supplemented with additional vocabulary. Memoria Press doesn't...

[kraigb]

We were grappling with this one for a while until we realized the typo in the teacher key.

The first statement of the sorites is "We should only give special trade privileges to those countries who respect human rights."

The answer key indicates "application...

[kraigb]

Glad to have helped. I've published enough books of my own to appreciate how errors creep in even though you've looked through the material a dozen times! And thanks for the explanations--it's increasingly helpful to have a broader context for understanding the subtleties of translation.

[kraigb]

Yes, that answers our questions. Thank you!

[kraigb]

Sure: Ab hostibus imperatorem milites integri cum clamore vexerunt aegrum.

We were also wondering about the placement of aegrum at the very end of the sentence, and if that was just there as a challenge or if this is a style one might come across in other literature.

[kraigb]

One more question on the Honors Translation #4 at the very end. There are two prepositional phrases, ab hostibus and cum clamore. It seemed to us that ab hostibus could be either "from the army" as the answer key uses, but also "by the army," in which case it's unclear who, exactly,...

[kraigb]

Excellent--thanks for the cultural and literary context for those bits; we've suspected that such is the case. We very much enjoy learning those details!

And for my own context, I've spent over 20 years at Microsoft doing technical writing and editing including authoring some 6000 pages...

[kraigb]

OK, Jon, we have a pretty lengthy list of added errata for the 2nd Form Review Answer Key. I've attached a Word doc if that's more useful. Some of these are more comments/suggestions than corrections, and I'll admit that a number are really picky.

• General comment: many of the answers in form drills

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[kraigb]

Thanks; we have a much longer list put together that I'll post soon (we're almost done with our summer review).

One question, which isn't exactly an errata. In Unit IV, Section V, Translation #4, the given translation for magistri liberi is "free teachers." All three of us translated...

[kraigb]

Thanks; I'd found that file already but it doesn't seem to have any errata from the review book. In any case, I'll send bits along once we're done with the book in early August.

[kraigb]

I found the errata for the main Second Form Latin texts and workbooks, but I'm looking for an errata for the "Second Form Latin Review" workbook and answer key, which we're using during the summer. I have seen a few errors and wanted to cross-check with known errata before compiling them.

[kraigb]

Excellent! That gives us new things to think about!

[kraigb]

Thanks again. In the words of my wife and son, "Jon rocks!" We love the detailed explanations.

[kraigb]

Thanks, that makes perfect sense. As noted in my other question to which you responded, we'll certainly learn more of the conventions with greater exposure to classical literature.

Would I be right in assuming if I really did want to say "They give their boy's father's bread to their...

[kraigb]

Thanks for the explanations, Jon. I can see that these are things we'll learn once we transition more into reading and translating classical works to build on the grammar that we've learned thus far. It definitely reinforces the fact, also, that translation is a thoughtful activity and not a mechanical...