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By The Latin Don 17+ years of classroom teaching in public, private, parochial, and international schools
CLC Rocket Pack Vocabulary Lists for 5th ed. + complete vocabulary list for each red book and blue book story + makes translation time about translation, not vocabulary + students translate more and feel better about it. These vocabulary lists are keyed to each story in the red book and the blue book of a well-known beginners' Latin course -- the story of a Pompeiian family in the Age of Vesuvius and beyond! Let's get all students -- even those for whom Latin is a challenging subject -- feeling successful! The #1 way to do that? Make translation time about translation, not vocabulary! Give your students a complete vocabulary list that is ONLY FOR THE STORY THEY'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW, and watch them go! Remove the vocabulary mountain that sometimes makes stories seem more arduous than summiting a volcano. All students can piece together the action as long as they know word meanings, and Rocket Pack lists do just that. As they translate more and faster, students learn grammar intuitively. Isn't that in line with the book's approach? (You, of course, are also supplementing the "grammar osmosis" with targeted direct instruction at the right moment, as per the "About the Language" boxes.) No more thumbing through past stages to find words it is assumed students already know. No more fumbling through the end-of-book dictionary. No more need to have a computer out for searching up words online. Make translation time in your class paper-only! No phones or computers needed. Fast -- these lists put the needed words right under students' noses. These lists are designed to be an all-on-one-page boost (sometimes two pages) that students keep at hand as they translate. When I quiz vocabulary, I quiz vocabulary. Nothing wrong with that! But when I assess translation, I give them a list! I call these lists my "Rocket Pack" because they help students jet forward to finish the red book or the blue book according to my school's curriculum standards. Give your students' translation efforts a rocket boost. Soon they'll be translating more and feeling better about it. Get your Rocket Pack vocabulary lists today!
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BA Classical Studies, Duke University, 1991 MAT Classics, Washington University in St. Louis, 1997
Born in North Carolina, raised in Pennsylvania, taught in Costa Rica for 3 years. Now settled in the midlands of South Carolina!
