Comments on: What is the best Latin grammar review book for a below-average Latin student entering AP Virgil? http://trifoliumbooks.com/book-review/what-is-the-best-latin-grammar-review-book-for-a-below-average-latin-student-entering-ap-virgil Books books and more books Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:34:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: aera http://trifoliumbooks.com/book-review/what-is-the-best-latin-grammar-review-book-for-a-below-average-latin-student-entering-ap-virgil#comment-712 aera Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:07:14 +0000 http://trifoliumbooks.com/book-review/what-is-the-best-latin-grammar-review-book-for-a-below-average-latin-student-entering-ap-virgil#comment-712 Honestly, I'd use Wheelock for this. However, at this point, it might be too late to add this to your study load, if school is starting next week. It is a shame that the student waited this long, but not impossible to overcome with a student who is committed and serious. The student can join an online study group and have someone to compare the process. http://www.ravendays.org/latin/lists/listindex.html I think Morwood is too hard for a student to use alone. The most important thing to remember when studying for the AP Latin exam is that you need to be able to analyze the Latin. Not only understand it, but write good analytical essays in English that refer to the Latin throughout the passage. THROUGHOUT the passage, meaning, a little from every sentence in the passage. Also be sure you have read the whole Aeneid in translation, as that is part of what is expected, and you will be asked a question on the AP exam that refers to the book as a whole, even the parts that aren't on the syllabus as translation passages. It doesn't hurt to have read the Iliad and the Odyssey in translation, as well. Added: There are about 1800 lines to translate. Be sure that you are doing at least 15 lines a night, or you won't have time to finish the syllabus. Prepare the passage before you get to class, and be able to translate the day's Latin without looking at your notes in class every day. Write down your questions and the tough parts, and don't spend too long on things you can't figure out. The first 49 lines or so are very hard, but the whole thing isn't that hard. Don't be discouraged with that. You can find the syllabus at www.collegeboard.com Also, the exam expects you to be able to translate at sight, and they will give you passages that are from other authors, that you almost certainly never saw; Wheelock will help you with this. Perseus has Allen and Greenough's grammar online in a searchable format. This will help you for questions as they come up. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0001&layout=&loc=&query=toc You can also download a grammar book for free at www.textkit.com and search the file for forms. Bonam fortunam!<br><b>References : </b><br> Honestly, I'd use Wheelock for this. However, at this point, it might be too late to add this to your study load, if school is starting next week. It is a shame that the student waited this long, but not impossible to overcome with a student who is committed and serious. The student can join an online study group and have someone to compare the process. http://www.ravendays.org/latin/lists/listindex.html

I think Morwood is too hard for a student to use alone.

The most important thing to remember when studying for the AP Latin exam is that you need to be able to analyze the Latin. Not only understand it, but write good analytical essays in English that refer to the Latin throughout the passage. THROUGHOUT the passage, meaning, a little from every sentence in the passage.

Also be sure you have read the whole Aeneid in translation, as that is part of what is expected, and you will be asked a question on the AP exam that refers to the book as a whole, even the parts that aren't on the syllabus as translation passages. It doesn't hurt to have read the Iliad and the Odyssey in translation, as well.

Added: There are about 1800 lines to translate. Be sure that you are doing at least 15 lines a night, or you won't have time to finish the syllabus. Prepare the passage before you get to class, and be able to translate the day's Latin without looking at your notes in class every day. Write down your questions and the tough parts, and don't spend too long on things you can't figure out. The first 49 lines or so are very hard, but the whole thing isn't that hard. Don't be discouraged with that. You can find the syllabus at http://www.collegeboard.com

Also, the exam expects you to be able to translate at sight, and they will give you passages that are from other authors, that you almost certainly never saw; Wheelock will help you with this.

Perseus has Allen and Greenough's grammar online in a searchable format. This will help you for questions as they come up. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0001&layout=&loc=&query=toc

You can also download a grammar book for free at http://www.textkit.com and search the file for forms.

Bonam fortunam!
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