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Tutoring and homework help for students currently in a Latin or Greek course

The way into Latin and Greek is through building confidence and enthusiasm.

My teaching strategy:

• Break down “overwhelming” challenges from the student’s current course into manageable components, and show the student how they can succeed at several simple tasks.

• Convey an infectious enthusiasm for the satisfaction of mastering language building blocks. In this regard, Latin and Greek can be more enjoyable than spoken languages because mastering them is like playing a strategy game.

• Develop study skills for memorization and practice which will keep the student ahead of the game not only in the challenge of a dead language, but in many other disciplines requiring a long-term commitment.

• Once the student has demonstrated ability to themselves, develop a long-term plan for continued successful engagement in their course of study.

After almost 20 years of teaching over 200 students, I’m now familiar with quite a few textbooks!

Here are some of the Latin and Greek textbooks I have taught from:

Greek Textbooks

Berkeley intensive summer programs using “Greek: An Intensive Course” by Hansen & Quinn
Mastronarde (1993 “blue” edition and 2013 “white” edition)
Athenaze multiple editions (written by my college professor James Morwood)
Basics of Biblical Greek
Cambridge Reading Greek
Greek for Beginners by L.A. Wilding
An Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose by Eleanor Dickey
Learn to Read Greek
From Alpha to Omega

Latin Textbooks

CUNY intensive summer programs using Rita Fleischer’s “Latin!”
Cambridge Latin Course
Oxford Latin Course (written by my college professor James Morwood)
Jenney (1987 “red book” and 1992 “purple book” editions)
Latin for Americans
Latin for the New Millennium
Ecce Romani
Hans Ørberg’s Lingua Latina
Learn to Read Latin
Wheelock
Henle
Suburani

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Tailored independent study

One-to-one teaching is one of the fastest and most thorough ways to learn Latin and Ancient Greek.

Depending on what aspects of the language interest you (trying to achieve a college credit or read a particular author) we can design a course to suit your needs.

Completing Latin or Greek textbooks takes about 120-200 class hours.

Some students need to push through these materials in a single semester; others can take their time with a weekly class over the span of 2-3 years.

The textbooks are designed so that you will achieve reading fluency in the original ancient texts. I also work with a few textbooks designed for speaking fluency in Latin and Greek.

My preferred teaching texts:

Latin

Oxford Latin Course

Jenney's First Year Latin

Ørberg's Familia Romana (for spoken Latin)

Greek

Greek for Beginners

Cambridge Reading Greek Course

Athenaze, Italian edition (for spoken Ancient Greek)

If you have a textbook you prefer, I am happy to work with that book as well.

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Standardized test preparation

The secret of test prep is knowing the format of the test.

Did you know your first instinct on a multiple choice test is usually correct?

Or that lingering on a difficult question can be more costly than leaving it empty and using that valuable time on several easier questions?

My test prep includes:

• A thorough understanding of the expectations of the test in question, with several timed practice sessions.

• Identifying exactly which language skills will be tested, and building strength in those areas.

• For exams with required reading (literature papers), an in depth appreciation of the tested literature in English and in Latin/Greek, fostering knowledge through appreciation and practice.

Latin exams

• A-Level and AS-Level Classical Studies

• GCSE Classical Civilisation

• GCSE Latin

• Latin AP

• National Latin Exam (all levels)

• Toronto Medieval Latin Exam

Greek exams

• A-Level and AS-Level Classical Studies

• GCSE Ancient Greek

• National Greek Exam (all levels)

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