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One of the recommendations in Fr William Most’s Teachers’ Guide is to have students construct their own vocabulary lists. There is no printed vocabulary in the back of the first year book: the idea is to require the students make a vocabulary notebook.

Rain is a bit of a novelty sometimes in Australia. Today we managed to mostly get through Lectio Decima, with many diversions along the way. Two parts – A and B – go for it!

Getting back into the swing of things. This morning we tackled Lectio Nova from Latin by the Natural Method Here’s an activity based on the Tapescript.

Lately our family has been going through Fr William Most’s textbook, Latin by the Natural Method. It’s great fun, but presented in a compact, black and white text, which could be greatly elaborated.

I came across LifterLMS and it look much slicker than Namaste! though it doesn’t really do as much. It looks like the more WatuPro quizzes I add here, the slower the website will work.

It’s a funny thing to study – so much misinformation! We have Karl Adam’s Roots of the Reformation plus Cobbet’s book and R H Benson’s historical novels. Also a short life of St Thomas More.

Following Charlotte Yonge’s book on Roman History has been great this term. She strikes a good balance between brevity and interesting detail with a Christian perspective. It is easy enough to cross reference with other websites plus our Historical Atlas.

All the short histories of Rome skip to the Punic Wars, so I wanted to read about Pyrrhus by the end of the week. In Charlotte Yonge’s Book we read through chapters 13-16 today.

Continuing with Charlotte Yonge’s book, chapters 9 and 10 describe Coriolanus, Cincinnatus and the Decemvirs. This continues under the Early Republic The conflict between patricians and plebians reminded me of the parable about a kingdom divided.

We read chapters 7 and 8 of Charlotte Yonge’s book Young Folk’s History of Rome. This described the developing political structure of the Roman Republic. There are many, many diagrams to try explain the structure, but as the structure changed over time it is probably a good idea to make your own.