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Book Orders @ Yale
When you are entirely on your own in your future position, you will need to submit book adoptions to your college or university bookstore. Sometimes this is easy. Here at Yale, just email the ISBN to the email below and you are set. Sometimes this is less easy… navigating some burdensome website where you enter…
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Basics of Canvas @ Yale
To get access to your course Canvas page, contact the Classics Registrar. Canvas is mostly but not always intuitive. The Poorvu Center is available for Canvas support if you have questions or want to do something complicated with your page. Feel free also to ask me or any other graduate student who has served as PTAI for…
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Reading Approach
Reading approaches took off in the 1970s and 80s with the publication of a variety of different textbooks that undertook to teach Latin and Greek by introducing stories and short passages from the start. The basic idea underpinning this method is to get students reading accessible stories from the start and have them learn grammatical…
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Direct Method
This “direct” or “natural” method was developed c. 1900 as an alternative to the grammar-translation approach. It enjoyed considerable popularity until c. 1930, especially in U.K. public schools (the equivalent of US private schools). A well-known example of a textbook that employs this approach is Rouse’s Greek Boy. Starting in the 30s, the “direct” or…
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Grammar-Translation
The grammar-translation method is the most traditional of the various different approaches to classics pedagogy. Two well-known textbooks that employ the grammar-translation method are Hansen and Quinn’s Greek: An Intensive Course (1978) and Wheelock’s Latin (1956). In courses taught using this methodology, students learn grammar deductively and practice grammatical rules by doing drills and translating…
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Libyc for Students of Latin
Coming soon. In the meantime, here’s the 20 page handout I used to teach ancient North African indigenous history and the Libyc language to students with no background: —James F. Patterson
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Punic for Students of Latin
Coming soon. In the meantime, here’s a handout I used to teach “Punic” history and introduce students to the language: —James F. Patterson
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Etruscan for Students of Latin
Coming soon. Image source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/246263
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