Jenney's First Year Latin Gr 8-12 Textbook 1990c

by Charles Jenney Jr., Rogers V. Scudder, Roger Scudder

Book Overview

Praised by teachers for many years, this format is now easier to manage. Passages are carefully controlled to use only vocabulary and syntax already taught and tested. Reading-skills instruction and translation help prepare students for second-year Latin. Twenty lessons formerly in Level I are now at the beginning of Level II, thereby providing better overall pacing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133193284
• ISBN13: 9780133193282
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 579 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9

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A great Latin textbook

I have used this textbook when I was taking the first two courses of Latin in my undergraduate career in college. I can fairly say that this textbook has greatly regaled me with my Latin studies with how the book has been structured with five sections. The five sections are as follows: Forms (the way words are spelled), Syntax (how words are used in sentences), Vocabulary (a list of vocabulary), Practice (exercises to put what you learned to a good use), and last but not least, Reading (where you have the chance to translate a short passage/story). This structure enables the reader/student to easily build on what they have learned. The Reading section is where reader/student can understand much of the Latin language of how to read/interpret and how to write in Latin. Latin is a heavy inflected language with 5 declensions and 4 conjugations. There are a lot of endings to internalize in your memory but fortunately, the book makes it a lot easier to understand the inflections by giving a lot of examples and how it is displayed in tables along with fonts and whatnot. If you have purchased a workbook along with this book such as this one First Year Latin Workbook, you will get the most out of Latin by being able to have access to a wide variety of exercises. I have read the new popular kind of Latin textbooks such as Wheelock's Latin Wheelock's Latin (Wheelock's Latin), but I don't like their format/structure as it is not as appealing as the Jenney's First Year Latin textbook with the fact that I am a visual learner. So with the reasons stated above, that's why I think you should purchase the book if you want to be able to enjoy learning Latin and be serious about it as well.

Classic text

I used Jenney's revision of Smith and Thompson in high school. This newer version has different readings, an introduction to Virgil. I think it is the most organized approach. It cuts to the chase as it were. If we wanted to speak Latin, I would use a different approach, but we want to read. This seems to be the quickest route. I don't understand why it is so expensive.

Excellent! Marvelous! The Best!

Choosing a Latin text is not easy; Jenney's series of 4 volumes solves a lot of problems. First, the book uses no "gimmicks" in the presentation of grammar, a la the Cambridge/Oxford series. The first volume, along with a the excellent survey at the beginning of the second, provides a solid foundation in grammar, syntax and vocabulary. The reading of Caesar is not very popular in all quarters, and it is debatable whether or not Caesar is even suitable for beginning students, but generations of more competent Latinists than today used him as a corpus vile for grammar acquisition. The traditional sequence of continuing with Cicero and then crowning one's study with the poets is well organized.