[BlackElk]

Fr. Robert Henle, SJ, wrote and published through Loyola University Press (Chicago) a four volume (about 600 pages per volume) high school Latin set, called simply: Latin and a separate book of Latin Grammar in 1942 or so. These books were soooo good that they are STILL in print 54 years later from Loyola Univeristy Press in hardcover and softcover. Hardcover is worth the investment in permanent things. It was also common to supplement this excellent set with translation of Caesar's Gallic Wars in sophomore year, Cicero's Orations in junior year and the entire 360 page Virgil's Aeneid in senior year. Meanwhile Xenephon's Anabasis was translated beginning in sophomore Greek classes.

I believe you live in Maryland and possibly in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. If so, rigorously check the theology texts. Allan Keyes has had some serious dustups with Cardinal Keeler over toleration and even encouragement of lesbianism at a Loyola Girls' High School in Baltimore. You are local and probably better informed than I but, as Ronaldus Maximus used to say: Trust but verify!

God bless you and yours!

[sitetest]

Dear BlackElk,

Thanks for the heads up. He's using the Rosetta Stone software. It's good at teaching vocabulary. He's also figured out the verb conjugations. But I was thinking in the spring of getting him something to fill in with a little more of the basic grammar.

"I believe you live in Maryland and possibly in the Archdiocese of Baltimore."

The school is in the Archdiocese of Washington. It's grown progressively more Catholic since I was there.

Thanks!


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