Minimus Pupil's Book: Starting out in Latin (Minimus) | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara Bell
Creator: Helen Forte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 9563
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0521659604
Dewey Decimal Number: 487.2421
EAN: 9780521659604
ASIN: 0521659604
Publication Date: January 28, 2000
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Product Description
This elementary Latin course for 7-10 year olds combines a basic introduction to the Latin language with material on the history and culture of Roman Britain. Highly illustrated, the book contains a mixture of stories and myths, grammar explanations and exercises, and background cultural information. Pupils are drawn into the material as they read about the lives of a family living in a community at Vindolanda; the adventures of the children and the family cat and mouse provide interest throughout. As well as offering a lively introduction to Latin and classical studies, Minimus also has cross-curricular relevance. The material on the community at Vindolanda can be used to supplement studies of the Romans at KS2. The grammatical content helps to develop language awareness, and provides a solid foundation from which learners can progress to further English or foreign language studies. The Teacher's Resource Book provides support, particularly for non-Classicists. It includes teaching guidelines, English translations of the Latin passages, and additional background information, plus photocopiable worksheets.
Book Description
A lively introduction to Latin for children aged 7 and over.
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 More complicated than expected April 7, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this book and the audio cd to go with it based on reviews I read. I was led to believe my children and I would enjoy the cartooning and listening, but it didn't happen. The book was far too complicated and the cd did not follow the book at all. Yes we were listening to Latin, but we had no idea what it was saying which made it really boring. I have sent both items back and am hoping to get my hard earned money back.
 Minimus January 28, 2008
I love this whole series. I use it in homeschooling my kids. Latin, while not used in communication, helps in grammar and spelling. I recommend this to any educator.
Minimus Pupil's Book December 20, 2007
I'm teaching Latin to my eight year old daughter and her eight year old friend. I'm not used to teaching this age group, but this book is making it pretty easy. They enjoy the comics, especially if I have them act them out, and they remember the lines afterward; they don't even mind the vocabulary drills. The only real "work" on my part is writing one-two page Latin stories or mini-histories so they can get some practice translating and reading Latin prose.
Great for homeschooling November 16, 2007
I purchased this book for my daughter's homeschool. She loves it. Easy to follow and good accumulation of vocabs. Many hand-on activities for each lesson in Teacher's guide book, so strongly recommend to get both. Audio CD is OK... Love children's voice actors,but recording quality is not so great.
Still must to get audio CD along this book.
 A little frustrating September 23, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
We do not "homeschool" but I wanted to use this book to teach my daughter Latin as a supplement to what she's learning in school. So far I have found it to be frustrating. Mostly because all the words are not defined. I have been having her translate the cartoons but she is not able to do it completely because of the lack of definitions. It would also be helpful to have a comprehensive glossary at the end. I have a Latin dictionary but it's not terribly helpful. For instance, they introduce "est" but none of the tenses. So along comes "erit" and I'm not sure how they're supposed to know that that is the future tense and means "is going to be"? And "erit" is not in the Latin dictionary. I am now going to have to sit down and write up a spreadsheet with definitions of all the words.
The mouse is cute and I like the addition of Roman culture and history.
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