Juniores Section 2

Juniores Section 2

This course is for students who have completed one or two years in high school Latin and want to improve their reading ability through active learning, including use of spoken Latin. The program includes extensive practice and work with texts of increasing length and complexity that review essential grammar and build upon it. Active engagement, conversations, games, skits, short projects, and puzzles work alongside these texts to build students' confidence with syntax and their fluency with high frequency vocabulary. This course is not recommended for students with extensive prior spoken Latin experience. 

When
4:00-6:00p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$1000

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Instructor

Joshua Gregor

Joshua Gregor is head of the Latin department at Sacred Heart Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has taught Latin courses ranging from beginning grammar up through Cicero, Horace, and Vergil, as well as medieval and Renaissance Latin. With Paideia he has previously taught a number of courses on Christian and Medieval Latin. Joshua holds a B.A. in philosophy from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, with a thesis on William Wordsworth’s Romantic theory of poetry. Afterwards he received an M.A. in linguistics from Indiana University, focusing on Latin and Romance languages. Joshua additionally spent several years in seminary, where he also studied humanities, theology, and Gregorian Chant.