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  • Teachers’ Notes to Reading Greek

  • Corporate Author Joint Association of Classical Teachers
  • Book:
    The Teachers' Notes to Reading Greek
    Published online:
    05 December 2012
    Print publication:
    29 November 2012, pp 8-136

  • Summary

    Introduction

    The notes in this book are designed to help teachers to use RG in such a way that their students may be able to read fluently and competently some of the finest works of one of the greatest literatures the world has produced.

    Throughout this Course we encourage the student to learn through reading in preparation for learning through drills and memorizing. Intelligent, inquisitive reading encourages students to deduce the forms or rules for themselves and to learn to apply them by analogy, while the teacher acts as guide or mid-wife. This is an ideal, admittedly, but one that is of enormous value to any student. If they can work out the rule themselves, they are much more likely to absorb it.

    Some preliminary recommendations: (1) Underline the first occurrences of examples illustrating new grammatical points in your own text and encourage students to look for the rules behind them. (2) In the early stages (a) stress that endings, not word order, determine sense; (b) watch for a tendency to look at the first few letters and guess the rest. (3) Practise reading aloud and writing, especially in the first month.

    All these imperatives are a shorthand way of saying ‘this is what I do or have done’. In a sense, these notes are counterproductive: the aim throughout is to allow the thoughts to arise from the text, not to stipulate what you should do. Many other and better thoughts may occur to you as you use the Course.

    James Neville

  • Examination Papers

  • Corporate Author Joint Association of Classical Teachers
  • Book:
    The Teachers' Notes to Reading Greek
    Published online:
    05 December 2012
    Print publication:
    29 November 2012, pp 155-170

  • Summary

    Here are three comprehensive examinations set for candidates who have used RG and its associated volumes. Papers A and Β were set for university students after using RG for one year, three to four hours a week for c. twenty-two weeks. Paper C was a public examination (no longer available) set for Year 11–12 students (16–18) who had studied Greek for two years, using RG in year 1 and studying the set texts (the ‘target’ passages from WoH Herodotus and Sophocles selections) in year 2.

    Note: The numbers in brackets (where given) refer to the marks allotted to each part of the paper.

    Discussion

    All the papers, in their different ways, attempt to cater for a wide range of abilities, and demand a grasp of the language with an understanding of the culture which produced it.

    All the papers offer liberal help with vocabulary for the unseens (sight passages); and Paper C offers it with the set texts as well (an important concession when the set texts are as sophisticated as these are; when the students’ time must be limited, since Greek will only be a minority subject for them in the sixth form; and when we want to discourage memorization of the translation, and encourage mature appraisal of the text).

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