New edition of Wheelock's Latin grammar

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Mon Aug 23 19:29:06 UTC 2004


Thanks to my wife, here are two URLs, with the headline, byline, and lede 
paragraph of each article.

-- Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]


>>From the Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/08/23/new_latin_textbook_changes_with_times/


New Latin textbook changes with times
By Justin Pope, AP Education Writer  |  August 23, 2004

"Optimus magister bonus liber," goes the old Latin adage: "The best teacher 
is a good book." For generations of modern-day Latin students, that book has 
been "Wheelock's Latin." But as the latest generation of students buy their 
Wheelocks in the coming weeks, they will discover a textbook that looks very 
different from the original, densely packed tome Professor Frederic Wheelock 
sketched out a half-century ago.

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/08/23/a_look_at_the_new_wheelocks_latin/

A look at the new 'Wheelock's Latin'
By Justin Pope, AP Education Writer  |  August 23, 2004

Can there really be anything new to say in a Latin textbook? Richard 
LaFleur, who took over the "Wheelock's Latin" series in the mid-1990s after 
author Frederic Wheelock's death in 1987, says Latin may not have changed 
much, but teaching has, and the culture in which Latin students learn has 
evolved as well.


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