Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin [Paperback]

Richard A. Lafleur (Author), Brad Tillery (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0865165572 | ISBN-13: 978-0865165571 | Publication Date: October 1, 2003

Repetitio est mater memoriae (repetition is the mother of memory): these vocabulary cards allow students an easy way to memorize Latin vocabulary words as they appear in each chapter of Wheelock'Â’s Latin, one of the most popular first-year Latin books of all time. Students can memorize Latin to English or English to Latin, and use the cards to help them memorize the full lexical forms of the Latin vocabulary words. These cards make vocabulary review a snap! A convenient cross-index of cards helps students locate the number of a particular card; a summary of grammatical forms from Wheelock'Â’s Latin allows students faster and easier access to these references while studying.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 877 pages
• Publisher: Bolchazy Carducci Pub (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865165572
• ISBN-13: 978-0865165571
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #581,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard (Rick) A. LaFleur, received the B.A. and M.A. in Latin from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke. He has taught since 1972 at the University of Georgia, where he served for 21 years as head of one of the largest Classics programs in North America and has held since 1998 the chair of Franklin Professor of Classics.

He has numerous publications in Latin language, literature, and pedagogy, including the books The Teaching of Latin in American Schools: A Profession in Crisis; Latin Poetry for the Beginning Student; Love and Transformation: An Ovid Reader; Latin for the 21st Century: From Concept to Classroom; A Song of War: Readings from Vergil's Aeneid (with Alexander G. McKay); Scribblers, Scvlptors, and Scribes; and the revised editions of Wheelock's Latin, Wheelock's Latin Reader, and Workbook for Wheelock's Latin.

Professor LaFleur served as editor of The Classical Outlook for nearly 25 years and is a past President of the American Classical League; he has been recipient of more than a million dollars in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other agencies, and of state, regional, and national awards for teaching and professional service, including the American Philological Association's award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics. He has three children and five grandchildren, and lives with his wife Alice on the banks of Lake Oglethorpe, near Athens, Georgia.

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87 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Low quality paper and very time-consuming to assemble, August 24, 2004

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A polymath (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)

I was quite disappointed in this product.

The information on these cards is perfectly valid and useful in that they match the progression of the Wheelock chapters. These cards come in a book form with 10 perforated cards to a page. There are about 86 pages of cards total. You have to tear out each edge of every card and build two box bottoms and two box tops to hold the cards. This was a very time-consuming process. It took me about two hours to assemble the first box of cards.

This would be acceptable to me if the paper were not of a very low quality. The flimsy and course-grained paper is easy to tear in the wrong direction when separating the perforations. The box top and bottom templates are also made of thin paper not well suited to constructing a box. Also, the cards fit poorly in the box. There is a lot of room in the box, and the box will crush easily. Lastly, the flimsy cards have a fuzzy perforated edge around them, so that when you flip through them, they tend to stick together.

These cards area good idea, but physically they are executed very poorly.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice idea, poor execution, September 17, 2006

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CDS "C" (Boston,MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)

When picking up Latin again I went rather crazy with impulse buys, and this was one of them. It's also the only buy I regret thus far, the 501 Latin Verbs was worth it, the cumulative chapter vocab lists for wheelock's was too, and this seemed like a great idea but it wasn't.

The quality is exceedingly poor, not to mention their laughable attempt at a build-it-yourself storage box for the cards. When you tear the cards apart the edges make shuffling them somewhat difficult, and they're just messy looking. It also dawned on me that the idea of how to fix this product is incredibly simple.

Why not just sell a box of pre-cut vocabulary cards, last time I took Latin someone gave me such a box as a gift, though sadly I have no idea what happened to them, they were acurately cut and came in a sturdy storage box.

My other gripe with these cards is that they include the vocab from the chapter lists but not the other vocab found throughout the chapter such as "Quod Agis Hodie?" (How are you today?)

My advice, save your money, make your own flashcards, you'll learn more that way anyway.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cheap contruction, but still a useful tool, February 16, 2007

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JM "-J." (Deer Park, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)

Despite all the reviews here about shoddy construction, I bought this set of vocabulary cards. Since I already knew about the cheap paper boxes, I devised a plan - I laminated the box sheets before assembling them. That made them much stronger. When tearing the cards apart, you have to crease them first. I was able to separate the cards with only a couple of difficult spots. I separated the cards and assembled the boxes in less than an hour with my sister's help.

The cards themselves are well laid out and have all the information you need. They are easily used to study Latin-to-English and English-to-Latin.