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Latin Curriculum UNBOXING // Memoria Press Homeschool
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Jun 19, 2024
My Latin curriculum of choice! Learn why I love Memoria Press for our homeschool Latin curriculum, and see what all comes with this easy-to-teach option. 📖 Memoria Press Latin — https://id.memoriapress.com//idevaffiliate.php?id=272 ********************************************* Hey there! I’m Sara, and I’m a teacher-turned-homeschooling mom to 4 kiddos (including a set of twins!). I balance homeschooling while working full-time from home, and am so thankful you are here. I love sharing about homeschooling on my blog, Blessed Homeschool, where you’ll find tips, resources, and curriculum reviews. Whether you are a newbie or a veteran, I hope you will leave inspired and equipped with what you find. ********************************************* Boring Legal Stuff: • This video is not made for kids. • I occasionally have sponsors for videos. However, all thoughts or opinions shared are always my own. • I also sometimes share affiliate links where I earn a small commission. This costs you nada, and helps support my blog and channel. Thank you so much! • FTC: Blessed Homeschool is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. curriculum flip through to see what it's like! • Short Guitar Clip by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/
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Hey friends, welcome back to my channel for another video. My name is Sarah. I'm a homeschool
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mama of four kids and I love talking about curriculum. Are there homeschool moms who
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don't love talking about curriculum? Probably very few. Anyway, today I am going to be
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unboxing some Latin curriculum from Memorial Press. So if you either love unboxing videos
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or want to see what we'll be using for our next round of Latin, don't go anywhere
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So yesterday I shared a do a lesson with us video of us doing a lesson from our first form Latin curriculum
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If you didn't watch that, I would love for you to go and do that, mainly because I talk about why we're even studying Latin to begin with
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And maybe this isn't something you've considered before. You'll also see a full lesson
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So my kids and I actually sitting around our kitchen table doing a lesson together, hence the video title, right
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And I think this can be really helpful if you're deciding whether or not to
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use a curriculum or if it would be a good fit. We have been learning Latin with this
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curriculum now for about three years. We are about to finish up our third course
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which is first form Latin, and we'll be moving to second form Latin in the fall. Let me
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be very clear. I am not a Latin expert. I never learned Latin growing up, but I am
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learning it alongside my kids, which has been really fun and challenging, but mostly fun
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This curriculum has been the perfect fit because it eased us in gently at the beginning. The
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workload has kind of steadily increased as we've moved up levels but at an appropriate pace
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and the amount of material that we cover each week is demanding enough without being super
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overwhelming they are not overly complex lessons but they're very clear in what's being taught
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so please go watch that video and you'll hear a little bit more of my thoughts on that and
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who knows maybe you'll decide latin is something that you want to try or maybe if you've been
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debating between a couple of different options this will help you make of your mind either for or against this curriculum. Now if you aren't super familiar with
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Memoria Press, they are a family-run publishing company and they create classical Christian
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curriculum. A woman named Cheryl Lowe founded this company about 30 years ago, I believe in 1994
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and their curriculum has won all sorts of awards and is used by homeschoolers and many private
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schools. So Cheryl is actually the author of this Latin curriculum and I remember reading when I first
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researched this that she believes Latin has more educational value than any other subject you can
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teach your kids. I'm not sure that I am quite to that level of Latin intensity yet, but I have found
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that there are many benefits to learning Latin that go beyond just knowing the language. And I talk
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a little bit about that in my other video as well. Okay, so I am excited to open up this box of
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second form Latin curriculum. I haven't opened it yet and ordered it when there was a sale
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running a while ago so I hope everything is in here I will I show you guys everything that comes with this curriculum and I thinking I very briefly take a look and see how similar it is to our current curriculum and what my first impressions are So here we go
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All right, so you guys, I have way too much curriculum here. I have way too much curriculum here. I have. I have aumbus. I have
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the wrong box sitting here that's something I'm going to do another day this double
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checking is my Memorial Press curriculum so let's open this up and see what we got
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the first things that I see is we have second form Latin flashcards nice big stack of those
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right here. This all comes in a kit that I purchased. You can buy all these things
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separately but I buy the whole package and then I add on a couple things because
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like three older kids do this curriculum so you can buy everything separately but
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this is everything if you buy the whole second form Latin package and I definitely
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would recommend flashcards if you are purchasing the curriculum. I have had my
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kids make their own flash cards in the past it's so much easier if you just have
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that set of flash cards. Okay we also have the second form
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pronunciation CD. So they do have, I believe I bought the streaming options. So they do have
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this online where I can log into my account and get all of the pronunciations and the lessons
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streamed online. They used to send a DVD for the lessons, but I believe it's all online now
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They actually just came out with an app now as well. So I did download the app and I can see
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all of my lessons on the app. A Memorial Press calendar. That must have been a free add-on
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Oh, I forgot I got these. These are, you can get nice little certificates for your kids when they finish up the course
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So it's nice, heavy-duty card stock. I did get certificates for my kids for when they finish the class that we are currently
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doing, first form Latin. So there's a certificate for my kids in there. Okay
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We have the second form Latin. teacher key and this looks very similar to our current curriculum for first form
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So for every lesson they kind of split it into half pages but they give the answers in
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here so you can follow along and check your kid as they go
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So there is a teacher key. The trustee teacher manual, second form Latin teacher manual
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I will look through this a little bit more in a second
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Okay, student workbook. And I should have a couple of these So I got one to two student workbooks three Four Okay so I did order four I actually order four workbooks I only have three kids but the fourth one is for me because since I learning this alongside with my kids I like to go through and do all the workbook lessons so that when I teaching I have a really good understanding And I want to learn it too So I order an extra workbook for me
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so that I can do it with my kids. Okay, there is an extra book for quizzes and tests
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So these are just blank tests and quizzes. You can make copies of these for your kids that are using them
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And again, if you want to use them. We don't keep grades at the moment really right now
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but I do use their quizzes and tests to kind of make sure that they are remembering their words
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their grammar forms, and it kind of gives them motivation to study when they know that they're going to
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have a quiz or a test over it, because it's really important to be memorizing the vocabulary
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and the different grammar forms that we're using. So I do use those. Okay, and then, yes, I have
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three student textbooks. I get one for each of my kids that are doing this course. So three
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student textbooks. Now with this package if you were to buy it just for one student, oh
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then there's an extra calendar in here. Okay. If you were to buy it just for one
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student, it would come with, get this out of the way, so you would get one textbook
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you would get your teacher manual, your quizzes and tests, you would get the
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pronunciation CD and your flashcards, and then you would get one student workbook as well
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So I just added on the extra textbooks and then the extra student books
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All right, and like I said, I purchased the online streaming option
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so it makes it really easy to be able to log in and view the lesson
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I kind of talked about this in my other video. I don't have my kids watch the lessons
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You certainly could do that, but I teach this through our homeschool co-op, so there's a few kids that I am teaching this to
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in addition to mine. And I watch the videos mainly so I know how to pronounce things
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I know how I'm kind of going to teach it. And that's what I use those for
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But if you're doing this at home, you certainly could use the lessons and either watch them with your kids or have your kids watch them
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And it's a great tool to have. I love if I just look through this manual, the lessons are so straightforward in what we're doing right now and very scripted out
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And it just makes it so easy. to teach. It looks like we have five units and 26 different lessons plus some review
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I will say the first form teacher manual is spiral bound and I like that a lot more I not super thrilled that it not spiral bound
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I just like to be able to lay my books flat, but this will do
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It looks very similar to the other teacher manual that I have
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So they have basically the student book is in the middle right here and each lesson is on
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one page. So if I flip to the next page, yeah, it goes to the next lesson. So you have one page
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per lesson and then all your teacher notes are kind of on the side of the pages. And again
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it's very scripted, tells you exactly what you should be saying and what order you should be
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saying it in. And it really doesn't go too far off from what they have on the streaming lessons
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It's pretty much word for word. There may be a couple things added in there. But again
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It makes it very easy to teach. So the structure looks exactly the same, which makes me really happy because it's going
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to be familiar and comfortable to us. The student textbook, again, it's nice because the lessons are not overwhelming
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There are usually just two pages per lesson, and the kids will get some kind of Latin saying
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They will have some kind of grammar form that you're working on that week
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will have new vocabulary words, usually about 10 words or so they'll have to memorize that week
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and then any extra grammar notes or things that they need on the other page
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And that's, you know, those two pages cover that week's worth of lessons
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And then after we learn the lesson, we usually do one day of teaching that week, and then
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the rest of the days we will go in and there's usually five or six different sections in here
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for each chapter so they can go in their student work with then and practice
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So for example, one of the lessons, you kind of see it broken down
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So there's a section there, a section there kind of breaking it into manageable chunks, and
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I'll usually just have my kids work on a section a day, so it's short and sweet, along
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with practicing their vocabulary and things like that. Okay, so there you have it
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Second form Latin. I am really excited to continue teaching the series, and I hope maybe I've inspired you
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you to think about teaching Latin in your home school or even take a look at some of the other
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curriculum and resources Memorial Press has to offer. I will of course leave links in the
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description below so you can easily check that out if you'd like. Please let me know if you have
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any questions at all in the comments or if you'd even like to see a more in-depth look at anything
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I will see you next time
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