There are over eighty Drill Sentences in Chapter 2. Is it expected that students will translate all of them?
LTRL includes more drills and Drill Sentences than most teachers may wish to use. How many sentences are to be assigned should be determined by the individual teacher. Many teachers choose to assign some sentences for written homework, while reserving others for sight translation in class and still others for work with individual students. back to top • There are several sections that fall between chapters. How are these to be used? These sections on Roman names and numbers, on metrics, and on rhetorical terms, for example, should be studied as seriously as each chapter. Some of these sections even contain a few vocabulary words that the student is expected to learn, and all will greatly enhance the student’s reading and appreciation of the authentic Latin passages in the chapters. back to top • Why are there so many short and longer readings from Chapter 7 onward, and how does one choose among them? For several reasons, more readings have been provided than can probably ever be done i