• Dear 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, and 5th Grade parents, 
    • Last post/email, I described one of the core Latin skills we have been working on this year. 
    • That skill is called conjugation: finding the stem of any Latin verb in our primer, adding the personal endings, and translating all the forms created. 
    • In fourth grade and fifth grade, we have also been working on declension—the formation of Latin nouns.
    • Nouns do not show action like verbs, so noun endings do not tell us who is doing the action.
    • Noun endings tell us how the noun is being used in the sentence.
    • For example, Latin word for forest” is silva,  the stem is silv-.
    • If “forest” is doing the action of the sentence—The forest is large.—the ending used is “-a”—Silv-a est magna. 
    • But if “forest” is receiving the action in the sentence—I look at the forest—the ending used is “-am”—Spect-o silv-am.  
    • This can seem needlessly  complex to speakers of English, since English sentences mostly use word order to convey such things.
    • But noun and verb endings actually help students understand grammar more easily, since the actual look of the word changes depending on how it's being used in the sentence.
    • The word on its own indicates its grammatical function.  
    • So that is the second core Latin skill.   More in a few days. 
-Mr. Grimm

Dear 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, and 5th Grade parents,  Last post/email, I described one of the core Latin skills we have been work...

About me

Hello,
My name is Mr. Grimm,
And I’m looking forward to working with your children in 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Latin.

I am a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College, with an M.A. Philosophy from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA. I have studied Latin in high school, college, and graduate school, and taught it before coming to Great Hearts. This is my second year teaching Latin at Archway Lincoln. Before that, I was a TA for 3rd Grade at Archway Cicero.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

I can be reached at my email, dgrimm@archwaylincoln.org.

My tutoring hours are Friday 7:30 to 8:00 am and Thursday, 3:45 to 4:15 pm. Tutoring is by invitation.