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...4 semesters of Latin tutoring. This included helping college students at all levels and also some high school students. In addition, I have been involved in many school programs at several historic sites, teaching history to primarily grade school students. This is one of my favorite ways to teach history--I like being able to bring the past to life. I am dedicated to helping students understand the subjects they are studying and develop a passion...
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The goal of teaching is not only to instruct the student in the subject matter, but also to help them improve their ability to learn and to think independently. I am a proponent of a classical liberal arts education because the tools that you give students are more enduring than the specific knowledge. In foreign language learning, this often translates...
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...State University, graduating summa cum laude with research distinction in Classics in 2010. Following my graduation from Ohio State, I began the Classics Ph.D. program at UCLA. Seven years later, in 2017, I graduated from UCLA with a dissertation on Alexander the Great, the original source of my interest in Classics. Now, with graduate school behind me, I hope to find work that will allow me to continue to share my passion for and knowledge...
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...medical training back at Harvard into a lifelong love of learning and teaching. Like many doctors, I can effectively tutor science and math. Unlike many, I also have a particular expertise in writing skills as well as in history and world civilization. I've worked with children (and adults) of all ages. What's more, I have vast experience in helping individuals with all levels of needs, including physical challenges and learning differences. I look forward to...
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I am a PhD student in Classics (Ancient Greek and Roman studies) at the University of Washington. I have been tutoring Latin since 2015 and was a 5th and 6th grade Latin teacher for Basis.Ed from 2016-2018. I love working one-on-one with students of all ages to improve Latin skills!
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...just a student pursuing his Master's in Physics who loves to learn, and hopes he can share his own experiences with others. With 5 years of college level physics and mathematics courses, along with 8 years of Latin, I believe I have the knowledge set to succeed in aiding others to achieve in an academic and personal setting. Some of my personal interests include guitar, board games, baseball, running, and music. I am general a...
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...challenges, and of having gained experience and perspective from college. I started tutoring as soon as I had real knowledge to share, which for me was in the eighth grade. In the way a six-year-old might feel an unwavering sense of duty and pride from being charged with returning scissors to the desk, I felt the true significance of the job I had been given. Tutoring has never lost this importance for me and I...
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I recently finished graduate school in Classics, which is the study of Latin and ancient Greek. Prior to that point, I taught high school Latin for two years. I have also tutored college students in writing. I am available to tutor most subjects, though my specialties are foreign language (German, Spanish, and Latin) and test prep. I teach by asking students the right questions so that they learn the method of finding the right answers.
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Hi! My name is Emma and I just graduated from Stanford University. During college, I studied political science and classics, so I feel especially comfortable tutoring those subjects. I currently live and work in DC and enjoy going to museums and exploring new neighborhoods in my spare time.
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...and all-around academic. I love language in all its forms, whether it be written or spoken, living or dead, poetry or prose. I have a B.A from the University of Chicago in Theater and Performance Studies and a minor in Classics and I most recently finished a year abroad at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's International Acting MA. Above all, I believe in the power of words. If you ever want to talk Greek...
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I'm a current junior at the College of William and Mary majoring in French and Francophone Studies and Linguistics. I have a history of high achievement and lots of on-the-job experience tutoring and teaching young people. My areas of expertise are French, Latin, linguistics, and English/language arts. I'm very excited and privileged to help unlock students' potentials to achieve!
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...of ancient Christianity, but I also have master's degrees in Medieval Studies and Biblical Studies, and a bachelor's in History. My dissertation focused on the history and legacy of Christian monasticism. I taught for four years at Yale Divinity School and currently serve as a high school substitute teacher. My areas of teaching specialty include the humanities, religion, history, English, Latin, and Greek. Right now, I am seeking employment as a history teacher at the...
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Hi, I am an experienced college and secondary education teacher. I have taught Latin 1-4, history, literature, and theology to 7th-11th grade. I have also taught introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion to college students. I have an M.A. in Philosophy and am currently working on my PH.D. in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham (U.K.).
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More so than lower-level courses in Latin, Latin 4 concentrates heavily on the translation of classical Latin passages, and such translation requires a mastery of Latin grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Latin 4 does not concentrate on school Latin, or simplified prose designed around a lesson, but rather real Latin prose and poetry from some of the great authors who wrote in Latin, including Caesar, Cicero, Tacitus, Ovid, and others. Because each writer has his or her own unique style, which may or may not adhere to the syntactical and grammatical rules you were taught in earlier Latin classes, you may find yourself wanting some extra help as you navigate through your Latin 4 class. Varsity Tutors will help you find a certified Latin 4 tutor, who can address virtually any difficulty you have in your Latin 4 class.
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Recent Villa Park Latin 4 Tutoring Session Notes
Today, we completed some translations, which I think went really well. On your own, try catching up with numbers and 3rd declension adjectives. As we talked about, writing out paradigms can be very helpful in addition to working through the exercises at the back of the book.
At the beginning of the session, I gave the student a list of basic Latin verbs. We reviewed how to identify conjugations and practiced conjugating and translating a few verbs in the present tense. Next, I gave him a list of Latin nouns and we reviewed recognizing declensions and gender, and reviewed case endings. Then he declined a noun in Latin and translated it.
We are moving very quickly for an introductory Latin lesson, but he is learning fast!
We focused on review of some basic concepts - mainly, declension endings - in addition to working on grammar and translation of Vergil's Aeneid. Constant practice is necessary and I have informed the student that he should be spending many hours reading and re-reading the material for class. He should also make use of online AP Latin Practice Test Questions or SPQR to help with vocabulary and context of the passages.
This past session we reviewed the first through third declensions. We discussed the ending patterns, practiced declining nouns using the Latin Library declension tool, and parsed nouns and adjectives from chapter 1 of the student's textbook. We also discussed parsing strategies if you don't know the dictionary entry for the word, and worked on breaking down words into stem/root+ending. He was struggling to remember the endings, but hopefully all our different forms of review helped activate his memory. I asked him to continue to work on memorizing the third declension, to practice declining words in all declensions, and to work on his chapter 1 vocabulary.
For today's session, we translated some more sentences in the workbook first. The student performed rather well at the sentences, but still struggles a bit with tense and case recognition. Particularly, it seems that she confuses the ablative and accusative. In our next session, I hope to review these case forms again in more detail. After the sentences, I explained to her the concept of the genitive of the whole, and gave her some short Latin phrases to translate which involved the case. I assigned her some work from the book to review this, and we reviewed the declension of duo and tres as a conclusion to this week's session.
I gave the student a comprehensive overview of the most common Latin concepts in the beginning of an introductory course. I started with basic sentences -- "Roma in Italia est" (Rome is in Italy) and took them apart, explaining how nouns and their cases work, going over a chart of the first declension, and making more simple sentences with the nominative, accusative, genitive and ablative cases. I was very impressed by how quickly he caught on to concepts like noun-adjective agreement that aren't familiar from English, and it gives me high hopes for his Latin progress. I also went over various words I thought might be useful --question words, greetings, etc. and I finally went quickly over how verb tenses work and some charts of the first and second conjugation. The student seemed to catch on pretty well as long as I explained everything clearly and methodically. Using analogies to English phrases seemed to help.
