[B-Greek] What intermediate grammar to use to finish off a 1st-year class?

Eric Weiss eweiss at gte.net
Tue Jan 20 09:46:38 EST 2004


As some on the list know, I am a layman (2 years of Greek at The 
Criswell College) currently using GREEK TO ME (by Cullen I.K. Story 
and J. Lyle Story) to teach a group of 11 church members, ranging 
in age from 11 to 50 or so, at Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas.

After we finish the text, I am thinking of doing the following for 
the 7 weeks we'll have after we complete GREEK TO ME in order to 
give them more than "first-year Greek":

1. Work through A SUMMER GREEK READER (Zondervan - designed to 
increase vocab for Mounce students from words that occur 50x times 
to all words that occur 21x times with various readings from John, 
I John and Matthew) at two weeks' worth per week (i.e., complete 
the 12 weeks of lessons in 6 weeks). They will have had much of the 
vocabulary, but this does give them reading and translation 
practice and reinforcement.

PLUS

2. Read/discuss 2 chapters a week of David Alan Black's IT'S STILL 
GREEK TO ME and do some of the exercises in that book.

A second option would be to do some or all of Mounce's A GRADED 
READER in conjunction with reading Dan Wallace's book (the abridged 
version of GREEK GRAMMAR BEYOND THE BASICS), but the language/level 
of Wallace's book seemed a bit difficult, in my opinion, for some 
of the students, whereas Black, though certainly not as detailed, 
is more accessible and easy to read.

HOWEVER ... In light of the discussion here re: Stanley Porter, 
another option would be to have them read Richard Young's 
INTERMEDIATE NEW TESTAMENT GREEK grammar (rather than Black's IT'S 
STILL GREEK TO ME) -- in conjunction with doing the translations in 
A SUMMER GREEK READER. Young is more difficult to read than Black, 
but might give them exposure to linguistics terminology that might 
benefit them in the future. Young has chapter exercises, but no 
answer key.

I would appreciate your comments and/or opinions on this. Please 
send off-list responses to my Greek Class e-mail address of 
dbcgreek at yahoo.com (I'll also read responses sent to 
eweiss at gte.net, however). You are of course welcome to respond on 
B-Greek if you feel your comments would benefit other 
listmembers/teachers as well.

Thank you very much.


Eric S. Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
http://www.geocities.com/papaweiss1/index.htm




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