[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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