[B-Greek] What intermediate grammar to use to finish off a 1st-year class?
Jody Barnard
jbnard at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jan 20 10:23:53 EST 2004
I would certainly be interested in hearing any
responses to this ...
Jody Barnard
--- Eric Weiss <eweiss at gte.net> wrote: > 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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