Latin & Grammar Question

For easy Latin learning, you need to be able to identify subject nouns, direct objects, and objects of prepositions.  You need to understand very clearly the ideas of first person, second person, third person, and singular/plural.  You need to have a basic understanding of verb tenses and participles.  If you have that, you are ready for Latin, and the Latin will build on all that and deepen the understanding.

JAG and AG units 1-10 doesn’t cover 1/2/3 person, singular/plural, verb tenses and participles. It focuses on parts of speech, parsing, and diagramming. JAG Mechanics does teach some of those things, we used it and learned a great deal though it’s not perfect.

If your student is ready, you could just do AG season 1 (exact same content as JAG, but a bit longer sentences), then next year just use the review and reinforcement book. That’s one exercise every other week. Then start with season 2 of AG. When we return to season 2 next year, we will do only 6-7 parsing/diagramming exercises per unit. 10 felt like overkill.

Well, it can be, but it’s pretty hard to convince a kid to use accusative case for a direct object if they don’t have a clue what a direct object is . . .