Res Michiganenses

I've begun to generate some useful items from the vocabulary/reading database project. Using FileMakerPro and lots of data entry, I've been able to make it relatively easy to get vocab and stem lists for most of LfR and a number of other readings, including the Kennedy Unseens and the letters of Pliny that are used in Michigan's Latin 231 class.

Below is a (growing) list of items I'm making available. Please let me know if any of them don't seem to work for you.

A published fruit of this labor is my article in Classical World, Frequent vocabulary in Latin textbooks, CW 97(4), 409-433.

Database Images

Here's a list of images from the database, as well as an example of a stem handout sheet (for the whole group of which, see the next section). This is to give you some idea of what categories are available for each kind of item (vocab entry, reading, stem - although there's no stem picture yet):

Handouts

The following handouts are in pdf format and should be readable on Macs or Windows machines (even Linux, if you go that way) using Adobe Acrobat (Reader). (They were made on my Mac and work on my windows box at least.) Please let me know if they do not work for you.

Stem Lists

Latin for Reading
Each of the following handouts includes all the stems found in the back of LfR (plus a few more) that occur in the given section. The first column gives the RL numbers, followed by the numbers of the lessons that are included in each. The top row gives the source of the vocabulary used to generate the lists, followed by the number of unique stems covered in each half of the set of lists in the column (the columns are divided in half by color based on the amount usually covered in a semester). The other cells give the number of stems which the lists include (there are 14 stems/page, so you can do the math for the number of pages). The Review Lesson Adjusted column includes lists that have been adjusted to spread out the stems evenly over the review lessons.

RL #	Basic Sentences	Review Lesson 51	Review Lesson Adjusted 74, 51	RL with RR
1: 1-5
2: 6-9
3: 10-13		13
4: 14-15		8
5 16-17		17
6: 18-21		22	11	40
7: 22-24		5	8	25
8: 25-26		8	8	16
9: 27-30		9	8	23
10: 31-32		9	8	20
11: 33-34		7	8	24
(12): 35	5	5	(none)	8

Drill Lists

I've started created lists of vocabulary for use with some freeware drill software. Right now it's on another page.