Home teaching L.C. Classics. Any help?

Galwaymother

Hi!
My husband and I are going to teach our daughter the L.C. Classical Studies course, as she is really interested in the subject and we both studied it to Degree level in College.

We know it is a very long and challenging course, but her forte are in History and English, she is a very fast and solid reader, and a good writer, so it should be ok with our guidance.
We are in Galway, where no school proposes classes, nor are they any grinds.

We are both very busy with work, so will tutor her on Sundays for two hours, and she will work at it herself the rest of the week. She is just starting Transition Year, so we have three years to get the course done.

She will not be taking a Science in school (absolutely no interest and no gift for it!), so she might be allowed to study Classics in the study Hall at those times in 5th Yr and L.C.

There is an awful lot of information online (especially through CAIT), which we will use, but we would be delighted if somebody with teaching experience (or who studied it for the L.C. and loved it) of the Course can help us, sharing their notes, hints, anything really, as it will take so long for us to develop our notes, etc.

We are doing:
1. Athens at War (Thucydides)
2. Greek Drama
3. Ancient Epic (she has already read the Penguin Edition of the Odyssey)
4. Greek Philosophy

Thanks in advance, I know that the classicists would be delighted to share their knowledge, to help keep the subject alive at Second Level, out in the Wild West!

kermitpwee

Galwaymother wrote: »

Hi!
My husband and I are going to teach our daughter the L.C. Classical Studies course, as she is really interested in the subject and we both studied it to Degree level in College.

We know it is a very long and challenging course, but her forte are in History and English, she is a very fast and solid reader, and a good writer, so it should be ok with our guidance.
We are in Galway, where no school proposes classes, nor are they any grinds.

We are both very busy with work, so will tutor her on Sundays for two hours, and she will work at it herself the rest of the week. She is just starting Transition Year, so we have three years to get the course done.

She will not be taking a Science in school (absolutely no interest and no gift for it!), so she might be allowed to study Classics in the study Hall at those times in 5th Yr and L.C.

There is an awful lot of information online (especially through CAIT), which we will use, but we would be delighted if somebody with teaching experience (or who studied it for the L.C. and loved it) of the Course can help us, sharing their notes, hints, anything really, as it will take so long for us to develop our notes, etc.

We are doing:
1. Athens at War (Thucydides)
2. Greek Drama
3. Ancient Epic (she has already read the Penguin Edition of the Odyssey)
4. Greek Philosophy

Thanks in advance, I know that the classicists would be delighted to share their knowledge, to help keep the subject alive at Second Level, out in the Wild West!

I did it for the leaving in 2001, it was a short course then but I don't know whether it has changed. Ask in yeats college, they used to teach it.

Galwaymother

Thanks! I don't think they teach it anymore...We are a dying breed!

queenie154

You need to choose 6 topics for the exam. For example,I am doing
The Aeneid
The odyssey
Roman A&A
Alexander the Great
Medea
Oedipus the King

Millem

Galwaymother, is she going to do 7 subjects (not including lcvp if applicable) in school plus classics at home? Or 6 subjects in school and study classics in library and at home. Is a science subject compulsory for lc in her school?

I would advise she does 7 in school and classics at home, god forbid the classics didn't work out she would still have her 7

I can't help you on the actual teaching of it, but buy or print off all of the exam papers and syllabus.

Redser87

GalwayMother pm me your email address and I can send you on notes from when I did the LC/ from first year college!