Foreign Language Curriculum

This heavily illustrated, self-teaching guide to ASL--American Sign Language--is useful both for the deaf and for those men and women who teach or work among deaf people. E-Z American Sign Language presents ASL's 10 key grammatical rules and emphasizes the use of "facial grammar" as an important supplement to manual signing. Most of the book's content takes the form of a presentation of more than 800 captioned line drawings that illustrate signs for their equivalent words and then show how to combine signs in order to communicate detailed statements.

Barron's E-Z Series books are updated, and re-formatted editions of Barron's older and perennially popular Easy Way books. Titles in the new E-Z Series feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever. All are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide variety of practical and academic subjects, written on levels that range from senior high school to college-101 standards.

Text for Song School Latin, Book 2 Student Edition: Continuing on a path that matches th energy, development level, and fun-loving nature of younger students in 2nd or 3rd grade, Song School Latin Book 2 completes the engagin introduction to Latin startedin Song School Book 1 for 1st or 2nd grade. Weekly lessons include songs, chants, new and review vocabulary, an introduction to grammar, derivatives withoutleaving behind fun illustrations, stories, games and activities. Children will surley love learning Latin with Song School 2! Students will also be aailable to practice what they are learning on Headadventureland.com with interactive flash dash games, download associated coloring pages, and watch exciting bi-lingual video stories that incorporate new vocabulary words. Song for School Latin Book 2 Student Edition includes a Songs and Chants Cd and is an interactive workbook text with fun activities, 32 weekly lessons, including 7 review chapterss, 175 everyday vocabulary words, including 75 words and grammar topics from Latin for Children, Primer A."

This engaging, simple, and fun DVD follows the lessons in Song School Latin, Book 2. The DVD's twenty-four episodes (one for every non-review chapter) feature a lively magistra and magister who narrate the vocabulary practice, simple grammar lessons, and derivative training. Simeon the Monkey makes appearances in each episode, delighting students with his animated story, which features numerous vocabulary words. There is also an animated derivative ''river,'' which highlights the way in which Latin words have come into various languages, including English, Spanish, and French.

We're sure that this DVD will be the highlight of your Latin week. Your students will be recounting the stories and words they learn from their digital friends and asking for repeat performances. Give them the opportunity to learn from other teachers and to use the intelligence of their eyes and ears. The multi-modal approach of this DVD promises to delight and inform young students and set them on a course to loving Latin.

Features:

24 episodes, following the book chapter by chapter
classical and ecclesiastical pronunciations
teaching in vocabulary, simple grammar, derivatives
My Pet Monkey bilingual story animation
each episode approximately 10 minutes

Classical Academic Press

Educators will find all curricula by Classical Academic Press to be created with four important attributes. Each product is classical, creative, relevant, and easy to use. As our company name implies, you will find that we publish classical books and media, seeking to acquaint students with the best that has been thought and said.

We also design and present our products with creativity and zest, from beautiful illustrations to engaging storytelling, ensuring that the classical subjects being taught are anything but boring.

Areas we publish in include:

-Latin
-Ancient Greek
-Logic
-Bible, Old & New Testament
-The Art Of Poetry
-Spanish
-Classical Education Resources

The Fourth Edition Cambridge Latin Course is an introductory program organized into four well-integrated units. Cambridge's proven approach includes a stimulating continuous story line, interwoven grammatical development and cultural information, supportive illustrations and photographs, and a complete Language Information section. Reading is the heart of the Cambridge Latin Course, and all the elements of the program - illustrations, vocabulary, grammar and syntax, cultural contexts and references, activities - are carefully introduced and arranged to provide students with the skills they need to read with comprehension and enjoyment from the very first page. Student Book The most effective tool for students and teachers of Latin! A continuous and motivating story line captures and holds students' imagination. . . The logical pattern of each Stage and careful integration among Stages and Units train students to read Latin with ease and to understand the culture of the Romans. . . Clear language explanations and examples and ample practice insure student mastery of Latin. . . And rich illustrations bring the works and experiences of the Romans to life.

Compiled in collaboration with a team of expert linguists, the Webster's New World concise bilingual dictionaries are the perfect choice for beginning students and advanced speakers as well. Comprehensive and authoritative, yet clear and concise, the dictionaries offer a full array of features, as well as wide-ranging coverage of current expressions. Long-standing favorites in hardcover, the dictionaries will continue to be standard references for years to come -- especially now that they are available in unabridged paperback editions.More than 100,000 words, giving wide-ranging coverage of current terms and expressions.Detailed definitions so the user can understand and translate idiomatically.Extensive examples of usage, showing how translations of words can vary according to context.Verb tables, including irregular verbsCross-references from every verb to the appropriate verb table

Abel and Janice Ryder begin their married life together with all the hopes and dreams of a young couple deeply in love. But before long they realize that their deafness stands as an immense barrier between them and the society that seems to work only for those who can hear. Inexperienced, ignorant, and bewildered, they leave the harsh environment of a school for the handicapped and enter the insensitive world of the hearing. Through years of debt and misunderstanding, hard and degrading work, the raising of a hearing daughter, common tragedies and joys, they learn that the remarkable tool of sign language enables them to survive and, indeed, to forge a love too powerful to be broken by the painful, extraordinary world into which they were born. In a story that spans four generations, we are witness to one family's struggle to carve a place for itself out of the tides of wealth, war, and human strivings that have swept America in this century.