Students enrolled at the Lancaster Center for Classical Studies (LCCS) in after-school Latin classes for elementary-school age students have completed the first stage of the Cambridge Latin Course. During the past school year, they learned about the Latin language, which has also helped them to understand English grammar and sentence structure. They also learned Latin vocabulary. They accomplished this by reading a sequence of Latin stories set in Pompeii in the daily life of an actual family that lived in that city in the shadow of the volcano Mount Vesuvius. The final chapter tells of that family's experiences during the cataclysmic eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
As the 2019-20 school year begins, the students will move forward into the second stage of the Cambridge Latin Course, in which the scene of the story shifts from Pompei in Italy to Roman Britain and Egypt. Beginning homeschool students in the LCCS curricular program completed the second stage of the Cambridge program during the 2018-19 school year, and in the coming school year they will move on to the third stage of the Cambridge Latin Course, where the story is set in Rome itself and in Roman Palestine during the first century A.D.
The various beginning-level Latin classes at the LCCS bring together students ranging in age from early elementary school to high school and beyond to include adults continuing their education. Students come from Lancaster and York counties, and some students join the classes online from other states, including Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York.
LCCS is located at 910 Marietta Ave., Lancaster. For information about upcoming classes, readers may call 717-397-3223 or visit http://www.latinandgreek.org.
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