Christian Zitzl

Politics in times of crisis

Sallust, Catilina
Cicero, Orationes Philippicae

Myth - transformation and play

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Thinking - a key to the world

The new Latin reading books are based on the proven principles of the 'Sammlung ratio' series, supplemented by some innovative features.

Clear double-page principle and routine layout. This means for each unit:

• Target-oriented preliminary relief of the vocabulary and grammar of each text
• Focus on manageable Latin text
• Student-friendly ad-lineam commentary
• Varied tasks for text analysis (language, text and cultural context)
• Target-oriented information to build up basic knowledge
• Didactic and updating illustrations

Competence pages, methodology and strategy, among other things, on these contents:

• Translation strategies, text interpretation, author-typical features, dictionary use, information retrieval

Systematic learning vocabulary for each chapter as well as integrated repetition vocabulary

Integrated software hermeneus

Differentiated preparation of all texts in the reading book, interactive individual support for pupils (clickable vocabulary and grammar aids, tips on syntax: clickable sentence analyses with indentations or markings, e.g. subjects and predicates, relative clauses, etc.).

Explanatory video on hermeneus.