Classical Writing Dictionary question

[j3mom]

So, I received The Homer level last night, and wow! I love it and at the same time I feel that it won't be an easy ride (especially for me ;-).

 

I have a question, in the Homer core book it says additional suggested materials: Dictionaries: see suggestions in Aesop p. 21

I tried to look up the free samples on CW website, and it ends with page 20.

 

Could somebody please tell me what the Dictionaries recommendations are for Classical Writing program? We don't really have a good one, so if I am buying a new dictionary, I want to make sure that it is the one that is recommended.

Thank you!!!

[SilverMoon]

My Aesop core is buried where I can't get to it easily. For what it's worth, we just used the fattest dictionaries we could find at Friends of the Library sales or Goodwill. Those links in the Homer core for etymology and such were useful too.

[j3mom]

Thank you.

[Lakeside]

So, I received The Homer level last night, and wow! I love it and at the same time I feel that it won't be an easy ride (especially for me ;-).

 

I have a question, in the Homer core book it says additional suggested materials: Dictionaries: see suggestions in Aesop p. 21

I tried to look up the free samples on CW website, and it ends with page 20.

 

Could somebody please tell me what the Dictionaries recommendations are for Classical Writing program? We don't really have a good one, so if I am buying a new dictionary, I want to make sure that it is the one that is recommended.

Thank you!!!

They recommend a school or student dictionary such as The Oxford School Dictionary, a good college dictionary such as Webster's or American Heritage, and a pocket dictionary for each student to keep with him while reading and writing.

 

We never had a student dictionary and we don't have any pocket dictionaries either.  We used my old Webster's College dictionary  and Webster's American Family Dictionary.  

[Critterfixer]

What Lakeside said.

I just picked up a student dictionary from the used bookstore. I have other dictionaries around as I need them. I don't have pocket dictionaries, not yet anyway.

[SilverMoon]

My kids don't like pocket dictionaries. They generally just have the most common words. It's the more unusual words that cause us to open the dictionary in the first place.

[shukriyya]

Off topic but SM's comment has got me wondering, do kids peruse the dictionary for fun these days? I think not. But I recall spending time in childhood sitting with Websters and later the double Oxford with mag glass and randomly looking at word definitions, going from word to word kind of the way one follows links in an internet article. Both parents were writers so that may have had something to do with it but dh also did this as a child. Hard to imagine kids doing that these days.

[SilverMoon]

Well, my kids do. They're all bibliophiles though. If their brick and mortar schooled friends represent the average then I rather doubt it's typical.

 

I've heard myself say, "Close the dictionary and get your lesson done already" more times than I care to admit, and my teen asked for his very own "really fat" dictionary for his birthday. *shrug*

[Critterfixer]

Not the dictionary. But the encyclopedias get a great deal of use. One of my sons treated me to an assortment of socially useful phrases in French that he found and decided to learn this morning. Kind of neat.