One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. (Evelyn Waugh)
Online Course for ISEE, SSAT, PSAT, SAT, or GRE Vocab Prep
This 6-week e-correspondence course will help you learn specific entrance-exam vocabulary (the course can also be tailored for professionals wishing to increase their vocabulary). The verbal sections on these exams are primarily vocabulary tests, so knowledge of vocabulary is a sine qua non for superior performance. The course not only covers an extensive array of English vocabulary based on Latin and Greek roots, which is the most efficient way to study for the largest lexicon in the world, but also, where appropriate, works on writing skills, an upcoming component of the new SAT.
Instructor Information
Your teacher will be Brett Lawrence Brunner, M.A., B.S. (hon.), President of Star Nemeton EI. Mr. Brunner has been teaching Latin and English vocabulary in private, college-prep schools for fourteen years. He spent eleven years at Saint Mary's Hall in San Antonio, TX, where he presided as the chair of the Language Department in addition to teaching Latin, etymology, philosophy, and SAT verbal-prep courses. He designed a course in Greek and Latin etymology in the mid 90's which he taught for four years, and, due to a lack of comprehensive etymology textbooks, created his own, Word Empire, which is now used throughout the K-12 curriculum at Saint Mary's Hall and has been distributed nationwide. He spent the academic year of 2000-2001 on sabbatical, finishing Word Empire, and completed the second edition in the spring of 2004. He holds an undergraduate honors degree from UW Madison, and an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia; he has continued his studies in Latin at the University of Georgia at Athens. He was awarded the prestigious Master Teacher's award at Saint Mary's Hall in the fall of 2003. During his tenure at Saint Mary's Hall, his students regularly won major recognition on the National Latin Exam.
System requirements: Windows 98 or higher; Microsoft Word
Please contact course instructor at starnemeton@hotmail.com for further information.
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