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Thesaurus Fastōrum

Hebdomas Prīma (First Week): September 2 – September 6

Diēs Lūnae (Day of the Moon ~ Monday)

Haec est diēs festa ad labōrātōrēs celebrandās! Nōn congrediēmur hodiē.

This day is a holiday to celebrate workers. We will not meet today.

Diēs Martis (Day of Mars ~ Tuesday) – Incipiāmus! Let’s begin!

Exordium: Introduction to Learning (Latin); the Latin Alphabet; Salutationes! Time travel!

Diēs Mercuriī (Day of Mercury ~ Wednesday)

Notā Bene (“note well”): the following pensum  should be done before class on Wednesday. To start you will need your two textbooks and your Commentāriī Periodicī (i.e. your notebook). Be sure to bring all of these to class today — and every day unless otherwise indicated.

Readings & Vocabulary (RAV)	Grammar, Exercises, Context (GEC)

Lege (“read”): Course Description. If you have any questions, please be sure to note them in your Commentāriī Periodicī.

Disce: Memorize the following line from P. Terentius Afer (Terence): “Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.” 

With this phrase in mind, learn more of the ins-and-outs of Latin pronunciation…

Lege: RAV, “Pronunciation” (p. xi-xii)

Spectā hanc pelliculam brevem (“watch this brief video”): Introduction to the Latin Alphabet (~ 2 minutes = II minutārum)

Spectā hanc pelliculam brevem dē “How Latin Does Syllables”  (~ X minutārum)

Latin pronunciation is relatively straightforward (especially compared to English!) but that does not mean you might not still have questions. If you remain uncertain about Latin pronunciation, watch the videos on The Latin Vowels, The Latin Consonants, and When is I a Consonant? I recommend that you don’t try to take all of this in at once, but return and watch (and re-watch) over the next several days.

Learning how to pronounce Latin is vital for for acquisition of the language. You don’t need to worry about a snotty patrician mocking your acccent, but the sooner you can consistantly recognize how letters create syllables create sounds create meaning in Latin words the sooner your acquisition will benefit from all your senses.

Scrībe (“write”): the Latin alphabet in your Commentāriī Periodicī. You might mark off a few pages thereafter for future key ideas, terms, etc. 

Lege et Audī (“Read and Listen”): pictam historiōlam (“comic strip”) dē “Scintilla in casā labōrat” (RAV, 1).

 

Diēs Iovis (Day of Jove ~ Thursday)

Actum Voluntārium Prō Tabellā! (optional actum for a tabella): at some point today, chalk our sententia selecta prima: homo sum… (our first motto) somewhere on campus and send me a selfie with your graffito (or otherwise document you act of public Latin; if you do not have the ability to document it, let me know). Memento (remember), you could remix Terence’s sententia but substituting a word for homo… “I am Haverfordian…” (Haverfordiensis sum…), etc. If you’d like to know the Latin for a term, ask!

Mementō (“Remember”): Bring your laptop to class today (if you have one; if not, I will have many iPads to share).

Lege et Audī iterim (“Read and Listen again”): pictam historiōlam (“comic strip”) dē “Scintilla in casā labōrat” (RAV, 1).

 

Lege: Quintus (GEC, 5-7). Be ready to describe 4 key pieces of information about Horace and his life. (note these in your Commentāriī Periodicī)

Disce et Exercē (“Learn and Practice”) the vocabulary for Capitulum Primum (RAV, 2). Read through and practice the vocabulary list until you are confident that you could match the Latin words with their English analogues.

Lege et disce: “Commentary” and “Grammar” (GEC, 1-3). Be able to answer these questions (note that we’ve encountered all of these ideas already in passing; but use the opportunity to refine and solidify your understanding of the concepts)

1) What are the definite and indefinite articles (in English)? Does Latin have these? 
2) Where does the verb usually appear in a Latin sentence? Which common verb does not follow this pattern?
3) Why doesn’t Latin have to express the subject of a verb (although it can!)
4) How important are word endings in English? In Latin?
5) What largely determines the meaning of each word in an English sentence? What determines it in Latin?
6) What is “inflection”or “inflexion”?
7) What is a transitive verb? an intransitive verb? a joining verb? Be able to give examples of each.
8) What is case? What case is used to express the subject in Latin? What case is used to express the object of a transitive verb in Latin?

If you cannot answer these questions, write them down in your CP and seek support from me or a TA or a fellow student. 

Scrībe: After you feel confident that you can answer all of the questions above, review your incipient knowledge of Latin using this on-line worksheet on the questions above and the first part of Exercise 1.4 in sitū interrētiālī (on-line).

If you would like more review on the parts of speech, spectā: hanc pelliculam brevem dē Basic English Grammar.

Scrībe: Complete Exercise 1.4 in your Commentāriī Periodicī.

Notā bene: be sure to write out the entire Latin phrase or sentence in the prompt and the answer; this is infinitely better for your acquisition of the language than just writing a word or phrase answer.

Make sure that you start your written pensum on a new page of your CP, with a header that includes the assignment and date, e.g

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Diēs Veneris (Day of Venus ~ Friday)

Cerego: begin to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum (RAV, 2); start all of your vocabulary memories for Capitulum Primum. You are welcome to make your own cards for paradigms, etc. but you should use Cerego as a baseline tool for vocabulary acquisition and review.

If you have an iOS or Android device, the Cerego app offers material advantages over the web version and I encourage you to get it; but if not, the web version is a powerful tool in its own right.

Spectā: hanc pelliculam brevem dē The Latin Accent (~ VIII minutārum)

Lege et Audī: Scintilla in casā labōrat” (RAV, 3) 

Read and listen to this story several times. Nota bene: Do not be tempted to write an English definition above a Latin word; always leave your textbook stories “clean” so that you can return to the Latin itself as you re-read the story for ever greater comprehension.

As you read and listen to the story,  listen for 1) the accents in the story and 2) how related words are pronounced together. 

Then open this version of the story, which has the accents marked and listen to the story again. 

Then repeat the story outloud until you are comfortable doing so. If there is any element that is unclear, make a note in your CP and raise it in class.

Hebdomas Secunda: September 9 – September 13

Diēs Lūnae (Day of the Moon ~ Monday)

Cerego the vocabulary for Capitulum Primum (RAV, 2).

Spectā: hanc pelliculam brevem dē What Are Nouns? (~ IV minutārum)

Re-Lege et disce: “Commentary” and “Grammar” (GEC, 1-3). If you had any difficulties with last week’s web worksheet, try it again!

Spectā: hanc pelliculam brevem dē The First Declension (~ VII minutārum)

Lege et Audī iterim: “Scintilla in casā labōrat” (RAV, 3).

Audī et Respondē: Listen to the questions in Respondē Latīnē (RAV, 3) and respond out loud and in Latin and with gusto.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 1.3–1.6 (GEC, 3–4) in your Commentāriī Periodicī.

Mementō: When you arrive in class, open your CP to the day’s pensum.

Diēs Martis (Day of Mars ~ Tuesday)

Notā bene: you will submit your Commentāriōs Periodicōs tomorrow.

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum (RAV, 2); start all of your vocabulary memories for Capitulum Secundum (RAV, 5). You are welcome to make your own cards for paradigms, etc. but you should use Cerego as a baseline tool for vocabulary acquisition and review.

Sī vīs… (“if you wish…”)

For more practice with syllabification and accents, head here. (perhaps after you’ve reviewed videos on Latin syllables and/or The Latin Accent.

For more practice with cases, head here. And for even more, head here. And for a video overview, head to Latin’s Case System.

Lege: pictam historiōlam (“comic strip”) dē “Quīntus Flaccum iuuvat” (RAV, 4)

Audī et Disce: listen to the pattern sentences for Capitulum Secundum (RAV, 4). Write these out, say them to yourself, chant them between classes, whatever you need to do to make them utterly familiar to you.

Lege: Grammar: Nouns: Cases, Declensions: Gender (GEC, 10–11).

Scrībe: after you feel you have mastered the paradigm for first declension nouns, chose your two favorite nomina substantīva (“nouns”) from the “Vocabulary” in Chapter 1 and…

Declinā (“decline”) each completely (on the model of the declension on GEC p. 3 BUT be sure to try to write your declensions from memory and then check against the model. Correct using a different color pen as is our custom.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 2.1 in sitū interrētiālī and 2.2 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Diēs Mercuriī (Day of Mercury ~ Wednesday)

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum et Capitulum Secundum.

Epigraphium: using M. Agrippa’s inscription on the Pantheon and my inscription (“ASELLVLVS THOMAE F H MON FECIT”) as models, craft your own monumental inscription and either write it on a notecard to me or chalk it (with selfie) for a tabella!

Audī et Disce: continue to learn the pattern sentences (RAV, 3) for Capitulum Secundum (RAV, 4). Write these out, say them to yourself, chant them between classes–whatever you need to do to make them utterly familiar to you.

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Quīntus Flaccus iuuat”.

After you read and listen to the story a few times, read the Commentary for the story (GEC, 8). Then re-read the story again. Always follow this pattern when you read a story (Read-Commentary-Re-read-Repeat). Mementō: what is the goal of reading? comprehension not completion!

Scrībe: “Word-Building”: write the English derivatives for the 9 words listed in the module on GEC p. 10. As you do, find an English derivative that preserves the part of speech. 

Lege iterim: Grammar: Nouns: Cases, Declensions: Gender; and Adjectives (GEC, 10–11)

Lege: Grammar: Verbs (GEC, 12–13).

Scrībe: Exercitationem 2.3 et 2.4.

Hodiē: tuōs Commentāriōs Periodicōs tradēs (you will turn in your CP today). 

To prepare your CP, you should print out the CP Checklist; review the material. Check not only that you have completed all the materials but that they are entirely accurate by re-reading and reviewing the assignments. Since most will be correct, this won’t take long but be sure to correct any additional mistakes. If any assignments are out of order, please make a note for me about where I can find them in your CP. Tuck your CP Checklist at the first assignment for this Checkup.

Memento: I’ll also be checking in on your Cerego as part of this Checkup, so be sure to be caught up with your Cerego work.

 

Diēs Iovis (Day of Jove ~ Thursday)

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum et Capitulum Secundum

Invenī (“Discover”): Use Pleiades, a gazetteer of ancient places, to find where Horace’s hometown of Venusia was located. Take a screenshot and email it to me before class.

Lege et Audī iterim: fabulam “Quīntus Flaccus iuuat”

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Flaccus ad tabernam exit”.

Lege: Grammar: Verbs (GEC, 12-13)

Spectā Pelliculam brevem (“watch the short video”): The Singular of the Present Tense (~ 6 minutārum)

Scrībe: Exercitationem 2.5 in sitū interētiālī.

Diēs Veneris (Day of Venus ~ Friday)

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum et Capitulum Secundum

Lege et Audī iterim: fabulam “Quīntus Flaccus iuuat”

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Flaccus ad tabernam exit”.

Lege: “Women” (GEC, 14-16). 

Scrībe: write down at least one surprising or interesting thing you encountered in the “Women” reading—or a question that you now have (You are, of course, invited to write down more than one!) 

If you wish, you can review some of the salient facts offered in GEC, here.

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Scintilla et Horātia ad fontem festīnat”.

Scrībe: Exercitationem 2.6.

Diēs Solis (Sunday): Trip to the Penn Museum!

Hebdomas Tertia (Week 3): September 16 – September 20 

Diēs Lūnae

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum et Secundum (RAV, 2 and 5); start all of your vocabulary memories for Capitulum Tertium (RAV, 10-11). You are welcome to make your own cards for paradigms, etc. but you should use Cerego as a baseline tool for vocabulary acquisition and review.

Lege: pictam historiōlam (“comic strip”) dē “Nūndinae” (RAV, 10)

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Nūndinae”

Mementō follow this process:

• • Read the passage through out-loud (via voce).
  • Then read the passage though via voce again.
  • Read the Commentary on the passage in GEC (17).
  • Then re-read the passage attempting to understand fully what’s happening without writing out a translation or even, if you can, thinking in English (or another non-Latin language).
  • If you look up a word use your book and place a dot to reminder yourself that you did so. Do the same for any piece of information that you look up.
  • Shun random on-line resources, which are shortcuts in the moment that lead to long trudges in the future.
  • Use every moment of confusion as an experience to learn from not merely a hurdle to be overcome.
  • When you come to class you should either have (1) an understanding of the sentences or (2) questions about those sentences that you do not understand.

Lege: “Grammar: Verbs: Present Tense: All Persons” (GEC, 18-19). Memorize the personal endings for all types of verbs (the first paradigm in the section) and the forms of sum (the last paradigm in the section).

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 3.1 #1-5 only and 3.2 #1-5 only in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Probatuncula (a brief 5-minute quiz-let at the start of class): be ready to list the six cases (including the vocative) and the basic usage.

Diēs Martis

Notā bene: bring your device today!

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum et Capitulum Secundum et Capitulum Tertium. Going forward, I’ll only mention this when we start a new chapter but you should continue to cultivate your memories as you move them towards level 1.7 (and beyond)

Lege: Review the material presented at the end of class diē Lunae on the nature of vowels and the rules of euphonic vowel changes.

Retractā (‘review’): the principal parts of nouns and adjectives handout

Spectā: hanc pelliculam brevem dē Present Tense (active) of all conjugations.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 3.1 #6-10 and 3.2 #6-10 only in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Nūndinae” (use the pattern described for yesterday’s reading of “Nundinae”)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 3.3 and 3.4 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Probatuncula: be ready to conjugate sum in the present active and sketch and/or describe the rules of euphonic vowel changes.

Diēs Mercuriī 

Lege: “Grammar: the Ablative Case” (GEC, 21).

Lege: fābulam “To the Fish Stall”

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 3.5 and 3.6 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

 Notā bene: be sure to write out the entire Latin phrase or sentence in the prompt and the answer; this is infinitely better for your acquisition of the language than just writing a word or phrase answer.

Lege interim et audī: fābulam “Nundinae”

Probatuncula: First Declension Nouns; know the forms of the first declension for all cases.

Diēs Veneris

Probationem dē capitulīs primō et secundō et tertiō subībimus. (“We will have a quiz on Chapters 1 and 2 and 3”). Anything we have encountered is possible but consider the activities we’ve done for pensa and in class, as well as the probatunculae this week as these will give you a great sense of what to 

Estō parāta/us… (“Be ready to…”)

☛ explain these key terms: declension, conjugation, case, number, (grammatical) gender, person, tense, nominative, accusative, vocative, agreement; noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection; transitive verb; intransitive verb; joining verb; subject, object.

☛ describe the basics of Horace’s life (his full name, his life in basic outline, his birthday and home town and day of death).

☛ describe the lives typical of Roman women. 

☛ list the six cases (including the vocative) and the basic usage (our modified version)

☛ describe what a declension is and be able to decline any first or second declension nouns in your vocabulary.

☛ understand and recount the information conveyed by the dictionary entries for nouns and adjectives.

☛ describe grammatical gender for Latin nouns and how it manifests itself in Latin adjectives.

☛ describe number in Latin (singular/plural).

☛ describe what a conjugation is, how many their are in Latin, what the first, second, and third person is, what the ending of the third person singular and plural are.

☛ be able to answer the questions in the FASTI from dies Iovis in Hebdomas Prima (archived below).

Hebdomas Quarta (Week 4): September 23 – September 27 

Diēs Lūnae (Day of the Moon ~ Monday)

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum et Capitulum Secundum et Capitulum Tertium. Begin learning your memories for Capitulum Quartum. I’ll be doing a Cerego Check-in this weekend, so make sure you memories are up to date (not that you needed the prompt, of course!)

Lege: pictam historiōlam dē “Lūdus Flauī” (RAV, 14)

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Quīntus et Gaius ad lūdum serō adueniunt

Lege: “Grammar: Infinitive” (GEC, 26-27) and “Grammar: Imperative” (GEC, 27-28)

Scrībe: for practice, renovate the dictionary entries for verbs  in Chs. 1-3: ADD the proper infinitives to every verb entry in your RAV (Mementō: you have already seen these on Cerego, so you may know them; if you are uncertain, you can look these up in the glossary in the back of the book if the first principle does not unambiguously signal the conjugation).

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 4.1 (evens only)  and 4.2 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Diēs Martis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories.

Lege: “Grammar: Irregular Verbs” (GEC, 28-29)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs  4.1 (odds) and 4.3 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Quīntus et Gaius ad lūdum serō adueniunt”

Probatuncula: the infinitives and regular imperatives of all four conjugations. Know the charts on pp. 26 and 27.

Diēs Mercuriī

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories.

Lege: “Grammar: Nouns: The Vocative Case and Adverbs” (GEC, 29-30)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 4.4 and 4.5 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Flāvius litterās docet”

Diēs Iovis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-IV. 

Lege et Audī iterim: fabulam “Flāvius litterās docet”

Lege: “Education” (GEC 33–34)

Lege: “Grammar: Nouns: Questions” (GEC, 31)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 4.6 and 4.7 and 4.8.1-2 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Scrībe: at least two interesting facts or observations about Roman education from today’s reading in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Hodiē: tuōs Commentāriōs Periodicōs tradēs (you will turn in your CP today). Very sure that every element in your CP is present and correct and remember to complete the wrapper at the end of your section. 

Diēs Veneris

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-IV. Begin to build your memories for Ch. V.

Scrībe in sitū interrētiālī: Exercitātiōnem dē “Quaestiōnibus”

Lege: “Word Building” (GEC, 37)

Lege: “Grammar: Genitive Case” (GEC, 38)

Finge (fashion): a Latin grammar meme! Pick a grammatical principle, a rule, a facet of Latin and make a meme! (using e.g. Meme Maker or Meme Generator). Email me your meme! I’ll post them to the course blog. (Please keep them SFW).

Hebdomas Quinta: September 30 – October 4

Diēs Lunae

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-V.

Lege: fabulam “Agamemnōn Graecōs in urbem Trōiam dūcit”

Mementō follow this process: Read the passage through out-loud (via voce). Then read the passage though via voce again. Read the Commentary on the passage in GEC (17). Then re-read the passage attempting to understand fully what’s happening without writing out a translation or even, if you can, thinking in English (or another non-Latin language). If you look up a word use your book and place a dot to reminder yourself that you did so. Do the same for any piece of information that you look up. Shun random on-line resources, which are shortcuts in the moment that lead to long trudges in the future. Use every moment of confusion as an experience to learn from not merely a hurdle to be overcome. When you come to class you should either have (1) an understanding of the sentences or (2) questions about those sentences that you do not understand.

Lege: “Grammar: Third Declension” (GEC 39–40)

Spectā: hanc pelliculam dē verbīs tertiae dēclinātiōnis.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 4.8.3-4; 5.1, 5.2 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Diēs Martis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories, as you move them towards level 2.0 (and beyond) and your Verba Ipsa activity.

Spectā: hanc pelliculam dē adiectīvīs tertiae dēclinātiōnis.

 

Retractā: first declension, second declension, and third declension as well as the personal endings of verbs. By today you should be confident that you can identify the case and number of any known noun (of these declensions) and the person and number of any known verb.

I invite you to practice your identification of cases on the “Magistrula” website. The links below bring you to a page on which you can practice the entire declension; but you can tailor your exercises as you see fit (restrict by cases, genders, etc.); note that for now, we have not been formally introduced to the dative, so that is excluded from the exercises, as is vocative, except for the second declension (but you can add them!)

These exercises will use words that you don’t know BUT you will know their declensions (and can look up the meaning in the app)

First Declension

Second Declension

Third Declension

Third Declensions, including i-stems

Lege et Audī iterim: fabulam “Agamemnōn Graecōs in urbem Trōiam dūcit”

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 4.8.5–6, 5.3 (odds), 5.4 (odds)

Diēs Mercuriī

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories.

Spectā: hanc pelliculam dē verbīs tertiae dēclinātiōnis.

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Mors Hectoris”

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 5.3 (evens) – 5.4 (evens)

Diēs Iovis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories.

Lege et Audī: fabulam “Mors Hectoris”

Lege et Scrībe: Translate the fabula in “Comprehension Exercise” into English and then answer the questions in Latin (p. 23) 

Diēs Veneris

Probatio subibimus!

Estō parāta/us… (“Be ready to…”)

☛ explain any of the terms, concepts, and ideas from probatio prima.

☛ explain the purposes to which Latin cases can be put.

☛ explain the information contained in the dictionary entries / principal parts of nouns, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs.

☛ complete our model sentences using noun-adjective phrases that draw from different declensions (e.g. māter bonus or puella fortis)

☛ reverse 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declension forms.

☛ answer questions about the meaning and grammar of and/or translate seen passages (i.e. fābulae nostrae)

☛ answer questions and/or discuss the cultural material in our fabulae and the culture essays (e.g. Nundiane; Education).

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-V et begin learning your memories for Capitulum Sextum. Going forward, I’ll only mention this when we start a new chapter but you should continue to cultivate your memories as you move them towards level 2.0 (and beyond) and your Verba Ipsa activity.

Hebdomas Sexta: October 7 – October 11

Diēs Lunae

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-V et begin learning your memories for Capitulum Sextum. Going forward, I’ll only mention this when we start a new chapter but you should continue to cultivate your memories as you move them towards level 1.7 (and beyond)

Scrībe: word building (GEC, 44)

Spectā iterim: hanc pelliculam brevem dē “Latin Case System” (~IX minutae). You watched this first during hebdomas secunda. Now that you’ve officially encountered all the cases take this time to review and consolidate your understanding of the Latin case system — and identify areas about which you still have questions!

Lege: fābulam dē “Graecī Trōiam capiunt” (pp. 25–26, read at least the first two paragraphs)

Lege: “Grammar: The Dative Case” (GEC, 45–46)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 6.1 (all; first render in the # indicated (singular or plural) and then REVERSE) and 6.2.1–6 and 6.3.1–3 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Notā bene: be sure to write out the entire Latin phrase or sentence in the prompt and the answer; this is infinitely better for your acquisition of the language than just writing a word or phrase answer.

Diēs Martis

Be sure to bring a device (preferably one you can type on)

Lege: “Grammar: Review of Nouns and Adjectives” (GEC, 47).

Lege: “Grammar: Irregular Verbs: uolō and nōlō“

Spectā: hanc pelliculam brevem dē “verbīs nolo, volo, et malo (~VIII minutae)

Lege iterim et lege: fābulam dē “Graecī Trōiam capiunt” (pp. 25-26)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 6.2.7–10, 6.3.4–6 and 6.4.1–4 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Review Probatuncula: be ready to (1) add rēx, nāvis, and/or corpus to our model sentences; and (2) identify all possible forms of a word (e.g., rēgibus) and the form in a sentence (e.g., cum rēgibus ambulō).

 

Diēs Mercuriī

Lege: “Grammar: Personal Pronouns” (GEC, 48)

Spectā: hanc pelliculam dē nōminibus personālibus: (~V minutae)

Lege interim: fābulam dē “Graecī Trōiam capiunt” (pp. 25–26). Note all the personal pronouns you discover.

Scrībe: “Respondē Lātīnē” (p. 27) (be sure to write the Quaestiones too in you CP)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 6.4.5–8 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Scrībe in interrētiāle: Exercitātiōnem 6.5

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 6.6.1–2 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Probatuncula: uolō et nōlō

Diēs Iovis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories.

Lege: the fābulam dē “Aeneas Troianos supersites ad terras ignotas ducit”  in the  “Comprehension Exercise”  then answer the questions using complete sentences first in Latin and then English. I.e. you do not need to translate the reading but you should answer the question in Latin using phrases from the reading and then translate those answers. Nota bene: resist the urge to work from English into Latin, which will be harder (and less likely to be accurate).

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 6.6.3–4 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Probatuncula: personal pronouns

Hodiē: tuōs Commentāriōs Periodicōs tradēs (you will turn in your CP today). 

To prepare your CP, you should print out the CP Checklist; review the material. Check not only that you have completed all the materials but that they are entirely accurate by re-reading and reviewing the assignments. Since most will be correct, this won’t take long but be sure to correct any additional mistakes. If any assignments are out of order, please make a note for me about where I can find them in your CP. Tuck your CP Checklist at the first assignment for this Checkup.

Memento: I’ll also be checking in on your Cerego as part of this Checkup, so be sure to be caught up with your Cerego work!

Diēs Veneris

Diēs Liber! (start break early, wander around reciting Latin, hole up in the Library reading, or anything else: this day is yours).

Your CPs will be available outside my office; you’ll need them for the pensum for next dies Lunae.

Hebdomas Septima: October 21 – October 25

Diēs Lunae

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum per Sextum (I-VI); Begin learning your memories for Capitulum Septimum (VII).

Disce: the caption on RAV p. 29 (by dies Martis, have this memorized)

Cogitā (“think”): review the new vocabulary words; be sure you can quickly identify the conjugations of the verbs and the declensions of nouns and adjectives and the significance of their participation in these categories.

Lege: fābulam dē “Polyphēmus” (RAV, 30-31)

Mementō always use this process: Read the passage through out-loud (via voce). Then read the passage though via voce again. Maybe you have a sense who’s involved, what’s happening at greater or lesser levels of detail. You might note unfamiliar words and forms, marking these as areas you’ll want to revisit. Then read the Commentary on the passage in GEC (51-52). Now re-read the passage slowly attempting to understand fully what’s happening without writing out a translation or even, if you can, thinking in English (or another non-Latin language). You might need to re-read sentences more than once to understand. If you look up a word use your book and place a dot to remind yourself that you did so. Do the same for any piece of information that you look up. Continue to shun random on-line resources, which are shortcuts in the moment that lead to long trudges in the future. Use every moment of confusion as an experience to learn from not merely a hurdle to be overcome. When you come to class you should either have (1) an understanding of the sentences or (2) questions about those sentences that you do not understand. Be ready to share these in class. (you might even write out these questions in your CP).

Lege: “Grammar: Fourth and Fifth Declensions” (GEC, 52)

Spectā: hanc pelliculam dē adiectīvīs quartae dēclinātiōnis (IV minūtae) et hanc pelliculam dē adiectīvīs quintae dēclinātiōnis

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 7.1 (all)

Notā bene: be sure to write out the entire Latin phrase or sentence in the prompt and the answer; this is infinitely better for your acquisition of the language than just writing a word or phrase answer.

 

Diēs Martis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-VII. 

Lege iterim: fābulam dē “Polyphēmus” (RAV, 30-31); use “the process”. By the end of today, strive to identify passages that you confidently understand and those about which you still have any questions. Note these in your RAV.

Scrībe: all fourth and fifth declension nouns that you find in the fābula, as well as personal pronouns, in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs. Write both the inflected form and the nominative for each word; e.g. nāvēs < nāvis; urbe < urbs.

Lege: “Grammar: Pronouns Is and Ille” (GEC, 53)

Spectā: hanc pelliculam dē pronōminibus is, ea, id (VI minūtae). 

Spectā: hanc pelliculam dē pronōminibus ille, illa, illud (VI minūtae). Notā bene: the section on substantives around minute 4.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 7.2 (all) in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs and 7.4.1–2 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Memento, retractā sī vīs: first declension, second declension, and third declension as well as the personal endings of verbs. By this week you should be very confident that you can identify the case and number of any known noun (of these declensions) and the person and number of any known verb.

I again invite you to practice your identification of cases on the “Magistrula” website. The links below bring you to a page on which you can practice the entire declension; but you can tailor your exercises as you see fit (restrict by cases, genders, etc.); note that now, we have been formally introduced to the dative, so it is included in the exercises. I’ve still excluded the vocative, except for the second declension (but you can add it!)

These exercises will use words that you don’t know BUT you will know their declensions (and can look up the meaning in the app)

First Declension

Second Declension

Third Declension

Third Declensions, including i-stems

Hey, why not practice your new Fourth Declension and Fifth Declension forms as well!

Oh! And Personal Pronouns (you’ve learned a lot!)

Diēs Mercuriī

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-VII. 

Lege: “Grammar: Pronouns Hic and Ipse” (GEC, 54-55).

You might like to watch this pellicula brevis (V minūtae) on hic, haec, hoc.

Lege: fābulam dē “Polyphēmus” (RAV, 30-31); use “the process”

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 7.3 (odds) and 7.4.3–4 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Probatuncula: be familiar with and be ready to produce all the forms of is, ea, id. You will see the model sentences and add the appropriate form of is, ea, id (which means you’ll need to consider the gender of the word and so its proper form).

Diēs Iovis

Lege: “Homer & Vergil” (GEC, 56)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 7.3 (evens) and 7.4.5–6 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Memento, retractā sī vīs: I encourage you to use Magistrula — and any other effective means — to review and practice the noun and especially pronoun declensions.

Probatuncula: be familiar with and be ready to produce all the forms of hic et ille independently or modifying another substantive (e.g. hic vir or illa fēmina) 

Diēs Veneris

Probātiōnem subībimus! You will have the entire class for this probatio.

☛ review the previous lists for our probationes. You should be confident with all the concepts and manifestations of Latin contained therein.

☛ be familiar with all the new morphology in chs. 6 & 7.

☛ be confident that you fully understand all of the fabulae in chs. 6 & 7. Remember that you should be able to understand all of these stories and explain how that meaning is generated.

☛ be able to parse (identify the morphology and explain the usage) of our demonstrative pronouns.

☛ be able to reverse familiar sentences and noun-adjective phrases in our model sentences.

Hebdomas Octava: October 28 – Nov 1

Diēs Lunae

Res novae!

Diēs Martis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum per Septimum (I-VII); Begin learning your memories for Capitulum Octauum (VIII). Remember to start / continue to work on your verba ipsa quizzes as you attain the proper mastery of chapter vocabulary. 

Lege: “Grammar: Subordinate Clauses” (GEC, 59)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 8.1 #4–5 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Lege: “Grammar: Relative Clauses” (GEC, 60-61). Note esp. the morphological similarities between the relative pronoun and demonstrative pronouns (e.g. lle, Willa, illud)

Lege: pictam historiōlam dē “Aeneas in Africā” (RAV, 33). As you read each, think (1) what is the relative pronoun and (2) what is the relative pronoun’s antecedent?

Spectā: hanc pelliculam dē praenominibus relātīvīs (IX minūtae)

https://youtu.be/eNUiJ6-J9og

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 8.2 (#1-2) and 8.3 (#1-4)  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Lege: the first paragraph (… quiescunt) fābulae dē “Aenēās ad Libyam aduenit” (RAV, 35–36); memento: use “the process”

Diēs Mercuriī

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-VIII. 

Lege: p. 35 of the fābulam dē “Aenēās ad Libyam aduenit” (RAV, 35–36); memento: use “the process”

Scrībe: the first page of the fabula includes two relative pronouns. For each, write the sentence, double underline the relative pronoun, underline its clause, circle it’s antecedent, and parse its forms (case, #, gender + syntax).

Scrībe:Exercitātiōnem 8.1.5–8, 8.3.4–6 and 8.4.1–2 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicī 

Memento, retractā sī vīs: first declension, second declension, and third declension as well as the personal endings of verbs. By this week you should be very, very confident that you can identify the case and number of any known noun (of these declensions) and the person and number of any known verb.

I again invite you to practice your identification of cases on the “Magistrula” website. The links below bring you to a page on which you can practice the entire declension; but you can tailor your exercises as you see fit (restrict by cases, genders, etc.); note that now, we have been formally introduced to the dative, so it is included in the exercises. I’ve still excluded the vocative, except for the second declension (but you can add it!)

These exercises will use words that you don’t know BUT you will know their declensions (and can look up the meaning in the app)

First Declension

Second Declension

Third Declension

Third Declensions, including i-stems

Hey, why not practice your new Fourth Declension and Fifth Declension forms as well!

Oh! And Personal Pronouns (you’ve learned a lot!)

Diēs Iovis

Lege:  fābulam totam dē “Aenēās ad Libyam aduenit” (RAV, 35–36); memento: use “the process”

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 8.3.7–10 and 8.4.7–8 and “word building” (GEC, 59; make educated guesses based on the prefixes; do not just look up each word!)  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicī 

Lege:  “Reflexive Pronouns” (GEC, 63)

Spectā: hanc pelliculam dē praenominibus reflexīvīs (V minūtae)

 

Probatuncula: is, ea, id + ille, illa, illud

Diēs Veneris

Lege:  fābulam dē “Aenēās Trōiānōrum labōrēs Dīdōnī nārrat” (RAV, 37); memento: use “the process”

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 8.5, 8.6, and 8.7.1–4, and answer the questions in the “Comprehension Exercise” on p. 38

Probatuncula: relative pronouns

Hodiē: tuōs Commentāriōs Periodicōs tradēs (you will turn in your CP today). 

To prepare your CP, you should print out the CP Checklist; review the material. Check not only that you have completed all the materials but that they are entirely accurate by re-reading and reviewing the assignments. Since most will be correct, this won’t take long but be sure to correct any additional mistakes. If any assignments are out of order, please make a note for me about where I can find them in your CP. Tuck your CP Checklist at the first assignment for this Checkup.

Memento: I’ll also be checking in on your Cerego as part of this Checkup, so be sure to be caught up with your Cerego work.

Hebdomas Nona: Nov 4 – Nov 8

Diēs Lunae

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-VIII. Begin to build your memories for Capitulum IX. 

Lege iterim: fābulam dē “Aenēās Trōiānōrum labōrēs Dīdōnī nārrat” (RAV, 37); use “the process”, including the commentary in GEC 66-67

Lege: fābulam dē “Īnfēlīx Dīdō”, lines 1-20 (RAV, 40-41); use “the process”, including the commentary in GEC 66-67.

Probatuncula: Relative Pronouns, be able to decline the relative and use it to join together simple sentences.

Memento, retractā sī vīs: first declension, second declension, and third declension as well as the personal endings of verbs. By now  you should be very, very confident that you can identify the case and number of any known noun (of these declensions) and the person and number of any known verb.

I again invite you to practice your identification of cases on the “Magistrula” website. The links below bring you to a page on which you can practice the entire declension; but you can tailor your exercises as you see fit (restrict by cases, genders, etc.); note that now, we have been formally introduced to the dative, so it is included in the exercises. I’ve still excluded the vocative, except for the second declension (but you can add it!)

These exercises will use words that you don’t know BUT you will know their declensions (and can look up the meaning in the app)

First Declension

Second Declension

Third Declension

Third Declensions, including i-stems

Hey, why not practice your new Fourth Declension and Fifth Declension forms as well!

Oh! And Personal Pronouns (you’ve learned a lot!)

Diēs Martis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum per Nonam (I-IX)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 8.7.5–8 and 8.8 (all).

Lege: “Word-building” (GEC, 67) 

Lege: fābulam dē “Īnfēlīx Dīdō” (all); use “the process”, including the commentary in GEC 66-67.

Scrībe: Comprehension Exercise (GEC, 67-68).

Diēs Mercuriī

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum per Nonam (I-IX)

Lege iterim: fābulam dē “Īnfēlīx Dīdō”, all (RAV, 40-41); use “the process”, including the commentary in GEC 66-67.

Lege: fābulam dē “Fābella: Aenēās Dīdōnem dēserit”, all (RAV, 42-43).

Probatuncula: 1st/2nd declension adjectives

Diēs Iovis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum per Nonam (I-IX)

Lege iterim: fābulam dē “Fābella: Aenēās Dīdōnem dēserit”, all (RAV, 42-43).

Lege: “Grammar: Tenses” (GEC, 72-74). 

Deinde spectā hanc pelliculam brevem: Imperfect Tense (~ V minutārum)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 10.3 (“a” only, i.e. render in imperfect only) in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Probatuncula: 3rd declension adjectives

Diēs Veneris

Probationem subībimus.

Hebdomas Decima: Nov 11 – Nov 15

Diēs Lunae

Lege: pictam historiōlam in paginā (RAV, 44).

There’s a very brief commentary on the historiōla in GEC, 69. Id lege.

Lege: “Word-building” (GEC, 72). If you remember the essential meaning of the prepositions (ad, ā/b, cum, dē, ē/x, per, and prō) and the familiar prefix “re-” you will be able to easily learn these verb (and make educated guesses about many, many, other verbs). 

Lege interim: fābulam dē “Comitium” (RAV, 46-47)

Mementō follow this process: Read the passage through out-loud (via voce). Then read the passage though via voce again. Read the Commentary on the passage in GEC (17). Then re-read the passage attempting to understand fully what’s happening without writing out a translation or even, if you can, thinking in English (or another non-Latin language). If you look up a word use your book and place a dot to reminder yourself that you did so. Do the same for any piece of information that you look up. Shun random on-line resources, which are shortcuts in the moment that lead to long trudges in the future. Use every moment of confusion as an experience to learn from not merely a hurdle to be overcome. When you come to class you should either have (1) an understanding of the sentences or (2) questions about those sentences that you do not understand.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 10.1 (all)

Invenī et scrībe: write down every instance of an imperfect that you discover in fābulam dē “Comitium” in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs. You should discover 24 instances (including repeats).

Diēs Martis

Nota bene: diē Veneris proximō probatiōnem dē tempore imperfectō et perfectō et the principal parts of the verbs in Ch. I-X. 

You can find a list of all the words we’ve learned in OLC here (and you can use The Bridge app to show you other conjugations and more).

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-X. 

Lege interim: fābulam dē “Comitium” (RAV); use “the process”. Don’t forget to use the Commentary in GEC (69-70) to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Lege: “Grammar: Tenses” (GEC, 74-76). 

Deinde spectā hanc pelliculam brevem: Perfect Tense (~ IV minutārum)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 10.2 (all) and translate each verb in both tenses in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs. Mementō: to form the perfect, you build from the third principal part.

Diēs Mercuriī

Cerego: continue to build your memories for Capitulum X. 

Lege: fābulam dē “Flāuius arithmēticam docet” (RAV, XXX); use “the process”. Don’t forget to use the Commentary in GEC (71) to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Lege: “Grammar” (GEC, 76-78) 

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 10.3 (odds; “a” and “b”) and 10.4 (all) and 10.7 #1-2  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Probatuncula: perfect personal endings (GEC, 75)

In keeping with our new practice, this quiz will be available at 9:20 am. Class will start promptly at 9:40 (with the quiz completed)

Diēs Iovis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum per Decimum (I-X)

Lege: fābulam dē “Flaccus cōnstituit Quīntum Rōmam dūcere”, use “the process”, including the commentary in GEC, 71-72.

Scrībe in interētiāle: Exercitātiōnem 10.5

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 10.6 (all) and 10.7 #3-4  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Lege: “Elections” (GEC, 76-78) 

Scrībe: briefly (in a few sentences) compare the conduct of Roman and modern elections. What sounds similar? What different?

Diēs Veneris

Lege iterim: fābulās trēs in this chapter; use “the process”, refer to the commentaries, as you need. DO THIS! Remember that reading and re-reading and re-reading again IS HOW YOU ACQUIRE COMPREHENSION. Everything else (vocabulary, paradigms, translating, etc.) are tools and exercises to develop your ability to comprehend Latin.

Scrībe: complete the worksheet that was distributed in class and check you answers, here.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 10.7 #5-7  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Lege: “Pluperfect Tense” (GEC, 85)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 11.1  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

 

POSTPONED TO NEXT WEEK:

Hodiē: tuōs Commentāriōs Periodicōs tradēs (you will turn in your CP today). 

To prepare your CP, you should print out the CP Checklist; review the material. Check not only that you have completed all the materials but that they are entirely accurate by re-reading and reviewing the assignments. Since most will be correct, this won’t take long but be sure to correct any additional mistakes. If any assignments are out of order, please make a note for me about where I can find them in your CP. Tuck your CP Checklist at the first assignment for this Checkup.

Memento: I’ll also be checking in on your Cerego as part of this Checkup, so be sure to be caught up with your Cerego work.

Hebdomas Undecima: Nov 18 – Nov 22

Diēs Lunae

Cerego: begin to cultivate your memories for Capitulum XI. Continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum per Decimum (I-X)

Lege: pattern sentences (RAV, 50). Always check to see if there is commentary in GEC (there is! Id lege.)

Lege: “Word-building” (GEC, 84).

If you remember the essential meaning of the prepositions (ad, ā/b, cum, dē, ē/x, per, and prō) and the familiar prefix “re-” you will be able to easily learn these verbs (and make educated guesses about many, many, other verbs). 

Lege: fābulam dē “Quīntus Rōmam aduēnit” (RAV, 51-53)

Mementō follow this process: Read the passage through out-loud (via voce). Then read the passage though via voce again. Read the Commentary on the passage in GEC (17). Then re-read the passage attempting to understand fully what’s happening without writing out a translation or even, if you can, thinking in English (or another non-Latin language). If you look up a word use your book and place a dot to reminder yourself that you did so. Do the same for any piece of information that you look up. Shun random on-line resources, which are shortcuts in the moment that lead to long trudges in the future. Use every moment of confusion as an experience to learn from not merely a hurdle to be overcome. When you come to class you should either have (1) an understanding of the sentences or (2) questions about those sentences that you do not understand.

Lege iterim: “Grammar: Pluperfect” (GEC, 84). 

Deinde spectā hanc pelliculam brevem: Pluperfect Tense (~ III minutārum). You will get another sneak peak of the other tenses.

Scrībe in interētiāle: Exercitātiōnem 11.2

Lege: “Grammar: Numerals” (GEC, 87-88). Be able to count to 10 using cardinals and recognize the ordinals to 10.

Lege: “Grammar: Expressions of Time” (GEC, 87-88).

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 11.4 and 11.5  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Diēs Martis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-XI. 

Lege iterim: fābulam dē “Quīntus Rōmam aduēnit” (RAV, 51-53); use “the process”. Remember to use the Commentary in GEC to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Lege: “Grammar: Meaning of the Perfect” (GEC). Note that what GEC calls the “true perfect” I introduced last week as the “Perfect Definite” (either is acceptable but be sure that you can distinguish between the two senses of the perfect tense).

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 11.6 in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Scrībe in interētiāle: Exercitātiōnem 11.7

Lege: “Grammar: Expressions of Place” (GEC, 90-91) and Locative (GEC, 90)

Deinde spectā hanc pelliculam brevem: Locative Case (~ VI minutārum). 

Probatuncula: be ready to provide a conjugation of the pluperfect active for a given verb.

This quiz will be available at 8:55 am. Class will start promptly at 9:10.

Diēs Mercuriī

Cerego: continue to build your memories for Capitulum XI. 

Lege iterim: fābulam dē “Quīntus Rōmam aduēnit” (RAV, 51-53); use “the process”. Remember to use the Commentary in GEC to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Scrībe: “Respondē Lātīnē” (RAV, 53)  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnem 11.8 (all), 11.9 (all), 11.10.1-4  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Lege: “Rome” 

Scrībe: Three interesting facts about Rome that you learned in the “Rome” passage.

Diēs Iovis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum per Duodecim (I-XII)

Lege iterim: fābulam dē “Quīntus Rōmam aduēnit” (RAV, 51-53); use “the process”. Remember to use the Commentary in GEC to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Lege iterim: fabulam “Lūdus Orbilī” lines 1-19 (RAV, 55).

Mementō follow this process: Read the passage through out-loud (via voce). Then read the passage though via voce again. Read the Commentary on the passage in GEC. Then re-read the passage attempting to understand fully what’s happening without writing out a translation or even, if you can, thinking in English (or another non-Latin language). If you look up a word use your book and place a dot to reminder yourself that you did so. Do the same for any piece of information that you look up. Shun random on-line resources, which are shortcuts in the moment that lead to long trudges in the future. Use every moment of confusion as an experience to learn from not merely a hurdle to be overcome. When you come to class you should either have (1) an understanding of the sentences or (2) questions about those sentences that you do not understand.

Lege: “Grammar: Uses of the Ablative” (GEC, 100). Nota bene: this chart synthesizes information about the ablative that you’ve already encountered.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 12.1 (all)  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Diēs Veneris

Probationem subībimus.

Probātiō on our recent work (readings, grammar, etc.) and especially the perfect system and the perfect and pluperfect tenses, including the four principal parts of all third conjugation verbs that you have learned, as well as sum, possum, and regular first and second and fourth conjugation verbs. Know also how to form the perfect and the pluperfect, how to situate them on a timeline, how to translate them.

The format for this section of the probatio will be as follows: I will give you one or more principal parts of a verb. You may have to provide the missing forms as well as the general translation of the verb and/or you may have to select the correct set of principal parts (either multiple choice or matching). I may also give you forms of the perfect and pluperfect and you must parse them as in our practice exercises or ask you to identify verbs in a related manner. Finally you may be asked to conjugate a verb in the perfect or pluperfect. 

Remember that you can use The Bridge to create vocabulary lists for a chapter or a range of chapters and you can refine those lists to focus on one or more parts of speech or morphological category. 

To get you started, here are PDFs the list of all verbs in chapters 1-11 that I distributed in class (you can print or download as you wish) and the list of the the 55 Third conjugation verbs on which our Probātiō will focus.

In keeping with our new practice, this probatio will be available at 9:00am. You will have the entire class to complete the probatio.

Hebdomas Duodecima: Nov 25 – Nov 27

Diēs Lūnae

Cerego: begin to cultivate your memories for Capitulum XII. Continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum Primum per Undecim (I-XI)

Lege: fabulam “Lūdus Orbilī” 1–30 (RAV, 55). Mementō: be sure to check the Commentary in GEC (always)

Mementō follow this process: Read the passage through out-loud (via voce). Then read the passage though via voce again. Read the Commentary on the passage in GEC. Then re-read the passage attempting to understand fully what’s happening without writing out a translation or even, if you can, thinking in English (or another non-Latin language). If you look up a word use your book and place a dot to reminder yourself that you did so. Do the same for any piece of information that you look up. Shun random on-line resources, which are shortcuts in the moment that lead to long trudges in the future. Use every moment of confusion as an experience to learn from not merely a hurdle to be overcome. When you come to class you should either have (1) an understanding of the sentences or (2) questions about those sentences that you do not understand.

Lege: “Word-building: Compounds of Dō” (GEC, 96).

For some of these compounds, the root uses an old, old sense of do dare, “to put, place” that only remains in these compounds. Most of these compounds use familiar prefixes (ad, con = cum, de, per, pro, re(d), and tra(ns)); the prefix for crē-dō actually refers to the Greek word for “money”, so “to trust” has its origins in “to loan money”!

Lege: “Grammar: More Perfect Stems” (GEC, 97). You’ve already learned most of these, but pay special attention to new verbs, the irregular 1st conjugations, and 4th conjugations.

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 12.2 (1-10) and 12.4 (1-2), 12.5 (1-2)  in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Diēs Martis

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-XII. 

Lege: “Word-building: compounds of Ferō” (GEC, 99).

Lege: fabulam “Lūdus Orbilī” lines 31-55 (RAV, 55-57); use “the process”. Don’t forget to use the Commentary in GEC to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Scrībe: Respondē Latīnē (RAV, 57) in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 12.2 (11-20), 12.3 (all), 12.4 (3-5), 12.5 (#3) in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Probatuncula: be ready to provide a conjugation of the ferō, as well as its principal parts, imperatives, and infinitive.

This quiz will be available at 8:50 am. Class will start promptly at 9:10.

Diēs Mercuriī

No class today but complete and submit this pensum…

Lege iterim: fabulam “Lūdus Orbilī” (RAV, 55-57); use “the process”. Don’t forget to use the Commentary in GEC to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Lege: “Greece and Rome” (GEC, 101-103).

Scrībe: Respondē Anglīcē: (1) in a few sentences describe what the Romans admired about the Greeks; and (2) explain why their attitude towards the Greeks was mixed in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs.

Explorā: use ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World to calculate how long it should have taken Horatius and Quintus to travel from their home in Venusia to Orbilius’ school in Roma. Try two kinds of trips: (1) walking like Horatius and Quintus and (2) the fastest possible method of (ancient) conveyance. Then (3) Compare this to modern travel options using Google Maps. (4) Finally, use ORBIS to plan your dream Roman vacation from Rome to a far-flung city in the Roman Empire. Send me screenshots of your three trips.

I’ll give a tabella to the student(s) who find(s) the absolute fastest (ancient) time to travel from Venusia to Rome.

Hebdomas Tertia Decima: Dec 2 – Dec 6

Diēs Iovis

Cerego: begin to cultivate your memories for Capitulum XIV. Continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-XIII.

Lege: fabulam “Caesaris triumphī” lines 1-21 (RAV, 63-64). Mementō: be sure to check the Commentary in GEC (always).

Mementō follow this process: Read the passage through out-loud (via voce). Then read the passage though via voce again. Read the Commentary on the passage in GEC. Then re-read the passage attempting to understand fully what’s happening without writing out a translation or even, if you can, thinking in English (or another non-Latin language). If you look up a word use your book and place a dot to reminder yourself that you did so. Do the same for any piece of information that you look up. Shun random on-line resources, which are shortcuts in the moment that lead to long trudges in the future. Use every moment of confusion as an experience to learn from not merely a hurdle to be overcome. When you come to class you should either have (1) an understanding of the sentences or (2) questions about those sentences that you do not understand.

Scrībe: “Word-building: The Negative or Opposite Prefixes ‘In-‘ and ‘Dis-‘” (GEC, 118)

Lege iterim: “Grammar: The Present Participle” (GEC, 118)

Deinde spectā iterim hanc pelliculam brevem: Present Participle (~ VI minutārum). 

 Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 14.1 (5-10) and 14.2 (all; note the different instructions), 14.3 (1-5)

Probatuncula: be ready to provide a declension of the present active participle docēns (fully declined in the video, as you just saw (again). Be able to answer questions about participles based on the summary of participles from class, from GEC, or from the video.

This quiz will be available at 8:50 am. Class will start promptly at 9:10.

Diēs Veneris

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-XIV. 

Lege: “Grammar: 4 Further Uses of the Ablative Case” (GEC, 120-121). You’ve encountered all of these before and even put names to most of them but now you see them laid out. Review the other uses described in the last chapter. Hmm… can you think of a Mnemonic for the uses of the Ablative that we have encountered? SepPlaceTimeCompMeanManQualAdj

Treasure Hunt! Lege iterim: fabulam “Caesaris triumphī” (RAV, 63-64). Find the IX instances of the present active participle in the story; write each in your CP and provide its case and the word it agrees with in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Notā bene: the reading includes several examples of other flavors of participles.

imposita (18): a perfect passive participle (nom. sing. fem.) agreeing with mulier (“a woman having been placed…”

gravātī (29): a perfect passive participle (nom. pl. masc.) agreeing with captīvī (“captives having been weighed down…”

obitūrus (32): a future active participle (nom. s. masc.) agreeing with the implicit subject of gerēbat (= Vergingetorix) (“being about to meet...”)

vectus (34): a perfect passive participle (nom. sing. masc.) agreeing with the implicit subject of tollēbat (“[Caesar] having been carried by…”)

Scrībe: Exercitātiōnēs 14.3 (5-10), 14.4 (all), 14.5 (all), 14.6 (#1-2) in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Hebdomas Quarta Decima: Dec 9 – Dec 13

Diēs Lunae 

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-XIV.

Lege: fabulam “Quīntus fortūnam suam cognōscit”  (all, RAV, 65). Mementō: be sure to check the Commentary in GEC (always).

Mementō follow this process: Read the passage through out-loud (via voce). Then read the passage though via voce again. Read the Commentary on the passage in GEC. Then re-read the passage attempting to understand fully what’s happening without writing out a translation or even, if you can, thinking in English (or another non-Latin language). If you look up a word use your book and place a dot to reminder yourself that you did so. Do the same for any piece of information that you look up. Shun random on-line resources, which are shortcuts in the moment that lead to long trudges in the future. Use every moment of confusion as an experience to learn from not merely a hurdle to be overcome. When you come to class you should either have (1) an understanding of the sentences or (2) questions about those sentences that you do not understand.

Scrībe modō interētiālī: Quaestiōnēs dē fābulā

Scrībe: Respondē Latīnē (RAV, 66)

Scrībe modō interētiālī: Exercitātiōnem 14.7

Sī vīs, legere plus dē balneīs potes: http://www.vroma.org/%7Ebmcmanus/baths.html

Diēs Martis

Cerego: begin to cultivate your memories for Capitulum XV. Continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitulum I-XIV

Lege: “Pattern Sentences” (RAV 67)

Lege: “Word-building: compounds with con- and per-” (GEC, 128)

Lege: fabulam “Quīntus rhētoricae studet” lines 1-20 (RAV, 68); use “the process”. Don’t forget to use the Commentary in GEC to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Lege: “Grammar: The Future Tense”

Deinde spectā hanc pelliculam brevem: Future Tense (~ VI minutārum). 

Scrībe: Exercitātiō 15.1 (all) in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Scrībe modō interētiālī: Exercitātiōnem 15.2

Scrībe: Exercitātiō 15.3 (all) in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Probatuncula: be ready to conjugate any of the verbs in the box on GEC 129-130.

This quiz will be available at 8:50 am. Class will start promptly at 9:10.

Diēs Mercuriī 

Cerego: continue to build and maintain your memories for Capitula I-XV.

Lege iterim: fabulam “Quīntus rhētoricae studet” lines 1-20 (RAV, 68); use “the process”. Don’t forget to use the Commentary in GEC to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Lege: “Grammar: The Future Perfect Tense”

Deinde spectā hanc pelliculam brevem: Future Perfect Tense (~ IV minutārum). 

Lege: fabulam “Quīntus rhētoricae studet” lines 21-43 (RAV, 68-69); use “the process”. Don’t forget to use the Commentary in GEC to aid your comprehension and appreciation of the reading. 

Scrībe modō interētiālī: Quaestiōnēs dē fābulā

Scrībe: Exercitātiō 15.4 (all) in tuīs Commentāriīs Periodicīs

Scrībe modō interētiālī: Exercitātiōnem 15.5

Probatuncula: be ready to provide a declension of any of the 39 second declension nouns that you know (you can see them by using the filters on The Bridge) and conjugate a verb in the future perfect tense.

This quiz will be available at 9:20 am. Class will start promptly at 9:40.