Latin I Class Notes -- December 5 (Week 14)

Greetings!

We had a good class time this week.  We started with some vocabulary practice. I lined the students up in the hallway, and they could take a step forward whenever they got a word right.  We're at the point in our language study that memorizing the Latin words and English definitions will greatly benefit their translating.

Back in the classroom, we reviewed verb endings for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th conjugations. Following that, we reviewed the endings for nouns for the different declensions and cases.  Latin is full of patterns for the endings on nouns and verbs, and those also must be memorized.  So far in this class, the focus has not been on memorizing vocabulary.  Instead, we've focused on translating sentences and putting together meanings and grammar bit by bit as we go along with each story.  Next semester, we'll not only include various grammar points, but will work on committing to memory those aspects that will help translation go more smoothly.

In lieu of a test, the students are to do all of the exercises for the Review Section, starting on page 93.  They may use their books for these.  Next week we'll correct them, and celebrate the end of the semester.  I'll be bringing treats, and the students may bring some if they like.

Assignments for Next Week

-- Review for Chapters 8 - 12 (pg. 93 +)

This week's blog:  Class Notes

See you on Thursday!

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 12 (November 21)

Greetings!

Again, another productive class this week.  I began the class with a short quiz that included vocabulary words, verb endings, and noun endings.  I'll be doing the occasional pop quizzes to keep them on their collective toes. 

Following the quiz, we went straight into translating the Chapter 12 story.  By this time of day, eyes glaze over a bit as we look at long sentences.  Translating Latin requires a lot of hard thinking, and this group of students are doing a great job.

I don't know what I was thinking, but I didn't give any specific assignments for next week.  We won't have school next week because we'll be eating turkey, cranberries, fruit salad, rutabaga, and pies next Thursday.  

The last two weeks of classes for this term will be spent reviewing all that we have learned so far.  I will give them a take home test at the next class.

Assignment for Dec. 5

-- Review everything

This week's blog

Class Notes

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Blessings to you!

Mrs. Prichard  

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 11 (November 14)

Greetings!

Another good class!  As I set up the projector for class, the class worked in pairs to finish a crossword puzzle from Chapter 2 (Secundus).  I could project the form onto the white board so that we could fill it out as a class.

Because we were short on time last week, we didn't cover all of the grammar notes from last week.  We covered this before going on to the next chapter's story.  The next chapter introduced us to more noun endings.  The story progresses as the Cornelius family heads for Rome, leaving Davus, along with a big stick, in charge of the farm.

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Write out the translation for Chapter 11

-- Write out the vocabulary words for this chapter

-- Write out the answers to Exercise 11b, c, & d.

-- Read page 84.

This week's blog

 -- Class Notes

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Prichard   

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 11 (November 7)

Greetings!

We had a productive day in class today.  While I was setting up the projector, the students worked in 2's or 3's with Latin sentences that they had to do a "charade" of for the other students to guess.  This group is so creative and are such good sports. 
With only one girl in class today, the boys had to be "puellae;" they "ambulant" in the woods and garden beautifully. 

While the stories continue to be intuitive, and we can translate various portions with a minimal amount of noun and verb ending knowledge, it's time that we learn these and commit them to memory.  Likewise, the vocabulary is repeated multiple times so that over the course of a few stories the students can become fairly familiar with them.  However, it is also time to put more work into memorizing the words so that translating goes more quickly and effortlessly.

After our charades, we took a longer time to review the endings for present tense verbs ("Repeat after me:  o ... s.... t.... mus.... tis.... nt") and the endings for singular and plural nouns in the nominative and accusative cases in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declensions.  After discussing these, I gave a short quiz.

My original plan for the class was to progress at a rate of one chapter a week.  If that proves to be too fast now that the language is getting more complicated, we will slow down.  I've asked the students to be sure and let me know if anything is confusing.  I'd much rather stop and explain something than to try to go forward without everyone having a clear understanding.  Chances are, if one student is confused, others might be, too.

Our story for this week is about packing for the journey.  We were only able to get half-way through the translating the story, so finishing it is part of the assignment for this week.  I will post the translation a day or two before class so that they can check their work.

Assignments for this week:

-- Finish translating the Chapter 10 story

-- Write up vocabulary words

-- Read "Building the Meaning"

-- Exercise 10c.

-- Page 1 of the crossword puzzle handout

-- Read "Treatment of Slaves"

Blogs for this week:

Class Notes

Crossword Puzzle

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Prichard

Chapter 1 Crossword Puzzle -- for Week 11

CHAPTER UNUS ACROSS 5. Look! 7. happy (feminine) 10. where, where? 11. country, of the country 13. he/she is living 14. under, beneath [preposition + acc/abl]

ACROSS 16. also, even 17. girl 19. neighboring 20. What…? 21. Who…? 22. he/she is sitting 23. while

DOWN 1. who (feminine) 2. a second, another 3. countryhouse 4. he/she is reading 6. Why? 8. under a tree

DOWN 9. What is (he/she) doing? 12. now, already 14. he/she is writing 15. by name, called 16. and 18. in summer 21. because

Chapter 9 "Goodbye" Translation

Cornēlia, ubi surgit, ē vīllā suā fūrtim ambulat et per agrōs ad vīllam amīcae currit. Nōndum lūcet, sed nihil Cornēliam terret. Nēmō eam cōnspicit. Nūllī servī in agrīs labōrant. Etiam iānitor ad iānuam vīllae dormit. Cornēlia, quod tacitē intrat, iānitōrem nōn excitat.

 Cornelia, when she gets up, walks stealthily from her country house and runs through the fields to the country house of (her) friend.  It is not yet light, but nothing frightens Cornelia.  No one catches sight of her.  No slaves are working in the fields.  Even the doorkeeper sleeps at the door of the country house.  Cornelia, because she enters silently, does not wake up the doorkeeper.

Cornelia cubiculum Flāviae tacitē intrat et eam excitāre temptat. Adhūc dormit Flāvia. Iterum temptat Cornēlia. Flāvia sēmisomna, "Quis es? Cūr mē vexās?" 

Cornelia silently enters the bedroom of Flavia and tries to wake her up.  Flavia is still sleeping.  Again Cornelia tries (to wake her).  Flavia half-asleep (says), “Who are you?  Why do you annoy me?”

Cornēlia respondet,  "Sum Cornēlia!  Surge!"

Cornelia replies, “I am Cornelia!  Get up!”

Flāvia surgit. Laeta Cornēliam excipit et clāmat, "Quid tū hūc? "

Flavia gets up.  She welcomes Cornelia happily and shouts, “What (are) you (doing) here?”

           

Cornēlia, "Tacē, Flāvia! Nōlī servōs excitāre! Venī tacitē mēcum in agrōs. Ibi nēmō nōs audīre potest."

Cornelia (says), “Be quiet, Flavia!  Don’t wake up the slaves!  Come silently with me into the fields. There no one is able to hear us.”

Cornēlia Flāviam fūrtim ē vīlla in agrōs dūcit. Ubi puellae ad arborēs adveniunt, Cornēlia, "Misera sum," inquit, "quod ego et Marcus et Sextus et pater et māter Romām hodiē redīre parāmus. Princeps patrem meum cōnsulere vult. Nōbīs igitur necesse est statim discēdere."

Cornelia leads Flavia stealthily from the farmhouse into the fields.  When the girls arrive at the trees, Cornelia says, “I am miserable, because Marcus, Sextus, (my) father, (my) mother, and I are preparing to return to Rome today.  The emperor wants to consult (my) father.  Therefore it is necessary for us to go away immediately.”

Flāvia  clāmat,  "Cūr  statim,  Cornēlia?  Cūr nōn pater tuus discēdit sōlus? Cūr vōs omnēs simul discēditis?"

Flavia shouts, “Why immediately, Cornelia?  Why doesn’t your father go away alone?  Why do you all go away together?”

            

Respondet Cornēlia, "Nesciō, Flāvia. Sed nōbīs secundā hōrā discēdere necesse est." 

Cornelia replies, “I do not know, Flavia.  But it is necessary for us to go away at the second hour.”

        

Flāvia  lacrimat,  ”Ō mē miseram! Vōs  omnēs  Rōmam redītis. Mihi neeesse  est hīc manēre.  Valē, Cornēlia! Multās  epistulās ad mē mitte! Prōmittisne?"

Flavia weeps, “O miserable me!  You are all returning to Rome.  It is necessary for me to remain here.  Goodbye, Cornelia!  Send many letters to me!  Do you promise?!

Cornēlia,"Ego   prōmittō.  Et iam valē!"  Cornēia Flāviam complex tenet et lacrimāns abit.

Cornelia (says), “I promise.  And now goodbye!”  Cornelia holds Flavia in an embrace and goes away weeping.

Latin 1 Class Notes -- Week 10 (October 31)

Salve!

My apologies for the late e-mail with the Class Notes. Some times a busy family and a busy school life keep me from getting everything done when I would like to.

We had a good class this week.  We started the class by reviewing our vocabulary.  I've been encouraging them to work harder on committing the vocabulary since that will make translating easier.

We are on Chapter 9 and spent the greater part of the class translating the story that goes with that chapter.  Our grammar lesson dealt with two new cases for our nouns when using prepositional phrases:  accusative and ablative.  In the "Forms" section of our text, we looked at a chart that gives examples of words for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declensions.

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Read p. 64 - 65

-- Exercise 9b (Only read aloud)

-- Exercies 9c, 9d, & 9e.  Follow the directions carefully.

-- Write out the translation of Chapter 9. 

-- Read p.68 - 69, "Major Gods and Goddesses"

This week's blogs

Class Notes

Chapter 9 "Goodbye" Translation

Until Thursday,

Mrs. Prichard

Chapter 8 Story & Slides

Follow this link to the slide presentation for Chapter 8's story

Aeneas Leaves Troy

Exercise Id – Aeneas & Troy

Translation

            Aeneas is a Trojan man who defends the city Troy against the Greeks.  For ten years the Greeks besiege the city.  For ten years the Trojans drive off the Greeks.  Finally through a trick the Greeks enter the city at night.  They capture many Trojans, they kill many.  Aeneas is no longer able to defend the city.  It is therefore necessary to flee out of the city and to seek a new city.  Many friends also flee from the city Troy.  All prepare to sail to Italy.

            Aeneas, while he flees out of the city, carries an old man.  The old man is Anchises, the father of Aeneas.  It is necessary to carry Anchises because the  old man is not able to walk.  Aeneas carries Anchises; Anchises carries the Penates, the household gods.  The gods save Aeneas and Anchises and all their friends.

            Aeneas also leads a small boy.  The boy is Ascanius, the son of Aeneas.  While they walk out of the city, Ascanius looks at his father and holds his hand.  Ascanius is frightened because he hears loud shouts, great crashes.  He fears the Greeks very much.

            When Aeneas and Anchises and Ascanius flee out the the city, Ascanius suddenly shouts, “Where is mother?”  Many friends arrive, but Creusa, the mother of Ascanius, does not arrive.  Aeneas, worried, leaves his father and son and the Penates and returns into the city.  The Greeks are everywhere.  He seeks Creusa in vain.

            “Alas!” he says.  The Greeks have Troy.  Perhaps they have you, too, Creusa.  I love Creusa very much, very much (I love) Troy.  But I am able to save neither the city nor Creusa.  It is therefore necessary to return to my friends.

            The he returns to his friends.  Soon Aeneas and his friends prepare to sail to Italy.