We had a full class this week! Firstly, the students took a quiz on vocabulary from the first 6 chapters of our book. It was a good learning opportunity. They realized that it's easier to go from Latin to English than to go from English to Latin. I'll correct the quizzes this week, and we'll know how well they've learned their vocabulary. Having the vocabulary at their fingertips will help speed up translating. Also, since we'll be starting to work on charts for the endings of nouns and verbs, it will be REALLY HELPFUL if they've already committed the vocabulary to memory.
In the papers that I've recently corrected, I've discovered some common gaps in their understanding of what we've learned so far. So, instead of going forward with Chapter 7's story, "Bad News," we took some time to review what we've learned so far. We covered the aspects of nouns, verbs, adjectives, endings, etc. that have been introduced in these chapters.
We're going to try to stay on schedule with the syllabus; the class will translate the story on their own as homework. I will send out the translation for them to check their own work sometime early next week.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Translate Chapter 7, "Bad News"
-- Read page 42, "Recognizing Clues"
-- Read p. 45 - 47, "The Villa"
-- LAB Chapter 7 exercises
-- Extra Credit -- find Derivatives and Latin roots for the vocabulary for this chapter.
This week's blog
Class Notes
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Prichard
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