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