I'm reposting the links from Week 9 since we are still working adjectives and endings:
About.com's page that explains nouns and adjectives
LatinTests -- Interactive Noun Endings quiz
Noun-Adjective Agreement Exercise #1
Noun-Adjective Agreement Exercise #2
KET Distance Learning site's Latin grammar -- Adjective endings
Chapter 18 Vocabulary Practice
Spelling #1
Spelling #2
Matching #1
Matching #2
Building the Meaning activity
Chapter 18 Vocabulary
Forms for Chapter 18
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Latin I Class Notes -- Week 10 (March 27)
Salve!
It was good to be back to Latin following a week's break. Hopefully, a week away from the language had no negative effects.
We began the class with a quiz on endings for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declension adjectives. I also had students fill in charts for the verb "to be" in the present tense and the imperfect tense. As I have recently been reminding them, it's important to work on memorizing the endings so that translation will go more smoothly. Next week's quiz will cover the same sets of endings and the forms of the verbs "to be."
We have journeyed half way through Ecce Romani I, and are on Chapter 18. For those students using the paperback versions, this is the blue book labeled IB.
I must apologize. I am out of town and left my notes for the class at home, so I don't have the specifics regarding the assignments. Because we didn't finish the story, you are to write out the translation for this story (including the portion that we did finish.) Also, you are to read the page following the story that further explains using adjectives. The part where I'm fuzzy is whether or not you were to do Exercise 18b. Until someone comments otherwise, I will have you do this exercise.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read and write out the translation for the story for Chapter 18.
-- Read carefully the page following the story.
-- Exercise 18b
This week's blog
Class Notes
Links to online practices
Have a great weekend,
Mrs. Prichard
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Week 9 Links for Practice
We spent a lot of time this week on nouns and adjective endings. Below are some helpful links to some online sources. Some have more explanations and some are online activities for further practice.
Have fun!
About.com's page that explains nouns and adjectives
LatinTests -- Interactive Noun Endings quiz
Noun-Adjective Agreement Exercise #1
Noun-Adjective Agreement Exercise #2
KET Distance Learning site's Latin grammar -- Adjective endings
Have fun!
About.com's page that explains nouns and adjectives
LatinTests -- Interactive Noun Endings quiz
Noun-Adjective Agreement Exercise #1
Noun-Adjective Agreement Exercise #2
KET Distance Learning site's Latin grammar -- Adjective endings
Latin I Class Notes -- Week 9 (March 13)
Greetings!
I hope you're enjoying your "Spring Break." With a winter storm in the forecast, it doesn't seem very Spring-like. My apologies for the lateness of these Class Notes. An educational conference this weekend messed with my schedule, and I'm a bit behind on my "to do" list.
This past week in class we worked with nouns and adjectives because it seemed that last week we had some confusion about the various endings. We began by having half of the class compile a list of nouns from our chapters while the other half collected adjectives. We spent most of the class period putting nouns and adjectives together.
In English, putting an adjective in front of the noun you want it to modify isn't a big deal. In fact, with a handful of adjectives and some commas, you can write some pretty descriptive sentences. Latin, on the other hand, requires a lot more thought. Both nouns and adjectives are grouped in categories called "declensions" and have specific endings. If you have a 1st declension noun and and 1st declension adjective, the process is simple -- just match the endings. However, if you have a 1st declension noun and a 3rd declension adjective, it's not so easy. When pairing nouns and adjectives, we determine the endings by considering number (singular or plural), gender (masculine, feminine, or neuter) and case (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, or vocative)
Examples:
Omnes puellae ambulant. (All girls are walking.)
(3rd decl. adj. with 1st decl. noun)
Defessae puellae ambulant. (Tired girls are walking.)
(1st decl. adj. and noun)
Cornelius audit magnas voces. (Cornelius hears great voices.)
(1st decl. adj with 3rd decl. noun)
Cornelius audit omnes voces. (Cornelius hears all voices.)
(3rd decl. adj and noun)
Although we didn't have a quiz this week, students should anticipate weekly quizzes. Next week, we will have a quiz on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declension noun endings. This quiz will also have some translating and vocabulary from chapters 14, 15, and 16.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Review Vocabulary
-- Review endings for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Declension nouns
-- Review endings for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Conjugation verbs
This week's links:
Class Notes
Have a great break! See you on the 27th.
Mrs. Prichard
Friday, March 7, 2014
Latin I Class Notes -- Week 8 (March 6)
We
deviated a bit from our usual agenda and took the class to the coffee
shop area on the first floor of the church. Except for one person
reading, we were the only ones there and were able to accomplish quite a
bit. (Sometimes a little change can be refreshing.)
The class took a Short Quiz
on the verb endings for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th conjugation verbs
and completed a matching exercise with verbs from the first 4 chapters.
We corrected the quizzes in class so that they could see more clearly
what they knew and what they didn't know.Saturday, March 1, 2014
Latin I Class Notes -- Week 7 (February 27)
Greetings!
We had another good week in class. We began the class with a game of Bananagrams. Working in teams, they created Latin words from the letter tiles. Wonderfully, both teams had over a dozen words.
Following our short game, the students took a quiz on the 1st and 2nd conjugation verb endings and 1st and 2nd declension noun endings. We are now at a point where we need to be memorizing vocabulary and endings. For some, this will be harder. That's the way it is with languages. As I've watched my children learn Latin, I've seen that some catch on to a language intuitively, while others learn it in a more traditional manner.
We will continue to have weekly quizzes. Next week, the quiz will be on verbs: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th conjugation endings AND verbs from the first 4 chapters.
We learned from this week's story just why Sextus is a pest .. no mother and his father is away on business in Asia. That still does not make Cornelia happy, nor does it keep Sextus from being annoying.
By the way, I found a "Tribute to Ecce Romani" music video on youtube. It's amazing what two boys and a guitar can do! And of course, we have the video that we watched in class about Sextus.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Exercises 16c & 16d;
-- no Word Study Exercises
-- Review verbs from Chapters 1 - 4
This week's links and blogs:
Class Notes
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Prichard
Translation for Week 7
"Why is Sextus a Pest?"
"Do you want to play ball, Marcus?" he shouts. He immediately throws the ball to Marcus. Marcus catches it and throws it to Sextus. Repeatedly the boys were throwing the ball, the one to the other. Then Sextus, who always wants to annoy Cornelia, throws the ball as a prank and hits Cornelia.
Immediately angry, Cornelia turns herself to (her) mother and shouts, "Why does Sextus always annoy me, mother? Why does he throw the ball at me? What an annoying boy Sextus is!"
"Come to me, dearest," replies (her) mother and holds (her) daughter in an embrace. "Sextus was not intending to hit you. He is an energetic boy, he is a recklass boy, he is no, however, a wicked boy."
"But why is Sextus living with us?" asks Cornelia, who was still angry. "Why does Sextus' father send him to us?"
"The father of Sextus is traveling to Asia. Because )his" father is away, it was necessary to leave Sextus in Italy. Therefore, because the father of Sextus is related to your father by ties of hospitality, Sextus is staying with us.?
"But what about Sextus's mother?" asks the daughter. "Why does she not look after (her) son?"
:Alas!" replies Aurelia. "Sextus' mother, as you know, is now dead. Sextus does not have a mother." Cornelius was silent, no longer moved with anger.
At that very time, however, Sextus exclaimed, "Do you want to play with us, Cornelia? Although, you are a girl, perhaps you are able to throw the ball." While he was shouting, he was not laughing and running away. Cornelia, angry again, shouts, "Go away, annoying boy! I do not want to play ball."
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