Latin I Class Notes -- Week 8 (March 6)

Salve!

Hesterna bona schola erat!  (Follow this link to translate.)

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.

Next week's quiz:  3rd conjugation verbs and 1st declension nouns and some translating.

We read through the next story, Chapter 17:  "Do We Stay at an Inn?" rather quickly, and I'm not confident that all of the grammar associated with that story sunk in.  For that reason, I would like the students to go over that story again.  The answer key that I mailed out last week also has the translations for each story.  Here's what I'd like them to do:

1.  Set the book and the translation of the story side by side.

2.  Read one sentence from the story, and see if you can translate it without looking at the answer key or looking up the vocabulary.

3.  Check the answer key to see how close your translation was.

4.  Do the rest of the story in the same manner, going sentence by sentence.

5.  Repeat Steps 1 - 4 until you feel confident with your ability to translate the story. 

6.  If you are diligent with this exercise, you will have no need to say, "O me miseram!"

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Go over the story from this week following the steps above.

-- Exercise 17c (numbers 1 - 12)

-- Exercise 17d (numbers 1 - 5)

This week's links:

Class Notes

Latin Dictionary and Grammar Resources

The Declension Songs

The Prince of Egypt "When You Believe" in Latin

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Prichard