Latin I Class Notes -- Week 14 (May 1)

Salvete!

A brief and belated set of Class Notes:

We are almost done with the year, and for me this is always a bittersweet time.  Most of us could use a break and some easing up of our schedules, but have enjoyed this group of students so much that I'm sad to see the end of the year.

Last week students handed in their Take Home Finals, and we went over some of the sections that they had questions about.  We had a brief review of vocabulary and watched a few videos that other classes have put together for their Latin classes.

This week, our final week, will be Presentations from the class members. The parameters of the presentations are pretty wide.  If they chose to write a paper, they can hand that it and do not have to give it as an oral presentation unless they would like to.  If they created something, they can take time to tell the class about it, or they can just bring it to show us.   The only firm guidelines about these presentations is that they have to be about Latin or Ancient Rome in some way AND they can't take more than 10 minutes.

This week's Class Notes

I'm looking forward to hearing from each of these remarkable students!

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 13 (April 24)

Greetings!

My apologies for the lateness of these class notes.  We attended our daughter's scholar's weekend at her college, and came home to water in our basement.  Needless to say, the last few days have been quite full.

Because I wanted to get all the way through our chapter story this week and discuss the perfect tense of the verb along with its stem and endings, I chose to skip the quiz and the fun activity that I usually do at the beginning of class. 

We are nearing the end of our school year, and the students have been assigned the review following our most recent chapter, Review IV:  Chapters 18 - 21.  They are to do this as a Take Home Final.  Exercises a, b, c, and e may be done "open book." In other words, they may use any part of their books to help them answer their questions.  Section d is to be done without the use of other portions of their books. 

Once they have finished their Review, they must also correct their own work (or have a family member help them to do it.)  I would like them to correct it with a different color writing utensil and make corrections.  This will tell me how much of the test they got right.  We will go over the test next week.

With only two weeks of class left, we will not be covering any more new material.  Next week will be primarily for reviewing and summing up our Latin knowledge.  The final week will be for presentations.  These presentations do not have to be long.  With 8 students, we'll have about 10 minutes per student.  If any of the students know that he/she has a longer presentation, we could do it next week.  Let me know.

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Review IV:  Chapters 18 - 21

     -- Exercises a, b, c, e -- "open book"

     -- Exercise d -- "closed book"

-- Review vocabulary and endings.

Links this week:

Class Notes

Project Ideas

Chart of Verbs (Four Principle Parts)

Helpful Links for Week 13

See you on Thursday!

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 12 (April 10)

Greetings!

Our Latin I Class went well this week, and I'm sure that most of the students are looking forward to having another break from CHAT classes for our Easter break.  We'll resume classes again the week following Easter/Resurrection Sunday.

Our vocabulary quiz this week was in the form of a crossword puzzle.  Following the quiz, we played a couple rounds of Pictionary using nouns, adjectives and verbs from our most recent chapters.

We read Chapter 20, "Chance Encounter," this week.  For  homework, students should read and translate the rest of the story that we didn't finish, read the section on Forms and Building the Meaning (p. 160 - 162), and complete the exercises 20d and 20e.

Assignments for the Next Class (April 24)

-- Read and translate the rest of the Ch. 20 story on p. 160.

-- Read the Forms section (p. 160 - `61)

-- Read the Building the Meaning section (p. 161 - 162)

-- Do Exercises 20d and 20e

-- Using the answer key, check the exercises and correct any incorrect answers

-- Review vocabulary, verb endings, noun endings, and adjective endings.

-- Work on your project!!

Next Class's Quiz:

-- 1st and 2nd declension endings for nouns

This week's links:

Class Notes

Have a great week and a very blessed Easter!

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 11 (April 3)

Salvete discipuli et discipulae!

We had an active class today.  We began class by working with some adjectives, nouns and verbs and using them for a short Charades and Pictionary game.  The students could try to get the other team to guess one or more words at a time.  I don't think I will soon forget the weak slaves nor the dueling Romans.  Great job students.  Magistra non misera est; discipuli scelesti  et discipulae scelestae non estis. Beati omnes nos.

The students took a Quiz today that was almost identical to the quiz from last week.  My aim is to reinforce the adjective endings for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declension adjectives.  We corrected our Quizzes in class so that they would know what they knew and what they didn't know.

Following the quiz, we discussed the Syllabus (fr. LL syllabus, "list:).  I've attached the original copy of this semester's plan.  We are a week behind the original plan, but will make up that lesson by the last week.  I have "Presentations" listed for the last two weeks.  I would like the students to think about some kind of Latin class project.  It can be vocabulary or grammar related.  Or, it can deal with culture, history, geography, etc. in regards to ancient Rome.  Some ideas that I tossed out were crossword puzzles, trivia questions, a 1 - 2 page paper, a PowerPoint presentation, a game.  If we divide up the class, each student will have 10 - 15 minutes.  IF a student thinks he/she needs more time and could be ready the week before, we could do some Presentations during Week 14.  (For inspiration, students could read some the extra unassigned history, etc. sections in Ecce Romani.)

We began translating the story for Chapter 19:  Settling In.  We got as far as line 14.  The students should finish the translation from line 15 onward.  The Forms section on the following 2 pages explains the perfect tense.  Read pages 150 - 151 (p. 16 - 17 in the blue paperback.)  

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Finish translating the story from Chapter 19 (lines 15 and onward)

-- Read p. 150 - 151 (p. 16 - 17 in the blue book)

-- Read and write out a translation for Exercise 19c.

-- Brainstorm your project idea.

This week's Links:

Youtube video:  1st and 2nd declension adjectives

Youtube video:  3rd declension adjectives

Youtube video:  Theory of Tenses

Youtube video:  Perfect Tense

Youtube video:  Chapter 19 -- Settling In

Class Blogs

     Class Notes

     Project Ideas

Valete,

Magistra Prichard

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

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

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

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

Quizlet -- Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Quizlet -- Chapter 2 Vocabulary

Quizlet -- Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Quizlet -- Chapter 4 Vocabulary

Review of Vocabulary Chapter 1 - 7

Verb Endings Chart

Chapter 16 Translation

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 6 (February 20)

Salve!

We had shortened classes at CHAT this week due to the impending blizzard.  Since I had to travel south into the "blizzard zone" after classes, I was glad to get an early start for my ride home.  Even with the shortened class, we were able to accomplish quite a a bit.  These are hard-working, conscientious students.

We began our class by playing Hang Man with Latin words and English derivatives.  Following that we took an in-class quiz.  (For those who were not in class, the quiz is attached to this e-mail.)

With only an hour, we just got started on Chapter 16, "Why is Sextus a Pest?"  We quickly read through the first few lines, but didn't have time to finish.  We will pick up with Chapter 16 next week.

Due to the weather and the time change were missing a couple of students.  With a class this small, I want us to stay together with the translation of the chapters, so I didn't assign any work from Chapter 16.  Instead, I would like students to spend their "Latin time" reviewing vocabulary words, noun endings, and verb endings.  I've given a long list of links to websites with games and reviews.

For the rest of the semester, we will have Short Weekly Quizzes.  Next week's quiz:  endings for 1st and 2nd declension nouns AND endings for 1st and 2nd conjugation verbs.  In class I handed out some copies of the charts for noun and verb endings that are in the back of the book.  I've attached those charts along with charts with specific columns circled -- these are the columns that you should study for the quiz.

Here's your Homework/Assignments for Next Week:

-- Catch up on making all of your vocabulary cards

-- Spend about 30 minutes doing practice exercises

-- Prepare for the weekly quiz

This week's blog

Class Notes

Links to the Links

Have a great weekend!  Stay safe and warm!

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 5 (February 13)

Greetings!

We had a good class this week.  We continue to make progress in our endeavors to learn this wonderful language.

We began the class using an online "quiz."  This was a matching game that we played with two players.  These types of games help us to especially review our vocabulary.

In Chapter 15, we continued to work with the imperfect tense of Latin verbs.  We translated a story that had multiple Roman vehicles.  I have on the syllabus that the assignment for next week is 15b, 15c, and 15d.  (I did not make a note about whether I had changed this.  If it is different from what I had said in class, let me know.)

I told the class that we would have a quiz next week on vocabulary.  This quiz will have on it words from Chapters 13, 14, and 15.

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Exercises from Chapter 15

-- Correct your exercises

-- Review vocabulary from Chapters 13, 14, & 15.  

This week's blog.

Class Notes

Homework, Quizzes & Latin

Have a great weekend!  Make the most of our winter wonderland!

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 4 (February 6)

Greetings!

We had a great class this week.  Every week I see that more of the vocabulary and grammar are sinking in.  As we translate the stories, they are putting the sentences together more and more quickly.

We began the class with a "game" in which teams were to work through sets of vocabulary cards that were derivatives of Latin words.  Then, after reviewing last week's exercises, we progressed to the next story from Chapter 14.  This took the bulk of our time, which usually happens. 

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Chapter 14 Exercises 14b, 14d, & 14e. 

-- Correct your exercises with the key.

This week's blog & links to online games

Class Notes

Adverb Speedword #1

Adverb Matching #1

Adverb Speedword #2

Adverb Matching #2

Chapter 14 Speedword #1

Chapter 14 Matching #1

Have a great week!

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 3 (January 30)

Greetings!

I had planned on reviewing again last week and starting into the stories in the chapters of our book, Ecce Romani.  Even though we missed class last week, I felt that we were ready to start again into our stories about Cornelia, Flavia, Marcus, Sextus, Cornelius, and Aurelia. 

We began class with some online exercises that I had posted last week.  Some students mentioned that these quick word games were a little addicting.  I know that I found myself doing them over and over again trying to beat a previous score.  (And who said Latin was dusty and boring?)

I handed out a fresh syllabus for the class. 

As a class, we worked through the story, Disaster, from Chapter 13.  We have now progressed to using the imperfect (past) tense of our verbs.  Though we are a bit rusty and had some new vocabulary, the class did a great job translating.

For our homework, I'm sending out copies of the answer key.  It seems to make sense for the students to correct their own assignments and then come back to class with any questions. 

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Vocabulary Cards for all of the new vocabulary in Chapter 13

-- Exercises 13b & 13c.

-- Read Word Study (p. 101 - 103)

-- Exercise 3

--  Chapter 13 Speed Word #1

-- Chapter 13 Matching #1

-- Chapter 13 Speed Word #2

-- Chapter 13 Matching #2

This week's blog:  Class Notes

Have a great weekend and stay warm!

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 1 (January 16)

Greetings!

Well, we're back at --- translating this ancient, dead language -- one noun and verb at a time.  We started the class with a "Scavenger Hunt," collecting nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositional phrases from one another.  Learning languages is a challenging and puzzling activity.  Sometimes it seems that you lose all that you learned, and at other times it all comes back with amazing clarity.

This week we focused primarily on review.  As with many academic pursuits, students sometimes don't know what they don't know until they make mistakes or realize that they are completely clueless.  With that in mind, we went back to the first chapter to review and recall everything we could remember about endings, cases, conjugations, gender, declensions, etc.  Next week, we will continue with the chapters and stories about the family of Cornelius.

We discussed a few helpful ideas for going forward with Latin.  A few ideas that seemed to be good were to 1) give students the answer keys for the Ecce Romani book exercises and 2) have some online opportunities to practice with vocabulary, etc.  and 3) continue the beginning of class fun activities because they help some of the Latin to "sink in."  One problem that we had, since we only meet once a week, is that the turnaround for correcting assignments made it difficult to know when certain areas were causing problems.  With the answer key, students can correct their weekly work before bringing it to class and be ready to ask question for work they didn't understand.

I will have a syllabus for next week.  I was waiting for some input from the students before putting it together.  I now have a better idea about what will work.

Assignment for Next Week:

-- 25 flash cards (begin with chapter 12 and work forward to chapter 1)

This week's blogs

Class Notes

Week 1 Vocab Review

I'm glad to be back with this great group of students!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs. Prichard

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

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

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 9 (October 24)

Greetings!

We had an "active" class time today.  For this week's homework, the class was to translate on their own a story titled "Aeneas Leaves Troy."  As part of our beginning of class activity, I gave them that story in Latin along with the translation. They then formed themselves into a little theater troupe and performed the story as narrators gave both the Latin and English versions.  We had acts of brave warfare and incredible sound effects.  Great job, class!

We are now on Chapter 8 of our text book.  As we continue to work through these translations, some of the basics of Latin Grammar is reinforced through continual use.  This week we encountered more verb endings, so that we've had all of the present tense endings for 1st, 2nd, 3rd person (singular and plural) verbs.  For next week, they need to have this chart memorized:

	Singular	Plural
1st person	-o	-mus
2nd person	-s	-tis
3rd person	-t	-nt

Assignments for Next Week:

r  Vocabulary Words -- Write out on cards or as a list

r  Exercise 8c (p. 56)

r  Word Study II (p. 57 – 58)

      r  Exercise 2

      r  Exercise 3

r  Read “Patria Potestas” (p. 59 – 61)

r  LAB Worksheet for Chapter 8

This Week's Blogs

-- Class Notes

-- Translation of Chapter 8's story

Have a great weekend,

Mrs. Prichard

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 8 (October 17)

Greetings!

As always, we covered a lot of material in class this week.  The chapters aren't very long, and they teach Latin in comfortable increments.  However, that means we have to move pretty quickly through each chapter.  That is why we took last week to go over some of the grammar from each chapter.

I handed back the Vocabulary Quizzes.  As is common, it is easier to go from Latin to English than it is to go from English to Latin.  

For our beginning of class activity, I divided the class in half and had each half come up with a vocabulary list to challenge each other.  Learning the Latin words is important but quite challenging.

The students were to translate the story, "Bad News" from Chapter 7 on their own as part of last week's homework.  We worked our way through the story, especially noticing new grammar.  We discussed nominative and accusative cases for both singular and plural words.

The homework for next week is a Review section that covers the material found in Chapters 1 - 7.  They are to complete the short exercises and translate the short story.

Assignments for next week:

No Take Home Test -- Complete the Review Exercises below.

REVIEW I:  CHAPTERS 1 – 7 Exercise Ia:  Elements of Sentences Exercise Ib:  Nominative and Accusative Exercise Ic:  Agreement of Adjectives/Nouns Exercise Id:  Aeneas Leaves Troy

This week's blog

Class Notes

Chapter 7 PowerPoint

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Prichard