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

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Latin I Class Notes -- Week 1 (August 29)

Greetings!

Welcome to Latin I.  We had a great first day in class.  I'm glad to be back in class at CHAT and working with some hard-working homeschool students.  Though the set-up at Grace is different, it seems to me that students are doing well with the change.  I anticipate a great year.  

I started out the class by handing out the syllabus and talking about organizing their notebooks.  An important part of this class will be staying organized.  Learning a new language includes learning vocabulary, keeping points of grammar straight, doing homework assignments, and writing out translations.  Keeping track of the papers will be an asset to them.

After going over the syllabus, we started into our book, Ecce Romani.  I like this book because by engaging some deductive reasoning and working together, the students can start translating right at the start.  We started with Chapter 1 -- Two Roman Girls.  Sentence by sentence we translated the Latin into English.  I'm really proud of how hard they worked during this first week of class.  The plan is to do a chapter a week, with Review weeks inserted after chapters 7 and 12.  

This is the first of my weekly e-mails to the parents and students for my Latin I class.  I'm also experimenting a little more with some technology pieces for this class.  We used a projector for a PowerPoint presentation of the Latin text during class.  In addition to the weekly e-mails, I'll be using 2 more online resources:  a blog (http://chatlatin1.blogspot.com) and Dropbox (www.dropbox.com)  On the blog I will post the content of the Class Notes e-mails, copies of any handouts, video lessons, and posts with any interesting information or links related to our studies.  Dropbox is an online document storage site, and I will have all of the handouts available there.  I will also send as attachments any papers handed out in class.  This may seem like a bit of overkill (having information in 3 places), but since I've been doing this I haven't had any instances of missing worksheets, etc.  You will be getting an invitation to join the Dropbox folder for Latin I.  I recorded  a lesson in which I go through a sentence by sentence translation of our first story.

Their homework for the next week:

--  Read p. xii - xv

--  Set up notebook with dividers (categories are on the syllabus)

-- Copy vocabulary as it appear under the story

--  Exercise 1c (p. 5)

-- Worksheets for Chapter 1

--  Derivatives Worksheet