Slide Presentation for Chapter 2 -- A Summer Afternoon

Follow this link to the presentation for Chapter 2.  The first slide has our Latin Word of the Day; the second has a pronunciation guide for Latin.  The following slides give the story and its translation.

Chapter 2 Translation Slides

Follow this link to see the slides with the Latin story from Chapter 2 and the English translations.  The controls for the slides are on the lower left corner.

Chapter 1 Quiz

Take the quick, 4-question quiz.  This will not be graded, but is an experiment.  Click on "Submit" at the bottom of the quiz.

Slide Presentation for Chapter 1 -- Two Roman Girls

Please follow this link to the Google presentation of the translation for Chapter 1.  You can either use the down arrows to the next slides.  Or you can use the controls at the bottom left corner.

Chapter 1 Translation Video

Below is the video that I made that reviews the translation of the story from Chapter 1 -- Two Roman Girls.  As you will see, it is very "low tech," but I still think it's helpful.  Let me know what you think.  It will be helpful to watch if you're stuck on the translation or want to review it before class.  It's less than 10 minutes long.

Chapter 1 -- Online Links and Resources

Latin teachers who have gone before me have worked hard to put together some online resources.  These resources have information about background history and culture.  Some are video explanations of the grammar.  Many are exercises, quizzes, or games.

Below are some resources for this week:

Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Chapter 1 Speed Word

Chapter 1 VocabularyMatching Exercise 1

Chapter 1 VocabularyMatching Exercise 2

Chapter 1 Speed Word2

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