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

Chapter 7 Slides & Translation

Last week in class, we took a vocabulary quiz and reviewed the grammar thus far in in our book.  One of the assignments for this week was to translate Chapter 7 on your own.  Below is the link to the powerpoint presentation for this chapter.  Please don't look at it until you've done your best to translate it.  We'll review it in class this next week.

Chapter 7 "Bad News"

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 7 (October 10)

Greetings!

We had a full class this week!  Firstly, the students took a quiz  on vocabulary from the first 6 chapters of our book.  It was a good learning opportunity.  They realized that it's easier to go from Latin to English than to go from English to Latin.  I'll correct the quizzes this week, and we'll know how well they've learned their vocabulary.  Having the vocabulary at their fingertips will help speed up translating.  Also, since we'll be starting to work on charts for the endings of nouns and verbs, it will be REALLY HELPFUL if they've already committed the vocabulary to memory.

In the papers that I've recently corrected, I've discovered some common gaps in their understanding of what we've learned so far.  So, instead of going forward with Chapter 7's story, "Bad News," we took some time to review what we've learned so far.  We covered the aspects of nouns, verbs, adjectives, endings, etc. that have been introduced in these chapters.

We're going to try to stay on schedule with the syllabus; the class will translate the story on their own as homework.  I will send out the translation for them to check their own work sometime early next week.

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Translate Chapter 7, "Bad News"

-- Read page 42, "Recognizing Clues"

-- Read p. 45 - 47, "The Villa"

-- LAB Chapter 7 exercises

-- Extra Credit -- find Derivatives and Latin roots for the vocabulary for this chapter.

This week's blog

Class Notes

Latin Quiz

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Prichard

Week 7 Vocabulary Quiz

Latin I – Week 7 Vocabulary Quiz

Fill in the blank with the Latin word for the given English word.

Italia
pictūra
puella
vīlla
altera
laeta
Rōmāna
vīcīna
habitat
sedet
legit
scrībit
est
aestāte
Cur …?
dum
et
etiam
iam
in
in Italiā
in pictūrā
in vīllā
nōmine
quae
Quid facit …?
Quis .. ?
quod
sub arbore
sub arbore
ubi
vīlla rūstica

Fill in the blank with the English word for the given Latin word.

	friend/friends
	tired
	active, energetic
	today
	slowly
	not
	no longer
	also
	often
	at last, at length
	but
	walks, is walking
	walk, are walking
	runs, is running
	run, are running
	is
	are
	to the country house and farm
	in a short time, soon
	her
	from/out of the fields
	in the fields
	What are … doing?

Match the following Latin and English verbs.  Write the letter corresponding to the English definition in front of the Latin word.

1.     ________   clamat/clamant	a.      fall
2.     ________   laborat/laborant	b.     annoys
3.     ________   ridet/rident	c.     love
4.     ________   cadit/cadunt	d.     frightens, terrifies
5.     ________   gemit/gemunt	e.      climb
6.     ________   amat/amant	f.       sleep
7.     ________   appropinquat/appropinquant	g.     shout
8.     ________   vexat/vexant	h.     hear, listens to
9.     ________   terret/terrent	i.        laugh
10. ________   videt/vident	j.        catch sight of
11. ________   ascendit/ascendunt	k.     approaches
12. ________   conspicit/conspiciunt	l.        see
13. ________   audit/audiunt	m.   groan
14. ________   dormit/dormiunt	n.     labor, work

Fill in the blank for the missing word in each sentence.  Choose from the list of words below.

1.      Sextus arborēs ____________________  vult.

2.      Sextus ____________________ timet.

3.      Hodiē Sextus ____________________ ascendit.

4.      Sextus ____________________ cōnspicit.

5.      ____________________ Sextum terret.

6.      ____________________ puellae cōnspiciunt.

7.      Puerī ____________________ audiunt.

8.      Sextum lupus ____________________

9.      Sextus magnam arborem____________________.

10.  Puellae Marcum laetae  ___________________________ .

Marcum           ascendere         excipiunt           clāmōrem         Lupum

terret                dēscendere       ascendit            arborem           Nihil     

Review Chapters 1 - 6

As we've been working through the translations of the stories for each chapter in Ecce Romani, the students have the opportunity to use their vocabulary over and over again.  This helps them to commit the words to memory.  Next week, we will have a quiz on the vocabulary.  In order to prepare, I've listed links below that they can use to review.

tabney.com has an extensive collection of exercises for every chapter.  Follow this link to the Chapter 6 practice exercises and this link for Chapters 1 - 6 vocabulary.

Quizlet has some flashcards and activities to use with this text.  Here is a vocabulary review for Chapter 6.


ProProfs also has flashcards:  Chapters 1 - 6,

You can also listen to a reading of Chapter 6 on Youtube.

Happy Reviewing!!

Latin I Class Notes -- Week 6 (October 3)

Greetings!

We had another good class this week.  Learning another language is really an exciting process.  Aristotle said, "By words the mind is winged."  Thomas Jefferson said, "To read the Latin and Greek authors in their original is a sublime luxury ... I thank on my knees him who directed my early education for having in my possession this rich source of delight."

I have the students do a fun learning activity before we start translating the story from the chapter.  This week, I broke out my Bananagrams and had them play using Latin words.  They did a good job using the letters from the game to form Latin words.

We went through the story of Chapter 6.  These stories are getting longer.  Often, I can see their eyes get big as we begin -- it seems like a monumental task to  translate take these paragraphs into English.  And yet, every week they do it.

Ecce Romani uses a Reading Method of teaching in which they learn Latin  vocabulary and grammar a bit at a time. Other methods teach via rote memory the grammar and vocabulary.  Both methods have their advantages.  I love watching the lights go on in their eyes as the grammar bits make sense.

So far, we've learned the following grammar as we've translated  our stories:

Nouns -- singular and plural; used as subjects, as dirct objects, and as objects of prepositions

Verbs -- 3rd person singular and 3rd  person plural; infinitive forms

Adjectives -- matching nouns and adjectives

Predicate nouns and adjectives

For next week, the students are to prepare for a vocabulary quiz.  If they would like some extra practice, they can go to some sites linked on the blog.

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Copy the story for Chapter 6

-- Copy the vocabulary for Chapter 6

-- Ex. 6d (p. 35)

-- Read "The Slave Market"  (p. 36 - 37)

-- LAB Worksheets

-- No Derivatives Worksheet

-- Prepare for Vocabulary Quiz

This week's blogs

Class Notes

Chapter 1 - 6 Review

Have a great week!

Mrs. Prichard