Monday, April 28, 2014

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
See you on Thursday!
Mrs. Prichard

Week 13 Helpful Links for Review

Below is a list of links that will help you review for your Take Home Test and for the in-class review session for Week 14.

Four Principle Parts of all Ecce Romani verbs
Spelling 1 for Review IV
Spelling 2 for Review IV
Spelling 3 for Review IV

Matching 1 for Review IV
Matching 2 for Review IV

Picture Flashcard Review 1
Picture Flashcard Review 2


All Vocabulary Review
WordWeb Review
SpeedWord Spelling
Latin-English Matching

Looking for more?  Follow this link for exercises, etc. for all of the Ecce Romani Chapters





Monday, April 14, 2014

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

Thursday, April 3, 2014

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:
Class Blogs
     Class Notes


Valete,
Magistra Prichard

Project Ideas

The final week of class (Week 15, May 8) will be a day for Presentations.  We may possibly use time on Week 14/ May 1 for Presentations, too.  Below is a list project ideas and some helpful links:

Links:
Choice Activities for the Wayland Middle School
A Crash Course in Latin Culture
Write a Latin Haiku
Latin Brain Teasers
Create a Crossword
Make a Word Search
Fill in the Blank Worksheet
Write a rap
Ancient Roman Honey Cookies recipe
Super Crossword Creator
Make an Aquaduct and other Roman Architecture
Ancient Roman games
Latin Words in our Language
A Case for Latin -- Multiple pages with ideas

Learning about Ancient Roman Culture
BBC Primary History
History of Latin

Ideas:
Write a children's picture book
Write a "letter to the editor" that encourages people to study Latin.
Make a crossword, puzzle, trivia quiz, game
Make a 3-D model of something from ancient Rome
Write a paper or put together a PowerPoint
Make some Roman food



Saturday, March 29, 2014

Links for Week 10

I'm reposting the links from Week 9 since we are still working adjectives and endings:


About.com's page that explains nouns and adjectives

LatinTests -- Interactive Noun Endings quiz

Noun-Adjective Agreement Exercise #1

Noun-Adjective Agreement Exercise #2

KET Distance Learning site's Latin grammar -- Adjective endings

Chapter 18 Vocabulary Practice
Spelling #1
Spelling #2
Matching #1
Matching #2

Building the Meaning activity
Chapter 18 Vocabulary
Forms for Chapter 18



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