Latin 1301 Fall 2008

Schedule of Assignments

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Click on the number of the week below for assignments

Testing Schedule:   click on the item to see when it is scheduled and what will be covered.

Quizzes:    1    2    3    4    5   6

Midterm Examination     Final Examination

Week 1 August 25-27-29

Monday  Introduction
 

•  drill: Basic Grammar Terms .   Note:  If you have trouble with this drill, make sure to do ALL the assigned readings from English Grammar for Students of Latin!

Wednesday  PowerPoint: Latin alphabet, Chapter 1: Verbs
 

o       read: Wheelock Introduction, Chapter 1

o       read:  English Grammar, pp. 48-64, 75-77, 89-90 ( to line 50), 93-96 ( to line 39).

o       drills:  (some of the internal links might be off, but you can always come back here for directions!)

o       Multiple choice drill for Chapter 1

o       Fill-in drill for Chapter 1

o       Matching Vocabulary drill, Chapter 1

o       Latin Composition drill, Chapter 1

 

Friday  Chapter 1: Sententiae, "The Poet Horace" (pp. 6-7)

Translate the readings mentioned above for class discussion.  Remember: your participation grade is based on your readiness to answer in class.
 

CHECK YOUR ANSWERS!  Click here for the online key.

Week 2 September 1-3-5

Monday Labor Day--No Class!

Wednesday  PowerPoint: Chapter 2: Nouns, Declension I.

o       read: Wheelock Chapter 2

o       read: English Grammar, pp. 1-40.

o       drills:

Morphology Drill, Wheelock ch. 2

Fill-Drill, Wheelock ch. 2

phrase drill

sentence drill

vocabulary crossword puzzle

Friday  Chapter 2: Sententiae,"Catullus bids his girlfriend farewell"(pp. 14-15)

Week 3 September 8-10-12

Monday PowerPoint:  Chapter 3: Nouns of Declension II

•  read: Wheelock Chapter 3

•  read: English Grammar, pp. 120-126.

•  drills:

•  Morphology drill

•  matching drill

•  composition drill

•  phrase filldrill

•  sentence fill-drill

(Last day to drop without a grade & without hours counting toward Enrollment Cap)

Wednesday  Quiz 1:  Wheelock Chapters 1-2

• Remember to review for the quiz by doing the drills already posted until now.
• For tests, YOU WILL ALWAYS be expected to know the vocabulary in ALL the lists from EVERY chapter including the last one. 
• There are NO excuses for not studying the lists.
  
• Review the testing format by examining two sample quizzes for Wheelock Chapter 1 and Chapters 1-3.  You will be expected to answer in this format!

Friday  Wheelock Chapter 3: Practice and Review, Sententiae, "Grass is always greener" (pp. 21-22)          

Week 4     September 15 -17-19

Monday  PowerPoint: Chapter 4: Declension II Neuters, Sum, esse; predicate nouns and adjectives.

• read: Wheelock Chapter 4

• read: English Grammar pp. 32-33, 99-105.

Wednesday  Chapter 4: Practice and Review, Sententiae, "Rarity of Friendship" (pp. 28-29) 

Friday  38 Latin Stories: "Pandora's Box" (pp. 2-3); The Tragic Story of Phaethon" (pp. 4-5). 

Week 5   September 22-24-26

Monday PowerPoint: Chapter 5:  Future and Imperfect of Conjugations I & II.

•  read: Wheelock Chapter 5

• read English Grammar pp. 65-66 ( to l. 49), 71-72, 106-108.

Wednesday Quiz 2:  Wheelock Chapters 1-4

Friday  Chapter 5: Practice and Review, Sententiae, "His Only Guest," "Thermopylae" (pp. 34-35)

Week 6   September 29-October 1-3

Monday   PowerPoint:  Chapter 6:  Future and Imperfect of sum, esse; possum, posse.

• read: Wheelock Chapter 6
• drills:

verb filldrill on sum, esse and possum, posse for Wheelock 6

Wednesday   Quiz 3:  Wheelock Chapters 1-5, Readings from 38 Latin Stories  

drills:

•  Transformation Fill-Drill, Wheelock ch. 4

•  Vocabulary crossword puzzle, Wheelock 1-4

•  Sentence Fill-Drill, Wheelock ch. 4

•  Grammar and Morphology Drill, Wheelock ch. 4

Friday   Chapter 6:  Practice & Review, Sententiae, "I do not love thee, Dr. Fell" and "The Historian Livy..." (pp. 39-40) 

Week 7 October 6-8-10

Monday   PowerPoint: Chapter 7: Third Declension .

• read: Wheelock Chapter 7

Wednesday Quiz 4:  Wheelock Chapters 1-6

Jolly Olde Drills:

•  Matching Drill, Wheelock 5

•  Verb conjugation drill, Wheelock 5

•  Noun declension drill, Wheelock 1-5

•  Verb Transformation Drill, Wheelock 5

•  Sentence Fill-Drill, Wheelock 1-5

Friday Chapter 7: Practice& Review, Sententiae, "Rape of Lucretia," "Catullus dedicates his poetry book" (pp. 45-47)        

Week 8 October 13-15-17

Monday   38 Latin Stories:   "Adventures of Io," "Curse of Atreus," "Cleobis and Biton" (pp. 6-11)

Wednesday   PowerPoint: Chapter 8: 3rd conjugation .

•  read: Wheelock Chapter 8

Friday   Chapter 8: Practice & Review, Sententiae, "Cicero on the Ethics of Waging War" (pp. 52-54)

Week 9 October 20-22-24

Monday Midterm Review

Wednesday  Big, long, scary midterm .  Wheelock 1-7, last three stories.
Click here for a key to the midterm from 2002!  Use it to study with! 

Drills to prepare for the midterm:

•  you might go back and do the previous ones !

•    conjugation drill for Wheelock 6

•    matching drill for Wheelock 6

•   verb filldrill on sum, esse and possum, posse for Wheelock 6

•  sentence filldrill for Wheelock 7

•    declension drill for Wheelock 7

•    preposition phrase drill for Wheelock 7

•    another declension drill, Wheelock 7

•    crossword puzzle, Wheelock 7

Friday PowerPoint:  Begin Chapter 9: Demonstratives.

• read: Wheelock Chapter 9
• read: English Grammar pp. 138-140, 154-155.

Week 10 October 27-29-31

Monday   Chapter 9: Practice & Review, Sententiae, "When I have enough" (pp. 65-66)                       

Wednesday PowerPoint: Chapter 10: Fourth Conjugation.

• read: Wheelock Chapter 10

Friday   Chapter 10: Practice & Review, Sententiae, "Incomparable value of friendship" (pp. 64-66)

Week 11 November 3-5-7
           

Monday   PowerPoint: Chapter 11: Personal Pronouns.

• read: Wheelock Chapter 11
• read English Grammar pp. 41-47.  

Tuesday November 4: LAST DAY to drop a course.

Wednesday   Quiz 5:  Wheelock 1-10

drills:

•    verb matching drill for Wheelock 8

•  verb conjugation drill for Wheelock 8  

•  verb crosstraining drill for Wheelock 8

•  match drill, Wheelock 9

•  another cool match drill, Wheelock 9

•  exciting short answer drill, Wheelock 9

•  challenging filldrill, Wheelock 9

•  conjugations 3 and 4, Wheelock 10

•  vocabulary crossword, Wheelock 10

•  matching exercise for those m- and t- words, Wheelock 10

Friday [Last Day to Drop a Course]

Chapter 11: Practice & Review, Sententiae, "Cicero denounces     Catiline in the Senate" (pp. 72-73)

Week 12 November 10-12-14

Monday   PowerPoint: Chapter 12:  The Perfect System!

• read: Wheelock Chapter   12
• read: English Grammar pp. 65-70, 73-77.

Wednesday Chapter 12:  Practice & Review, Sententiae Antiquae, Pliny Writes to Marcellinus..., Diaulus Still Buries his Clients... (pp. 79-8 1 )

Friday  No PowerPoint:  Chapter 13:  Reflexive Pronouns

• read: Wheelock Chapter 13
• read: English Grammar pp. 131-134, 151-153.

Week 13 November 24-26-28

Monday   Chapter 13: Practice & Review, Sententiae Antiquae, Alexander the Great..., The Authority of a Teacher's Opinion (pp. 86-87)

Wednesday   Quiz 6:  Wheelock 1-12.  Click for verblist!

Friday   PowerPoint: Chapter 14:  i-stem 3rd declension nouns and Chapter 15: Numbers   

• read: Wheelock Chapter 14 (pp. 89-92) and Chapter 15 (pp. 97-100)

Week 14 November 24-26-28

Monday 38 Latin Stories:   "Ulysses and the Cyclops" (p. 18), "A Gift Bearing Greeks" (p. 20), "Echo and Handsome Narcissus" (p. 22).

 Wednesday   Thanksgiving Vacation: NO CLASS!

Friday   Thanksgiving Vacation: NO CLASS!

Week 15 December 1-3-5

Monday Chapter 14: Practice & Review, Sententiae Antiquae, Store Teeth,  Cicero Imagines the State of Rome ... (pp. 93-95).

Wednesday   Chapter 15: Practice & Review, Sententiae Antiquae, Cyrus'   Dying Words on Immortality, Fabian Tactics (pp.   100-102).

Friday   38 Latin Stories:   "Europa and the Bull" (p. 24), "How the Aegean Got Its Name" (p. 26)

Week 16 December 8

Monday   voluntary extra session:   Review Day.

FINAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE: You may take the exam with either section.

10-11AM SECTION:   Friday, Dec. 12          11-2pm    AH 16
11-NOON SECTION:  WednesdayDec. 17   11-2pm     AH 16

Drills for the Final Examination.

•  TERRIBLE TRIPLETS: THE ULTIMATE DECLENSION WORKOUT!

•  matching exercise for those m- and t- words, Wheelock 10

•  Pronouns, short answer, Wheelock 11

•  Pronouns, matching, Wheelock 11

•  Demonstratives, Irregular adjectives filldrill (Wheelock 11)

•  Perfect system of Verbs, Wheelock 12  (study that verb list!)

•  Perfect active indicative filldrill, Wheelock 12

•  Perfect system filldrill, Wheelock 12