Monday, December 2, 2019

Assignment for Saturday, 12.21.19

Dear Elementary Latinists:

By 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 21, please do the following:

(1) Complete Section E (Reading aloud) of our final exam. Call my campus voicemail with your perfected reading of the final exam passage. Before you left the exam, you were handed a sheet with full instructions and a copy of the passage to mark up.

(2) Peer Review Round III: Fill out a Peer Review Form for each of your teammates. Please observe the 11:00 deadline so you can maximize your points, and visit our Policies page if necessary to re-familiarize yourself with the Peer Review guidelines.

Thanks for a great semester!

DC

Final Exam on Tuesday, 12.17.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

Our final exam on Tuesday, December 17, will have the following format.

(A) Declining nouns and adjectives:
I'll give you English adjective-noun pairs in the singular or plural, you give me the Latin forms in the five major cases. NOTE: Nouns and adjectives will all come from the third declension.
(B) Verbs: Jump drills:
A series of relatively short sequences in which you "jump" (change) one attribute of a verb form at a time, either person, number, tense, mood or voice. NOTE: The drills will heavily (but not exclusively) emphasize the passive voice.
(C) Verbs: Stacks:
I'll give you an English verb and a pronoun, you give me the six active Latin forms from the present indicative through the future perfect indicative.
(D) Passage to translate:
A short passage of connected Latin prose, using vocabulary and grammar through chapter 14. Read it carefully and write out your translation.
(E) Reading out loud (take-home portion, due Saturday, December 21, 11:00 p.m.):
Practice reading the final exam passage out loud: use Shelmerdine's textbook to help you determine vowel/consonant sounds and place accents. When you have perfected your reading, call my campus voice mail and read me the Latin over the phone. 
NOTE: Please prepare for and complete this portion of the exam on your own. I'll supply a copy of the passage for you to practice on and mark up. (No, you do not have to memorize the passage. Yes, you can read from the copy.)

ALSO NOTE: Some generosity has been granted for late readings or peer reviews. But, in keeping with the notion of a final exam, late work will NOT be accepted.
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For this exam, you'll be responsible for all concepts and vocabulary through Shelmerdine Chapter 14.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 12.10.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Tuesday morning, December 10, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 14, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:
  • Imperfect Passive Indicative (#68, p. 127); and
  • Future Passive Indicative (#69, p. 127).
(2) Homework (due by email, 11:00 p.m.):
  • Exercise 108 (p. 128); and
  • Exercise 109 (p. 128).
DC

Vocabulary Quiz on Monday, 12.09.19

Dear Elementarians,

Our final vocabulary quiz, on Monday, December 9, will draw from Chapter 14 of Shelmerdine's textbook (pp. 132–3). I'll give you the English definitions, you supply the full Latin vocabulary entry.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 12.07.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Saturday evening, December 7, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 14, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:
  • Passive Voice (1) (#66, pp. 125–6); and
  • Present Passive Indicative (#67, p. 126).
(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):
  • Exercise 105, (p. 126); and
  • Translate the following sentences into Latin:
    a. Because we are never (= numquam) loved, we shall now be friends to ourselves.
    b. The wife of this poet has warned herself.
    c. Those things, which you (pl.) will have learned, are always decided by them [#72: use ab + abl.].
DC

Assignment for Thursday, 12.05.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Thursday morning, December 5, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 13, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:
  • The Pronoun: Reflexive (#61, p. 119–20).
(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):
  • Exercise 100 (p. 120).
  • Reading 17, second half (from mox milites to the end, p. 122). FORMAT: As with previous long passages, number each English sentence, and treat each as an individual exercise, starting it on a new line. Remember to double-space, please. 
DC

Extra-credit quiz on Tuesday, 12-03-19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

On Tuesday, December 3, we will have an extra-credit vocabulary quiz on Chapter 13 of Shelmerdine's textbook (pp. 123–4). As usual, I'll give you the English definitions, you supply the full Latin vocabulary entry.

As the label "extra-credit" implies, the quiz is optional. If you decide to take it, you could earn up to 30 bonus points toward your quiz scores. You will not lose points for not taking the quiz or for making mistakes on it.

If you are not taking the quiz, you can either come to class at 11:15 and wait or come at 11:25, when the quiz will be over.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC