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

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

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

Assignment for Tuesday, 11.26.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Tuesday morning, November 26, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 13, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• The Pronoun: Relative (#63, p. 117); and
• Adjectival Uses: Relative Clauses (#64, p. 118).

(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):

• Exercise 99 (p. 119); and
• Exercise 101, ONLY odd numbers (p. 120 — JUST TRANSLATE).

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 11.23.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Saturday evening, December 2, please do the following:

(1) Homework (due by email, 11:00 p.m.):

• Exercise 94, ONLY 2, 4, 6, 9 and 10 (p. 112); and
  
• Rewrite the following English sentences, replacing the underlined word(s) with a relative clause; and

1. Caesar interrogated the man walking in the road.
2. The woman stuck in the elevator was glad to see the firemen.
3. Good things come to those who wait.
4. All they saw was an empty room.

• Combine both short English sentences into a longer English sentence with a main clause and a dependent relative clause:

1. Romulus killed his brother, Remus. Remus had leapt over his walls.
2. There are things in my life. I want to do them.
3. The doctor retired. We gave her an award last year.
4. The poet wept profusely. His books were destroyed in a fire.

DC

Assignment for Thursday, 11.21.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Thursday morning, November 21, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 12, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Accusative of Extent and Degree (#61, pp. 111–12); and
• Dative with Adjectives (#62, pp. 112).

(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):

• Exercise 94, ONLY 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8 (p. 112 — JUST TRANSLATE); and
• Exercise 95, ONLY 1, 3, 6, and 7 (pp. 112–13).

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 11.19.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Tuesday morning, November 19, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 12, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Dependent Clauses (#60, pp. 109–11, including Adverbial Use and Word Order).

(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):

• Exercise 89 (p. 111):

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Rewrite the Latin sentence and underline the dependent clause. Then translate the entire sentence into English.

EXAMPLE:

— Poeta tibi hoc carmen dedit dum in tua casa sumus.
— The poet gave you this song while we were in your house.

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 11.16.19

Dear Elementary Latinists:

By 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 16, please do the following:

(1) Complete Section D (Reading aloud) of our second midterm exam. Call my campus voicemail with your perfected reading of the midterm 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 2: Visit our Policies page and make sure you understand the Peer Review guidelines. Then, fill out a Peer Review Form for each of your teammates. Please observe the 11:00 deadline so you can maximize your points.

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 11.09.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Saturday evening, November 9, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 11, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Special Adjectives in -ius (#57, p. 101)
• Numerals (#58, pp. 102–3); and
• Expressions of Time (#59, pp. 103–4).

(2) Homework (due by email, 11:00 p.m.):

• Exercise 84 (p. 102 — no need to say "why not" etc.*)
• Exercise 85 (p. 103); and
• Exercise 86 (p. 104 — ONLY even numbers.

DC

*Which is not to say that, as you do the exercise, telling yourself why an adjective can't modify a noun wouldn't be good practice.

Assignment for Thursday, 11.07.09

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Thursday morning, November 7, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 11, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Perfect Active Indicative (#54, pp. 97–98);
• Pluperfect Active Indicative (#55, p. 99); and
• Future Perfect Active Indicative (#56, p. 100)

(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):

• Exercise 78 (p. 99);
• Exercise 79 (p. 100); and
• Exercise 81 (p. 101).

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 11.05.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Tuesday morning, November 5, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 10, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Expressions of Cause (#53, p. 89).

(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):

• Exercise 74, odd numbers ONLY (p. 89 — NOTE: Just translate, no need to show arrows); and
• Exercise 75, ONLY 1, 5, and 9.

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 11.02.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Saturday evening, November 2, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 10, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Third Declension Adjectives (#52, pp. 86–8).

(2) Homework (due by email, 11:00 p.m.):

• Exercise 71 (p. 88 — NOTE: No need to say "why not" etc.); and

• Consulting Shelmerdine's pronunciation guide (Introduction, pp. 1–3), practice reading out loud the "Aurora and Tithonus" passage from Tuesday's class. Pay particular attention to the placement of the stress accent on each word. When you feel you are ready, call my campus voicemail (x. 5463) and read me the passage over the phone. Identify yourself by name, so I know who's calling.

DC

Assignment for Thursday, 10.31.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Thursday morning, October 31, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 10, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Third Declension Nouns: i-Stem (#51, pp. 85–6).

(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):

• Translate the following sentences into Latin:

1. We will offer many favors to that god of the sea.
2. The poet tried to abandon (use imperfect) angry poems in this fire.
3. The high seas (use mare) will make us good sailors
4. In my mind I was able to trust those strange arts.

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 10.29.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Tuesday morning, October 29, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 9, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• The Pronoun: Demonstrative (hic, haec, hoc and ille, illa, illud, #50, pp. 78–79).

(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):

• Exercise 68, ONLY 2, 3, 8, and 9 (p. 70 — only translate, as before); and
• Exercise 69, ONLY 4, 6, and 10; and

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 10.26.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Saturday evening, October 26, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapters 8 and 9, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Sentence pattern: Factitive (#47, pp. 71–2);
• Imperfect Active Indicative, Third and Fourth Conjugations (#48, p. 77); and
• Future Active Indicative, Third and Fourth Conjugations (#49, pp. 77–8).

(2) Homework (due by email, 11:00 p.m.):

• Exercise 64 (p. 78); and
• Exercise 68, ONLY 1, 5, and 11 (p. 80). NOTE: Only translate the sentences; no need to "identify obvious chunks."
• OPTIONAL bonus exercises: Exercise 69, ONLY 1, 2, and 9 (any or all).

DC

Assignment for Thursday, 10.24.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Thursday morning, October 24, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 8, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Personal Pronouns: is, ea, id (#46, p. 71).

(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):

• Exercises 59 and 60 (p. 71).

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 10.22.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Tuesday morning, October 22, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 8, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Third and Fourth Conjugation: Present Infinitive, Indicative, and Imperative (#45, pp. 69–70).

(2) Homework (due by email, 11:00 p.m.):

• Exercise 57 (p. 70).

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 10.19.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Saturday evening, October 19, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 7, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Possum: Present, Imperfect, and Future Indicative (#43, p. 63); and
• Sentence Pattern: Special Intransitive  (#44, pp. 63–4).

(2) Homework (due by email, 11:00 p.m.):

• Exercise 55, ONLY 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, and 9 (p. 64); and
• Reading 5, second half (from dea oraculum dabat to the end, p. 64). 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

Assignment for Thursday, 10.17.19

Dear Elementary Latinists,

By Thursday morning, October 17, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Shelmerdine, Chapter 7, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Personal Pronouns: ego and tu (#42, p. 62).

(2) Homework (due by email, 8:00 a.m.):

• Exercise 52 (p. 62); and

• Translate the following into Latin:

1.  To lack liberty is always bad.
2.  Good laws did not exist without justice.
3.  Our mothers will have the rights of citizenship (use dative of possession).

DC