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Assignment for Wednesday, 10.14.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Wednesday, October 14, ONLY students with birthdays between January through June should do the following.

READING & WRITING

Due noon (EST) via email.

  • Translate Reading 9 (Shelmerdine, p. 81) into English. Break the passage into individual sentences, as usual.
  • Translate the following sentences into Latin:

    1. Obey (you, pl.) her spouse and end those tears!
    2. A clear plan will please these (women), but will not restrain those (men).
    3. Those poets will begin to abandon fear of these truths.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

DC

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Assignment for Tuesday, 10.13.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Tuesday, October 13, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 9 on demonstrative pronouns:

  • Pronoun: Demonstratives (hic, ille, is); Adjectival Uses (#50, 78–80)

Note any questions along the way.

DC

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Assignment for Monday, 10-12-20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Monday, October 12, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapters 8 and 9, on sentence patterns and verbs of the third and fourth conjugations:

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

VOCABULARY

Due by 9:00 AM (EST) by email.

Write a one-paragraph short story (6–8 sentences) in which you feature English derivatives from 75% of the Chapter 8 vocabulary (p. 75).

As before, use the English words naturally in your prose, but put the Latin words from which they are derived in parentheses immediately afterward.

When listing the Latin words, use the first form of a noun, adjective, or pronoun, and the infinitive form of a verb. ALSO: If your derivative contains a Latin preposition, include it in your parenthetical citation.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

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Assignment for Friday, 10.09.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Friday, October 9, EVERYONE should do the following.

DOWNLOADING

Download the passage to translate and read out loud here. (I also sent it to you via email.)

WRITING

Due noon (EST) via email.

  • Translate the passage into clear English. You may work on the page provided, or turn in a new page. Regardless, please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

READING OUT LOUD

  • Call my campus voicemail and read the passage to me in the most authentic Latin you can muster. Please consult the instructions I have provided.

DC

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(No) Assignment on Wednesday, 10.07.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

In order to give me time to catch up on the grading, I’m going to postpone the usual Wednesday assignment to Friday, October 9.

This means that, instead of half the class turning something in today, everyone will turn in work on Friday.

DC

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Assignment for Tuesday, 10.06.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Tuesday, October 7, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 8 on present tenses of the 3rd and 4th conjugations:

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

Note any questions along the way.

DC

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Assignment for Monday, 10.05.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Monday, October 5, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 7, on the verb possum as well as verbs that require the dative or ablative:

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

VOCABULARY

Due by 9:00 AM (EST) by email.

Write a one-paragraph short story (6–8 sentences) in which you feature English derivatives from 75% of the Chapter 7 vocabulary (p. 67).

As before, use the English words naturally in your prose, but put the Latin words from which they are derived in parentheses immediately afterward.

When listing the Latin words, use the first form of a noun and the infinitive form of a verb. ALSO: If your derivative contains a Latin preposition, include it in your parenthetical citation.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

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Assignment for Friday, 10.02.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Friday, October 2, ONLY students from class years 2021 and 2022 should do the following.

READING & WRITING

Due noon (EST) via email.

  • Exercise 55 (p. 64), TRANSLATE ONLY #1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
  • Translate the following sentences into Latin:

    1. The laws were weak, but justice will remain free.
    2. My names were not many, but the people were preparing an example of me.
    3. A crowd of us will walk to your temples, O gods!

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

DC

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