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Peer Review 2 on Sunday, 11.01.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

This post serves as the official announcement that your second round of Peer Review is due Sunday, November 1, by noon (EST).

The link to the Peer Review Form has been sent to your Skidmore email address. The form will be live for two days before closing noon on Sunday.

Below are the guidelines for filling in the form. Please note the benefits and the penalties.

Each team member will in an anonymous online form for each of her or his teammates. (You are required to enter your username to access the form, but peers will NEVER see your name.)

The form asks the reviewer to rate a peer on aspects of their participation, and the result is an overall rating of 0% to 100% for the review period. These ratings, when aggregated, determine the number of peer review points teammates receive.

EXAMPLE. Say it’s possible to earn 50 review points for the current review period, and that a peer gives a team member receives an overall 85% rating. The team member therefore earns 43 review points (85% of 50).

The review form also calls for written feedback. Thoughtful comments from you to your peers will earn you additional review points.

IMPORTANT. Failure to submit any review form will result in the loss of ALL peer review points for that review period.

I will aggregate the rankings and shares all results (again, anonymized) with each team. I will also respond to queries from individual team members and, if necessary, help mediate and resolve any disputes.

Finally, please note these technical points:

  • Keep track of which peers you have reviewed (though the form will help you a little).
  • This work is probably better done on a laptop than a phone, due to the formatting.
  • Please be sure your answers line up with your intentions. There’s always one student who means “ALWAYS” but enters “NEVER” instead.
  • You will receive a copy of your review by email. The sender will be “Do not reply@skidmore.reclaimhosting.com” — a spammy-looking address, so be sure to monitor your junk email folder.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

DC

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Midterm Exam 2 on Friday, 10.30.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

Just a reminder that your your second midterm exam is due Friday, October 30, at noon (EST). Please observe these guidelines for completion and submission.

  • The exam is open-everything (book, notes, internet) — except open-people. Which is to say, work entirely on your own. No collaborating with peers.
  • If you have questions before the due date, please email me, or set up an appointment with either me or our Peer Tutor, Nicky. Note that, while we can help you with larger issues, it will be difficult or impossible to address specifics about the exam.
  • Both the written portions of the exam (Parts A–C) and the read-out-loud portion (Part D) are due by noon. Part D has its own set of instructions and guidelines, so be sure to consult them.
  • You may fill in the exam copy sent via email, or you may enter your answers into a new document, provided that you follow the numbering/lettering system of the original. Whatever you do, make sure that you submit a double-spaced PDF and that you follow the other formatting requirements for written work.
  • Be sure to re-type the Honor Code Statement on your exam and sign it by typing your name.
  • Your peer review will be due Sunday, noon (EST). The following blog post will describe the process in more detail.
  • Finally, bear in mind that noon (EST) on the 30th is a hard deadline.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

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Assignment for Monday, 10.26.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Monday, October 26, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 11, on the following not-unrelated topics:

  • Special Adjectives in -ius (#57, pp. 101–2)
  • Numerals (#58, pp. 102–3)
  • Expressions of Time (#59, pp. 103–4)

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 10 and 11 vocabulary (pp. 91–2 and 106–7).

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, 10.23.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Friday, October 23, ONLY students with birthdays between January through June should do the following.

READING & WRITING

Due noon (EST) via email.

  • Translate Readings 11 and 12 (Shelmerdine, pp. 90–1) into English. Break the passages into individual sentences, as usual.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

DC

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Assignment for Thursday, 10.22.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Thursday, October 22, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 11, on the three manifestations of the perfect tense:

  • Perfect Active Indicative (#54, pp. 97–9)
  • Pluperfect Active Indicative (#55, 99–100)
  • Future Perfect Active Indicative (#56, pp. 100–1)

Note any questions along the way.

DC

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Assignment for Wednesday, 10.21.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Wednesday, October 21, ONLY students with birthdays between July through December should do the following.

READING & WRITING

Due noon (EST) via email.

  • Translate Readings 11 and 12 (Shelmerdine, pp. 90–1) into English. Break the passages into individual sentences, as usual.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

DC

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Assignment for Tuesday, 10.20.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Tuesday, October 20, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 10, on various methods of expressing why things happen:

  • Expressions of Cause: Ablative, Prepositions, causa/gratia (#53, p. 89)

Note any questions along the way.

DC

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Assignment for Monday, 10.19.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Monday, October 19, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 10, on third-declension adjectives:

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

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 9 vocabulary (p. 83).

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, 10.16.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Friday, October 16, ONLY students with birthdays between June through December 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 Thursday, 10.15.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Thursday, October 15, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 10, on variations on third-declension nouns.

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

Note any questions along the way.

DC

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