Friday, November 16, 2012

Latin I:
Please translate the story in chapter 6 for homework over the break. It is a long story and some of the sentences are complex. If you get stuck, copy out the sentence in Latin and use these techniques:
     pause after every verb and translate what  you have so far;
     put an S over every subject (nominative case) and a DO over every direct object (accusative case). Remember that a noun in the accusative case that has a preposition before it is not a direct object, it is part of a prepositional phrase. Prepositions we have learned are: sub, in, ad, sub, e or ex, prope.
     then translate!

The Thanksgiving break would be a good time to practice any vocabulary you didn't know on the chapter test today. Vocabulary never goes away. . . . . . it just keeps showing up in subsequent chapters!

Click  here for quia.com exercises. There are vocabulary activities for chapter 6, as well as an activity to practice subjects/direct objects.

Latin II:
Please translate the story in chapter 20 for homework over the break. Pay close attention to verb tenses! Notice that the expression "licet" takes the dative: it is allowed for someone to do something.

You should be practicing the cases of Latin nouns, if that is an area of difficulty for you. I have put a new activity on quia under chapter 20: finding the subject in a Latin sentence. I will be adding different variations: finding the direct object, etc., as the week goes on.