Tuesday, June 10, 2014



What you need to know for the final exam:

You can have a 3 x 5 index card, written on one side (handwritten, please) with notes for the final.

Please be able to decline nouns and the demonstrative pronouns (hic and ille).
Be able to conjugate a verb, given the principal parts, in the 6 active tenses.
Be able to recognize and translate the passive forms of verbs in the present, imperfect and future tenses. Be able to change active forms of verbs to passive forms, and translate!

Know the vocabulary through chapter 30, with special emphasis on chapters 28-30 (no principal parts).
Be able to translate the chapter stories in chapters 28, 29, and 30.

Recognize and be able to translate the 4th principal part of a verb used as an adjective:
            Marcus, metu commotus (Marcus, struck by fear. . . . )
            Cornelia, sonitu in via excitata (Cornelia, awoken by the noise in the street. . . . )


Be able to recognize noun cases and describe their usage.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Please complete worksheet 30d, e as your LAST Latin assignment! Due Monday. For a copy, click here.

Monday, June 2, 2014

Your homework for Tuesday is to translate the story in chapter 30 for at least 20 minutes. Try to get to the end of the story!

Friday, May 30, 2014

We are almost finished! Chapter 30 is the last chapter we will cover before the final exam. Your homework for Monday is to complete the worksheet that introduces the passive voice. You will use the chart on pg. 24 to conjugate 4 regular verbs IN THE PASSIVE VOICE! Try to spot the patterns and learn them as you go - it will make chapter 30 easier for you. Click here for a copy of the worksheet.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

There is no homework for Thursday, because there is a TEST on chapters 28-29 on Thursday! Seniors, this will serve as your final exam, and you will have at least one noun declension and several verb conjugations to do.

What you need to know:

the relative pronoun chart
how to pick the correct relative pronoun
how to combine two sentences into one, longer sentence containing a relative clause (what we practiced on Tuesday in class)
vocabulary and principal parts for chapters 28 and 29
how to translate the two stories




Here are some practice activities:

Combine the two sentences, using a relative pronoun. The English equivalent is given for you.

Example:

Servī sellās ad tabernam portābant.
Taberna prope Forum est.

Servī sellās ad tabernam, quae est prope Forum, portābant.
Slaves were carrying the sedan chairs to the shop, which is near the Forum.

Ancillae fabulās narrābant.
    Fabulae līberōs terrēbant.


The slavewomen were telling stories that scared the children.


Nōmen ancillae novae est Elissa.
     Syra et Phrygia ancillam novam salūtant.


Syra and Phrygia greet the new slavewoman, whose name is Elissa.


Canēs latrābant ferociter.
     Servī cum canibus currēbant.


The dogs, with whom/which the slaves were running, were barking fiercely.

Vīlla est sub quibusdam arboribus.
     Vīllam ancillae purgant.


The country house, which the slavewomen clean, is under some trees.

Senātōrēs vīdī.
     Senātōrēs ē Curiā exierant.


I saw the senators who had come out of the Senate House.

Multī cīvēs praeclārī in sepulcra sunt.
     Sepulcra Mārcus et Sextus cōnspexērunt.


Many well-known citizens are in the tombs that Marcus and Sextus spotted.


Click here for the answers.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

There is no homework for Thursday because you have a quiz on Chapter 28 & Chapter 29 vocabulary. Here is a link to the quia.com page for chapter 28.

Here is a link to the quia.com page for chapter 29. There are other activities there, too, which will help you learn the pronoun charts.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Homework for Tuesday: 29d. Pick the correct Latin pronoun, then translate each sentence.

Thursday: vocabulary quiz (including principal parts) for chapters 28 & 29; also a writing assignment (in-class) about Hercules so BRING YOUR MOVIE NOTES!!

There are several new charts in this chapter - the indefinite pronoun and the interrogative pronoun charts do not need to be memorized, but you will need to recognize them and be able to translate them. We will be working on this a lot in class!