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 4^th 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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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! 

Your homework for Monday is to translate the story in Chapter 29, to AT LEAST line 12! Finish it if you have time. Remember, if you get stuck:
- figure out the cases of all the nouns and pronouns;
- read in chunks, stopping at conjunctions (et, quod, etc.) and verbs;
- leave a space and move on.

The homework for Thursday is 28e: figure out the appropriate relative pronoun and then translate each sentence.

The relative pronoun chart needs to be memorized. In class we talked about which forms look like forms you've already seen on other charts and which forms look new to you. You can use what you know to learn a lot of the chart!! (Hint: genitive and dative singular forms should be looking very familiar by now; neuter pronouns continue to follow the "rules".)

Your homework for Tuesday is to translate the story in chapter 28 (in the GREEN book!). The first 3 sentences should read:  It was early in the day. Aurelia was sitting in her bedroom. Two slavewomen were caring for her hair, of whom one was holding a mirror and the other was combing her hair.

There is no homework for Thursday because of the CHAPTER TEST!! You need to know the vocabulary and principal parts of verbs, the pronouns and how to use them, and how to translate sentences from the stories and the exercises.

Here is the full translation of the story we worked on in class:

More News for Flavia from Cornelia

Yesterday Eucleides took me and the boys to the games held in the Circus Maximus. When I got up from sleep/from my nap, the boys and Eucleides had already prepared themselves. Therefore we immediately headed for the Circus. When we arrived there, our uncle had already sat down with his friends near the racetrack. Although we were not allowed to sit near the track, we were nevertheless able to see everything. After the charioteers took up their reins, Caesar himself gave the signal with the white cloth. How quickly the horses ran, for the charioteers were beating them fiercely!

All the women, senators, citizens and slaves were vigorously supporting their own teams. How loud their voices were! The boys and I were supporting our (own) teams. Sextus, that annoying boy, shouted to us again and again, "My reds will always beat your charioteers!" Although his reds won at first, my blues won often. Marcus's whites were not running well and Marcus was miserable muttering to himself. After a few contests/races, it was time to leave. While we were returning home, the boys tried to annoy me, as always, but I was able to avoid them.

When you come to the city, perhaps you'll be able to go to the chariot races with us! Will you be allowed to come to Rome soon? If your mother comes with you, my mother will be happy, because she wants to see her.

It is necessary for me to go to bed. Farewell, my friend.

The homework for Tuesday is a handout, 27h, taken from the workbook. For a copy, click here.

Please remember there is a chapter test on THURSDAY! You should be memorizing vocabulary and principal parts, as well as the pronoun charts.

The homework for Monday is to complete the handout you started in class. (Many of you were able to finish the handout IN class.) This is 27g: Personal and Reflexive Pronouns. If you find this confusing, pp. 253-255 will help.

Don't forget to begin memorizing vocabulary and principal parts of verbs in chapter 27. The chapter test will be next Thursday (May 8).

Homework for Thursday - exercise 27d, ODD numbers only!! I don't expect your translations to be perfect but you need to do your best to determine the CASES needed for the missing pronouns.

If you are looking for more information on Hercules, or didn't take very good notes on Tuesday, here is a link to the website at Tufts University.

Homework for Tuesday: exercise 27a. This continues the work we did today on personal pronouns. Once you know the case of the missing word, you can find the correct pronoun easily on the chart above.

Today in class we went over the translation of chapter 27. Please make sure you have completed this! We began learning the personal pronouns for he, she and it (see chart on p. 254).

Your homework for next Monday is to complete the translation of the Chapter 27 story.

I've given you the option to retake PORTIONS of the last chapter test for a higher grade. I will NOT be at tutorial next Tuesday; I will come in for tutorial on Wednesday, instead. That would be the optimum time for you to do any re-testing.

There is NO HOMEWORK for Thursday! Use the time to catch up, if you have missing work. We will begin chapter 27 on Thursday and have plenty of time to work on your Hercules translations and presentations.

Once you have memorized the hic and ille charts, try these exercises:

Choose the correct form of hic or ille to accompany the nouns below, noticing that the cases of the nouns change. If you’re not sure of the declension number or gender of the noun, see the list below.

1. this city: ________ urbs                2. this city: ________ urbem

that boy: ________ puer                   4. that boy: ________ puerum

5. this heat: ________ aestus                6. this heat: ________ aestum

7. that vehicle: ________ vehiculum             8. that vehicle: ________ vehiculō (abl.)

9. this thing: ________ rēs (nom.)                10. these things: ________ rēs (nom.)

11. those people: ________ hominēs (nom.)        12. those people: ________ hominēs (acc.)

these forests: ________ silvae                         14. these forests: ________ silvās

15. of these forests: ________ silvārum          16. these forests: ________ silvīs


urbs, urbis, f., city
puer, puerī, m. boy
aestus, aestūs, m. heat
vehiculum, -ī, n., vehicle
rēs, rēī, f., day
homō, hominis, m., man
silva, -ae, f., forest



Click here to see the answers!

I will not see you on Monday (Wednesday schedule). We have a chapter test on Tuesday, on chapters 25-26. You should know:

noun declensions, especially 4th and 5th
declensions of hic and ille
principal parts and vocabulary for the two chapters
how to translate sentences with several verb tenses (especially future perfect/future combinations!).

Come back to the blog for some practice activities!

There is NO HOMEWORK for Thursday! Please take the time to study for the quiz (declensions of hic and ille and vocabulary from chapter 26). This would also be a good time to catch up on missing work!

In class today we completed the handout from the workbook (26d - on the other side of 26c). If you miss class, you should get the answers from Magistra - these sentences will be used on the test next Tuesday.