Friday, Feb 17, 2012

Latin 3

Over the break you will need to read the selections concerning Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus from Chronicle of the Roman Republic.  Please take at least 2 pages of notes. There are extra copies on my desk for those who missed class on Friday. Remember that Mr. Johnson takes over when you come back!

Latin Poetry

You are now Ms. Hausey’s minions. Godspeed, and I will see you again at the end of May (or at Graduation)!

Myth Tradition

Your final grade for Term III is the Antigone exam which you will be taking under Mr. Johnson’s supervision the Monday after break.  After that, you’re all his until the end of May for Juniors or the end of the year for Seniors. Remember that you need to know the back story (Apollodorus/Seven against Thebes), the Play by Sophocles, and the article discussing of Anouilh’s interpretation of Sophocles’ play for French audiences in Vichy France in the early 1940s.

Here is the presentation for Unit 21: Antigone

Thursday, Feb 16, 2012

Latin 3

Have all your homework organized and tabulated (0 point if missing, 0.5 point for finished but unstamped, and 1 point for stamped) on your homework log.  If I call your name tomorrow and you are not ready, I will deduct one homework from your grade.

Latin Poetry

You will be receiving your first assignment from Ms. Hausey tomorrow.  I will check your poems from this term for complete scansions and translations.

Myth Tradition

I will be checking term 3 myth journals tomorrow, make sure you have units 15-21 (remember that the Calydonian Boar Hunt was extra credit).

Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012

REMEMBER Latin 3 and Myth Tradition Students: unless you have a Dr.’s note explaining your absence this Thursday or Friday to give to Mr. Johnson, your teacher while I am on leave, after February break, all work is due to me by this FRIDAY.

Latin 3

Tomorrow you have your exam on the Second Punic War.  The point breakdown will be as follows:

• 45 points : Latin Number Phrases (know general vocab from Eutropius and the written out and Roman numeral forms of your numbers!)
• 15 points: Nominative forms of Roman Names (Make sure you can expand abbreviated forms!)
• 20 points: Summary of the Second Punic War
• 20 points: Short Sight Translation

You can download and study the final presentation of this unit here: Eutropius #10-#11

Note that this is not a multiple choice test!

Remember, if you will not be in class on Friday, your homework log is due TOMORROW.  If you will be in class Friday your homework log is due then. Here is the file: Hmwk Log 3

Latin Poetry

You have tonight off.

Myth Tradition

Antigone worksheet needs to be done for tomorrow! You can download it here: Antigone Worksheet

Today we also started reading/discussing a conference paper concerning Sophocles Antigone & Anouilh’s Antigone.  If you weren’t here today, you can read through it here: “Profound Ambiguities in Sophocles’ and Anouilh’s Antigone“

I will be collecting Myth Journals from those who will not be in class Friday tomorrow.  For those who will be here on Friday, you need to bring them in that day.

Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012

Latin 3

Tonight you will read your LAST ASSIGNMENT from Eutropius Breviarium concerning the Second Punic War.  Look up vocabulary and identify subordinate clauses for reading #11, paragraphs 22-23:

Interim Hannibale veniente ad Africam pax turbata est, multa hostilia ab Afris facta sunt. Legati tamen eorum ex urbe venientes a Romanis capti sunt, sed iubente Scipione dimissi. Hannibal quoque frequentibus proeliis victus a Scipione petit etiam ipse pacem. Cum ventum esset ad colloquium, isdem condicionibus data est, quibus prius, additis quingentis milibus pondo argenti centum milibus librarum propter novam perfidiam. Carthaginiensibus condiciones displicuerunt iusseruntque Hannibalem pugnare. Infertur a Scipione et Masinissa, alio rege Numidarum, qui amicitiam cum Scipione fecerat, Carthagini bellum. Hannibal tres exploratores ad Scipionis castra misit, quos captos Scipio circumduci per castra iussit ostendique his totum exercitum, mox etiam prandium dari dimittique, ut renuntiarent Hannibali quae apud Romanos vidissent.

Interea proelium ab utroque duce instructum est, quale vix ulla memoria fuit, cum peritissimi viri copias suas ad bellum educerent. Scipio victor recedit paene ipso Hannibale capto, qui primum cum multis equitibus, deinde cum viginti, postremo cum quattuor evasit. Inventa in castris Hannibalis argenti pondo viginti milia, auri octoginta, cetera supellectilis copiosa. Post id certamen pax cum Carthaginiensibus facta est. Scipio Romam rediit, ingenti gloria triumphavit atque Africanus ex eo appellari coeptus est. Finem accepit secundum Punicum bellum post annum nonum decimum, quam coeperat.

Latin Poetry

Tomorrow you will have a quiz on the translation and scansion of Horace Ode I.37.  I will give you a scansion key, but I will not give you vocabulary.

Myth Tradition

You can download the myth journal for this unit is here: Antigone Worksheet

Remember, I will be checking all myth journals on Thursday.  Be prepared with Units 15-21 collated.  You can earn a potential 5.5/5.  The exam for the Antigone unit will occur after break.  Good luck!

Monday, Feb 13, 2012

Latin 3

We’re nearly there with the Eutropius!  Tonight you should read assignment #10, paragraphs 20-21, bracketing clauses and looking up vocabulary you don’t know:

Anno quarto decimo posteaquam in Italiam Hannibal venerat, Scipio, qui multa bene in Hispania egerat, consul est factus et in Africam missus. Cui viro divinum quiddam inesse existimabatur, adeo ut putaretur etiam cum numinibus habere sermonem. Is in Africa contra Hannonem, ducem Afrorum, pugnat; exercitum eius interficit. Secundo proelio castra capit cum quattuor milibus et quingentis militibus, XI milibus occisis. Syphacem, Numidiae regem, qui se Afris coniunxerat, capit et castra eius invadit. Syphax cum nobilissimis Numidis et infinitis spoliis Romam a Scipione mittitur. Qua re audita omnis fere Italia Hannibalem deserit. Ipse a Carthaginiensibus redire in Africam iubetur, quam Scipio vastabat.

Ita anno septimo decimo ab Hannibale Italia liberata est. Legati Carthaginiensium pacem a Scipione petiverunt; ab eo ad senatum Romam missi sunt. Quadraginta et quinque diebus his indutiae datae sunt, quousque ire Romam et regredi possent; et triginta milia pondo argenti ab his accepta sunt. Senatus ex arbitrio Scipionis pacem iussit cum Carthaginiensibus fieri. Scipio his condicionibus dedit: ne amplius quam triginta naves haberent, ut quingenta milia pondo argenti darent, captivos et perfugas redderent.

Latin Poetry

If you haven’t finished translating Horace Ode I.37, do so tonight.  You should also read E.M. Forster’s essay, “The Death of Cleopatra,” which was handed out in class today.  Be ready to translate and discuss!

Myth Tradition

We start our last play before I leave tonight, Sophocles’ Antigone.  Have entire play read by Wednesday.

Friday, Feb 10, 2012

Latin 3

You have two things you need to do this weekend: (1) review Eutropius assignments 7-9 (paragraphs 14-19) for a reading quiz on Monday, and (2) finish your Roman or Carthaginian ship model.  Here is the presentation for the past three assignments: Eutropius #7-#9

Latin Poetry

Remember your Latin Poem Composition projects are due Monday.  The point breakdown will be as follows: Grammatically correct (30), Scansion (25), Points of Rhetoric (25), English Version (10), Self-Analysis (10).  Your self-analysis should include difficulties you face, problems you solved, and things you learned in the process of writing this poem.  Remember that you will be presenting your poem to the class on Monday.

Myth Tradition

See yesterday’s post for what you need in your Myth Journal.  Your exam for unit 20 is on Monday.

Thursday, Feb 9, 2012

Latin 3

Tonight’s homework is to identify clauses and look up vocabulary for reading #9, paragraphs 17-19:

Tertio anno postquam Scipio ad Hispanias profectus fuerat, rursus res inclutas gerit. Regem Hispaniarum magno proelio victum in amicitiam accepit et primus omnium a victo obsides non poposcit.

Desperans Hannibal Hispanias contra Scipionem diutius posse retineri, fratrem suum Hasdrubalem ad Italiam cum omnibus copiis evocavit. Is, veniens eodem itinere, quo etiam Hannibal venerat, a consulibus Ap. Claudio Nerone et M. Livio Salinatore apud Senam, Piceni civitatem, in insidias conpositas incidit. Strenue tamen pugnans occisus est; ingentes eius copiae captae aut interfectae sunt, magnum pondus auri atque argenti Romam relatum est. Post haec Hannibal diffidere iam de belli coepit eventu. Romanis ingens animus accessit; itaque et ipsi evocaverunt ex Hispania P. Cornelium Scipionem. Is Romam cum ingenti gloria venit.

Q. Caecilio L. Valerio consulibus, omnes civitates, quae in Brittiis ab Hannibale tenebantur, Romanis se tradiderunt.

Latin Poetry

Remember that Foreign Language Declamation tryouts are on Monday after school.  I will let you know in which room as soon as I know!

I’ve extended the deadline for your poetry projects to Monday for the seniors’ sake.  Use the weekend wisely.  We will be starting a new poem tomorrow.

Myth Tradition

Here is the presentation for this unit:

The Crete-Thebes-Athens connection & Oedipus the King

Again, I suggest that you download and read through this LitChart on the play: Oedipus the King

Your myth journal for this unit will comprise of your worksheet and at least a full page of notes on the presentation.

Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012

Latin 3

Tonight’s homework is to identify clauses and look up vocabulary for reading #8, paragraphs 15 & 16:

Interea ad Hispanias, ubi occisis duobus Scipionibus nullus Romanus dux erat, P. Cornelius Scipio mittitur, filius P. Scipionis, qui ibidem bellum gesserat, annos natus quattuor et viginti, vir Romanorum omnium et sua aetate et posteriore tempore fere primus. Is Carthaginem Hispaniae capit, in qua omne aurum, argentum et belli apparatum Afri habebant, nobilissimos quoque obsides, quos ab Hispanis acceperant. Magonem etiam, fratrem Hannibalis, ibidem capit, quem Romam cum aliis mittit. Romae ingens laetitia post hunc nuntium fuit. Scipio Hispanorumn obsides parentibus reddidit; quare omnes fere Hispaniae uno animo ad eum transierunt. Post quae Hasdrubalem, Hannibalis fratrem, victum fugat et praedam maximam capit.

Interea in Italia consul Q. Fabius Maximus Tarentum recepit, in qua ingentes copiae Hannibalis erant. Ibi etiam ducem Hannibalis Carthalonem occidit, XXV milia hominum captivorum vendidit, praedam militibus dispertivit, pecuniam hominum venditorum ad fiscum retulit. Tum multae civitates Romanorum, quae ad Hannibalem transierant prius, rursus se Fabio Maximo dediderunt. Insequenti anno Scipio in Hispania egregias res egit et per se et per fratrem suum L. Scipionem; LXX civitates receperunt. In Italia tamen male pugnatum est. Nam Claudius Marcellus consul ab Hannibale occisus est.

Latin Poetry

Tomorrow you will have a 50 question multiple choice exam on the “vita rustica et vita urbana” poetry we’ve been reading (the selections from the Cambridge Latin Anthology plus Tibullus II.3, Sulpicia II, Propertius II.19, and Martial IV.66 & V.20). The point breakdown will be: Marcus Valerius Martialis (12 points), Publius Ovidius Naso (8 points), Quintus Horatius Flaccus (12 points), Albius Tibullus (10 points), Sulpicia (2 points), Sextus Aurelius Propertius (6 points). For the Latin 5 students who missed class today due to the assembly, please check your translations against the notes posted here: Martial poems.

Remember also that tryouts for foreign language declamation are Monday, February 13.  Make sure you brush up your declamation!

Myth Tradition

Today we completed a worksheet on Oedipus to help us in our discussion of the text: Oedipus WS

You may also find this LitChart helpful in your completion of the Myth Journal and studying for Monday’s exam: Oedipus the King

Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012

Latin 3

Some of you have already signed up for the National Myth Exam.  There is another Mythology exam available to those who interested called the Medusa Mythology Exam (http://www.medusaexam.org/). If you are interested in taking this exam $3 is due to me by Friday.

Tonight’s homework is to identify clauses and look up vocabulary for reading #7, paragraph 14:

Decimo anno postquam Hannibal in Italiam venerat, P. Sulpicio Cn. Fulvio consulibus, Hannibal usque ad quartum miliarium urbis accessit, equites eius usque ad portam. Mox consulum cum exercitu venientium metu Hannibal ad Campaniam se recepit. In Hispania a fratre eius Hasdrubale ambo Scipiones, qui per multos annos victores fuerant, interficiuntur, exercitus tamen integer mansit; casu enim magis erant quam virtute decepti. Quo tempore etiam a consule Marcello Siciliae magna pars capta est, quam tenere Afri coeperant, et nobilissima urbs Syracusana; praeda ingens Romam perlata est. Laevinus in Macedonia cum Philippo et multis Graeciae populis et rege Asiae Attalo amicitiam fecit, et ad Siciliam profectus Hannonem quendam, Afrorum ducem, apud Agrigentum civitatem cum ipso oppido cepit eumque Romam cum captivis nobilibus misit. XL civitates in deditionem accepit, XXVI expugnavit. Ita omnis Sicilia recepta est; ingenti gloria Romam regressus est. Hannibal in Italia Cn. Fulvium consulem subito adgressus cum octo milibus hominum interfecit.

Latin Poetry

Finish translations for final two Martial poems. Exam on Country and City poems is on Thursday.

Myth Tradition

If you scored 16 or higher on today’s practice test for the Medusa Mythology Exam, you should seriously consider taking it.  Your $3 is due to m by Friday. You can find the syllabus and other materials at http://www.medusaexam.org/

Monday, February 6, 2012

Latin 3

You will be quizzed tomorrow on two things from readings #4-#6:

• Numbers in Latin: how to spell out roman numerals and how to translate.  You may find this site helpful: http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romannumerals/a/LatinNumbers.htm
• Subordinate clauses: I will give you a couple sentences and label which parts are subordinate clauses, then you will need to identify the type of clause they are!

Here is the PDF version of the presentation from today: Eutropius #4-#6

Latin Poetry

Scan and look up vocabulary for both Martial poems in packet.

Myth Tradition

Jason and the Argonauts essays due by 8pm tonight.  Make sure you are making specific citations from the Apollodorus for your comparisons!

Start reading Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. We begin our discussion of Thebes tomorrow.