Have a happy winter break!  Good luck to those of you finishing up your college applications! Latin 3 Over the break you need to read the syllabi for levels 2 & 3 of the National Latin Exam, highlight your weak points, and study those areas in which you know you are weak.  When you return [...]

Latin 3 If your homework log was not checked today, it MUST be checked tomorrow in order to get credit for your homework for this term.  A copy of the sheet may be downloaded here: hmwk log term II Latin Poetry By Christmas you need to have emailed me with your 20+ selection from Lucretius, [...]

Latin 3 Study hard this evening.  Remember that the first 20 questions will concern specific grammar and the next 30 will cover the history and reading comprehension listed on Friday’s post. Latin Poetry Enjoy your night off. Myth Tradition Remember to download and read through the presentations posted on Friday. Tonight you need to collate [...]

Latin 3 You should start studying the grammar topics reviewed in Unit IV for your exam on Tuesday: Gerunds, Gerundives and the Future Passive Periphrastic (Exercises 2-4!) Purpose Clauses, Result Clauses, and Indirect Commands Accusative, Ablative & Locative referring to PLACE (to, towards, at, in, on, away from, etc) SEQUENCE OF TENSE I would suggest [...]

Latin 3 Remember that Probatio IV is on Tuesday! Look up and note the definition of any vocabulary you cannot immediately remember, and then bracket the clauses for tonight’s reading “Porsenna agrees to make peace…”, p.103 [Mucium dimissum, [cui postea Scaevolae a clade dextrae manus cognomen inditum,] legati a Porsenna Romam secuti sunt.]  [Adeo moverat [...]

Latin 3 Look up and note the definition of any vocabulary you cannot immediately remember, and then bracket the clauses for tonight’s reading “Defying Porsenna’s threats…”, p. 101: [Cum rex simul ira infensus periculoque conterritus [circumdari ignes] minitabundus iuberet], [nisi expromeret propere] [quas insidiarum sibi minas per ambages iaceret,] [C. Mucius “En tibi” inquit,] [“ut [...]

Latin 3 Remember that your presentation projects are due tomorrow, by 3pm if you are submitting via  a flash drive and by 8pm if you are emailing it to me.  Make sure to send it to my gmail account and not my school account!  If you are using powerpoint 2010, please indicate that you are [...]

Latin 3 Look up and note the definition of any vocabulary you cannot immediately remember, and then bracket the clauses for tonight’s reading “Gaius Mucius fails to recognize the Etruscan king…”: [Ubi eo venit,] [in confertissima turba prope regium tribunal constitit.] [Ibi [cum stipendium militibus forte daretur] [et scriba cum rege sedens pari fere ornatu [...]

Latin 3 There will be a brief reading quiz for story #14, Horatius Cocles, at the beginning of class on Monday. This weekend you need to bracket off the clauses for Livy II.12, p. 95, and look up any vocab you don’t already know.  Here’s the passage since it’s not in your textbooks: [Obsidio erat [...]

Latin 3 Look up any unknown vocabulary and identify the clauses for the Horatius Cocles story, #14 in Fabulae Romanae. Latin Poetry Scan and translate Horace’s carpe diem poem, I.11. Myth Tradition Remember that you need to have answered the following questions in your myth journal, due tomorrow: Compare the list of good things Prometheus [...]