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Old Assignments

Tuesday, Nov. 25

Thursday, Nov. 20

Graded Homework due. The reading is the discussion of three philosophers. Lucretius upholds the validity of his atomic theory, while the other two support other ancinet ideas: the first, that all matter derives from fire, and the second, that all matter derives from air.
Progressive Reading version of the reading on p. 106-107.
Do the practica through the end of Chapter Four, and be ready to go through the progressive reading, which we will do first.

Tuesday, Nov. 18

Quiz on Chapter 4 part 2 and 3 vocabulary, plus a gender/number/case exercise which will include 3rd declension nouns and new uses of the dative and ablative cases.
Do the practica through p. 102.
We'll do the Progressive Reading version of the reading on p. 106-107; if you like you can prepare it in advance. This reading uses the relative pronoun material on pp. 103-4, so it will make more sense if you look over it now. We will go over this in class before we do the reading, though.

Thursday, Nov. 6

Quiz on Chapter 4 part 1 vocabulary and 3rd declension forms (i.e. a paradigm of one or more third decl. words).
Do the practica through p. 91, but if the one on p. 91 is too hard, I gie you permission to skip it (we'll do it in class).
We'll do the Progressive Reading version of the reading on p. 92; if you like you can prepare it in advance.

Tuesday, Nov. 4

Study Chapter 6 vocabulary
Do the practicum on p. 82
Study the charts on p. 83, and if you like, do the practica on pp. 84-5
If you want to get a head start on the reading, here's the Progressive Reading version

Thursday, Oct. 30

Complete the reading on p. 74.
Complete the practica on p. 76.
Quiz on:
- Paradigms of first and second declension nouns, including all five cases -- see the internet paradigms for models.
- Chapter 3 vocabulary
- Translating genitives

Tuesday, Oct. 28

Complete Practica through p. 75 -- yes this is a lot! Focus on making sure you understand the genitive, and just make a good try at the dative and pronoun exercises which we will review in detail.
Learn the full charts of the first and second declensions -- use the material from the paradigms page to study by.
Read the first two paragraphs of the reading on p. 73-4.

Thursday, Oct. 23

Complete Practica on p. 69
Learn the genitive endings on p. 68, and look over the material on pp. 70-73
Study the vocabulary on p. 67.
Graded Homework Due: Chose five verbs, one each from first, second, third, third-io and fourth conjugations, and for each verb fill our a chart like this one:

You will end up with five charts like the above, one for each declension.

Tuesday, Oct. 7

Complete Practica through p. 57.
We have 2 more class days before the midterm, in which we will cover through p.65. Go ahead and read the section on pronouns (pp. 58-60), which is parallel to the adjective work we've just finished -- this will make the Oct. 7 class easier!

Tuesday, Sept. 30

Begin reading chapter 3 and study the vocabulary on page 50-51. Read over the explanation of adjective dictionary form on p. 51 as well.

Thursday, Sept. 25

Quiz on chapter 2 vocabulary, changing singluars to plurals, and plural forms; be able to form plurals of both nouns and verbs and fill out noun paradigms which have plural forms.
Finish the practica in chapter 2, excpet for the one on categorizing verb meanings (p.43-4)

Tuesday, Sept. 23

Tuesday, Sept. 16

Do the practica up to the Plurals section. We haven't gone over the meanings of the dictioanry form parts in detail, so this will be your first approach to it -- do the best you can!
Study the section 2 vocabulary, and review the section 1 vocabulary, noting what declension the verbs are.

Thursday, Sept. 11

Quiz on dictioanry form and translation; study vocabulary on pp. 19 and 25.
do practica through p. 34.
(there is an error in pagination -- it goes from 25 to 30, then starts over later -- oh, well.)
We'll start on section II.

Tuesday, Sept. 9

Bring a dictionary to class if you have one.
Study the chapter 2 vocabulary and read through p. 33; you don;t have to do the practica though.

Thursday, Sept. 4

Quiz on material through p. 15. Know your vocabulary (from the word lists; you won;t have to know full dictionary form till next quiz), and be able to give forms of any 1st or 2nd declension word and use these with prepositions.
Do the exercises through the end of the chapter.
We will start on chapter 2 next time so if you want to be on top of things, look over the first part of that chapter.

Tuesday, Sept. 2

Do the exercises through p. 15.
Look over the textbook through the end of chapter 1, though you don't need to do the rest of the exercises yet.
Learn the chart on p. 10; be able to give the forms of any of the nouns we've learned so far.
look over the vocabulry on p. 19 and compare the full dictionary form to what you already know of these words.

Thursday, August 28

Do the exercises through p. 9.
Look over the textbook through the end of chapter 1, though you don't need to do the rest of the exercises yet.
Study the chart on p. 10; we will begin working from this in class as our first (structural) link to cases in Latin.
Take the Index of Learning Styles Questionaire if you didn't already.
No quiz by the way.

Tuesday, August 26

Read the introduction to the textbook.
Take the Index of Learning Styles Questionaire. They will send your score back to you. We'll discuss the results in class.
Read the text through page 7. Just glance over it; no need to do the exercises yet -- we will use them for review next time.

Thursday, August 21

Read the introduction to the textbook. We'll go over some of the ideas.
If you want to be on top of things, read the text through page 5. We'll cover some of this material in class.
If you want to get a head start on next time's assignment, take the Index of Learning Styles Questionaire. They will send your score back to you. We'll discuss the results in class.