Final Exam Review:

NOTE: I will be here  (our classroom) for a final exam review Wed. at 12:00  (if someone is there we'll move) -- if this is a terrible time tell me -- I did not hear from everyone about their schedule.  I will also be available on Thursday, either for individual meetings or review sessions.

What the test will cover: Basically, everything since the midterm.   (But comprehensive in terms of what you'll see in the reading).  Vocabulary: Latin to English equivalents.

• Vocabulary: Hannibal vocabulary 4 and Wheelock  chapters 32through 34

  1. Latin to English equivalents from the above

  2. 1o matching questions (based on vocabulary throughout the term, including review vocabularies and key words from some later readings_) of Latin words with similar meaning (e.g. repente and subito; uxor and femina, etc.  (Deos magnos!   Quis versipellis magistram nostram magnanimam comedit et formam eius assumpsit!!??? )  Really, this is just a way of testing passive vocabulary from later readings where you encountered it in context; if you are familiar with the readings, you will probably even enjoy it.  I will give you an example for the review.

• Gender, number and case exercise: taken from the constructed reading passage in the test, including nouns of all 5 declensions, adjectives, and pronouns.  Yeah, all of it.

  • Here's a GNC exercise based on Catullus 51.  Review the vocabulary, and see what you make of it.  The one on the test will presumably be more accessible as it will be from prose I think you can sight-read (or at least interpret) ...

• Verb identification exercise: possibly from the test reading, or from something else we have read this year.  Identify verbs in terms of person/number, tense, voice, and mood

  • Here's a sample verb analysis:

• Multiple Choice: The catch-all category.  Appropraite translations, adverbs, deponenet verbs, etc.

• Reading passage in constructed Latin, dealing in some subject we have at least touched on this semester.  Probably partying.

• Reading 2: A brief passage from either chapters 1-2 of Cena Trimalchionis, or on one of the poems we have done since midterm (a complete list shortly to come.

• Scansion: Scanning 4-5 lines of hendekasyllabic, elegaic couplet, or Sapphic meter.  This will count for a few points on the test but will also allow you to earn extra credit beyond that.

Some areas to be familiar with (because they will show up on your reading)

• Indirect Question

• Indirest Statement

• Conditional Sentences

• Deponent Verbs

• Indirect Commands (Jussive Noun Clauses) (from Trimalchio reading)

• recognize adverbs and adjectives in comparative and superlative forms

Some review materials (others may be on the Review Materials page:

• Hannibal review vocab 4
• Wheelock 32 vocabulary:  Latin to English
• Wheelock 32 vocabulary:  in different forms
• nolo, volo and other common verbs in different forms
• phrases with nolo and volo 
• • Wheelock 33 vocabulary: declined
  • Wheelock 33 Vocabulary: simple equivalents
• Adverb comparison
• Wheelock 34 Vocabulary (simple equivalents)
• Wheelock Vocabulary (declined)

• Deponent verbs (forms of deponent verbs from Ch. 24)

• ablative participles (give present active and perfect passive ablative participles from dictionary form) (useful for review of ablative absolute)

• Future active participles

• Mixed participles (present active, perfect passive and future active participles on verbs from Wheelock chapters 1-13) (general review or participles; also a review of some basic vocabulary in verbs)

Other than Flash Cards:

• Sentences of different sorts for general review:  You had this as a midterm review but this is a good opportunity to go over the uses of these sentences, now with more use of the vocabulary ...

• Jussive subjunctive and Indirect Command (Jussive Noun Clause) sentences for practice)  Answers

• Mixed sentences: These are from a previous year and based on their vocabulary and situations, which had more Catullus content.  Use them to practice with in any case.

• Some vocabulary sets: matching English to Latin.  This too is from a pervious year so while you may not know some of the words, you may also know enought to get through them.

• An Indirect Question/Indirect command worksheet (for review in the study session or individually)

Preparation for Tuesday, Nov. 15

• Continue with the Indirect Statement material
• Prepare the first part of Cena Trimalchionis chapter 2.  I will get the material I handed out in class, online as soon as I get the scans back from the FLRC, hopefully more legible than before.
• Progressive reading for part of that. 

Preparation for Thursday, Nov. 10

• All right, I admit, I didn't get all the pre-class work done for you for intro to the next part of the Satyricon.  So you will get a treat but also a depressing load of grammar (which you would have had anyway).  So:
• Review what the 102's are doing with Indirect Statement.  There is a work sheet with some examples, and a class notes page with various other examples and explanations.  See how you do with the work sheet.  If well, we can just put it away and concentrate on degenerate students (the ancient Roman ones I mean).
• The treat: a nice power point with delightful visual images of the many elements of life that come up in the Satyricon.  

Preparation for Thursday, Nov. 3

• Homework due: Ablative absolute prep work
• Do the Receptive Practice sentences at the end of the Ablative Absolute Handout (the huge one)
• And practice the different parts of the huge one, preferably actively, as opposed to just looking at the answers ...
• In preparation for Catullus 51, look over
  • Catullus 51 English in Latin word order
  • Catullus 51 vocabulary
  • Catullus 51 progressive reading

Preparation for Tuesday, Nov. 1

• You know what you need to do, so go ahead & do it.  :-)
• And don't forget -- Catullus 5: greatest love poem in the history of western literature, or weird stalker poem?  You decide.  (This does mean you have to actually translate it so you know what it says and recognize its nuances).
• And by the way -- would you mind practicing reading it aloud?  You would?  Do it anyway.
• Come to class dressed as an ancient Roman and get a free 100 as an extra quiz grade, to make up an absence or a bombed quiz.  Yes, everyone will think you're both late and insane, but they might already.  In any case, if I sound punchy, it's because my 12 year old daughter had a 26-hour long Halloween party this weekend, and now I have to rush home to dress like a witch.  Happy Halloween.