Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Finals Week is battle.

UCCELLO, Paolo. St George and the Dragon.
1458-60. Oil on canvas. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris
Slay the dragon! Destroy the dragon of Finals. And afterwards enter thou into thy rest, for summer awaits.




Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Final Review, Part III: Pax tibi

CARPACCIO, Vittore. The Lion of St Mark. (detail)
1516. Tempera on canvas. Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Let's use our time wisely. It's review time. What are the pronouns in Latin? What are the third and fourth declensions? How do adjectives interact with nouns? All such questions are "essential" to this semester of Latin.

Agenda:
  1. Pater noster
  2. REDO: Cap X Vocab Quiz
  3. Continue Cap X Grammar:
    1. Verbs
  4. Continue reading Cap X together
  5. HW Review:
    1. The Final is on Thursday, May 16, 2013.
    2. Study for the Final by reviewing and memorizing the Latin Charts and by knowing Cap X grammar.
    3. Study Present Tense Verb System
    4. Get your chant on! The Endless Noun Ending Song
    5. Este perfecti!

Monday, May 13, 2013

Final Review, Part II: Don't drink the hemlock.

DAVID, Jacques-Louis. The Death of Socrates.
1787. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
What are the pronouns in Latin? What are the third and fourth declensions? How do adjectives interact with nouns? All such questions are "essential" to this semester of Latin.

Agenda:
  1. Pater noster
  2. Announcement: tomorrow you will take Cap X Vocab Quiz
  3. Study for Final on Cap X Grammar:
    1. Passive Infinitive Verbs
    2. Accusative + Infinitive Constructions
    3. Other things
  4. HW Review:
    1. Study for the Final by reviewing and memorizing the Latin Charts and by knowing Cap X grammar.
    2. Study Present Tense Verb System
    3. Get your chant on! The Endless Noun Ending Song
    4. Este perfecti!

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Final Review: Part I, Cap X Grammar

GOZZOLI. St Augustine Teaching in Rome.
1464-65. Detail of Fresco.
Apsidal chapel, Sant'Agostino, San Gimignano
Today we shall all learn more about the Church Fathers. And be careful; you just might enjoy it. One of the objectives of this assignment is to see the reason why we think the way we do about spiritual things. In other words, we can think because they thought first.

Agenda:
  1. Pater noster
  2. Correct Cap X Vocab Quiz
  3. Study for Final:
    1. Cap X Grammar
  4. Begin reading Cap X. When everyone is done with the quiz, you may read together in pairs. Work quietly, though, and as unto the Lord. 
  5. HW Review:
    1. Study for the Final by reviewing and memorizing the Latin Charts and by knowing Cap X grammar.
    2. Study Present Tense Verb System
    3. Get your chant on! The Endless Noun Ending Song
    4. Este perfecti!