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.

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!

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!

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!

Jacobum fratrem Domini.

GRECO, El. Apostle St James the Less.
1610-14. Oil on canvas. Museo de El Greco, Toledo

On May 1st, seven days ago, the Church celebrates the Feast Day of St. James the Less, or "James the Brother of our Lord." Many things might strike us about this El Greco portrait--the sad and fallen eyes, the tired posture, the almost shabby simplicity of dress, the typical cloak at an oblique angle across the saint. But such adornments are not accidental; rather, note how such things contrast with the almost Russian countenance of ponderous thought, the face of a man who spent not merely his adult years but his entire life with the Lord.

Today in Latin we are finishing our study of the "Fall of Rome," which is of course our final period of study in our survey of classical history.

Agenda:

1. Pater noster
2. Study for a bit. 2 mins. 
3. Vocab Quiz: Cap X
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!

Iohannes Apostolus Evangelicus

NARDO DI CIONE. St John the Evangelist.
1360-65. Tempera on wood.
Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg

Today Christians in Eastern Orthodox churches are celebrating the Iohannes Apostolus Evangelicus. Here he is depicted with pen and halo, John the Revelator, John the Divine, John--the only apostle who was not martyred and was sent to island of Patmos where he beheld the strange visions of the end of the world. 

Agenda:

1. Pater noster
2. Finish Study Guide for Final:
1. Cap X Stuff, words, and concepts
2. Ancient Rome: Prosperity and Decline 
3. Seven Wonders of Rome
3. Study words for Cap X
4. HW Review:
1. Study words for Cap X.
2. Study for the Final by reviewing and memorize 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!

St. John the Evangelist

CANO, Alonso. St John the Evangelist.
1636. Oil on canvas. Musée du Louvre, Paris

If you have not noticed, it is in the weeks after Easter that the Church celebrates the vitae apostolorum. In the East, tomorrow marks the feast day of St. John the Evangelist. Here he is now: "St. John the Evangelist and the Poisoned Chalice." His halo is baroque, much like those of Caravaggio. Christ is seen here charming the evil out of the cup. According to legend St. John was handed a cup of poisoned wine, from which, at his blessing, the poison rose in the shape of a serpent.

In Latin today we reviewing our material from last week. Pay attention in our reviews because these are the things that are occurring of the Final.

Agenda:

1. Pater noster
2. Correct and discuss:
1. Pensa pro Cap IX
3. Study Guide for Final:
1. Cap X Stuff, words, and concepts
2. Ancient Rome: Prosperity and Decline 
3. Seven Wonders of Rome
4. HW Review:
1. Study words for Cap X.
2. Study for the Final by reviewing and memorize the Latin Charts and by knowing Cap X grammar for translation.
3. Study Present Tense Verb System
4. Get your chant on! The Endless Noun Ending Song
5. Este perfecti!

St. James the Apostle

VENEZIANO. Apostle James the Greater.
1384. Poplar panel. Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Still in the season of Easter now. Consider today's Easter meditation on the Feast Day of Saint James the Greater, the Son of Zebedee. He and his brother together were affectionately called Boenurges, or "Sons of Thunder." He was so zealous for the gospel that it did not take long for Herod to act against him. He was the second martyr of the Christian Church: "Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword" (Acts 12 1-2).

Agenda:

1. Pater noster
2. Finish Pensum B in Cap IX (EC)
3. Study Guide for Final:
1. Cap X Stuff, words, and concepts
2. Ancient Rome: Prosperity and Decline
4. HW Review:
1. Study words for Cap X.
2. Study for the Final by reviewing and memorize the Latin Charts. 
3. Study Present Tense Verb System
4. Get your chant on! The Endless Noun Ending Song
5. Este perfecti!

Ecce Patres Eclesiae

LIPPI. Sts Gregory and Jerome.
1437. Tempera and gold on wood.
Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti.

Here are two more Church Doctors, Gregory the Great and St. Jerome. Note the monkish garb of Jerome and the colorful accoutrements of the Pope.

Agenda:

1. Pater noster
2. Correct Vocab Quiz for Cap 9
3. Do Pensum B in Cap IX (EC)
4. HW Review:
1. Study for the Final by reviewing and memorize the Latin Charts. 
2. Study Present Tense Verb System
3. Get your chant on! The Endless Noun Ending Song
4. Este perfecti!