Schedule - LATN 101 - F22

This schedule links to the notes and charts that you’ll need throughout the semester. Your homework assignment for almost every class period is to read the notes and charts sections in advance of the class meeting; then, review those concepts again after the class meeting. Use the practice opportunities throughout the notes to improve your skills.

Week 1: 8/31 - 9/2 | Week 2: 9/5 - 9/9 | Week 3: 9/12 - 9/16 | Week 4: 9/19 - 9/23 | Week 5: 9/26 - 9/30 | Week 6: 10/3 - 10/7 | Week 7: 10/17 - 10/21 | Week 8: 10/24 - 10/28 | Week 9: 10/31 - 11/4 | Week 10: 11/7 - 11/11 | Week 11: 11/14 - 11/18 | Week 12: 11/21 - 11/25 | Week 13: 11/28 - 12/2 | Week 14: 12/5 - 12/9 |

Week 1 (8/31 - 9/2)

Wednesday, August 31

  • Studying a historical language
  • Pronunciation
  • Reading (due before class): Read Kennedy and Murray’s article and addendum on the closing of the Classics department at Howard.

Friday, September 2

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Week 2 (9/5 - 9/9)

Monday, September 5

  • Verbal forms
    • Person, number, tense, voice, mood
    • Principal parts
    • Conjugations
  • Perfect active
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Watch Professor Smith’s short video on verbal inflection and the formation of the imperfect and perfect tenses. Read and study the section on verbs and the perfect tense.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the conjugation of the perfect active indicative in the 3rd person singular and plural and the first nine dictionary entries for the verbs in the vocabulary list for Unit 1 (up to and including interficio) for Daily Check-In #1.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Identify the conjugations of the first eight verbs in your vocabulary list and form the 3rd person singular and plural perfect active indicative forms for each of these verbs.
  • Further Practice (optional): Try your hand at the following conjugation identification exercise.

Wednesday, September 7

  • Perfect passive
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Watch Prof. Joseph’s short video. In addition, please read Prof. Libatique’s article on why the active-passive distinction still matters today.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the conjugation of the perfect passive indicative in the 3rd person singular and plural as well the final seven dictionary entries for the verbs in the vocabulary list for Unit 1 for Daily Check-In #2.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Identify the conjugations of the last eight verbs in your vocabulary list and form the 3rd person singular and plural perfect passive indicative forms for each of these verbs. Additionally, determine the person, number, tense, voice, mood of the following verbal forms: petiverunt, auditi sunt, and ductae sunt.
  • Further Practice (optional): Try your hand at producing different perfect active and passive forms in the following exercise.

Friday, September 9

  • Imperfect active and passive
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Rewatch Prof. Smith’s video on the formation of the imperfect. Read the sections from our textbook on the imperfect tense.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the conjugation of the imperfect active and passive in the 3rd person singular and plural and review principal parts and definition of verbs in Unit 1 for Daily Check-In #3.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Form the 3rd person singular and plural imperfect indicative forms in both the active and passive voice for last eight verbs in Unit 1. Additionally, determine the person, number, tense, voice, mood of the following verbal forms: contenderunt, necabatur, and mittebat.
  • Further Practice (optional): Try your hand at producing different imperfect active and passive forms in the following exercise.

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Week 3 (9/12 - 9/16)

Monday, September 12

  • Nouns (1st, 2nd, and 3rd declensions)
  • Usages of the nominative and genitive
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Watch my short video on substantive inflection and read the notes on nouns.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the nominative and genitive endings in both singular and plural for the first, second (masculine and neuter), and third (masculine/feminine and neuter) declensions for Daily Check-In #3. Additionally, begin memorizing the dictionary entries and definitions for the nouns in Unit 1’s vocabulary list.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Identify the declensions that the list of nouns in my video belong to and form the nominative and genitive singular and plural for them.
  • Further Practice: Try your hand at the following exercises on nominative and genitive forms and dictionary entires for nouns.

Wednesday, September 14

  • Introduction to CBL
  • Review
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Continue memorizing the nouns in Unit 1’s vocabulary list. If you have time, begin to memorize dative, accusative endings in both singular and plural for the first, second (masculine and neuter), and third (masculine/feminine and neuter) declensions.

Friday, September 16

  • Nouns (1st, 2nd, and 3rd declensions)
  • The dative, accusative, and ablative cases
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Watch Prof. Smith’s short video on the dative and accusative cases.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the dative, accusative endings in both singular and plural for the first, second (masculine and neuter), and third (masculine/feminine and neuter) declensions and review the nouns in Unit 1’s vocabulary list for Daily Check-in #4.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Write out the full singular and plural paradigm of the following nouns, noting the declensions of the each noun: filia; deus; pater; nomen.

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Week 4 (9/19 - 9/23)

Monday, September 19

  • Sentence Structures
  • Review
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the section and watch my video on sentence structures.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the dictionary entries for prepositions and review noun morphology for all cases for Daily Check-in #5

Wednesday, September 21

  • Adjectives (2-1-2, 3rd declension adjectives)
  • Noun-adjective agreement
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Watch Prof. Joseph’s short videos about noun-adjective agreement and adjective dictionary entries. Additionally, read and study sections 1a, 1c, 1d, and 1e in selection on adjectives from the textbook.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Compare and contrast the declension of adjectives in these charts with the noun declension you have already learned, memorizing the key differences. Additionally, memorize the dictionary entries and definitions for the adjectives in Unit 1 for for Daily Check-in #6.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Complete the following exercise on dictionary entires for adjectives.
  • Further Practice: Try out the following mixed declension noun-adjective exercise.

Friday, September 23

  • -ius adjectives and substantives
  • Intros to WPS and MPS
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the short sections on -ius adjectives and substantives in our textbook. Additionally, please have a quick read of this short piece on gender diversity in the Latin language.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Review the rules of noun-adjective agreement and refresh your knowledge of the nouns and adjectives in the Unit 1 vocabulary list.
  • Further Practice: Try your hand at the following exercise on noun-adjective agreement.

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Week 5 (9/26 - 9/30)

Monday, September 26

  • is, ea, id
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Watch the first 9:03 of my short video on pronouns. Additionally, read and study the introductory section on pronouns as well as the sub-sections of is, ea, id.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the declension of is, ea, id as well as dictionary entries and definitions for the pronouns in Unit 1 for Daily Check-in #7.
  • Further Practice: Try your hand at the following exercise on the different forms of is, ea, id.

Wednesday, September 28

  • Demonstrative pronouns (hic and ille)
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Watch from 9:03 to 11:25 of my short video on pronouns and read and study the sections on demonstratives.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the declension of ille, illa, illud and hic, haec, hoc in the respective charts for Daily Check-in #8.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Write out the declension (all cases) of the noun-adjective pairs at the end of my video.
  • Further Practice: Try your hand at the following exercises on forms of hic, haec, hoc and ille, illa, illud.

Friday, September 30

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Week 6 (10/3 - 10/7)

Monday, October 3

  • Review
  • Assessment: Mastery Quiz #1
  • Practice: To practice for the assessment quiz, try your hand at these practice quizzes #1, #2, #3.

Wednesday, October 5

  • Composition workshop
  • Toxic charity
  • Assessment (to be completed before class): Complete Translation #1.

Friday, October 7

  • Expressions of place and time
  • Prepositional phrases
  • Assessment (to be completed before class): Complete Composition #1.

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Fall Break: 10/10 - 10/14

Week 7 (10/17 - 10/21)

Monday, October 17

  • Present indicative
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the section on the present indicative.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the first eight verbs in the vocabulary list for Unit 2 (up to and including affero) and study the formation of present active and passive indicative for Daily Check-in #10.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Form the 3rd person singular and plural present indicative forms in both the active and passive voice for conucumbo, cresco, do, reddo. Additionally, determine the person, number, tense, voice, mood of the following verbal forms: concumbebant, crescitur, and data sunt.

Wednesday, October 19

  • Irregular Verbs: fero and eo
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the section on irregular verbs.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the last six verbs in the vocabulary list for Unit 2 vocabulary list as well as the present active and passive of fero and eo for Daily Check-in #11.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Try your hand at the following exercise on the formation of irregular verbs.

Friday, October 21

  • Intensifying pronouns (ipse, ipsa, ipsum)
  • Reflexive pronouns (sui, sibi, se, se)
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Watch from 11:25 onwards of my short video on pronouns and read the sections on intensifying pronouns and sui, sibi, se, se.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the declension of ipse, ipsa, ipsum and sui, sibi, se, se. In addition, memorize the nouns in your vocabulary list.

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Week 8 (10/24 - 10/28)

Monday, October 24

  • Review
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Re-watch from 11:25 onwards of my short video on pronouns and re-read the sections on intensifying pronouns.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the adjectives and review the the declension of ipse, ipsa, ipsum.

Wednesday, October 26 (slides)

  • Dependent clauses
  • Temporal clauses with the indicative
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the sections on dependent and temporal clauses.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the conjunctions for Unit 2.

Friday, October 28 (slides)

  • Temporal clauses with the subjunctive
  • Imperfect subjunctive
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Watch Prof. Joseph’s video on dependent clauses and reread the sections on temporal clauses in our textbook.
  • Assessment (to be completed before class): Memorize the formation of the imperfect subjunctive and review the first 8 verbs of Unit 2.

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Week 9 (10/31 - 11/4)

Monday, October 31

  • Pluperfect subjunctive
  • Sequence of tenses
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the sections on sequence of tenses in our textbook.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the formation of the pluperfect active and passive subjunctive and review the second 8 verbs of Unit 2 for Daily Check-in #13.
  • Practice: Try your hand at the following exercise the formation of the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive.

Wednesday, November 2

  • Review
  • Expressions of time and place
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the sections on prepositional phrases, expressions of place and time.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Study prepositions and different cases that they take in the vocabulary for Daily Check-in #13.

Friday, November 4

  • Review
  • Practice: Practice with the review exercises for Unit 2.

Week 10 (11/7 - 11/11)

Monday, November 7

  • Review
  • Assessment: Mastery quiz #2

Wednesday, November 9

Friday, November 11

Week 11 (11/14 - 11/18)

Monday, November 14

  • possum, posse, potui
  • Infinitives
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the section on infinitives and their usages.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the formation of different forms of the infinitive and study the principal parts of the first eight verbs in Unit 3 for Daily Check-in #14.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Try your hand at forming the present and perfect infinitives.

Wednesday, November 16

  • volo and nolo
  • Infinitives
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the section on irregular verbs, focusing in particular on volo and nolo.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Memorize the 3rd person singular and plural forms of volo and nolo in the present and imperfect active indicative and study the last eight verbs in Unit 3 for Daily Check-in #15.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Try your hand at the following exercise on the formation of irregular verbs.

Friday, November 18

  • Indirect statement
  • Infinitives
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the section on indirect statement.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Review the formation of different forms of the infinitive and study the nouns in the Unit 3 vocabulary list.
  • Practice (to be completed before class): Try your hand at translating and identifying the central parts of an indirect statements.

Week 12 (11/21 - 11/25)

Monday, November 21

  • Deponent and semi-deponent verbs
  • Reading (to be completed before class): Read the section on deponent and semi-deponent verbs.
  • Morphology and Vocabulary (to be completed before class): Study the prepositions and adjectives in the Unit 3 vocabulary list.

Week 13 (11/28 - 12/2)

Monday, November 28

  • Review

Wednesday, November 30

  • Review

Friday, December 2

  • Review

Week 14 (12/5 - 12/9)

Monday, December 5

  • Review
  • Assessment: Mastery quiz #3

Wednesday, December 7

Friday, December 9

Final

Submit a final reflection of 300-500 words on your experience in community-based learning this semester. Address the following questions in your reflection:

  • What teaching and planning techniques have worked well this semester? What haven’t worked well? Why?
  • What have you learned about how language can be used to give or take power from particular people and groups?
  • How can Latin and the study of ancient languages and cultures become more accessible to a larger array of individuals and groups? What have you been doing to make this material more accessible in your teaching it to younger audiences?
  • How do you plan to continue to build on your learning experience this semester? What goals do you have for CBL for the spring semester?

Please submit the reflection, as a Google doc shared with me, by Saturday, December 17 at 11:59 PM.