Schedule - LATN 199 - F20

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

Wednesday, September 2

  • Initial diagnostic due
  • Homework (due before class): Complete a short diagnostic assessment and take quick look through our course website.

Friday, September 4

  • Diagnostic review
  • Homework (due before class): Read and translate Chapter 1 in Nepos’ Life of Hannibal. Take note of the words and constructions that were most confusing for you. Fill out the getting to know you survey.

Week 2

Monday, September 7

  • Nouns, adjectives, and verbs
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and complete the exercises in Handout #1.

Wednesday, September 9

  • Hannibal, Classics, and Justice
  • Homework (due before class): NO HOMEWORK! Take the extra time to review your forms and become more confident with identifying them.

Friday, September 11

  • Sentence structures
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and complete the exercises in Handout #2.

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Week 3

Monday, September 14

Wednesday, September 16

  • Indirect statement
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and translate the sentences in Handout #4.

Friday, September 18

  • Participles
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and translate the sentences in Handout #5.

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Week 4

Monday, September 21

  • Gerunds and gerundives
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and translate the sentences in Handout #6.

Wednesday, September 23

  • Relative clauses
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and translate the sentences in Handout #7.

Friday, September 25

  • Temporal clauses
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and translate the sentences in Handout #8.

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Week 5

Monday, September 28

  • Causal and concessive clauses
  • Homework (due before class): Competency Quizzes Due. Additionally, read through the links and translate the sentences in Handout #9.

Wednesday, September 30

  • NO CLASS!

Friday, October 2

  • Conditions
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and translate the sentences in Handout #10.

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Week 6

Monday, October 5

  • Ut/ne clauses
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and translate the sentences in Handout #11.

Wednesday, October 7

  • Independent uses of the subjunctive
  • Homework (due before class): Read through the links and translate the sentences in Handout #12.

Friday, October 9

  • NO CLASS!

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Week 7

Monday, October 12

  • Nepos, Prologue
  • Homework (due before class): Translate Nepos’ Prologue. Jot down three things that were confusing to you in this passage.

Wednesday, October 14

  • Nepos, Prologue
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentences 3-5 of the Prologue, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Be sure you can identify what type of clauses and can explain any subjunctive verbs in them. Additionally, write down at least three words or constructions that you found confusing in the passage.

Friday, October 16

  • Nepos, Prologue
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentences 5-7 of the Prologue, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. In sentence 5, pay particular attention to the “double dative” (dative of source/purpose and dative of reference) with the verb “to be”. Be sure you can identify what type of clauses and can explain any subjunctive verbs in them and write down at least three words or constructions that you found confusing in the passage.

Week 8

Monday, October 19

Wednesday, October 21

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 1
  • Homework (due before class): Translate the final sentence of the Prologue and all of Chapter 1 of the Life of Hannibal, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Be sure you can identify what type of clauses and can explain any subjunctive verbs in them. In chapter 1, pay close attention to the use of indirect statement in sentence 1, marking out the verb of the head, accusative subject, and infinitive as main verb.

Friday, October 23

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 2
  • Homework (due before class): Translate the final sentence of the Chapter 1 of the Life of Hannibal and sentence 1 and 2 of Chapter 2, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. For this assignment, try to unpack as we do in class sentence 2 of Chapter 2 - it is a doozy!

Week 9

Monday, October 26

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 2
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentences 2-5 of Chapter 2, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. For this assignment, try to unpack as we do in class sentence 2 of Chapter 2 - it is a doozy! Additionally, do your best to explain why all the verbs in these sentences are in the subjunctive.

Wednesday, October 28

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 2
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentences 4-5 of Chapter 2, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. For this assignment, do your best to explain why all the verbs in these sentences are in the subjunctive. Additionally, review your grammatical analysis assignment to see what kind of things you need to work on and set up a student hours appointment if necessary!

Friday, October 30

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3
  • Homework (due before class): Translate the last bit of sentence 4 and sentences 5-6 of Chapter 2 as well as sentence 1 of Chapter 3, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. For this assignment, pay particular attention to the participles in the passage as well as the words they modify.

Week 10

Monday, November 2

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 3
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentences 1-3 of Chapter 3, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. For this assignment, pay particular attention to the participles in the passage as well well as the words they modify.

Wednesday, November 4

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 3 and 4
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentence 4 of Chapter 3 and sentences 1-2 of Chapter 4, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Pay particular attention to sentence 4 in Chapter 3, with a particular focus on how participles and relative clauses work within it.

Friday, November 6

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 4
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentence 2-4 of Chapter 4, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Pay particular attention to sentence 4 in Chapter 3, with a particular focus on how participles and relative clauses work within it.

Week 11

Monday, November 9

  • Sight reading
  • Homework (due before class): Translation #1 due! For this assignment, there is no need for an idiomatic translation, provide only one grammatically-oriented translation.

Wednesday, November 11

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 5
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentence 1-3 of Chapter 5, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Pay particular attention to how participles and relative clauses work within it.

Friday, November 13

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 5 and 6
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentence 3-4 of Chapter 5 and sentence 1 of Chapter 6, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Pay particular attention to how participles and relative clauses work within it (with special attention to any connecting relatives).

Week 12

Monday, November 16

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 6
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentences 1-3 of Chapter 6, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Pay particular attention to how you put together the sentences, looking carefully as what words agree with one another and how they add meaning to the sentence.

Wednesday, November 18

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 6 and 7
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentence 4 of Chapter 6 and sentences 1-2 of Chapter 7, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Pay particular attention to how you put together the sentences, looking carefully as what words agree with one another and how they add meaning to the sentence.

Friday, November 20

Week 13

Monday, November 30

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 7
  • Homework (due before class): Dictionary competency quiz due! Translate sentences 5-7 of Chapter 7, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Pay particular attention to relative clauses and their antecedents.

Wednesday, December 2

  • Course evaluation day!
  • Homework (due before class): Translation #2 due! For this assignment, there is no need for an idiomatic translation, provide only one grammatically-oriented translation.

Friday, December 4

  • Nepos, Life of Hannibal, Chapter 7 and 8
  • Homework (due before class): Translate sentence 7 of Chapter 7 and sentences 1-2 of Chapter 8, marking out the clauses, both independent and dependent, and the main verbs within each. Pay particular attention to relative clauses and their antecedents.

Week 14

Monday, December 7

  • TBD
  • Homework (due before class): TBD

Wednesday, December 9

Final

 
Due: December 18, 11:59 PM; Final Grammatical Analysis and Translation

If you would like to do the grammatical analysis and have my feedback before the translation, please submit this to me by December 11 so that I can correct it and get it back to you.