Well done for our first Latin class. You each did a great job with your homework and classwork. As we discussed in class, your homework is to finish Visual Latin lessons 2 & 3. You will have a QUIZ of Friday over the “to be” verb SUM.  I’ll hand you a slip of paper with the English: I am____                We are___________ You are_____         You (pl.) are___________ He, she, it ________   They are____________ You will need to fill in the Latin: Sum, Es, Est, Sumus, Estis, Sunt If you need to review this, you can find the review on page 2 of Lesson 1.  Have a great week!

Well done for our first class!  We accomplished what I hoped we would.  You all did a great job.  Keep up the good work. Your assignment is to work through Visual Latin Lessons 6, 7, & 8 at home. Review any words that were difficult for you from the first 5 lessons.  They will appear again and again in future (harder) lessons and will cause you trouble if you don’t nail them down now.  Some of these tricky words might be:  deinde – then, dicit -says, fiat – let there be, ubi – where?, iam – now, quoque – also, bellum – war (when a noun) beautiful (when an adjective). …

Welcome back to school; goodbye summer!  I can’t wait for our first class on Friday, but in the meantime . . . Complete Visual Latin Lesson 1.  You’ll find this in your binder your parents received at the parents’ meeting Thursday night.  Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or problems completing your assignment.  My contact info. is also in your Latin binder.  See you Friday!

Welcome  back! I can’t wait for our first class on Friday!  In the meantime. . . Complete Visual Latin Lessons 1-3.  You’ll find these in the binder your parents received at the parents’ meeting Thursday night.

HIGH SCHOOL LITERATURE SYLLABUS 2015-16 Aug. 28 PARENTS AND STUDENTS: Please read and discuss these first two handouts together before our first class. • “Introduction to the Great Books” from A Guide to the Great Books by Wes Callihan, Veritas Press (handout) • “The Devil Has No Stories” – Introduction in Heroes of the City of Man, pp. 13-38 • Read the Omnibus handout on The Epic of Gilgamesh • Read the Stirling Bridge pages on The Epic of Gilgamesh, pp. 1-4 • Read The Epic of Gilgamesh, Introduction – p. 28 Sep. 4 • Read Epic of Gilgamesh, pp. 29- end , and bring your plot chart to class.…

Welcome to the last week of school! Please study Lesson 31 in your book. Your last quiz will ONLY be the “Irregular Comparison of Adverbs” Chart on page 94.  For bonus know the saying “multum in parvo” I will bring copies of the first lesson of next year’s Latin.  I thought you might like seeing how Lingua Latina is structured.  I’m so incredibly proud of all of you. It’s now time to put all your Latin learning to good use, that is, reading! See you Friday, Deus vult.

Review Lessons 16-20 Vocabulary Please write 2 WELL WRITTEN sentences for each of the 4 sentence patterns.  They are: SN – V/ P1,    SN – V – DO/P2,     SN – V – IO – DO/P3,    SN – LV – PrN/P4 They will share their sentences with the class on Friday.

Lesson 30! Review Lesson 30 in textbook. Do Lesson 30 exercises in workbook. Verb to conjugate is “finio, finire, finivi, finitus”  This is a regular 4th conjugation verb. I’m so proud of all my Latin scholars!

Lesson 29 Review the lesson paying close attention to the irregular comparatives.  It is helpful to say them out loud several times a day. Do workbook exercise for Lesson 29. Quiz 29 on Friday.  Word to FULLY conjugate is pono, ponere, posui, positus.  It is 3rd conjugation (no “bo’s” in its futures)

Review Vocabulary for weeks 15-20 Daily Grams through Day 87 Review Ref. 78a on page 49 of the workbook. Test 28 No Essay!