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FALL SESSION (SEP 20-NOV 14, 2020)
WEEK EIGHT (NOV 8-NOV 14, 2020)
This week’s ancient Roman important dates according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
November 4-18 Ludi Plebeii games celebrated by the plebeian aediles in the Circus Flaminius dedicated in 220 BC. May have been connected with the Epulum Iovi banquet of November 13
November 8
• Mundus patet--The mundus was opened on this day (also August 24 & October 5) by removing the lapis manalis (“dripping stone” or “ghost stone”) so underworld inhabitants could emerge from it. It was believed to be a shallow pit on the Palatine marking the center of the earliest city or Rome.
• Nerva became emperor in 96 AD after the assassination of Domitian [the emperor who figures in the stories we are now reading]. Nerva was elected by the Senate.
November 13
• Feroniae in Campo--“probably a fair or market held in honor of Feronia, an ancient Italian goddess whose attributes are uncertain…worshipped by Roman freed-women. Her cult appeared in Rome before 217 BC; she had a temple in the Campus Martius.” She may have been a deity of plenty, revered especially by plebeians descended from freed slaves.” Manumissions took place at her temple in Terracina.
• Fortunae primigeniae in colle--the Temple of Fortuna was dedicated in 194 BC, 10 years after the cult was introduced into Rome from the town of Praeneste. [The temple itself exists in Rome today & I believe it can be visited.]
• Epulum Iovi--“Jove’s Banquet, probably a lectisternium or the spreading of the couches for Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva on the birthday of the great Capitoline temple.” See a possible connection with the Ludi Plebeii of November 4.
November 14 Equorum probatio--an equestrian review connected with the Ludi Plebeii
TO DO:
1. SELF-CORRECT the Comprehension Worksheet #5 based on the philosophia story found on pages 244-245 of text which was assigned last week. Worksheet #5 answers are included in this week's class email.
2. COMPLETE Ex. A of "Practicing the Language" found on page 247 of Unit 3 (4th edition) text. SEND your sentences to magistra's email address found in the class emails.
3. PRACTICE ACTIVITIES #57, #58, #59 & #60 (found in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background) as a closing summary of the content of Stage 32.
4. VIEW a 55 minute PBS 2015 NOVA program about Roman's Colosseum and efforts to replicate an underground animal entrance ramp leading directly into the arena. This program re-aired last week on PBS. It should be available for viewing until the beginning of December 2020.
GO TO: Colosseum: Roman Death Trap.
5. REGISTER for the OLLI WINTER 2021 Latin 3 class when registration opens.
WEEK SEVEN (NOV 1-NOV 7, 2020)
This week’s ancient Roman important dates according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
November 1 last day of Ludi Victoriae Sullanae--games celebrating Sulla’s 82 BC victory over the Samnites at the Colline Gate.
November 1 last day of Isia--festival of the Egyptian goddess, Isis, to whom in 40 AD Caligula erected a temple in the Campus Martius
November 4-18 Ludi Plebeii games celebrated by the plebeian aediles in the Circus Flaminius dedicated in 220 BC. May have been connected with the Epulum Iovi banquet of November 13
November 6 Agrippina the Younger, daughter of Germanicus and mother of Nero, was born in her father’s camp at Cologne which later was named for her as Colonia Agrippinensis
TO DO:
1. SELF-CORRECT the grammar Worksheet #4 based on the philosophia story found on pages 244-245 of text which was assigned last week. Worksheet #4 answers are included in this week's class email.
2. COMPLETE the comprehension worksheet based on the philosophia story found on pages 244-245 of text which was assigned reading in WEEK 5. GO TO: WORKSHEET 5 philosophia comprehension. WRITE down your answers. The answers will be provided in WEEK #8's class email.
3. REVIEW Indirect Commands found on page 128 of Stage 27, page 221 (Exs. A & B) of Stage 31, page 335 (Ex. D) and the formation of the Imperfect Subjunctive in Ex. A of page 315. Regarding the latter, take the 2nd principal part of the verb and add the subject's personal ending. Then FOLLOW the directions of Ex. C found on pages 247-248 of Stage 32. Your work may be submitted to magistra at the email address contained in the weekly class email.
4. VIEW a less than 2 minute Rick Steves' video about the Roman Colosseum. GO TO: Roman Colosseum. No doubt Euphrosyne would have seen it when she was in Rome.
5. DRILL on any and all ACTIVITES of Stage 32 in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section found below the yellow background of this webpage.
WEEK SIX (OCT 25-OCT 31, 2020)
This week’s ancient Roman important dates according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
October 25-November 1 Ludi Victoriae Sullanae--games celebrating Sulla’s 82 BC victory over the Samnites at the Colline Gate.
October 25-November 1 Isia--festival of the Egyptian goddess, Isis, to whom in 40 AD Caligula erected a temple in the Campus Martius
TO DO:
1. COMPLETE the grammar worksheet based on the philosophia story found on pages 244-245 of text which was assigned reading in WEEK 5. GO TO: philosophia--grammar worksheet #4. WRITE down your answers. The answers will be provided in WEEK #7's class email.
2. STUDY “About the Language III: More on Gerundives" p. 246, Exs. A, B,C; p. 317 Ex. F; p. 320 Ex. F. These forms are easy to recognize because they have –nd- after the verb’s present stem. The –us, -a, -um adjectival endings are declined as 1st & 2nd declension adjectives and agree in gender, number, & case with the noun they modify. If the gerundive is followed by a form of sum, it expresses an obligation (MUST). Our text states they are future passive participles. Other texts refer to this gerundive + sum form as the—wait for it—passive periphrastic!!!!!!!!!!!! If, after studying the above pages, you feel unsure of your understanding of this form, WRITE out your translation of Ex. C on page 246 and email to magistra for a check if you are concerned about your translation.
3. READ and TRANSLATE one LONG Latin sentence full of Ablative Absolutes which describes a famous event in American history. GO TO: Paul Revere and the Ablative Absolute. Email your work to magistra for a check if you are concerned about your translation.
4. EXAMINE the adjective declension endings on p. 299 of text as a review Then COMPLETE Ex. B on p. 247 of text. Email your work to magistra for correction.
5. VIEW a less than 3 minute Rick Steves' about the mosaic flooring of a 3rd Century A.D. Roman villa in Sicily. The time period is about 200 years later than our Stage 32 stories, but we may contemplate what Haterius' floors may have looked like. GO TO: Roman floor mosaics in Sicily. Another video, this time a youtube video of Fishbourne Roman Palace in England, shows us some flooring from 75 A.D. (earlier than Haterius' time) and from 3rd century A.D. (closer to the time period of the Sicily villa). GO TO: The Mysteries of Fishbourne Palace.
WEEK FIVE (OCT 18-OCT 24, 2020)
This week’s ancient Roman important dates according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
October 19 Armilustrium--“a purification of armor, probably by the Salii who, with the ancilla or sacred shields, made a procession on the Aventine near the Circus Maximus.” Some think the rites marked the end of the campaign (war) season.
TO DO:
1. STUDY "About the Language II: Future Active Participle" (Exs. A, B, C) found on page 243 of text AS WELL AS Exs. K, L, M, N found on pages 330 (very bottom) & 331 of text. Then COMPLETE ACTIVITY #55 based on the previously mentioned pages and other examples in order to clarify your understanding of the Future Active Participles we have met in Stage 32. ACTIVITY #55 is found in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background.
2. REVIEW Ablative Absolute identification and translation through ACTIVITY #56 based on a summary of Columbus' journey westward from Spain Columbus' Journey ACTIVITY #56 is found in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background..
3. READ the philosophia story found on pages 244-245 of the text. ANSWER the two comprehension questions located at the bottom of page 245 of text. NEXT WEEK we will take a closer look at the grammar and content details of the story.
4. VIEW a less than 10 minute video (produced by Ancient Rome Live) about some of the religions mentioned in Stage 32's culture reading and found in ancient Rome (in this case Ostia Antica the ancient port city for Rome). GO TO: Religions of the Roman World in Ostia Antica.
WEEK FOUR (OCT 11-OCT 17, 2020)
This week’s ancient Roman important dates according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
October 11
Meditrinalia--on this day “the new wine was tasted for the first time, along with a sip of the old, medicamenti causa, ‘to effect cures’.” The goddess Meditrina may be named from this.
October 13
• Augustalia--rites celebrating Augustus’ return from the transmarine provinces
• Fontinalia--festival honoring Fons, the deity of wells & springs. These were decorated with garlands on this day.
October 15
• Feriae Iovi--rites to Jupiter held on the Ides of every month.
• October Horse--‘the right-hand horse of the winning team in a two-horse chariot race on the Campus Martius; it was slain and sacrificed to Mars…” [The significance and ritual are too lengthy to mention here. You may look it up online or read Colleen McCullough’s The October Horse, one of the novels in her The First Man in Rome series.]
• The poet Vergil was born near Mantua in 70 BC.
TO DO:
1. EXAMINE Cambridge's rendering of cēna Trimalchiōnis in Exercise 32.8 of the Unit 3 (4th edition) Workbook according to magistra's directions sent to you in this week's Class email.
2. PRACTICE deponent verb forms according to person, number tense and translation in ACTIVITY #51 & ACTIVITY #52 found in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background.
3. REVIEW "About the Language I: Ablative Absolutes" found on pages 218 & 219 of Stage 31 before the further REVIEW in ACTIVITY #53 & ACTIVITY #54 located in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background.
4. READ "Roman Beliefs" found on pages 249-252 of the text. ANSWER the Stage 32 Guided Reading questions Roman Beliefs.
5. STRENGTHEN your Latin knowledge through a re-examination of past activities located in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background.
6. VIEW Rick Steves' NEW lengthy (appox. 55 minutes) video on Egypt. GO TO: Rick Steves Egypt: Yesterday & Today. While it is not directly related to the Roman belief systems included in Stage 32's culture section nor does it mention the Romans specifically except for a glimpse of a 4th century A.D. Roman theater, it does present an up-to-date recent (Nov 2019) look at a culture parts of which even an ancient Roman may recognize.
WEEK THREE (OCT 4-OCT 10, 2020)
This week’s ancient Roman important dates according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
October 4 Ieiunium Cereris--a fast to Ceres [I'm unsure what this "fast" refers to in the source. In the Cerealia festival on April 19, torches were "fastened" on the tails of foxes and the animals were set free to run around the Circus Maximus!]
October 5 Mundus patet--The mundus was opened on this day (also August 24 & November 8) by removing the lapis manalis (“dripping stone” or “ghost stone”) so underworld inhabitants could emerge from it. It was believed to be a shallow pit on the Palatine marking the center of the earliest city or Rome.
October 6 Dies ater a “black day” when the Cimbri defeated the proconsul Caepio in 105 BC
October 7
• Iovi fulguri--rites to Jupiter of the lightning or Jove the Flasher
• Iunoni Curriti in Campo--rites to Juno Curritis (maybe Quiritis) of Cures or of the curis (spear).
October 9 Apollini in Palatio--in 28 BC Augustus decdicated the temple to Apollo on the Palatine [The foundations exist today.]
October 10 Iunoni Monetae--rites for the restoration of the temple of Juno Moneta. [The foundations of this temple exist today on the Capitoline.]
TO DO:
1. READ the Stage 32 story cēna Hateriī found on pages 241-242 of the text. COMPLETE your answers to the comprehension questions found in Worksheet #3 sent to you in this week's Class email. SUBMIT your answers to magistra via the email sent to you in the weekly Class email or via the email link in the upper right hand corner of this webpage.
2. IDENTIFY the differences between deponent and regular verb form tenses & translations in ACTIVITY #39 & ACTIVITY #40 found in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background.
3. IF you did not do this last week, TRANSLATE Ex. B on p. 240 of "About the Language I: Deponent Verbs." SUBMIT your translation to magistra via the email sent to you in the weekly Class email or via the email link in the upper right hand corner of this webpage. It is important from here on in that magistra knows that you are able to translate Deponent Verbs correctly.
4. COMPLETE the "Word Study" exercises found on page 253 of your text. THEN PRACTICE additional derivatives drawn from Stage 32 Vocabulary Checklist as found in ACTIVITY #38 found in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background.
5. VIEW the short video excerpt (approx. 3+ minutes) on Rick Steves' Classroom Europe as a brief introduction to Ancient Delphi, a site sacred to Apollo. Who knows--maybe Euphrosyne may have visited it in her time--she at least would have known about it. GO TO Ancient Delphi: the Oracle of the Gods.
WEEK TWO (SEPT 27-OCT 3, 2020)
This week’s ancient Roman important dates according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
October 1
• Tigillo sororio--according to the ancient Romans, this rite of “the sister’s beam” is a relic of the combat between the Horatii and the Curiatii. “The surviving Horatius, after slaying his sister for lamenting her lover’s death, was ordered to make expiation by passing under a yoke represented by this beam which was let into opposite walls on a street. Under the beam, altars were erected to Janus Curiatius and to Juno Sororia. There was a Jupiter Tigillus or Beam at Umbrian Trebos.”
• Fidei in Capitolio--according to Livy, King Numa made a sacrifice to Fides (Faith). On this day the flamines (priests) “of Jupiter, Mars, & Quirinus rode in a covered chariot to the [Capitoline] with their right hands wrapped in white cloth. Horace says that “Fides herself…was veiled.”
• Alexander Severus in 221 AD with “the machinations of his mother, Mamaea, succeeded Elegabalus as emperor.”
October 3
Ludi Augustales--Augustus established circus games in 19BC after returning from Greece.
TO DO:
1. READ the Stage 32 story Euphrosynē revocāta found on page 238-239 of the text. COMPLETE your answers to the comprehension questions found in Worksheet #2 sent to you in this week's Class email. SUBMIT your answers to magistra via the email sent to you in the weekly Class email or via the email link in the upper right hand corner of this webpage.
2. STUDY "About the Language I: Deponent Verbs" found on page 240 of text. Then TRANSLATE Ex. B on p. 240. SUBMIT your translation to magistra via the email sent to you in the weekly Class email or via the email link in the upper right hand corner of this webpage.
3. REREAD Euphrosynē revocāta found on pages 238-239 in text. Then COMPLETE Activity #46 on distinguishing between passive and deponent verbs appearing in the story. This Activity is found in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background.
4. USE the Deponent Verb AMSCO List sent to you in this week's Class email as well as the Cambridge Deponent Verb List found on page 292 in the textbook to DRILL on the principal parts and English meanings of these Deponent Verbs in Activities #39, #40, #47, #48,& #49 & #50 found in the "My quizzes, activities, and surveys" section below the end of this yellow background.
5. VIEW the short video excerpt (approx. 4+ minutes) on Rick Steves' Classroom Europe as a brief introduction to the Ancient Athens that Euphrosyne may have known: Athens Acropolis, Parthenon & Agora, GO TO Athens Acropolis, Parthenon & Agora.
WEEK ONE (SEPT 20-26, 2020)
This week’s ancient Roman important dates according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
September 20-23 Mercatus--a 4 day fair following the Ludi Romani which ran from September 4-19.
September 23
• Marti, Neptuno, in campo; Apollini ad theatrum Marcelli--anniversary of a temple to Mars in the Campus Martius, of a temple to Neptune in the Campus Martius, and of a temple to Apollo near the site of Marcellus’ theater.
• Iovi Statori--rites of the rededication of Jupiter Stator’s temple
• Iunoni Reginae ad circum Flaminium--rites of the rededication of a temple to Juno in the Circus Flaminius
• Birthday of Augustus in 63 BC in the Palatine quarter of Rome. He was born as Gaius Octavius. He received the title of Augustus in 27 BC.
September 26 Veneri Genetrici-- In 46 BC Julius Caesar dedicated a temple to Venus Genetrix (mother of Aeneas & his progeny which included the Julian clan)
TO DO:
1. REVIEW the summary you wrote down in the Spring session of the salūtātiō II story found on pp. 219-220 of Stage 31 or REREAD the story. This is a good preparation for the Model Sentences and stories of Stage 32.
2. READ ALOUD the Stage 32 Model Sentences found on pp, 236-237. USE the drawings to help with the understanding of the Latin. Then COMPLETE WORKSHEET #1 COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS sent to you as an attachment in this week’s OLLI Latin email. FORWARD your answers to magistra via the Quia link in the upper right hand corner of this webpage OR send your answers to magistra via the email address sent to you in this week’s OLLI Latin class email.
3. EXAMINE the GRAMMAR of the Stage 32 Model Sentences found on pp. 236-237 as outlined in the grammar explanation included in this week’s OLLI Latin email.
4. STUDY Stage 32’s Vocabulary Checklist found on p. 254.
The following notes may be of assistance:
--adversus, -a, -um = Notice the shift in meaning when the feminine plural of the adjective is used with the 5th declension noun rēs in the phrase rēs adversae.
--aequus, -a, um = Notice the shift in meaning when the adjective aequus is paired to modify the noun animus to make the ablative adverbial phrase animō aequō.
--cāsus = What is this noun’s declension? Did you say 4th declension? Do you need to review the endings of that declension? (See p. 296 for a 4th declension sample word.)
--vērus, -a. –um = Notice the shift in meaning when the adjective vērus is paired to modify the noun rēs to make the ablative adverbial phrase rē vērā.
--addō, compōnō, condūcō, convertō, effundō,opprimō, et subveniō are compounds of verbs we have already learned. What happens to the meanings when the prefixes are added to the basic verbs?
--permōtus, -a, -um = This form here is identified as an adjective, but it is the 4th principal part of the compound verb permoveō which comes from the base verb moveō which we already know. Like the other compound verbs mentioned earlier, what happens to the meaning when the prefix per is attached?
--cōnātus (-a, -um), profectus (-a, -um), et secūtus (-a, -um) are perfect participles that look passive in Latin form, but are active in their English meanings. They may also be used as adjectives.
--quia = There is another Latin word we learned back in Unit 1 for “because.” Do you recall it? It was quod.
--quīdam, quaedam, quoddam is a pronomial that can also be used as an adjective. Notice how the -dam stays the same, but the pronoun part changes. It more or less follows the declension pattern of quī found in Ex. I on page 308.
--ignōscō is a verb like credō et faveō that takes a direct object in the dative case.
5. PRACTICE the CHECKLIST VOCABULARY OF STAGE 32 found on page 254 by using Activity #35, Activity #36 and Activity #37 found in the "My quizzes, activities, and surverys" section below the end of this yellow background.
6. Culture
While rummaging through old books this summer, I found the name of our boy Quintus in a “dipinti” (a painted inscription) on the wall of Caecilius’ house in Pompeii. It is an election announcement in support of a candidate named Lucius Ceius Secundus believed to be during the second half of the 70s A.D. It reads
Ceium · Secundum
II vir · Q · S · Caecili · Iucundi · rogam
Notes: Caecili · Iucundi are nom. pl. masc. The 2 praenomina, Quintus et Sextus, refer to brothers from the family of Caecilius Iucundus. rogam is an abbrev. for rogamus. My addendum: apparently Quintus may have been older than the teen-ager of our Unit 1 stories AND he apparently had a brother named Sextus.
The above is cited as Inscription 3433; V, I, 27; Via del Vesuvio. by Rex E, Wallace, An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., USA, 2005, p. 12.
Another book by Alison E. & M.G.L. Cooley, Pompeii: A Source Book, Routledge, 2004, p. 116 provides a translation of the inscription without providing the inscription:
We, Quintus and Sextus Caecilius Iucundus, ask
for Ceius Secundus as duumvir
The citation is identified as the House of Caecilius Iucundus (V.i.26),
CIL IV 3433 = ILS 6404a
ALL QUIZZES ARE DISENABLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUMMER 2020 (May 24-Sept 19)
The EIGHT WEEKS of the Spring 2020 OLLI Latin:Level 3 class activities & Quizzes have been, and will remain, posted until the OLLI Fall Session starts on Sept 20, 2020.
This will allow maximum flexibility in completion of assignments and written interaction between us. Magistra also will be available via email/telephone as outlined in the email OLLI Spring Session students were sent on May 25, 2020. All activities are optional, but it is suggested that Quizzes be completed since the Fall Session will continue to use the grammar learned this Spring.
All Quizzes & Activities are OPEN BOOK and do NOT need to be attempted in any particular order. You are NOT being graded regardless of what the Quia site indicates (it seems I can't get rid of the grading).
Use the Quia main login Quia Log-in for easy & direct Quiz access in lieu of the access links available below the yellow background material. Be sure to use the username, password, & secret word you were issued in the Spring session.
SPRING SESSION (MAR 30-MAY 24, 2020)
OLLI WEEK 8 (May 17-May 21, 2020)
This week’s ancient Roman festival days according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
• May 21 Agnolia may have terminated a breeding cycle for goats and sheep which began at the Parilla (April 21) in an ancient 4 month year. Also Vediovi rites for ancient Italian god usually identified with Apollo or the youthful Jupiter. He had a temple on the Capitoline hill. He was represented as a young archer with a goat. He may also have been associated with gestational cycles in an ancient 4 month year.
WEEK EIGHT ACTIVITIES--All are OPEN BOOK.
1. READ the Latin salūtātiō II story on pages 219-220 of text. We will learn more about Euphrosyne, Quintus Haterius Chrysogonus, Eryllus, and the term arbiter ēlegantiae in Stage 32 which we will cover in the Fall.
2. WRITE out a detailed summary of salūtātiō II story on pages 219-220 of text. Tuck it in your book so you have it to refer to in the Fall.
3. COMPLETE “Practicing the Language” Ex. D on page 223 by SELECTING the correct participle form for each Ablative Absolute and TRANSLATING the sentence. If you need to review Ablative Absolutes, refer to “About the Language I: Ablative Absolute” found on pages 218- 219 of text.
4. SUBMIT Ex. D on page 223 as Quia Quiz #14. Quia Quiz #14 is located below this webpage’s yellow background. Magistra will grade and comment on each sentence.
5. COMPLETE Stage 31’s “Practicing the Language” Ex. A found on page 222 of text. Be vigilant in matching the ending of the passive voice verb with the subject of the sentence. Then PLAY the Battleship Game (Activity #17) located below this webpage’s yellow background.
6. MATCH the correct Latin active and passive forms of the verbs with their English meanings as found in Activity #18 located below this webpage’s yellow background. This matching exercise is based on Ex. B of “Practicing the Language” found on page 222 of the text. It is recommended that you complete Ex. B prior to attempting Activity #18.
7. DRILL on Stage 31’s checklist vocabulary (Activities #10, #11 & #12) located below this webpage’s yellow background as we have always done.
8. READ in English “The City of Rome” found on pages 224-228, If need be, use the Study Questions on the reading that were sent to you in the class email for this week.
9. PRACTICE defining prepositions and the cases that follow them in Activity #19 and Activity #20.
10. CHALLENGE yourself on the content of Stage 31 through Activity #21 and Activity #22.
10. VIEW a short video by clicking on Hadrian's Wall: Ancient Rome in Britain. This video, while not about the city of Rome as in Stage 31's culture section, presents an idea of what the border between Roman Britain and the barbarians in the northern part of the island was like. This video was prepared by Rick Steves’ Classroom Europe.
OLLI WEEK 7—May 10-May 17, 2020
This week’s ancient Roman festival days according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
• May 11 Lemuria rites of the dead on 3 alternate days (May 9, 11, 13). Rites may have been to expiate the death of Remus. Lemures (or larvae) considered to be unfriendly ghosts as opposed to manes (friendly ghosts). The pater familias (head of household) walked through house at midnight, spitting out black beans which the ancestral lemures were to gather up.
• May 12 Ludi Marti in circo games to Mars in the Circus Maximus. Also Marti Ultori dedication of temple to Mars Ultor (the Avenger) possibly took place in today or August 1—either way it happened in 2 B.C. Octavian vowed such a temple after the battle of Philippi in 42 B.C.
• May 13 Lemuria rites of the dead on 3 alternate days (May 9, 11, 13). Rites may have been to expiate the death of Remus. Lemures (or larvae) considered to be unfriendly ghosts as opposed to manes (friendly ghosts). The pater familias (head of household) walked through house at midnight, spitting out black beans which the ancestral lemures were to gather up.
• May 14 Marti invicto rite for the unconquered Mars—nothing is known about these rites.
• May 15 Sacra Argeorum rites of the Argei, straw puppets cast into the Tiber from the pons sublicius by the Vestal Virgins. The priestess of Jupiter wore mourning garb. The puppets were thought to represent Greeks who had followed Hercules to Italy or old men who had once been sacrificed in the Tiber. Ancient authorities said rites were performed in honor of
Saturn or Pluto. Ovid assigns the rites to May 14. This day was also the Feriae Iovi, Mercuio, Maiae rites to Jupiter, Mercury, and Maia. Every Ides was sacred to Jupiter, although at Tusculum he bore the masculine name Maius. Maia was the mother of Mercury & Jupiter was his father. Some sources say she gave her name to the month May. (Ovid says there is the possibility that May is a derivation from maiores “the elders.”) No matter, the 1st temple of Mercury was dedicated in the Circus Maximus today in 495 B.C.
WEEK SEVEN ACTIVITIES--All are OPEN BOOK.
1. EXAMINE “About the Language I: Ablative Absolute” found on pages 218-219 of text. Look carefully at the English of the given examples. Notice that urbe captā (phrase with perfect passive participle) might be translated into English as “with the city having been captured,” “when the city had been captured,” “after the city was captured,” or even “the city having been captured.” In Ex. D, something similar happens with the present active participle, although here the time of the 2 actions (participle & main verb) is simultaneous. On page 219 in Ex. D, there are examples of what Cambridge callls the perfect active participle. Notice these look a lot like the perfect passive participles, but in English they are translated actively. (We spent a lot of classtime on these back last year—recall our discussion about “deponent verbs.”) Just go with the flow on these forms—if you look up the word in the book’s dictionary, the definition should be the appropriate one.
2. TRANSLATE the 6 sentences of Ex. C and the 6 sentences of Ex. D on pages 218-219 and SUBMIT your translation to the short answer Quia Quiz #12. Quia Quiz #12 is located below this webpage’s yellow background. Magistra will grade and comment on each sentence.
3. READ in English the culture section entitled “Patronage and Roman Society” found on pages 229-232 of text. This is background for our reading salūtātiō I story on pages 216-217 of text.
4. READ the Latin salūtātiō I story on pages 216-217 of text and ANSWER the questions which follow on page 217. These answers will assist in your understanding of the story’s action.
5. SUBMIT your answers to the salūtātiō I story questions from page 217 and other additional questions in the short answer Quia Quiz #13. Line numbers will be given in the quiz as an aid. Quia Quiz #13 is located below this webpage’s yellow background. Magistra will grade and comment on each sentence.
6. COMPLETE Exs. A, B, & C of the “Word Patterns: Compound Verbs II” found on page 222 of text. Notice how the prefix affects the meaning of the basic verb. Also notice that the spelling of the prefix may change. It’s a pronunciation thing (try saying the word with and without the prefix’s spelling change). You should notice a difference in the ease with which the word is pronounced. The same phenom happens in English.
7. DRILL on Stage 31’s checklist vocabulary (Activities #10,#11 & #12) located below this webpage’s yellow background as we have always done.
8. LOOK AT an essay with pictures about the Scipio tomb mentioned in Stage 30’s polyspaston story found at Tomb of the Scipios and the Sarcophagus of Scipio Barbatus. If you recall, Salvius offered a small plot of land between this tomb and that of the Metelli family.
9. VIEW an 11 minute video by clicking on the Ancient Rome. This video takes us on a “fly by” tour of the ancient city of Rome in about 323 A.D. It is later than the time period of Diocletian, but it gives us an idea of the city during the time of Constantine. This video AND the essay cited in Item 8 above are from the smarthistory.org site written about in the May 3, 2020 issue of the Washington Post.
9. PREVIEW of next week’s activities:
• More practice with the new grammar: Ablative Absolutes
• Learn who the mystery woman is
• And more…
OLLI WEEK 6—May 3-May 9, 2020
This week’s ancient Roman festival days according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
• May 7 Mola salsa: from May 7 to May 14 Vestal Virgins made salted meal for use at the Vestalia (Jun 9), Epulum Iovi (Sept 13) & Lupercalia (Feb 15). Three senior Vestals prepared this from the 1st ears of new grain. An iron saw was used (maybe makes Vesta an Iron Age deity).
• May 9 Lemuria rites of the dead on 3 alternate days (May 9, 11, 13). Rites may have been to expiate the death of Remus. Lemures (or larvae) considered to be unfriendly ghosts as opposed to manes (friendly ghosts). The pater familias (head of household) walked through house at midnight, spitting out black beans which the ancestral lemures were to gather up.
WEEK SIX ACTIVITIES--All are OPEN BOOK. THIS WEEK moves into STAGE 31. NO NEW QUIZZES have been added this week. USE this week to complete the Quiz(zes) from past weeks. They are the only source magistra has to check your understanding of the Stage’s grammar.
1. EXAMINE the Model Sentences on pages 212-213 of text. The sun (or lack thereof) may suggest a time of day element to the sentences. It may be necessary to look up new, non-checklist vocabulary used in the sentences. As always the Model Sentences give a heads up on the new grammar. Are you able to figure out what it might be?
2. USE Activity #13 to MATCH the Latin ablative phrases of the Model Sentences (on text pages 212-213) with possible English equivalents. Activity #13 is located below this webpage’s yellow background.
3. COMPLETE the TIMELINE of the Model Sentences (on text pages 212-213) found in Activity #14 according to their correct order of occurrence. Activity #14 is located below this webpage’s yellow background.
4. DRILL on Stage 31’s checklist vocabulary (Activities #10,#11 & #12) located below this webpage’s yellow background as we have always done.
5. COMPLETE “Word Study” on page 233 of text AND Activities #15 & # 16 which use some of the derivatives from Stage 31’s checklist vocabulary. Activities #15 & #16 are located below this webpage’s yellow background.
6. READ ALOUD the adventus story on pages 214-215 of text. This story contains a lot of descriptive phrases. You may find the map of Rome on page 224 of text to be of some assistance as the main character moves through the city.
7 REREAD the adventus story on pages 214-215 of text more closely USING the Reading Guide sent to you in this week's email.
8. VIEW a short video by clicking on the Rome’s Ancient Seaport Ostia Antica. This video, while not about the dock area of the city of Rome as described in our adventus story, presents an idea of what the seaport town that served Rome was like. This video was prepared by Rick Steves’ Classroom Europe.
9. PREVIEW of next week’s activities:
• A new use of the participles in the Ablative Case
• Latin compound verbs
• A Roman salūtātiō
• And more…
OLLI WEEK 5—April 26-May 2, 2020
This week’s ancient Roman festival days according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
• April 26: The philosopher emperor, Marcus Aurelius, was born in 121 A.D.
• April 28-May 2 or 3: Ludi Forae, games for Flora, an Italian vegetation deity. Established to end a scarcity in 238 B.C. The same day & year saw a temple to Flora dedicated in or near the Circus Maximus. At another temple to her in Rome’s Sabine quarter, there was a priestess known as the flamen Floralis. Her rites, somewhat indecent, were observed by prostitutes. Hares & goats were released and vetches, beans, & lupines were scattered among the people in the Circus Maximus.
• May 1: Bonae Deae rites to the Good Goddess to celebrate her Aventine hill temple’s dedication. Livia, Augustus’ wife is known to have restored the temple. Rites were held in the temple on this date (the Dec 3 Bonae Deae rites were held in a priest/magistrate’s house--recall the scandal involving Julius Caesar’s 2nd wife). No men allowed at both. Wine was allowed in the temple only if it was called “milk” and was brought in via a honey-jar. Herbs, but not mrytle, were kept in temple. A pig (called Damium) was sacrificed.
Laribus praestitibus rites to the protecting Lares also occurred on
this day. An altar & statuettes dressed in dog skins were erected. [Source does not
say where.] A dog figure was placed at the feet of the statuettes. The sacrificial
victim most probably was a dog (recall the April 25 Robigalia & its dog sacrifice).
WEEK FIVE ACTIVITIES--All are OPEN BOOK. THIS WEEK is a CONTINUATION of the REVIEW of STAGE 30 GRAMMAR. Quiz(zes) are included to check your understanding of the Stage’s grammar.
1. PRACTICE the perfect active & passive and pluperfect active & passive voice verbs found in Activity #6 and Activity #7 located below the yellow background of this webpage. NOTE that these activities review BOTH active & passive voices.
2. REVIEW the present, imperfect, (and, if you need it, the perfect, & pluperfect) tense Passive Voice verb forms found on pages 312-313 of the textbook.
3. COMPLETE the sentences of Ex. D on page 202 of text with the correct passive voice verb that agrees with the subject of the sentence in number and GENDER. SUBMIT your responses in the auto-graded AND manually-graded Quia Quiz #10. Be prepared TYPE your translation of the Ex. D sentences. NOTE that this exercise uses ONLY the PASSIVE VOICE.
4. REVIEW cum clauses + Pluperfect Subjunctive on page 70 and Ex. A on page 333 of textbook. If unsure of forms of the Pluperfect tense SUBJUNCTIVE, REVIEW Exs. A & B on page 94 & Ex. A on page 315 of textbook for the model forms.
5.COMPLETE Ex. C on pages 201-202 of textbook. Have this exercise completed BEFORE you SUBMIT your responses in the manually-graded Quia Quiz #11. Be prepared to TYPE (1) the Latin cum clause with the correct pluperfect subjunctive form AND (2) the English translation of the entire sentence which contains the cum clause.
6. STUDY Stage 31 vocabulary checklist on page 234. Note the following:
• īdem, eadem, idem is a pronomial. See Ex. G on page 307 of text for the declension. The text suggests you compare the forms with is, ea, id in Ex. C on page 306. You will see the two are closely related. Be on the lookout in the coming weeks for a number of Activities on this pronoun.
• praecō is a 3rd declension noun which ends in “ō.” It is NOT a verb. The base changes in the genitive singular.
• praetereō does NOT have a 4th principal part. Cicero liked to use this verb.
• prōgressus, -a, -um is included here as if it is an adjective. Notice the meaning. It is actually a principal part of the deponent verb prōgredior that we will learn about in Stage 32—Can’t wait!
• ratiōnēs, ratiōnum is in the PLURAL. Notice its meaning. It is the plural of the noun ratiō which has a different singular meaning. Look at the noun on page 363. There are a few idioms associated with its plural meaning of “accounts.”
• vinciō is a 4th conjugation verb. It and its meaning should not be confused with the 3rd conjugation verb vincō and its meaning.
• in animō volvere is an idiom using volvō. Another meaning for us might be “to think over.”
• vultus is a 4th declension noun that is masculine.
7. DRILL on Stage 31”s checklist vocabulary using Activity #10, Activity #11 & Activity#12) located below this webpage’s yellow background as we have always done.
8. VIEW a somewhat longer than usual video by clicking on the Ancient Rome . This 21+ minute video was prepared by Rick Steves’ Classroom Europe.
9. PREVIEW of next week’s activities:
• A new use of the participles in the Ablative Case
• Derivatives of Stage 31 checklist vocabulary
• Stage 31 model sentences and a story
• And more…
OLLI WEEK 4—April 19-April 25, 2020
This week’s ancient Roman festival days according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
• April 19: Cerealia rites of the Roman goddess of grain. The Ludi Cereales games in honor of Ceres ended today (they started April 12). “For some reason it was the practice at the Cerealia to fasten burning brands to the tails of foxes, and then to release the animals in the Circus Maximus. This may have had something to do with the purification of crops, since Ceres was primarily the goddess of grain.”
Also a temple “founded in 496 B.C. to dispel a famine” Cereri, Libero, et Liberae (to Ceres, Liber, & Libera) “was dedicated on April 19, 493 B.C.” Liber was probably “an old Italian fertility god.” “Libera is his female counterpart, later…regarded as Ceres’ daughter” whom we know more commonly as Persephone.
• April 21: Parilia “rites of Pales, a deity whose name is either masculine or feminine in form & either singular or plural in number.” In the country, “at dawn the shepherd purified his sheep & the sheep-fold, then made a fire through which he leaped. In Rome a mixture of blood from the October Horse [October 15] and ashes from the Fordicia [April 15] was thrown upon a fire of bean-straw on the Palatine hill, and celebrants leaped through the flames.” Pales, possibly a god of the Palatine hill, could have been brought in by the Etruscans, “or as a god of stock-breeding introduced by northern invaders."
This date, however, is best known as the founding date of the city of Rome. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROME!
• April 23: Vinalia “a wine festival sacred to Venus, Jupiter or both.” Ovid says a Sicilian temple of Venus Erycina was established in Rome. “Livy gives the date as 181 B.C. Libations of new wine were poured to Jupiter at the temple of Venus.” Our source says that either this day or August 19 (in the country) saw the picking of the first grapes and the taking of the auspices. Confusion may have resulted from “chance dedication of temples to Venus” on both days.
• April 24: Feriae Latinae Latin rites for Jupiter Latiaris. The “exact date was announced by the consuls when they took office. The consuls attended …rites in person…not permitted to leave for their provinces until these rites were completed. This Latiar…was an ancient festival of the Latin towns, during which peace prevailed among warring cities and Rome renewed her alliance with Latin neighbors.” A white heifer was slaughtered by the consuls & “meat was divided among representatives from all the towns.”
• April 25: Robigalia rites for Robigus (Rust or Mildew) “at the fifth milestone on the Via Claudia. A red dog and a sheep were sacrificed…to avert blight from the grain.”
WEEK FOUR ACTIVITIES (Do one, do all, or just a smattering. It is up to you. All are OPEN BOOK. Quiz(zes) must be submitted in order to check your understanding.)
1. DRILL on the vocabulary activities (#4 & #5) located below the yellow background as we have always done.
2. REVIEW “About the Language of Nouns” (Declension endings) found on pages 296-297 of textbook. Then CHANGE the words in boldface from singular to plural in Ex. A on page 201 of textbook. SUBMIT the plural form as the short answer response to each singular form given in Quia Quiz #8. You may find you need to translate the sentences to identify some of the noun form changes, but you are NOT being asked to translate the sentences on the quiz.
3. REVIEW Adjective declensions as found in Exs. A-D on pages 299-300 of the textbook. MAKE special note of the Noun-Adjective agreement in case, number, and gender BUT NOT NECESSARILY DECLENSION as mentioned in Ex. D on page 300 of textbook. Also REVIEW forms & possible translations of the Perfect Passive Participle in Ex. G & Ex. I on pages 329 & 330 of the textbook.
4. In Ex. B on page 201 of textbook, SELECT the correct perfect passive participle form that agrees with the noun it modifies in CASE, NUMBER & GENDER, but NOT necessarily DECLENSION. SUBMIT your responses in the auto-graded Quia Quiz #9. You may find you need to translate the sentences to identify the noun cases, but you are NOT being asked to translate the sentences on the quiz.
5. PRACTICE with a variety of newly posted activities located below this page's yellow background: Patterns Activity #6 on Perfect Tense Active & Passive Voice, Patterns Activity #7 on Pluperfect Tense Active & Passive Voice, Challenge Board Activity #8 Stage 30 Review #1 and Pop-Up Activity #9 Stage 30 Review #2.
6. VIEW a short video by clicking on the Ancient Rome’s Pantheon. This several minute video was prepared by Rick Steves’ Classroom Europe.
7. PREVIEW of next week’s activities: CONTINUED BIG REVIEW of STAGE 30
• Practice with Present, imperfect, perfect & pluperfect Passive Voice verb forms
• Review of cum clauses + Pluperfect Subjunctive
• Stage 31 checklist vocabulary
• And more…
OLLI WEEK 3—April 12-April 18, 2020
This week’s ancient Roman festival days according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
• April 12: Ludi Cereales games in honor of Ceres (goddess of grain) started today and ended on April 19
• April 13: Iovi Victori Quintus Fabius Maximus in 295 BC dedicated a temple to Victorious Jupiter
• April 15: Fordicidia a fertility festival--the day of slaughter of fordae or hordae (pregnant cows)—one on the Capitoline hill & others in each curia (30 city wards). The cows were sacrificed to Tellus (god of the Earth). The chief Vestal Virgin removed and burned the unborn calf. The ashes were kept for use on April 21.
• April 16: Dies imperii In 29 BC, Octavian given the title imperator (first as “general,” later as “emperor.”) This day could be regarded as the start of the Roman Empire.
WEEK THREE ACTIVITIES (Do one, do all, or just a smattering. It is up to you. All are OPEN BOOK.)
1. DRILL on the vocabulary activities (#4 & #5) located below the yellow background as we have always done.
2. STUDY Exs. A & B of “About the Language II: Pluperfect Passive Indicative” found on page 199 of text.
3. COMPLETE Ex. C of “About the Language II: Pluperfect Passive Indicative” found on page 199 of text AND SUBMIT Quia Quiz #6 located below the yellow background. NOTĀ BENE: SUBMIT THIS QUIZ & THE EARLIER ONES SO magistra CAN TELL HOW YOU ARE PROGRESSING.
4. READ aloud the polyspaston story on pages 197-198 in the text.
5. ANSWER and SUBMIT polyspaston comprehension questions by completing Quia Quiz # 7 located below the yellow background. There is a mix of multiple choice and short answer questions, so magistra will take a while to go over every typed answer you submit. Be patient! NOTĀ BENE: SUBMIT THIS QUIZ & THE EARLIER ONES SO magistra CAN TELL HOW YOU ARE PROGRESSING.
6. REVIEW Noun Declension Endings found on pages 296-297 of your text AND then PRACTICE with Quia Activity # 5 located below the yellow background.
7. READ in English “Roman Engineering” found on pages 203-208 of text
8. COMPLETE a worksheet on “Roman Engineering.” The worksheet will be sent to you as an attachment in our weekly separate email.
9. VIEW a short video by clicking on the The Birth of Ancient Rome and the Forum. This several minute video was prepared by Rick Steves’ Classroom Europe.
10. PREVIEW of next week’s activities: BIG REVIEW of STAGE 30
• Further review of noun endings
• A look at perfect passive participles used as adjectives
• More practice with the perfect & pluperfect tenses in the active and passive voices
• Review of the tenses of the passive voice that we have learned to date
• And more…
OLLI WEEK 2—April 5-April 11, 2020
This week’s ancient Roman festival days according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
• April 5: Dies festiva Fortunae publicae rites pertaining to the founding of the Temple to Public Fortune located on the Quirinal Hill
• April 6: Thapsus where Julius Caesar defeated Republican forces and their ally, King Juba, in 44 BC
• April 10: Magnae Matri dedication of temple to the Great Mother (see April 4) on the Palatine Hill in 191 BC. Also the last day of the Ludi Megalesiaci (see Arpil 4).
• April 11: Emperor Septimius Severus born in Africa of Syrian stock in 146 AD
WEEK TWO ACTIVITIES (Do one, do all, or just a smattering. It is up to you. All are OPEN BOOK.)
1. DRILL on the (ACTIVITY#1 & ACTIVITY #2) located below the yellow background as we have always done.
2. COMPLETE “Word Study” exercises on page 209.
3. PLAY the Column Matching Game based on the “Word Study” derivatives of Item 2 above. The game is found in ACTIVITY #3 located below the yellow background.
4. TRANSLATE the dignitās story through the cloze activity found in ACTIVITY #4 located below the yellow background. The Latin story is found on pages 193 & 194 of text.
5. ANSWER and SUBMIT the dignitās comprehension questions on page 195 of text by completing Quia QUIZ #4 located below the yellow background. These are essay questions, so magistra will take a while to go over every individual answer you may have submitted. Be patient!
6. STUDY Exs. A & B of “About the Language I: Perfect Passive Indicative” found on page 196 of text.
7. COMPLETE and SUBMIT Ex. C of “About the Language I: Perfect Passive Indicative” found on page 196 of text through the Quia QUIZ #5 located below the yellow background.
8. LOOK AT ALL the pictures, drawings, & captions of Stage 30 with special emphasis on pages 191, 202, 204, & 207 (all details from the Haterii tomb).
9. VIEW a short video by clicking on the The Ancient Colosseum in Rome. This several minute video was prepared by Rick Steves’ Classroom Europe.
10. PREVIEW of next week’s activities:
• Pluperfect Passive Indicative Tense (new Stage 30 grammar)
• What is a polyspaston?
• Roman engineering
• And more…
OLLI WEEK 1—March 30-April 4, 2020
This week’s ancient Roman festival days according to The Roman Origins of Our Calendar:
• March 30: Dies festiva Iano, Concordiae, Saluti, et Paci Ovid says to worship Janus, Harmony, Safety, and Peace
• March 31: Dies festiva Lunae in Aventino rites to the Moon on the Aventine hill
• April 1: Veneralia rites to Venus Verticordia “turner of hearts” held by women of rank [This may be tied in to an early Italian goddess having to do with vegetation. If equated with the Greek goddess Aphrodite, some thought April was so named. Ovid said April came from aperire “to open” as in the time of year buds open. More recently it is thought to be tied to aper “a boar” with no explanation given. Whatever the naming of April, the rites of the day were ancient even to the Romans.] Also celebrated today was Fortunae virili rites for Manly Fortune held by lower class women in the men’s baths (!) to bless them in their relations with men [think fertility]
• April 4: Magnae Matri rites for Cybele, the Great Mother of Mt. Ida in Asia Minor. In 204 BC, the Romans, in fulfillment of one of the Sibylline prophecies, brought a stone representing Cybele from Phrygia and deposited it in the temple of Victory. Romans may have believed Cybele brought the Romans success in ending the war with Hannibal. The Ludi Megalesiaci “Megalesian Games” were held until April 10 in her honor.
WEEK ONE ACTIVITIES (Do one, do all, or just a smattering. It is up to you. All are OPEN BOOK.)
1. STUDY Stage 30 vocabulary checklist on page 210. Note the following:
• ambō, ambae, ambō is plural. Watch how it is used in stories.
• dīves is a 3rd declension adjective that can be used as a substantive noun (i.e., a rich person).
• dīvitiae is always plural.
• dubium & iniūria keep the i in the base.
• lūdus means “game” in Cambridge’s usage, but may also mean “play, spectacle, sport, pasttime, school, gladiator/training school” and even “trifle.” Look on page 356 to see what occurs when other words are attached to it.
• magister may also mean “chief, head, superintendent, male teacher (think schoolmaster).” The feminine form magistra was/is also used.
• nimis is adverbial. There is an adjective form usually, but not always, appearing as nimium meaning “too much.”
• opus, operis, n. and its related word opera, operae, f. both mean “work” and most likely can be used interchangeably by us. The former carries more the meaning of “a work.” Watch how it is used in the stories. The latter leans more toward “the action of work.”
• pallēscō is known as an inceptive or inchoative verb. (Don’t you love the term?!) It just means the action of the verb is “beginning to [whatever the action].” Cambridge adds the word “grow...” to the verb's basic meaning. Most verbs that have -sc- in front of the -ō follow this pattern.
• quārē? is an idiom of 2 words appearing as 1 word. As such, the meaning is equivalent to cūr.
• strepitus is 4th declension. Note the genitive singular.
• tempestās and other 3rd declension nouns ending in -tāstend to be feminine.
2. DRILL on the vocabulary activities (#1 & #2) located below the yellow background as we have always done.
3. REVIEW forms of the imperfect subjunctive tense. Add the personal endings -m, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt to the present active infinitive which we know & love as the 2nd principal part of the verb. This even happens with irregular verbs. For explanations & extra practice, SEE Ex. D p. 72, Ex. B p. 94, Ex. A p. 315 & Ex. D p. 323.
4. REVIEW purpose clauses. SEE Stage 26’s p. 110, Stage 29’s p. 179 and even p. 334 for a variety of ways to translate purpose clauses. If you wish to redo any of the exercises appearing on these pages, include them in a personal email to me and I will go over them with you. If you include a phone number, I can call you back if need be.
5. COMPLETE Ex. A on page 181 and SUBMIT as #2 Quia Quiz. This was assigned back in February to act as our April 2 grammar review. SUBMIT it as an OPEN BOOK Quia Quiz in the activities section below. It is labeled “Quiz #2—Homework Ex. A p. 181.” You will need your Quia username, password, & secret word to work on this. Points do not count. The Latin verb forms are auto-graded. The sentence translations are manually-graded. So, it may take me a little while to check everyone’s work. Be patient. NOTE: All the main verbs of these sentences are in the past (imperfect, perfect) tenses. Therefore all the subordinate purpose clauses need to have Latin verbs in the imperfect subjunctive. #1-5 are ut purpose clauses. #6-8 are relative clauses of purpose.
6. PRE-READ dignitās on pages 193-195.
Activity 1: READ, not translate, the story. Try reading it aloud.
Activity 2: ANSWER the questions on page 195. Don’t be concerned if you are unable to answer all or even many. This is a pre-reading activity. If you can’t answer in English, are you able to identify the Latin word(s) which might contain or lead to the answer? In class we would have had a group discussion. We will work on this more next week.
Activity 3: COMPLETE the #3 Quia Quiz based on the new & old grammar of the 2 opening paragraphs of the dignitās story found on page 193. The OPEN BOOK quiz is located below the yellow background. It is labeled “Quiz #3—PRE-READING dignitās grammar activity based on p. 193 paragraphs.” You will need your Quia username, password, & secret word to work on this. Points do not count. The entire quiz is auto-graded. Take it as many times as you wish.
7. VIEW a short video by clicking on the The Siege of Masada. This several minute video was prepared by Rick Steves’ Classroom Europe.
8. PREVIEW of next week’s activities:
• Derivatives from checklist vocabulary
• Practice on Perfect Passive Indicative tense (new Stage 30 grammar)
• Translation of the dignitās story
• Roman culture
• And more…
Before Spring Term starts:
COMPLETE "My First Quia Quiz" #1--so you will have an idea of how the "QUIZ" activity works. You must use the Quia username, password, & secret word you were previously sent.
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