ecce pagina vestra! (here's your page)

Your exam will be on Wednesday after half term.

Do use the books and quizzes below to practice your vocabulary.

Here are answers to the exam worksheet you received (I hope ) in class:

II. ecce porca. ecce magistra. ecce porca MAGISTRAE. (Here is the pig. Here is the teacher. Here is the TEACHER'S pig.) I will make the instructions clearer on this one. Use genitive to show who something belongs to, or technically, to whom something belongs, or whose it is.

III. ecce Gallicus. ecce atrium. Gallicus in ATRIŌ est. (Here is Gallicus. Here is the main hall. Gallicus is in the main hall. Use ablative case to show WHERE something/someone is.)

IV. quis in villā habitat? LUPUS in villā habitat. (Who lives in the country housse? THE WOLF lives in the country house. Use nominative to show who or what does something – here, who is living somewhere.)

V. True or false? verum an falsum?

1. mōns Vesuvius in Africā est. Falsum: mōns Vesuvius in Ītaliā est.

2. Valeria est filia Caeliae. Verum. Valeria IS Caelia's daughter.

3. Casina est coquus. Falsum. Casina est ancilla OR Gallicus est coquus.

4. In the sentence "cum cuniculō, rana dominī lūdit", the one who is doing the action is RANA, the only word in the nominative case. The sentence means "The master's frog is playing with the rabbit."

5. In the sentence "sub monte porca matris dormit et canis patris sedet", the pig belongs to the mother (MATRIS) because that word is in the genitive case and is right next to the word PORCA. The sentence means "At the foot of the mountain the mother's pig is sleeping and the father's dog is sitting."

6. In the sentence "mūs callidus in atriō villae currit", the action is shown by the word CURRIT, because it ends with a T and is therefore a VERB or action word. The sentence means "The clever mouse IS RUNNING in the main hall of the country house."

At the bottom of the page you will find links to some vocabulary books I have created on Tarheel Reader to review vocabulary. More to come!

Model sentences. These were developed in class and I am embarrassed to say that I forgot to write them down! You should have them in your notebooks or you may use these, which should be very similar!

First declension model sentence: porca magistrae in latrinā dormit.

English: "The teacher's pig is sleeping in the bathroom."

Second declension model sentence: lupus puerī in hortō ambulat.

English: "The boy's wolf is walking in the garden."

Third declension model sentence: felēs regis in arbore sedet.

English: "The king's cat is sitting in a tree."

Please note that the endings are shown in each sentence in the order Nominative, Genitive, Ablative. So PORCA is nominative, MAGISTRAE is genitive, and LATRĪNĀ is ablative. The last word in each sentence is the verb.

The best review is to reread the stories and redo some of the games and quizzes on Tres Columnae, so give it a try.

Here's your assignment for the week beginning 16 May:

If you didn't have a chance during class, or if you want to check the material again, go to the top link below, "Tres Columnae, Lectio Secunda". Continue to complete the worksheet, look at Quid Novi, take the simple quiz.

Then follow the instructions for homework which I handed out in class. In case you've lost them, here they are again:

Homework: Pick a noun from the following list (or any person or animal ending with -US):

servus (slave) lupus (wolf) ursus (bear) equus (horse) cuniculus (rabbit)

Now choose something to belong to this person/animal (any Latin noun is OK):

rosa (rose) porca (pig) serpens (snake) malum (apple) mustela (weasel)

Write three Latin sentences using the following example, showing who it belongs to. CUIUS EST? (WHOSE is it?)

Example: ecce dominus. ecce feles. est feles domini.

(Here's the master. Here's a cat. It's the master's cat / it's the cat of the master.)

Illustrate your sentences to show what they mean. (In the example, you could have the master holding the cat or leading it on a leash.) We will publish the best illustrated sentences on a special Tres Columnae page to help others to understand the idea of this new ending.

Here's the assignment for the week beginning 9 May:

Write at least two sentences of the Latin story we started telling in class. If you weren't listening, you'll have to try your best anyway. Be sure to use nominatives and ablatives correctly. Here are some words we used; I have given the nom. and the abl. for you: leo / leone - lion tectum / tectō - roof peristilum / peristilō - inner garden (with pool!) latrina / latrīnā - toilet arbor / arbore - tree some verbs: dormit - sleeps cadit - falls natat - swims volat - flies timet - is frightened sedet - sits ēst - eats (notice this is different from est - is!) some adjectives: parvus / parva - small magnus / magna - big ieiunus / ieiuna - hungry To tell where or how, use IN (= in) and CUM (= with) and DĒ (= down from). Challenge assignment: write a further sentence telling what happened next.

7M, don't forget that next week we will make our amazing Tarheel Reader and I need your images. You can draw them or create them on the computer and then upload them to the book during class.

Welcome back! salvete omnes! I would like everyone to review their endings charts for the first day of class (or for 7A the second day!). We are about to learn some new endings, so we will review the old with some story-telling together.

I have listed below a link to all the lines in your Latin play, so that you can practice them outside of class. You need to do this because we won't have time in class to work on every line at great length.

Those of you who have created their sentences about a Roman room should come up with illustrations that I can upload to Tarheel Readers so that we can write our "Guide to the Roman House" book. There will be one book for each form.

If you haven't completed your labels for the house diagram or the list of rooms with their ablatives, please use the link below (HOUSE DIAGRAM) to finish them. Remember, "cucina" should be "culina", and "bathroom" should be LATRINA!