in triclinio from Ann Martin on Vimeo.

Here is a link to your house videos so far!

I have posted some of your great Roman house links at the bottom of the page. You can use them in your research, and also tell me what other new pages you found to be helpful. More to come!

Here is the third spaceship. It is a Third Declension spaceship.

Milphio regem felis in urbe laudat.

Milphio praises the cat's king in the city.

Just to remind you: the crewpeople are Captain Nominative, who starts all the action; Crewperson Accusative, who has everything done to him; Scout Ablative, who finds out where and how the ship is getting on; and Space Pirate Genitive, who grabs other people by the helmet and says they belong to him.

First declension people wear round helmets, second declension people wear square helmets, and third declension people wear triangular helmets.

These are the genitive model sentences. Those who weren't prepared or wish to do better may retake the model sentence quiz on Friday.

a. porca magistrae obēsa est. (The teacher's pig is fat.)

b. simius puerī improbus est. (The boy's monkey is naughty.)

c. canis Milphiōnis foedus est. (Milphio's dog is disgusting.)

If you have not yet completed the worksheet on Lectio II, fabellae i and ii, please do that also. See me for a worksheet if you were absent last Friday.

Here is your assignment due on 14 Jan:

If you haven't already, go to the DERIVATIVE QUEST link below and look through the English derivatives of some of our Tres Columnae vocabulary words. You should have selected one of these words for your project.

If you were absent, please pick one of these words: pater, insula, frater

You and your partner (if you have one) should divide up the ENGLISH words that come from your chosen Latin words. You should have at least four words if that many are listed. Print each English word and do an illustration. You can print and draw it yourself or use the Internet. The word and illustration can be on opposite sides of your paper or card. The card should be no larger than half a standard sheet of paper. Make sure that the words are clearly legible.

A team can earn a credit by finding a related English word which is NOT on the Etymon Online dictionary page. Please illustrate that word too and bring it in with you along with the source where you found it.

One of you must also write out the LATIN word which is going to be linked to the English derivatives. You don't need to illustrate this, although you may if you like.

Bring your cards or papers to class and we will put them together with string or ribbon. We will NOT have time to print out more from the computer; you need to bring your completed cards with you.

Check below for a VERY COOL link called "savethewords" -- adopt a word and start using it! While not all the words are from Latin, I would guess that the vast majority of them are. I have already adopted "aquabib" and "tudiculate". They are all words that have actually been used and are in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Here is a Tres Columnae jigsaw puzzle, an idea suggested to me by you!

ecce pensum sextum (Here is your sixth homework. We do not meet on 22 October, so you have until the end of the first week after half-term.)

Read over Fabella Quarta (the fourth story) and Fabula Longa (the long story).

You will find new links below because the final version of Tres Columnae is now ready to go. You will find a menu on the left side of the new Tres Columnae page with links to all the stories we have done so far. The self-testing quizzes have not been linked in yet.

The fourth short story and the long story have a lot of new vocabulary. You should have a look at the "rooms in a Roman house" to help you with the names of the rooms. See the second link below.

Here is a list of other useful vocabulary words:

in ludo: at school

civis: a citizen

servus: a slave

ancilla: a female slave or maidservant

aeger: ill

See how many of the other new words you can guess!

I would like to write some self-testing quizzes for these stories and I want you to help me. Try to come up with two questions for each story that would help test a reader's knowledge. (I'll just give one example: quis est ancilla? Casina) You could also have multiple choice questions (fill in the blank: Casina est ....) and verum/falsum (true-false) questions. You could ask about one of the illustrations. Use your imagination to think of interesting questions!

You'll probably want to use these question words: QUIS (who) and UBI (where).

Try to keep the questions and answers in Latin as much as possible.

Please let me know if you find mistakes in the Tres Columnae pages!

gratias ago!

Here's one of your video stories!

ecce pensum quintum (Here is your fifth homework, due Oct. 15)

There will be a quiz (short test) on the numbers. You need to know how to spell the Roman numbers, what they mean, and how to write them in Roman numerals.

If you are having trouble spelling the Latin, use the flashcard option in the game below,

You also have been assigned a number and you need to illustrate this number on an A4 piece of paper by drawing that number of colorful animals or other objects. Write the ROMAN NUMERAL and the LATIN WORD for the number under the picture, but not the English number.

Here is a list of the first twenty numbers and how to write them. You only need to know 11-10, but you can earn extra points by knowing the numbers up through 20.

one - unus (or una or unum) - I

two - duo (or duae or dua) - II

three - tres (or tria) - III

four - quattuor - IV

five - quinque - V

six - sex - VI

seven - septem - VII

eight - octo - VIII

nine - novem - IX

ten - decem - X

eleven - undecim - XI

twelve - duodecim - XII

thirteen - tredecim - XIII

fourteen - quattuordecim - XIV

fifteen - quindecim - XV

sixteen - sedecim - XVI

seventeen - septendecim - XVII

eighteen - duodeviginti [which means two-from-twenty] - XVIII

nineteen - undeviginti [which means one-from-twenty] - XIX

twenty - viginti - XX

twenty-one - viginti unum - XXI

twenty-two - viginti duo - XXII

twenty-three - viginti tres - XXIII

twenty-four - viginti quattuor - XXIV

ecce pensum quartum (Here is your fourth homework, due Oct. 8)

Review the third Tres Columnae story.

Study the ROMAN NUMBERS I-X.

To learn the numbers and the way the Romans wrote them, read the Tarheel reader QUOT SUNT IN PICTURA? The link is below.

You'll see that the book is missing the number VII (septem - 7). Who can find me a good picture of seven animals on line?

There is also a link to a guide to Roman numerals.

Play the three number games below: MATCH ROMAN NUMBERS, ARRANGE IN ORDER and MATCH NUMERALS TO NAMES.

For a challenge, try the numbers from 1-20 (game also listed below).