Latinum CII:
Cursus Descriptio

Doctrix: Jeanne Neumann
Tablinum: Preyer 204
Numeri Telephonici: 2400 (in grapheo); 896-5780 (domi: numquam octavam post horam vespertinam/not after 8pm)
Inscriptio Cursus Electronica: jeneumann@davidson.edu

Tempus Conveniendi: Ter in hebdomade conveniemus’Äìdiebus lunae, mercurii, et veneris, horˆ¢ scholasticˆ¢ quae incipit 12:30 in conclavi Chamberiensi 309/ we will meet three times a week-Monday, Wednesday, and Friday-at 12:30 in Chambers 309.

Tempora Consulendi/Office Hours

Libri Necessarii

Orberg: Lingua Latina

Familia Romana

Latine Disco

Libri Subsidiarii:

C.T. Lewis & C. Short, A Latin Dictionary (Oxford 1879) R 473.2A5661
P.G.W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary (Oxford 1982) R 473.20981982
Gildersleeve and Lodge: A Latin Grammar

Necessitates Cursus

Each student is expected:

to spend not less than one hour each day and not more than one and a half hours (not necessarily in one block of time) working on his/her Latin skills not to let more than one day go by without reading Latin

and encouraged to break up this hour into smaller blocks of time scattered throughout the day’Äìit is not necessary to do it all at one sitting

Daily work carries the greatest weight in the course (id est: tests, quizzes, homework, and class preparation and participation), while the final exam accounts for only 20% of the grade.

The relative weight of each facet reflects the philosophy of the course: that daily preparation is the key to success in acquiring Latin, not sporadic and frantic study. The course moves quickly, making "catch-up" cramming difficult, if not impossible.

That means 7 to 10.5 hours a week of work outside of class.

If you spend one hour each day working on your Latin skills, you will not need to spend lots of (fruitless) hours trying to cram for reviews, etc. Daily use of a language is the only way to mastery.

Apprentice Teacher Sessions: each student will attend twice-weekly sessions with advanced Latin students. In these sessions students will read, translate, and do exercises and drills essential to mastery of the language and success on the exams. Students are expected to attend all sessions. Click here for sections

Attendance is mandatory for both class and AT sessions. The instructor notices absences.

Nota bene: Periodically the instructor will specify that an assignment be typed. Written assignments must be fully legible.

Foedus Honestum (Honor Code): The instructor considers the Davidson Honor Code an invaluable asset to course flexibility and student sanity. It is assumed that all students regard the Honor Code with appropriate reverence and attention to all its particulars.

A note on tests and quizzes: Students arriving late for tests and quizzes will not be given extra time. A student who arrives after the quiz is over will get a zero. The two lowest quiz grades will not count toward the quiz average.

Homework Procedure

N.B. Homework is listed on the day it is assigned. The assignment is due the following class day. We will spend two class sessions on each chapter. For each chapter, the student is expected to:

After first class day spent on a chapter:

  1. the small yellow paperback) before you try to read the Latin.
  2. The marginalia probably won't make much sense until you read 'font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#009900'>Latine Disco.
  3. divided into three sections, marked by Roman numerals in the inside margins of the text. For example, section II begins on p. 14 with the words "Estne Medius filius Iulii?" Each new section practices a different grammatical principle.
  4. Try not to translate each sentence into English but to understand the sentences in Latin (a challenge which grows easier with time).
  5. Look up words as necessary in the accompanying Latin-English wordlist. Vocabulary words recur frequently. If you need to look up a word more than once, or find the next day you cannot remember what it means, memorize the word by making a flash card. Carry the flash cards around with you and review frequently.
  6. LEARN the Grammatica Latina at the end of each chapter

In Class:

  1. Come prepared!
  2. Ask questions!

BEFORE the second day:

  1. Re-read the entire chapter, paying close attention to Learn the forms and grammatical principles, and making sure you have a firm understanding of both the grammar and meaning of the chapter.
  2. Review the vocabulary given in the margins.
  3. Complete Pensum A
  4. Complete any other work assigned in class.
  5. Look ahead briefly in Latine Disco to discover the emphasis of the next chapter

Please read the following information:

  1. How to be a good student

Vota | notae | grades:

  1. Examina (tests and quizzes) (70%)
    1. probationes (tests) 4 @ 14% = 56%
      • Test One: February 3
      • Test Two: February 28
      • Test Three: March 28
      • Test Four: April 18
    2. probatiunculae (quizzes) unannounced quizzes: vocabulary/forms: 5 minutes max! (14%)
  1. Class Preparation, Participation, and Homework (10%)
  2. Examen Ultimum: (final exam) (20%): self-scheduled during exam week.

Notae: A grade "on the line" gets the higher letter (e.g. 93 ’Äì> A)

A = 93’Äì100

B+ = 87’Äì90

C+ = 77’Äì80

D+ = 67’Äì70

A- = 90’Äì93

B = 83’Äì87

C = 73’Äì77

D = 63’Äì67

B- = 80’Äì83

C- = 70’Äì73

D- = 60’Äì63

Latin 101 Syllabus and Links

WEEK
(hebdomas)

MONDAY
(Dies Lunae)

WEDNESDAY
(Dies Mercurii)

FRIDAY
(Dies Veneris)

Prima Hebdomas

Jan. 15

Review

N.B. List of grammar for all chapters in ˆòrberg

Catullus 43 & 70

Jan. 17

Capitulum: 19

res grammaticae

  1. irregular adjectives
  2. nullux/ullus/totus
  3. genitive of quality
  4. imperfect of all conjugations: active and passive
  5. imperfect of esse
  6. domus vocatives for nouns in ius (filius)

Jan. 19

Capitulum: 19

 

Exercitia

Secunda Hebdomas

Jan. 20: Martin Luther King Day: No Classes

Jan. 22

Capitulum: 20

res grammaticae

  1. future tense: all conjugations active and passive
  2. velle
  3. carere + ablative

Jan. 24

Capitulum: 20

Exercitia

Tertia Hebdomas

Jan. 27

Capitulum 20 et 21

Jan. 29

Capitulum: 21

res grammaticae

  1. perfect system i. indicative ii. infinitive iii. perfect passive participle
  2. neuters of the fourth declension

Exercitium: Synopsis

    1. audio, audire, audivi, auditus: 2person singular
    2. muto, mutare, mutavi, mutatus: 1person plural

Jan. 31

Capitulum: 21

Exercitia

Exercitium: Synopsis

  1. scribo, scribere, scripsi, scriptus: 3 person singular
  2. dubito, dubitare, dubitavi, dubitatus: 3 person plural

Quarta Hebdomas

Feb. 3

Periculum Primum: Capitula 19-21

Feb. 5

Capitulum: 22

res grammaticae

  1. supine
  2. tenses
  3. quis quid

Feb. 7

Capitulum: 22

exercitia:

Quinta Hebdomas

Feb. 10

Capitulum: 23

res grammaticae

  1. future active participle
  2. future passive infinitive

principal parts

Feb. 12

Capitulum: 23

 

LATIN GRAMMAR PAGES

Feb. 14

Capitulum: 23

 

exercitia

Sexta Hebdomas

Feb. 17

Capitulum: 24

res grammaticae

  1. pluperfect
  2. deponent verbs: perfect tense
  3. pluperfect passive
  4. ablative of comparisons
  5. adverbs in o

Feb. 19

Capitulum 24

exercitia

principal parts for Chapters 22-25

Feb. 21

Capitulum: 25

res grammaticae

  1. imperative of deponent verbs
  2. objective genitive
  3. accusative and infinitive

Septima Hebdomas

Feb. 24

Capitlum 25

exercitia

Feb. 26

 

Feb. 28

Periculum Secundum: Capitula 22-25

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

Octava Hebdomas

March 10

Captitulum: 26

res grammaticae

  1. gerund/gerundive
  2. adjectives in -er
  3. quisquam/quidquam
  4. future imperative

exercitia

March 12

Capitulum: 26/27

res grammaticae

  1. Present subjunctive: active/passive
  2. verbs of demanding and ordering:
  3. ne...quidem
  4. uti + ablative

March 14

Capitulum: 27

Introduction to the Subjunctive (on blackboard)

Indirect Commands

Nona Hebdomas

March 17

Capitulum: 27

exercitia

March 19


Capitulum: 27 & 28

res grammaticae

  1. imperfect subjunctive: active and passive
  2. final (purpose) clauses
  3. consecutive (result) clauses

Purpose and Result clauses

March 21

Capitulum: 28

 

Sequence of Tense

Revised Synopsis

Decima Hebdomas

March 24

Capitulum: 28

exercitia

March 26

Capitulum: 29

res grammaticae

  1. deliberative questions
  2. indirect questions
  3. cum iterative (cum iterativum)
  4. cum temporal and causal
  5. final (purpose) clauses
  6. genitive of value
  7. genitive of the charge
  8. accusative and infinitive of exclamation

March 28

In Class:

Review

Review Suggestions:

  1. online synopsis drill
  2. RoseWilliams Quia exercises

Take Home due: Periculum Tertium: Capitula 25-28

Undecima Hebdomas

March 31

Capitulum: 29

April 2

Capitulum: 30

res grammaticae

  1. distributive numbers
  2. hortatory subjunctive
  3. future perfect: active and passive

April 4

Capitulum: 30

Duodecima Hebdomas

April 7

Capitulum: 31

res grammaticae

  1. opatative subjunctive
  2. gerundive
  3. quisquis, quidquid
  4. odi, odisse
  5. coram/ super + ablative
  6. semideponents

April 9

Capitulum 31

April 11

Capitulum: 32

res grammaticae

  1. perfect subjunctive: active and passive
  2. subjunctive of wish
  3. fear clauses
  4. verbs of remembering and forgetting
  5. aliquis/alquid
  6. fit/accidit ut + subjunctive
  7. ablative of quality
  8. vis/vires

Tertia decima Hebdomas

April 14

Capitulum 32

Exercitia

April 16

Review Day

Take-home test: Pericula Quarta: Capitula 29-32

April 18

Reading

Quarta decima Hebdomas

April 21

Easter Break

April 23

Capitulum: 33

res grammaticae

  1. pluperfect subjunctive
  2. contrafactual subjunctive
  3. gerund
  4. future imperative

April 25

Capitulum: 33

Practice Reading: Write out translations for homework

Quinta decima Hebdomas

April 28

Capitulum: 34:

April 30

(Optional Days)

Reading

May 2

(Optional Days)

Reading

Sexta decima Hebdomas

May 5

(Optional Days)

Reading

May 7

(Optional Days)

Reading

EXAMS