Iterum 9/12

Prayer Before Class

• Ave Maria
• I will call on a student to lead us in the prayer.

Vocab Check II

Examen I

• You will get a Score Report with your returned test.
• The Score Report is divided into sections so that you can easily see your strengths and weaknesses.
• Use this to guide you when picking choices to complete.
• Keep your test & score report in the “Tests & Quizzes” section of your Portfolio
• Great work!
• Avg. = 97, Highest grade = 104
• Remember to follow directions!
• Choose 3 sentences to translate.

Jargon

• Declension - noun group/family that shares a pattern (endings).

• Declension = clan
• The words in a declension look alike just like people in a family look alike.  E.g. some families all have the same color hair.
• There are 5 Latin declensions.
• first declension has “a” in most of its endings

First Declension Nouns
Nominative	Metella	ancilla	taberna
Accusative	Metellam	ancillam	tabernam

o    The nominative ending of the first declension is -a, and the accusative ends in –am

• second declension has “u” and “o” in most of its endings (you haven’t seen any “o” endings for second declension yet)

Second Declension Nouns
Nominative	Caecilius	servus	amīcus
Accusative	Caecilium	servum	amīcum

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• The nominative ending of the second declension is usually -us, and the accusative ends in –um
• third declension has “i” or “e” in most of its endings

Third Declension Nouns
Nominative*	mercātor	leō	senex	canis
Accusative	mercātorem	leōnem	senem	canem

o    *Third declension nominatives can vary greatly. The accusative usually ends in -em.

Activity

·      We completed an activity to compare declensions.    

Practicing Declensions

• In your notes, draw 3 columns labeled “first declension,” “second declension,” & “third declension”
• divide the following nouns (from Stage 3 Vocabulary Checklist) into the appropriate declensions:
• forum, ianua, leo, navis, taberna, villa, vinum

1st Declension	2nd Declension	3rd Declension
ianua	forum	leo
taberna	vinum	navis
villa

Legimus - “Pictor”

• In the Stories section of your portfolio, finish writing a literal translation for lines 9-14.
• We checked the translation together.

Reflection

• In the reflection section of your portfolio, answer one of the following questions (at least 3 sentences):
• What was my favorite/least favorite thing about Latin in the past 2 weeks? Why?
• What is the most interesting thing I learned in Latin class (or from portfolio choices) in the past 2 weeks? Why?
• What three new vocabulary or jargon words do I like the most?  Why?

Hercules

·         We started talking about Hercules, Greece’s greatest hero.

o    Definitely better than Perseus and Thesus.

Portfolio Check

·         Today is Portfolio Check II