Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Iterum 9/24

Warm-up
  • Textbook p. 59, Exercise E #1-4


Pater Noster

Nota Bene
  • Portfolio Check on Friday
    • Make sure that you update your cover sheet.
    • Complete 4 choices.
    • I added a couple of choices to the list.
·         I’m noticing that for some people trouble with vocabulary is slowing comprehension/translation.
o    This difficulty is only going to increase as we learn more new words (which we do basically every day).
·         Make sure that you are studying Latin vocabulary for at least 5 minutes every day.
o    When you come across a word in class/reading/homework that you do not know, make a note of that and be careful to study that word in addition to Stage Vocabulary Checklists.

Charades: Who am I?
  • The class will be divided into two groups to play charades.
  • Each person will come to the front of the room, draw a piece of paper with a character from our stories on it, and then act out that character and what he/she does.

Latin Phrase of the Day
  • tabula rasa
  • literally “scraped tablet
    • tabula = wax tablet
    • it refers to the Roman practice of scraping the wax off the tablet to get a clean writing surface.
  • blank slate
·         sine cera
o    without wax
o    When a sculpture was cracked, some people would try to hide it by filling/covering the crack with wax. It became such a problem that art dealers started labeling their statues “sine cera” to indicate that they were genuinely good quality.
·         This is where we get the English word “sincere”

Legimus - “Hermogenes” p. 57
  • Last class:
    • In the Stories section of your portfolio, write a couple of sentences predicting what will happen when Caecilius takes Hermogenes to court.
  • Share with your table groups.

Legimus - “In Basilica” p. 58
·         Follow along with me as I read the Latin.
·         Return to your charade group and explore and discuss the remainder of the “In Basilica” story.
o    Take notes in your Stories section as you do this.
o    Pay special attention to the characters: How are they feeling? What is their motivation?

·         Write down a number between 1-5 (or 1-4). No one in your group may have the same number as you.



Homework

·         Portfolio Check Next Class!

·         Keep studying your vocab for at least 5 minutes every day!

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