Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Iterum 9/30

Warm-up
  • Go to the link I emailed you yesterday and complete the online activity.
    • When you finish, choose “print.” You do NOT need to print, just show me the print preview page.
    • If your computer is not working, you may use your textbook - p. 60, Exercise B - and write it on a piece of loose-leaf paper which you will turn in.
Prayer Before Class
·         Pater Noster
Portfolio Feedback
·         Make sure your cover sheet is accurate.
·         Update as we work.
o    We did an activity for “Venalicius” that you were supposed to print for the stories section of your Portfolio.
o    If you had updated your cover sheet as soon as we did that activity/I assigned it, it would have been in your Portfolio.

  • Derivatives
    • The purpose of derivatives assignments is to help you make connections between English and Latin.
    • Do not simply look up all the English words in a dictionary. This robs your brain of the opportunity to make these connections!
      • Use the Stage Vocab list
      • Use your knowledge of English prefixes (e.g. resignation, insatiable, invocation)
        • take the re- off of resignation, and you know that you’re looking for something that starts with s - signum
      • Let me know if you need some hints (prejudicial)
        • take the pre- off and you’re starting with a j
          • Latin didn’t actually have j so it would need to be something that begins with an i
            • in Latin, i is kind of like y in English – sometimes it’s a vowel, sometimes a consonant
            • it also makes the y sound like in “you”
        • Or, use your knowledge of the English word to help you. It clearly has something to do with judging - iudex

Nota Bene
  • Portfolio Check IV - 10/10
  • Examen II - 10/8
    • Review due 10/6 (to be assigned next class)
    • Extra Credit Reviews:
      • Monday, 10/6 after school
      • Wednesday, 10/8 before school

Romanae Salientes Fabae
·         We played to review personal endings
o   –o = 1st person, I
o   –s = 2nd person, you
o   –t = 3rd person, he/she/it
Latin Phrase of the Day
·         In hoc signō vincēs.
o    In this sign you will conquer.
·         Emperor Constantine (reigned 306-337 AD) – before a great battle he had a dream of a cross (or chi rho) and those words (technically in Greek, but the Latin translation is more famous)
o    He had his soldiers put the cross on their armor/shields and they did indeed conquer.
  • Constantine I (or Constantine the Great) became the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
    • Although he did not enforce Christianity as the official religion of Rome, this began the strong relationship between Rome and the Catholic Christian faith.
    • Constantine was a major participant in the Edict of Milan in 313 AD which granted Christians (and indeed peoples of all faiths) religious freedom to worship openly without fear of persecution.
  • Constantine also moved the capital of the Roman empire from Rome to Byzantium or Constantinople (now Istanbul)

Culture: Basilicas
  • Constantine was also instrumental in the adoption of the Roman basilica form for Catholic churches.
    • In the later Empire, basilicas were being used as palaces/audience chambers.
    • Constantine converted one of his basilicas to a church, replacing his throne with an altar.

·         Roman and Greek style temples were rejected as architectural templates for Christian churches because they were associated with paganism.
·         Also, Greek and Roman sacrificial altars were outside of the temples themselves.
·         Later, people also associated the shape of the basilica with the shape of the cross, popularizing the form even more.
·         Basilica architectural features:
o    Narthex - an antechamber or large porch
o    Nave - the central part of a church building, intended to accommodate most of the congregation
o    Transept - either of the two parts forming the arms of the cross shape, projecting at right angles from the nave
o    Apse - large semicircular recess with a domed roof, usually containing the altar

·         Make sure you take good notes while watching these videos. This information will be on the culture section of the test.

Free Time!

Homework
·         Work on Portfolio choices
·         Keep up your daily vocabulary study



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