Iterum 9/4

Warm-up

·         Place your Examen I Reviews in the black box.

·         Textbook p. 33, Exercise A

Prayer Before Class

·         Ave Maria

o    I will call on a student to lead us in the prayer.

Examen I Review

• Place your Examen I Reviews in the black box.
• Work on the Roman Clothing handout while I check your Reviews for completion.
• Let’s go over the review together.
• The format of the test will be essentially the same, although each section may vary in length.
• On the translation section, choose 3 sentences to translate.
• For the Reading Comprehension section the story will be different from those we have translated together in class.

Examen I Concepts

• Vocabulary: Stages 1 & 2 Checklists
• Jargon: macron, ending, case, nominative case, accusative case
• Charts: nominative vs. accusative
• Sentence Analysis: identifying case
• Translation: Any sentence or story in Stages 1 & 2
• Reading Comprehension: A story roughly equivalent to those we have read in Stage 2
• Culture: Textbook pp. 10-16, 30-32, anything about daily life learned from the stories, phrases of the day, notes

Annotation “In Triclinio”

·         We checked the annotation for “In Triclinio”

Latin Phrase of the Day

·         ab ovo usque ad mala

o    from eggs to apples

o    Written by the Roman poet, Horace, around 40 BC (during the reign of Augustus)

o    describes the courses of the Roman dinner

·         transferred to mean “from beginning to end”

o    ‘ab ovo’ (from the egg) by itself is used to mean “from the beginning”

o    but it actually refers to Helen of Troy’s birth from an egg (because Zeus had appeared to her mother as a swan)

Homework

·         Prepare for test

·         Work on Portfolio Choices