You should have the textbook (Latin For Beginners, Benjamin
L. D'Ooge ) by the
time the session starts. I'd also strongly recommend that you spend
some time scanning the material before we start.
For this session there are no guides. We will have to answer our
own questions, and check over the assignments ourselves. We are
adults who can pull together and make sense of this, especially with
the resources that are available: Latin for Beginner's Key, Benjamin
L. D'Ooge Textkit Greek and Latin
for Beginners forum.
Schedule:
Week of January 23: Introductions.
Read Part 1 & the 2 help files.
Ask any questions about this chapter.
Week of January 30:
Part II, Lessons I & II.
Covers basic grammar, subject & object. Introduces
Latin nouns.
Do Exercise 31, page 16, due Friday, February 3.
Week of February 6:
Part II, Lesson III.
1st declension nouns.
Do Exercise 34, page 17, due Friday, February 10.
Week of February 13:
Part II, Lesson IV.
Nominative, accusative & genitive.
Do Ex. 39, page 19 and hand in, do ex. 40 for home
practice & ask if you have any problems with this.
Week of February 20:
An important lesson - covers the Dative case. Read
this section
carefully and do both parts of Ex. 47 - Page 21 (GTSS: 47A
and 47B).
Week of February 27: revision.
Week of March 6:
Lesson VI.
The Ablative case.
Prepositions.
Adjectives.
Now we are getting to the stage of constructing some real Latin!
Translate Exercise 56 (GTSS: 56) and make sure you read the notes for this
exercise. (Due by Mar 11)
Week of March 13.
Lesson VII.
Revision of "A" declension & grammatical gender (important!!).
Exercise 62 (GTSS: 62A and 62B) (Exercises 62I & II in the book) (Due by Mar 18).
Do Ex. 63 for home practice.
Week of March 20:
Lesson VIII.
Agreement of adjectives & more on gender.
Word order (but don't stress about this - it will get clearer as you
do more reading).
Exercise 69 (GTSS: 69) for translation (Due by Mar 25) Do the word order part
for home study.
Week of March 27:
Lesson IX.
More nouns - now we can meet Marcus as well as Marcia!
Exercise 77 (GTSS: 77) - for translation (and a few laughs!) due in by Apr 1
Exercise 78 for home study.
Week of April 3:
Lesson X. Masculine adjectives. Apposition - see sections
82 & 83. Exercises 82A & 82B due by April 7.
Week of April 10:
Lesson XI. A review of adjectives of the 1st & 2nd declension.
Note that the adjective agrees with the noun in number and
gender. The ending might be diiferent (see example 85)
Exercises 86A & 86B. Due by April 14.
Week of April 17:
Easter falls in the middle of these weeks so don't worry if you
have to miss a week. Lesson XII is about nouns ending in -ius
and -ium. Do Exercises 90A & 90B. due by April 21.
Week of April 24:
Lesson XIII. 2nd declension nouns ending in -ir and -er. The
most important part to note here is the difference between the
"puer" and "ager" type of nouns. Think of English derivatives
like "puerile", "liberate" and ending which changes from "er" to
"r" in "agriculture". The exercises are longer so Exercise 95
is due by April 28 & Exercise 96 due by May 5.
Week of May 1: Review week and do Exercise 96 (as above).
Week of May 8:
Lesson XIV. Possessive pronouns. These can be confusing, very
important to note which word the possessive pronoun agrees
with. Exercises 99A & 99B due by May 12.
Week of May 15: Lesson XV. You have already seen the Ablative
case, now we start to use it. Exercises 107A & 107B due by May
19.
Week of May 22: Lesson XVI. Some irregular adjectives.
Exercises 111A & 111B due by May 26.
Week of May 29: Lesson XVII. The demonstratives "is", "ea",
"id". Exercise 117 due by June 2.
Week of June 5:
Have a rest! Revision and do Exercise 118.
Week of 12 June: Lesson XVIII - The Present, Imperfect, And
Future Tenses Of Sum The verb "to be" is probably the most commonly
used in any language - and it always seems to be irregular! D'Ooge
sometimes uses a very old form of the 2nd person singular - thou.
Use "you" for the second person singular and plural, no-one ever
uses "thou" unless they are quoting from Shakespeare or other writers
from that era. Exercises 124 & 125 due June 17
Week starting 19 June: Lesson XIX - The Four Regular Conjugations -
Present Active Indicative Of Amo And Moneo. We start getting serious
about verbs - a lot to learn and I'm afraid there is no shortcut.
Exercise 131 due June 24
Week starting 26 June: Lesson XX - Imperfect Active Indicative
Of Amo And Moneo. English is rather free in its use of tenses - Latin
is not. In English the past continuous is usually translated as
"was" - "he was walking down the street". However, we can also say
"he used to walk" or even use a simple past tense - "when he walked
down the street every day..." Note that the meaning is that the
walking action took place over time. Exercises 135 & 136 due 1
July.
I am on holidays for a few weeks at this point so you might not get
your answer sheet on time.
Week starting 3 July: Lesson XXI - Future Active Indicative Of
Amo And Moneo Again, English is often loose when translating the
future tense. It can be translated as "will be doing...", "shall be
doing...", but note that we sometimes say "Tomorrow I am going to
the city". This means it is going to happen in the future - so use a
future tense. We will do more on this at a later stage. Exercise 139
due 8 July.
Week starting 10 July & 17 July: Lesson XXII - Review Of Verbs -
The Dative With Adjectives. A revision week Do Exercise 140, due 15
July. Exercises 145 & 146 due 22 July.
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