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Monday, October 30, 2006

HW -- week of 10/30

Septimi (VII): MONSTER PROJECTS DUE TUESDAY!!!! GRAMMAR QUEST ON FRIDAY!!!!
HW:
Monday (for Tuesday): MONSTER PROJECTS! Things that have to be printed must be sent NO LATER than 8AM on Tuesday morning!
Tuesday (for Wednesday): Study endings and practice quest.
Wednesday (for Friday): Bring Yellow mythology books!!! STUDY!!!!
Friday (due Monday): Chapter 7 translation!!!!

Octavi (VIII): Grammar Quest TUESDAY!!!!
HW:
Monday (for Tuesday): STUDY!!!!! Bring myth book to class.
Tuesday (for Wednesday): Activity 19g in WB
Wednesday (for Friday): Exercise 19c in TB

Monday, October 23, 2006

HW -- Week of 10/23

Septimi (VII): Quiz on Aeneas on THURSDAY (NOT FRIDAY!). This is due to the Halloween Parade (candy + party + quiz = BAD). NOTE: GRAMMAR QUEST on FRIDAY, November 3rd. (start studying, because we have Give Kids the World on Thursday, November 2nd) Grammar quiz will include all grammatical principles that we have learned thus far. This includes: noun endings (gender; subject vs. direct object); verb endings (singular/plural/infinitives/leech verbs).
MONSTER PROJECTS DUE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31st (HALLOWEEN!!!!)

Homework:
Monday (for Tuesday): Ex. 6c in TB
Tuesday (for Wednesday): Act. 6d and 6e in WB
Wednesday (for Thursday): STUDY!!!!
Thursday/Friday (for Monday): Chapter 7 vocabulary cards (finish Monster Projects for Tuesday)

Octavi (VIII): Quiz on 3rd declension adjective endings and Legendary Heroes on Tuesday. The following Tuesday will be a quiz on the application of those 3rd declension endings (matching with nouns, etc.).

Homework:
Monday (for Tuesday): Finish Act. 18d in WB if not done in class. STUDY!!!!
Tuesday (for Wednesday): Act 19d in WB
Wednesday (for Thursday): Act. 19g in WB

Monday, October 16, 2006

Fun Stuff!

Reminders:

Bake sale is this THURSDAY (10/19) during Lunch -- bring something to donate and/or buy something! Things will run at about $1 each.

Movie filming is this FRIDAY (10/20) after school between 3:45-5:30PM -- we are doing The Odyssey, so if you have any cool random props, bring them!

That's all! Ciao ciao!

SHE

HW/Announcements -- Week of 10/16

A few reminders: HOMEWORK IS IMPORTANT!!!!! The homework/classwork that I assign is DIRECTLY related to what I ask on the quizzes/tests, so if you can do your homework/classwork, then you can do the quiz/test! Ask questions if you get the answers wrong!
Some of you have F averages for the second quarter -- ALREADY!!!! Remember that one may turn in late homework for partial credit up to five days after it was due. You are shooting yourself in both feet by not doing homework -- 1) you get a "zero" in your average; and 2) you are not practicing for the quiz/test (read: LESS STUDY TIME if you do homework!).

With that said, here is this week's homework:

Septimi (VII): Quiz this THURSDAY on derivatives (diary, Pennsylvania, frigid, errand, error, err, temerarious, lupine, STAT!, petition, repel, timorous, salvation, terrified, volunteer/voluntary, caldron) -- will have 5 fill-in-the-blank with wordbank and 5 questions write your own sentence. Quiz this FRIDAY on Chapter 6 Vocabulary -- ALL WORDS! (I gave you two weeks to study last time and that made no difference!)
HW for:
Monday (due Tuesday): Pompeii assignment. Remember that it must be printed and ready to go BEFORE class. If you have printer problems, e-mail me no later than 9PM Monday night!
Tuesday (due Wednesday): Read and take notes on "Aeneas" (in Chapter 5).
Wednesday (due Thursday): Exercise 6a in TB (write FULL LATIN sentences! Watch your word order!) STUDY DERIVATIVES!!!
Thursday (due Friday): STUDY VOCABULARY!!!!!

Octavi (VIII): Quiz on Friday on Chapter 18 vocabulary. Make sure to memorize ALL forms of the word. Remember that quizzes this year will be new in style: both Latin-to-English AND English-to-Latin!!!!
HW for:
Monday (due Tuesday): Engineering Assignment (remember bibliography if you used sources other than the video!)
Tuesday (due Wednesday): Read and take notes on "Legendary Heroes of Early Rome" (Chapter 18)
Wednesday (due Thursday): Read & take notes on pages 4-5 in Chapter 18 (1st, 2nd, and 3rd declension adjectives! Oh my!)
Thursday (due Friday): STUDY VOCABULARY!!!!
Friday (due Monday): Activity 18b in WB

Monday, October 09, 2006

HW -- Week of 10/9

We have a short week so things are rearranged a little bit:

Septimi (VII): Quiz this WEDNESDAY (10/11) on Chapter 5 words: Dies, ibi, errant, lupus, statim, clamor, calidus, repellit, prope, adhuc, si, ignavus, salvae, ubi, petit, neque…neque…, timet, temerarius, perterritus, rivus, adveniunt, arripit, excipiunt, vult, in silvam

Pompeii assignments due on Tuesday, October 17th.

All missed work MUST be made up by this WEDNESDAY, otherwise it’s a ZERO!!!!

Band students/students who missed documentary MUST come in and watch this Tuesday and Wednesday during lunch & homeroom (11AM-12PM) and after ROPES.

Octavi (VIII): Study verb endings and irregular verbs!

Tuesday: Small quiz on present tense (o,s,t,mus,tis,nt) and imperfect tense endings (bam,bas,bat,bamus,batis,bant) and how they are translated ("I was ________ing," "you were _________ing," etc.).

Wednesday: Small quiz on present tense and imperfect tense forms of "esse" and "posse" (sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt; eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant; possum, potes, potest, possumus, potestis, possunt; poteram, poteras, poterat, poteramus, poteratis, poterant) Also know how they are translated!!!!

Engineering essays + notes due on Tuesday, October 17th.


Important dates: Wednesday, October 18th from 3:45-5:30PM - Movie filming (The Odyssey)
Thursday, October 19th during lunch: BAKE SALE! Bring baked goods and buy some, too! :o)

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

HW -- Week of 10/2

Salvete, omnes!
This week is pretty easy, but do not fall behind!

Septimi (VII): NO QUIZ THIS WEEK!!! WOOHOOO!!!! Chapter 5 (pg. 25) paragraph translation due on Friday.
Monday (for Tuesday): Study Hera and read pgs. 24-27 HINT HINT! Study si, dies, calidus, in silvam, ibi.
Tuesday (for Wednesday): Study si, dies, calidus, in silvam, ibi; rivus, frigidus, errant, prope, vult. HINT HINT!!!!!!!!
Wednesday - Friday: Keep studying vocabulary. We will be watching a documentary on Pompeii during these days; make sure to take notes in class!
Next week's vocabulary quiz is on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11th on ALL of Chapter 5 vocabulary!!!! This is because we have a field trip on Thursday and off on Friday.
The Pompeii assignment (30 points) is due on Tuesday, October 17th.

Octavi (VIII): Quest (70 points) on Tuesday, October 3rd. The Engineering essay (50 points) is due on Tuesday, October 17th.
NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEK!!! Just STUDY and work on your essays!!! (based on the engineering documentary that we will be watching this week)