Hodie est...

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Bummer!

Caroling cancelled for Latin Club due to 18" + of snow. Good News: no school Monday or Tuesday, either!

Friday, December 18, 2009

Carolling :: Latin Club

On Saturday 19 December 2009

4 p.m.

Meet at Jenni Sherba's
43392 Deepspring Ct.
Ashburn, VA

Jenni's home number: 703.858.5287
Jenni's mobile: 703.297.0105

Check the weather AND HERE to see if SNOW cancels today's activities!

Friday, December 11, 2009

Quondam Abes Friday 11 December 2009 :: ante diem tertium Idus Decembres: Septimontium Agonalia, Sol Indiges, Ianus

Incipit (see last post, DICTATIO)

I. Review packet for Stage XXII Probatio

II. Introduction Deponent Verbs, for clarification of perfect active participles (this Stage, i.e. ingressus, locutus, conspicatus, &c.)

III. NB next week's assessments:

Block 8/ Monday 14 Dec 25-point Vocabulary Quiz Stage XXII (know your genitive singulars so you can classify nouns and adjectives by declension, and for verbs, know all your principal parts)

Block 2/ Tuesday 15 Dec 25-point Vocabulary Quiz Stage XXII (know your genitive singulars so you can classify nouns and adjectives by declension, and for verbs, know all your principal parts

Block 8/ Wednesday 16 Dec 50-point Probatio Stage XXII
i. Unseen passage (comprehendio LIII.1)
ii. de lingua latina (LIII.2) participles; datives with special verbs; genitives of quantity and of description.
iii. cultura (LIII.4) Aqua Sulis and defixiones.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

LATIN Sight Translation

S.T.T.L. = sit terra tibi levis

Found inscribed in marble in Rome, another epitaph:

Tu qui perleges vivas valeas amas ameris.