Bummer!

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

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!

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.

DICTATIO

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.

Prosperpina :: Qualis est?

descriptio (cum nominibus adjectivis) scribenda:

qui est? cui nomen sibi est? qualis est? estne femina una dea? estne femina mortalis?--benigna?--maesta?--severa?--mystica?

cur hoc credatis? cum duo sententiis completis explicetis.

Quondam Abes

We watched the Silent Monks and captioned it in Latin.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

sententia scribenda de figura:

XXXX

Latin Sight Translation

errare est humanum

semper paratus

tempus fugit (redux)

Latin Sight Translation

Roma Victor!

---quoted from Maximus, Gladiator (2000)

Latin Sight Translation

sic semper tyrannis

Latin Prose Composition

Develop (and sketch out a design if you like) a Latin slogan for the 2009-2010 Latin Club T-shirts, after you watch this video!

Celebrating last Saturday's "Talk Like a Pirate Day"

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=51655

You can't win if you don't enter! (The winner among all levels receives a free T-shirt.)

Piracy and Pompey the Great

Latin Sight Translation

esse quam videre

Quondam Abes Wednesday 16 September 2009

* Block 1 Latin 2
* Block 2 Latin 3
* Block 3 Latin I

2009 A Cat Odyssey

Watch this clip and give the story a title in Latin.

Quondam Abes Monday 14 September 2009

INCIPIT (Warm-up): See latinstonebridge.blogspot.com; record the Roman date (under HODIE EST), and read the brief note I posted; take a couple of notes in your binder/journal/compbook, noting the names of Plato, "Greater Mysteries," and other things you'd like to know more about; then, click on the title that reads "Everyday Greek and Latin." Another document will appear, It should be p 181 in a book about Plato, by Ann Michelini (on Google Books). Read that first paragraph. Discuss

I. Greek and Latin word relatives: agrapha dogmata (un-written doctrines), dogma vs. karma, telos (goal), eudaimonia (good energy, productive “vibes”). "Alpha-privitive," Latin de+ , Germanic un+ (as in "uncool").

II. Greek alphabet: Chant and visual cueing.

III. Transition Grids: POIESIS and choices (there will be handouts shortly)

IV. Get to <3<3> your Text V. CLC Text

Latin II “coniuratio” p. 7 Blue Latin III “fons sacra” p. 6 Green Latin I “Cerberus” p. 7 Red

Oral/Visual cueing of Model Sentences; written translation, of passage cited in the line above.

Valeas! Dr. Matteo

Everyday Latin and Greek

From Dr. Matteo: Today 14 September, is traditionally the day the ancient Greek celebrated the Greater Mysteries. Let's look at a passage from a modern scholar who studies Plato, and break it down for word relatives.

Latin Prose Composition, Latin 2, 3 & 1

Sententia scribenda in linguā latinā, quaeso:

Tempus Fugit

for John Thornton

Fellow fugitive
Forgive yourself
And me thereby
Thus we can live
Whatever's left
Of time for us,
Each day a gift
We take on trust

Samuel Menashe (Poetry 2009)

It's Monday 7 Sept, Labor Day: Bored and Nothing to Do?

...I can use volunteers in 301 unpacking and organizing many exciting curricular projects for Latin Club. I plan to be here at least until 3 p.m., possibly later. You can vox mobile or text me at 703.568.8663 if you want to check-in before you drop by. There will likely be FOOD involved!
Yours, Dr. Matteo

Jupiter and Saturn in the Sky and in the Post

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

Scribenda sententia in lingua Latina:

LATIN EXPRESSION

Philosophia vitae magistra.

LATIN EXPRESSION

Mars dubius nec certa Venus.

Ovid, Amores 1.9 line 29

and, can you scan it????.....

LATIN EXPRESSION

vivas posthac prosperesque

LATIN EXPRESSION

Cicada vocalior.

LATIN EXPRESSION

Hic est meus cantus.

--- Neo-Latin epigrammist,
Karlyn Dunne, SBHS 2009

LATIN EXPRESSION

Elephantem saltare doces.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

Use indirect statement or the passive voice in captioning this photograph:

LATIN EXPRESSION

Stultus in tenebris ambulat.

Stultus in tenebris ambulat.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

Sententia scribenda:



Caption this in Latin...you may transliterate the present caption or make up your own!

LATIN EXPRESSION

Vigilo et spero.

Vigilo et spero.

LATIN EXPRESSION

sub pallio sordido sapientia.

sub pallio sordido sapientia.

adapted from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

LATIN EXPRESSION

Homo doctus in se divitias semper habet.

Homo doctus in se divitias semper habet.

LATIN COMPOSITION

Sententia Scribenda:

Caption this--using your good humor--in Latin.

LATIN EXPRESSION

Quod dei deo, quod caesaris caesari.

Matthew 22, Mark 12, Luke 20, Latin Vulgate Bible

Quod dei deo, quod caesaris caesari.

LATIN EXPRESSION

Quae volumus, et credimus libenter.

Julius Caesar, de bello civili Book 2

LATIN EXPRESSION

dominus habet oculos centum.

[LINK] dominus habet oculos centum.

LATIN EXPRESSION

Caesar non supra grammaticos.

http://audiolatinproverbs.blogspot.com/2007/05/caesar-non-supra-grammaticos.html

LATIN EXPRESSION

Cum vinum intrat, exit sapientia.

Cum vinum intrat, exit sapientia.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

Scribenda sententia:

LATIN EXPRESSION

Ut piscis extra aquam.

Ut piscis extra aquam.

LATIN EXPRESSION

Sapientis est mutare consilium.

Here is the essay link: http://audiolatinproverbs.blogspot.com/2007/05/sapientis-est-mutare-consilium.html

LATIN EXPRESSION

Poma aut matura cadunt aut immatura leguntur.

The linked file:
http://audiolatinproverbs.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html target=_blank

LATIN EXPRESSION

Dicunt enim non faciunt.

LATIN EXPRESSION

Aqua profunda est quieta.

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Inter arma fratres

See this link: http://aesopus.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ning-diary-dec-19-latin

Now, write your own motto and, if you desire, design your own body art (aka tattoo).

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

panem et circenses

SPQR Senatus Populusque Romanus

dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

post-mortem

LATIN EXPRESSION

Iane bifrons,
qui calles
iam transacta et futura:
....quod forma hominem docet
circumspectum fuisse?

from Alciatus, Emblemata 1621

Podcasting and the Classics