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I am in great pain today and can't make it in. Was up most of the night. Begin class  with a matching quiz on half sheets of paper on the vocabulary for Chapter 7. Copies on desk at front of room.   We are still doing a unit on Roman slavery.  I am attaching a film viewing guide, which has already been distributed to the students. The classes have viewed the film to about the intermission point. Between 1;20 and 1;40.  Each class can tell whomever is showing the film how far they got.  The film, Spartacus, is three hours long, so there is no danger of finishing it. Please have students review the study guide before showing the film. I left the tab open on my computer that takes you to my Amazon Prime account. I own the film Spartacus. If by chance the log on needs to be re-entered and the computer does not supply the information automatically, ... All necessary materials are on the desk  at the front of the room. These are also in the...

Slaves, freedmen and women PowerPoint. Follows Cambridge Latin Course I, Chapter 6

Read pages 42-43 in Chapter 7 of Ecce Romani, which focuses on recognizing nominative and accusative cases of nouns. Then do Exercise 7 on page 44 . Follow link or see below. Ex e rci s e 7f   Chapter 7 page 44. HOMEWORK. DUE OCTOBER 30 Study the grammar explanations on pages 42 and 43 in Ecce Romani. Then read each sentence below aloud. Identify subjects and direct objects .  Then translate. 1. Servus senators videt. 2. Arbores pueri saepe ascendunt. 3. Clamores puellas terrent. 4. Patres magnos fragores audiunt. 5. Patrem voces vexant. 6. Voces in horto audit. 7. Patres in via conspiciunt. 8. Patres pueros in via conspiciunt. 9. Patres solliciti clamores audiunt. 10. Magnas voces patres audiunt. 

Follow link to PowerPoint: Roman Slaves Freedmen Freedwomen PowerPoint

Use a computer or other device to access the texts and images in Blendspace. Paper copies of some of the texts are available if you prefer to study the texts this way.  DO NOT WRITE ON HARD COPIES. Open the link below to get to Blendspace, where you will find a collection of short essays, primary sources and images on the topic of Roman slavery. Everyone read the text from Cambridge Latin Course I (tile 2) and and the text from Ecce Romani, Chapter 6, "The Slave Market" (tile 4).  Then read at least two of the other texts from 3-7. Use the questions in tile 3 as a guide to reading tile 2.   Then read the primary source texts in tiles 8 and 9 (primary sources) and choose one of these to focus on. Look at the images. Take notes and prepare short presentations of the main points of each reading. Discuss your summaries as a group and make any changes that grow out of the discussion. You must include evidence from the texts to backup your observations on each readi...

Ecce Romani Chapter 7 Story: Bad News In villa sedet vir Romanus, nomine Gaius Cornelius, qui est pater Marci et Corneliae. Cornelius est senator Romanus. Solus sedet quod multas epistulas scribere vult. Dum pater occupatus est, Marcus et Sextus et Cornelia in agris vicinis errant. Ibi multos servos laborantes spectant. Subito nuntium conspiciunt qui ad eos venit.  Nuntius, ubi advenit, pueros salutat. 5 "Salve!" respondet Marcus. "Quem tu petis?" Nuntius, "Gaium Cornelium peto," inquit. Marcus, "Gaius Cornelius est pater meus," inquit.  "Est in villa." Nuntium in villam ducit et patrem petit. "Pater," inquit Marcus, "nuntius in villa est." 10 Cornelius statim venit et nuntium salutat. Epistulam nuntius tradit. Cornelius, ubi epistulam legit, "Eheu!" inquit. "Princeps senatores Romanos ad urbem revocat. Eos consulere vult. Necesse est ad urbem redire." "Eugepae!" clamat ...

Ecce Romani Page 45: Accusative (Direct Object) Plural Nouns. Exercise. October 23 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4f1Ouqn4I4zZG1jVHBmckVaUGM

subject = doer of action of verb = nominative transitive verb= takes a direct object intransitive verb= does NOT take a direct object linking verb= a verb like sum, es, est, sumus estis sunt that acts like an equal sign between subject and predicate. The girl is smart. Girl = smart. Both words will be in nominative. direct object = receiver of action of verb complement= noun or adjective connected to subject by a linking verb. complementary infinitive = infinitive that completes the verb. Sextus arborem ascendere vult.

Latintutorial Video on Latin Gender Ecce Romani, Chapter 6, Grammar: Explanation and exercises on GENDER.  :  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4f1Ouqn4I4zX1M4U21HallIU3c  (PAGES 35-36)