Agenda for Tuesday September 4

EQs:  How can you find information you need in our textbook?  How does our textbook ask us to approach Latin texts?

Words of the Day (WOD): 
derivative: a word formed from another word or root word; especially, a word formed from a word or root word from another language.
mnemonic device: something that helps you remember a word or fact. Derivatives can be mnemonic devices to help you remember a Latin word.

Meet Ecce Romani I

Bellwork: Scavenger Hunt with textbook

Initial illustration, Chapter 1 "Two Roman Girls"

Pre-reading questions Chapter 01

a. What is the setting of the picture?

b. Who are the girls? 

c. What are the girls doing?

d. How are the girls different?

e. What would be different if this were a scene in the country near you today?

f. What season of the year is it?

g. What are you going to learn about the Latin language in this chapter? (Look at the illustration in your book; the grammar will be listed in the upper right hand corner)

h. Give examples of nouns, adjectives, and verbs in English (use the vocabulary list to do this).

Audio for vocabulary
Audio for story

The vocabulary gives you information to figure out some of answers to the pre-reading questions. For example you see the word "nomine" and that it means "by name, or named." When "nomine" appears in the story, it is followed by a girl's name.  So you can deduce that Cornelia and Flavia are the girls' names.

Look at the vocabulary for a word that indicates a season of the year.  That tells you the answer to question f.

Vocabulary

Typewritter Game

Story

Let's read the story again and see if you can determine what "est" means. 

The approach of our textbook: you can figure out much of what you have not seen before by using prior knowledge (for example, a sentence must have a verb and a subject) and context clues that you get from the illustration and the vocabulary. You do not have to translate every word or word-for-word to begin to understand what the story is about.  In addition many English words have Latin roots and so you can often figure out what a Latin word means by its similarity to an English word. We say that an English word "derives from a Latin word, or is a "derivative."

Pre-reading derivatives for Chapter I

HOMEWORK: STUDY VOCABULARY FOR CHAPTER I

Link to vocabulary in Quizlet