Phrase of the Day. Latin in the News. Kavanaugh and Ford testify before Senate Judiciary 9/27/2018

Phrase of the day:"Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus."

I don't imagine that most of you were able to watch the Senate hearings that were called to examine Judge Brett Kavanaugh's fitness for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.  He was accused of sexual assault  when he was in high school and had to defend himself against the allegation. 

Since many legal terms derive from Latin it was not surprising to hear Latin in these hearings.

One senator's question was noteworthy. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut asked Kavanaugh if he was familiar with the Latin legal term used in common law "falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus."  

Kavanaugh dodged the question, saying "you can probably give a better translation than I can."  

Senator Blumenthal then translated the Latin “false in one thing, false in everything.”

By this time in the hearing, there were a number of apparent inconsistencies in Kavanaugh's story. And he then demonstrated an embarrassing ignorance of EASY legal Latin. 

You never know when Latin might be useful.

Do you agree with the Latin legal term?

Agenda Tuesday September 11

Take out your binder, and your iPad. If you don't have an iPad, get a computer from the back of the room. No phones.

Phrases of the Day (POD) Mottoes of South Carolina

The seal is made up of two elliptical areas, linked by branches of the palmetto tree. Surrounding the image on the left, at the top, is "South Carolina", and below, is "Animis Opibusque Parati" ("Prepared in Mind and Resources"). The other image on the seal depicts the Roman Goddess Spes walking along a shore that is littered with weapons. The Goddess, symbolizing Hope, grasps a branch of laurel as the sun rises behind her. Below her image is her name "Spes", Latin for "Hope", and over the image is the motto "Dum Spiro Spero", or "While I Breathe I Hope".

• Animus Opibusque Parati
• Dum Spiro Spero

ops, opis n.: resources, wealth; help

spiro, spirare, spiravi, spiratus - to breathe

spero, sperare, speravi, speratus - to hope

spes - hope

Independent instruction
When you finish recording the information about the mottoes. Practice three times the vocabulary from Chapter 03 with the matching game below

 Direct instruction: declensions

• Nouns in Latin are grouped into five noun families, which are called "declensions."  
• In chapter 01-02 you met nouns that are mostly in the first declension: puella, villa, pictura and amica.
• Notice that they end in -a when they are singular subjects; -ae when they are plural subjects.
• In chapter 03 we meet nouns of the second declension, or noun family: puer, vir, ager, servus, amicus, hortus; and adjectives of the second declension: iratus, solus, laetus.
• Notice that 2nd declension nouns and adjectives end in -r or -us when they are singular subjects and -i when they are plural subjects.

Now lets look at the nouns in the Chapter 3 story (audio):

TPR: Caput, umerus, genu, pes
Words
Music

Guided instruction: Pre-reading derivatives
Identify the vocabulary word that gives the root or base for the English words listed. Then look up the highlighted word on the activity sheet using the Merrian Webster Dictionary. Then write two sentences in English using two of the derivatives you defined. Nota bene: it is important to read all the information in the dictionary.

Pueri Romani - Roman Boys
Short video (6 minutes) on the Life of a Teenage Boy in Rome

02 Chapter Ecce Romani: linking verbs, complements, 3rd person verb endings, plural nouns

Pre-Reading Questions

Open your textbooks to pages 6 and 7 and to spend two minutes looking at the picture, reading the "In This Chapter" box and the title of the story, and looking very quickly at the vocabulary list. Then ask the following questions:

a.  Whom do you see in the picture?

b.  What are the girls doing?

c.  What is the setting of the picture?

d.  What do you see under the tree?

e.  While studying Chapter 1 we talked about nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

On what are we going to focus in this chapter?

f.   Who can give me an English sentence with a subject, a linking verb, and a complement?

g.  All the verbs in the story in Chapter 1 ended with the letter t; Two verbs in the vocabulary list for Chapter 2 end with the letters nt.  What does this mean about these verbs?

h. What plural noun do you see in the vocabulary first? 

Chapter 2 Audio
Vocabulary
Story Read Quickly
Story Read with Pauses

Questions about the story. Answer in Latin using the sentences in the story.

Quizlet Vocabulary 02 Ecce Romani


02 Ecce Pre-reading derivatives

Monday September 10

Bellwork. Phrases of the Day (POD)

Esse quam videri "To be, rather than to seem". (Motto of NC and Appalachian State).

Rules and procedures reminder

Copy the chart below for your binders, then use your story handout or the textbook to locate all the verbs and complete the chart. 

Copy the story below for your binders, adding only the correct form (singular or plural) of the verb for each sentence.

When you finish Activity 2g and 2h study the vocabulary sets below (matching game)

Corpus Humanum: Body words for head, shoulders....

Quizlet Body Words

Practice vocabulary for 02 Chapter Ecce Romani

Chapter 03 Ecce Romani (Guided Instruction)

Audio for Story 03 In the Garden, read quickly
Audio for Story 03 Read with pauses
Audio for Story 03 Vocabulary

Reminder: How to do a Derivatives Activity Sheet
More work with derivatives Chapter 02 Activity Book 2j

Study for Homework

Quizlet Vocabulary for Chapter 03 (no images)
Quizlet Vocabulary for Chapter 03 (with images)

Agenda Friday September 7

Words of the day (WOD)
transitive verb (TV) a verb that has a direct object, that transfers an action to a noun (the direct object)
intransitive verb (IV) a verb that does not have a direct object
linking verb (LV) a verb that links a subject to a description of that object (noun or adjective)
complement (C) the description of what the verb links to the subject. If it is a noun or adjective, it is in the same form, the subject or nominative form, as the subject.

Finish before lunch: Crossword on Vocabulary for Ecce Romani II.

Page 8 Ecce Romani Textbook, Grammar Guided Instruction

Guided instruction: Identify subjects, verbs, linking verbs and complements in the story (below) Play audio of story.

Pre-reading questions. Guided instruction

Open your textbooks to pages 6 and 7 and to spend two minutes looking at the picture, reading the "In This Chapter" box and the title of the story, and looking very quickly at the vocabulary list. Then ask the following questions:

a.  Whom do you see in the picture?

b. What are the girls doing?

c. What is the setting of the picture?

d. What do you see under the tree


e. While studying Chapter 1 we talked about nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  On what are we going to focus in this chapter?


f.  Give an English sentence with a subject, a linking verb, and a complement? (See page 8 in textbook, included below.


g. All the verbs in the story in Chapter 1 ended with the letter t; Two verbs in the vocabulary list for Chapter 2 end with the letters nt.  What does this mean about these verbs?


Write in your notes:
Verbs from chapter I

habitat (he/she/it) lives, is living,does live
sedet (he/she/it) sits, is sitting, does sit
est (he/she/it) is
legit (he/she/it) reads, is reading, does read
scribit (he/she/it) writes, is writing, does write
facit (he/she/it does, makes, is making, is doing what does...do?

Verbs from chapter II

ambulant they walk
sedent they sit

-t ending = singular (s/he it)
-nt ending = plural (they)

h. What plural noun do you see in the vocabulary first? The ending -a is singular. The ending -ae is plural.

Audio for Story Chapter II (read without pauses)
Audio for Story Chapter II (read with pauses)
Audio for Story Chapter II Vocabulary

Responde Latine (questions on the story). Guided instruction

Quis est? Quid facit Cornelia?

Quis est? Quid facit ·Flavia?

Cur Cornelia non iam ambulat?

Quid facit Cornelia?

Quid facit Flavia, puella strenua?

Cur Flavia quoque sedet?

Quid facit Cornelia sub arbore?

Quid facit Flavia sub arbore?

Quid puellae tandem faciunt?

Cur ... ?  Why?

Quid facit....? What is ______ doing?

Quid faciunt ...?  What are (they/plural noun) doing?

Independent work (use the vocabulary list)/Homework

Read A Roman Family, pp. 10-11. Then answer the questions here - Pearson online culture 02 Ecce Romani

Agenda for September VI (6) Ecce Romani I-II. Basic English Grammar

EQ: What must you need to know about English Grammar to understand Latin Grammar?

Phrases of the day:

• Sine qua non = "the basic necessities" (literally, without which nothing [else can proceed or be done]

• Exempli gratia = for example; a common English abbreviation is e.g. "for example"

• Caveat: Be careful, watch out

Word of the day: article or the article of a noun: a, an or the. Latin does not have articles.

Review activity for Ecce Romani Chapter I
Copy the questions and answers on a piece of notebook paper.

Handout: 
Basic English Grammar For Learning Latin Part I and II

01 Latin Vocabulary Quizlet

02 Latin Vocabulary Chapter 02 Quizlet

Body Part Song (Long version of Head Shoulders Knees and Foot in Latin)

Body part Song instrumental music

Agenda Wednesday September 5

EQ: How can derivatives and etymology help us with Latin and English?


Word of the Day (WOD): 
etymology: the study of  the facts of the origin and development of a word

Quiz on vocabulary for chapter 01 in the form of a crossword puzzle. (Partnered work)

How to do a Derivative Activity Sheet

1) Find the word in the vocabulary list that is related to the English words for each number and write the Latin definition of the word in the space provided.

2) Study all the English words given on the sheet that are derived from the Latin word. Some you will know, others you may not.  Knowing that the Latin word is related to an English word you know will help you remember the Latin word. For instance knowing that "noun" (the name of a person, place, thing or idea) come from "nomen, nominis" will help you remember that "nomine" means by name, named.

3) Choose to define one of the English words that you either don't know, or don't usually use in a sentence. In this way Latin will grow your English vocabulary.

4) Use the link to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in the Resources section at the bottom of the blog to look up the word. Here you will find the definition, examples of the word used in sentences and usually the history of the word and how it derives from Latin. 

5) After you have read everything the dictionary tells you about the word, write your own sentence. Don't copy the dictionary sentences. Come up with your own. Use the bottom of the page or the back if your sentence doesn't fit into the space given. 

6) Make sure that your sentence reflects the meaning of the word. "I felt ignominious." Does not show that you understand what ignominious means. It is possible to be creative and correct in your sentence. 

7) Note especially the history of the word that the dictionary usually includes. This will explain the Latin connection. 

Here is what  the dictionary tells us about the history of the word "ignominious:"

Did You Know?

The "-nom-" of "ignominious" comes from "nomen," the Latin word for "name" or "repute." (It's also the root of "misnomer," "nomenclature," and "nominal," among others.) The "ig-" part of the word is akin to the negative prefix in-; when joined to the root "-nom-," it indicates the namelessness that goes with shame or dishonor. To suffer an ignominious fate is to lose the opportunity to make a name for oneself or to lose one's good name. When "ignominious" was first borrowed from a French form of the word in the 15th century, it meant "disgraced" or "dishonorable." "Ignominious" continues to have such meanings, but it also has somewhat milder meanings - "embarrassing" and "humiliating."

The Latin root "nom-" gives us dozens of English words.

8) There is also a link at the bottom of the blog to the Online Etymological Dictionary. Here you can always find the history of a word, as well as other words related to it. 

We will do the Derivative Activity Sheet before attempting to find the meaning of the Latin story because this pre-reading activity will help you learn and understand words in the text. 

Now we will use the text to answer the question in Exercise 1a.

HOMEWORK:
Join Remind: 2018 Fall Semester Latin I  code: dgfc87
Study vocabulary for Chapter 01

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