1. L1 Monday, August 24th
Collect Supplies & Latin Club/NLE $
The pleasantries…
Salve vs. Salvete
Magister vs. Discipuli
Phrases, Abbreviations, Mottoes 10-12
Read FORMS, SYNTAX, and VOCAB. pp. 4-6
Review basics of first declension
Exercise E
Discuss terms ‘decline’ and ‘declension’
Next Tuesday (9/1) you will decline a noun, giving case names as well as basic case meanings and uses
Review CDFG pp. 8-9
Return Work
Begin Homework Together
Homework
Tomorrow:
Exercise I (p. 9) pronounce and translate from Latin to English
Block Day (Not Tuesday anymore): Lesson 1 Vocabulary Quiz
This Week: Retake Syllabus Quiz (Optional)
Nota Bene
Sign Up for Latin Club ($5)
Sign Up for National Latin Exam ($5)
BVN: Meeting for Greece-Italy trip Tuesday 9/1
BVN: First Latin Club Meeting on Wednesday, August 26th
BVNW: First Latin Club Meeting on Friday, August 28th 3:00 pm in rm. 307

2. FIRST DECLENSION NOUNS
Case Singular Plural Usage
Nominative -a -ae subject of an action verb sentence, e.g.
The girl (puella) carries the water.
subject and predicate nominative of a linking verb sentence, e.g.
The girl (puella) is a farmer (agricola). of
Genitive -ae -arum is used to denote possession, e.g. The horse of the girl (puellae) is small or The girl’s (puellae) is small.
to/for
Dative -ae -īs indirect object of an action verb sentence, e.g
The farmer shows the girl (puellae) the horse.
The farmer shows the horse to the girl.
Accusative -am -as direct object of an action verb sentence, e.g.
The girl carries the water (aquam).
Ablative -ā -īs follows certain prepositions such as “in” e.g.
The girl is in the forest (in silvā)
List First Declension Nouns on the Back of this Page!
agricola, agricolae m. farmer (!warning! masculine)
femina, feminae f. woman
patria, patriae fatherland, native land, country

3. Grammar Terms Declension:
All nouns in Latin are placed into one of five groups which are referred to as declensions.
They are grouped in this way based on their pattern of endings. Nouns of the 1st declension all use the same set of endings to code the information we just discussed. Nouns of the 2nd all use a different set, and so on.
We start with 1st declension nouns and will only learn 2 of these groups this year.

4. Would you DECLINE?
There is a drill Latin teachers love to have their students perform when working on nouns. This drill is to DECLINE a noun, which means putting all of the possible endings on a noun in a specific order.
So, to ‘decline’ a noun:
Obtain the ‘base’ (or ‘stem’)
Find the base by dropping ‘ae’ from the genitive. What is the base of terra, terrae?
terr-
Add each case ending to the base, starting with the singular forms and then the plural.

5. Blank Declension Paradigm (Chart)
Singular
Plural
N________________
G________________
D________________
A________________

6. L1 Tuesday, August 25th Collect Supplies & Latin Club /NLE $
The pleasantries…
Salve vs. Salvete
Magister vs. Discipuli
Collect HW: p. 9 exercise I
Listen to Lyrical Latin for 1st Declension
Practice declining random nouns
Exercise I, together
Complete Practice Vocabulary Quiz to Gain Familiarity with Format
Begin Lesson 1 reading Troy, time permitting
Homework
Thursday: Lesson 1 Vocabulary Quiz
This Week: Retake Syllabus Quiz (Optional)
Nota Bene
Sign Up for Latin Club ($5)
Sign Up for National Latin Exam ($5)
BVN: First Latin Club Meeting on Wednesday, August 26th
BVNW: First Latin Club Meeting on Friday, August 28th

7. Lyrical Latin #4: 1st Declension
-a, -ae, -ae, -am, -ā, -ae, -arum, -is, -as, -is. First declension, mostly feminine. Urna, puella, aqua, insula, Roma, taberna. These are feminine. First declension, a few masculine. Like nauta and scriba, poeta and agricola, clepta and pirata. Masculine by exception.

8. Let’s decline! patella, patellae f. small dish, platter
What is its base/stem?
equa, equae f. mare
Case
Singular
Plural
Nominative
Genitive
Dative
Accusative
Ablative

9. L1 Wed./Thurs., August 26/27th The pleasantries...
Lesson 1 Vocabulary Quiz
Lesson 2 Vocabulary
p. 17, 13 words
discuss before handing out cards: verbs, cum
Derivatives for Lesson 1 and Lesson 2
read Learning English Through Latin p. 7 and 18
hand out derivatives sheet – place in binder!
Lesson 1 Reading: Troy, p. 10
Complete Ex. H, p. 9 Together
Complete Ex. J, p. 9 in Pairs
Work will be written on boards and discussed.
Begin Jenny Workbook pp. 1-2
Homework
This Week: Retake Syllabus Quiz (Optional)
Tuesday (9/1): Quiz – Decline 1st Declension Noun
Wed/Thurs (9/3-4): Lesson 2 Vocabulary Quiz
Nota Bene
Sign Up for Latin Club ($5)
Sign Up for National Latin Exam ($5)
BVN: First Latin Club Meeting today, Wednesday, August 26th
BVN: Info Mtg on Italy/Greece Trip
BVNW: First Latin Club Meeting on Friday, August 28th 3:00 pm, rm. 307

10. Verbs – Principal Parts
For all of the verbs which we learn, there will be four forms which must be memorized. These are the minimum number required to eventually generate all possible forms. (i.e. if there are ~225 verb forms for any regular Latin verb, you can make all of them from these 4 parts)
amō, amāre, amāvī, amātus: love, like
habitō, habitāre, habitāvī, habitātus: live, dwell, inhabit
laudō, laudāre, laudāvī, laudātus: praise
narrō, narrāre, narrāvī, narrātus: tell, relate, narrate
vocō, vocāre, vocāvī, vocātus: call (upon)

11. Side One
amō
Verb:
1st Principal Part

12. Side Two amāre, amāvī, amātus love, like (amateur, amatory) 3rd PP
4th PP
2nd PP
definition
derivatives

13. L1 Friday, August 28th The pleasantries
Phrases, Abbreviations, Mottoes 12-14
First Semester Extra Credit Opportunity
The influence of the Latin & Greek world in everyday life.
Begin Lesson 2 Grammar: Verbs
slides follow
Complete 1st Problem from Each Set in HW
Begin reading If You Lived In Ancient Rome: The Rooms in Your House
Homework
Monday: Practice C, D, & E
for C, translate new forms
Last Chance: Retake Syllabus Quiz (Optional)
Tuesday: Quiz – Decline 1st Declension Noun
Thursday: Lesson 2 Vocabulary Quiz
Nota Bene
BVNW: First Latin Club Meeting on Friday, August 28th 3:00 pm rm. 307
BVN: Info Mtg on Italy/Greece Trip Tuesday, Sept.
Sign Up for Latin Club ($5)
Sign Up for National Latin Exam ($5)

14. Verbs!
in Latin!

15. What a Latin verb will show you…
tense: when (past, present, future…)
person: 1st , 2nd , 3rd
number: singular or plural
verb forms in Latin are typically presented in a chart like this (called a paradigm):
Singular
Plural
1st I we
2nd
you
y’all
3rd
he/she/it
they

16. What a Latin verb will show you…
Latin does not require the use of personal pronouns (I, you, he/she/it, we, y’all, they)
Instead, a Latin verb will indicate the personal pronoun to be used with it (i.e. its person and number) by means of ‘personal endings’ which come at the end of a verb
Singular
Plural
1st -o
-mus
2nd -s
-tis
3rd -t
-nt

17. Present Infinitive In English the infinitive start with to:
to sleep, to eat, to breathe
As with the finite verb forms (those that show person & number) Latin indicates an infinitive form by word ending, specifically the letters –re
exempla:
parāre to prepare
vidēre to see
ponere to put
dormīre to sleep

18. What is a ‘conjugation’?
the ‘conjugation’ of a verb is a term referring to a group of verbs which share the same present stem vowel
the present stem vowel is what comes before the –re in the infinitive (the 2nd principal part)
what is the stem vowel for habitāre ?
habitā – ā

19. Present Tense 1st Conjugation: Easy as 1, 2, 3
Find the infinitive for the verb
laudō, laudāre, laudāvī, laudātus
laudāre
Remove the –re
laudā-
Add personal endings
laudā+s = spectās: you watch

20. Paradigm for the 1st Conjugation Present Tense
***exception to formula
Singular
Plural
1st Person
laudō***
laudāmus
2nd Person
laudās
laudātis
3rd Person
laudat
laudant

21. Translate amamus vocas narratis laudant habitat amo vocant narramus
laudas
habitatis