Hi Lauren! 

I hope you are having/had a safe trip/arrival in China.  Such a different world!   I am sure you and your parents are exhausted but so excited. 

Wednesday, Feb. 7th I covered the remainder of the mythological stories, Orpheus, Adonis, and Hyacinthus.  The practice test is tomorrow.  We checked the homework and practiced translating sentences with passive voice verbs in the new tenses.  There is no homework for Thur.

Thursday, Feb. 8:  I am going to introduce a new irregular verb:  possum, posse, potui, ---- (be able, can)  It is on pl 510 in the left column.  See how its tenses work just like "sum" but instead of meaning "I am" in the present tense, it means "I am able or I can."   We will work practicing this for the next couple of days and I will attach the practice to the Bellwork link tomorrow. 

Friday, Feb. 9: 

We reviewed the conjugation of the verb "possum," p. 510.  Notice how in the first 3 tenses, whenever the corresponding form of "sum" begins with an "e" that the stem of "possum" is POT-, but when the form of "sum" begins with an "s" (sum, sumus, sunt), then the stem is "POS-" 

The two practices for this are on the link entitled "Bellwork, Practice" on the Latin home page.  This verb will be included on the Ch. 32-34 Test.

Today we are covering present passive infinitives, p. 234.  An active infinitive is translated "to carry" and a passive one is "to be carried."  They are formed in the following way:

1st, 2nd, & 4th conjugation:  drop the final "e" from the infinitive (2nd principal part) and add -i

   e.g.  portare   becomes  portari

          audire    becomes audiri

3rd conjugation:  drop the final -ere from the infinitive and add i

       ducere    becomes duci

Students sometimes get these confused with perfect tense, 1st person singular (duxi, cepi) but that verb form uses the perfect stem, not the present verb stem.  So "duxi" means I led, but "duci" means "to be led".

Lacee, Big D, Keith , Kendra, Wilson, and Chris say hi and Keith says to call us from China and Ben wants a post card.

Ben and Keith-  Keith wants an octopus and I want a postcard with authentic stamps ( whatever those look like)  We all miss you.   We don't have anyone to make fun of anymore.  Keith also wants a cookie cake. Don't get lost,  Ben

Monday, February 12:  We checked the homework and reviewed passive infinitives (p. 234.)  The Ch. 32-34 Test is tomorrow and it includes:  perfect, pluperfect and future perfect tenses, passive voice, tenses, all tenses of "possum," passive infinitives and the vocabulary.

We reviewed A-C in the Latin Phrases and Mottoes List.  Test for these (A-M) is next Mon. 2.17. 

Homework:  ex. A, p. 247

Tuesday, Feb. 13:  The practice test on Ch. 32-34 took most of the class.  Homework for Thursday is to translate "Ludi, Romani et Nostri," p. 246, ll. 1-8.  Hope you are having a great time and hope you have gotten your little sister. 

Wednesday, Feb. 14:  Happy Valentine's Day!  Students took the final test on Ch. 32-34.  We will finish reviewing the Latin Phrases and abbreviations, A-M, for the test next Tuesday, Feb. 20.   We started going over the homework (A, p. 248) but did not finish.   The only new grammar item in the new chapter (35) is how to form a participial stem:  drop the _us from the 4th principal part of the verb. For example, the participial stem of "portatus" is portat-   This chapter reviews the four principal parts of verbs and the present and perfect verb stem--which we have already covered. 

Thursday, Feb 15:  We finished checking ex. A & B, p. 248, I returned and reviewed Ch. 32-34 Test, and we watched a video on the Orpheus myth.  There is no homework for Mon.  and we are looking forward to having you back!  Vale et pax