Sunday, December 20, 2009

Students: If you are behind in Latin or are experiencing difficulty in your translations, below are pages in your grammar books that should help you improve:

Latin I

Study the following pages for declensions: pages 5--7, 10--13.

Study the following for conjugations: page 44

To succeed in your translations, you need to know the following:

The endings of the word: example terrarum

The meaning of the word: of the lands

How it fits in a sentence: Rex terrarum populum amabat. The king of the lands was loving the people.

Latin II:

The declensions as listed under Latin I.

The conjugations: pages 44--51, 56--59.

Latin III: Some of you still need to memorize and know how to use the above. You know who you are. Please work on these over Christmas vacation.

English History and Literature students:

I gave an assignment to the Monday class that I believe I forgot to give to the Wednesday class. The assignment is:

1. Go online to bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/
Under British history play the "Gunpowder Plot Game" and the Elizabethan Spy Game."

2. Next: Go online and Google schoolhistory.co.uk.

Click on the first site under that category. The site will come up. On the left side of the page you will see "Reviewed Internet Links." Go to AS/A2 Level. Go to Charles I. Go to Texts Relating to Charles I. Read the first transcript, the one on the King's execution.

On the same site: Go to the main page in the middle. Click on "Online History Lessons." Scroll down to Cromwell where it says "What sort of man was Cromwell?" and click. Answer the questions about the document. Open the download.