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READING ASSIGNMENTS ARE ALL IN THE CLASS TEXTBOOK. The book contains Latin text, notes, and vocabulary.

Final grade will be based upon the following formula:

• 40% - class work (recitation, quizzes, attendance, and anything else pertinent)
  Please keep careful notes of misprints, uncertainties, and other difficulties you encounter in the textbook. REWARD for detecting serious errors!
• 40% - 2 hour examinations (@ 20% each)
• 20% - final examination

A primary focus throughout the course will be on grammar and vocabulary. Notes to the text and classroom explanations will help you to review the elements of Latin grammar. Use of vocabulary in the textbook (or a dictionary) and exercises in translation will help to develop a stronger vocabulary. We move beyond the tiresome cant of forms and paradigms, but you will have to recognize every Latin word for the form that it is. (Alternative and unusual forms will receive attention as they are encountered.)

A secondary focus will be on training you to observe features of style which inform the text, especially those which are characteristic of Latin prose in general. The subject-matter I hope will interest you adequately, so that you can begin to anticipate what the speaker/writer will next have to say.

A certain amount of each class time will be taken up, one way or another, in reviewing forms and syntax and in explaining / discussing more subtle points of grammar and features with which you may be less familiar. This class time is the opportunity for you to make sure that you understand how each and every grammatical construction works.

We will translate in class the assignments prepared as homework. (If you use a published translation in your preparation, you must still be ready to explain the grammar of each and every word in the Latin sentence.) The best preparation consists of reading and re-reading the Latin textand then to read and re-read it yet again. To memorize an English translation is feasible only if you have mnemonic skills of an superlative order. Do not bring to class any translation, even ones which you have written out for yourself.

The first hour test will consist of passages of the Latin covered in class, to be translated into decent English. The second hour test and the final examination will consist of Latin passages not covered in class (in all likelihood one that you have never seen): this is called a sight translation. The best way, in fact the only way, to prepare for a sight translation is to aim throughout the course at thorough understanding, not just superficial memorization of the daily assignments. Students completing Latin 51 are, almost without exception, astonished at how well they can read and understand an unseen passage of Latin prose. This approach is intended as much to reward the student as to provide the instructor with evidence of progress and understanding.

Assignments in the Verrine orations are by page and line number.

Date	(Month)	Assignment
Wed. 3	September	Introduction
Fri. 5		1.14 absolutus
Mon. 10	September	2.7 videatur
Wed. 12		2.22 possit
Fri. 14		3.12 obsideret
Mon. 17	September	4.3 diceret
Wed. 19		5.2 condonatio
Fri. 21		5.29 omnia
Mon. 24	September	6.27 cognoscite
Wed. 26		7.25 intellegatur
Fri. 28		8.28 celare
Mon. 29	September	9.23 praemonebat
Wed. 1	October	10.26 videatur
Fri. 3		11.27 habebimus
Mon. 6	October	12.26 mittere
Wed. 8		HOUR TEST
Fri. 10		FALL RECESS
Mon. 13	October	13.27 posset
Wed. 15		14.28 videatur
Fri. 17		15.27 polliceor
Mon. 20	October	16.28 arbitretur
Wed. 22		18.1 corrumpere
Fri. 24		NO CLASS (VCLA)
Mon. 27	October	19.2 defuturam
Wed. 29		20.4 habeant
Fri. 31		21.7 Dixi*
Mon. 3	November	HOUR TEST
Wed. 5		23.10 dimittitur
Fri. 7		24.24 conflaret
Mon. 10	November	25.24 condemnat*
Wed. 12		27.8 Minervae
Fri. 14		28.20 conferatis
Mon. 17	November	30.2 fuisse
Wed. 19		31.6 perferetis	Fri. 21		32.18 sustulit
Mon. 24	November	33.29 fuisse
W,F 26,27		THANKSGIVING
Mon. 1	December	34.25 auferantur*
Wed. 3		36.17 rosae
Fri. 5		37.23 faciebat
Mon. 8	December	38.27 conaris
Wed. 10		39.27 religiones*
Mon. 15	4 PM	FINAL EXAM

Last updated: 6 September 1997 Send Comments to: Eleanor Rodgers, erodgers@uclink4.berkeley.edu Copyright © 1997 UVM Classics Department All Rights Reserved.