Latin 2 Syllabus: Spring 2019

Dr. Jacques Bailly
Office: 481 Main St. Rm. 300
Phone: 6-0993
E-Mail: jacques.bailly@zoo.uvm.edu
Office hours:
This syllabus may be revised mid-semester. Notice of changes will be given as follows: 1) announcement in class, 2) e-mail to the registrar's list of registered students, and 3) the revised syllabus will be posted on-line.

Texts: Wheelock's Latin, 7th ed. revised.
For those who want more detail and more help: A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin by Grote.
Also Groton and May's Latin stories: I think you already have this, or maybe it was supplied for the review sessions.

Tests and Quizzes: Quizzes will be take-home due on Fridays. There will also be very short in-class vocabulary quizzes on Fridays. No makeups. No late work accepted. You may miss up to 3 take home quizzes and 3 vocabulary quizzes total without being harmed. Do not waste these early on.

Midterm will occur March 6 and is a take home. Final will be not be take-home and will be announced whenever the registrar's office sees fit to do so (let me know if you notice they have done so). Absence = 0. For the midterm, but not the final, there will be an in-class opportunity to regain lost points on March 8: note that that is the Friday before Spring Break. No accommodations will be made if you decide to skip that day for whatever reason, so put in effort accordingly.

Review Sessions: there will be review sessions, and you should attend them. Attendance will be taken and will count as extra credit, particularly for those who are not always above 90%. This is a progressive scheme of extra credit, in other words. I reserve the right to change this and make them mandatory as well as to specify how attendance counts for grades.

Grades: 91-100%=A, 81-90%=B, 71-80%=C, 61-70%=D, 60% or lower fails.
Plus and minus for the top three and bottom three points of each range respectively, except an A+ is 99% or 100% (i.e. 98% is an A).

Quizzes	40%
Homework	10%
Midterm	20%
Final	20%

Please keep a record of your grades (I suggest writing them on a sheet attached to the inside back cover of your text).

"Assignment": where it says "assignment" on the schedule, that means, as a default, that you need to do every 3rd self-tutorial exercise (i.e. 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, etc.), the first 4 of the exercitationes, and the first 4 and last 4 of the sententiae antiquae. BUT you need to check, because I will attempt to create better assignments, and they will be specified in the schedule.
NOTE for records: on Jan 27 "assignment" was changed: the last 4 of the exercitationes were moved to the "reading."

"Reading": where it says "reading" on the schedule, that means that you need to do the first 10 lines of the connected reading after the sententiae antiquae and the scripta in parietibus. By "do" them is meant that you need to write them out and be ready to translate and to parse them in class and then hand them in. Also, do the last 4 of the exercitationes.
NOTE for records: the last 4 of the exercitationes were moved here on Jan. 27, and it was also explicitly stated that you need to write it out and hand it in.

NOTA BENE: All of this will be automatic: there will usually be no explicit reminders of what will be due when or what is expected of class members. With apologies, Professor Bailly will probably be at a loss if you ask him what is due when: this has all been set up so he does not have to remember to assign things. Trust me, you will be better off this way: it is predictable and you don't need anyone's help figuring out what is due.
 
IF YOU FIND YOURSELF SLIPPING or having to skip a class, you must put in more time. The best way to shore up your knowledge of Latin in areas that are weak is to do all the self-tutorial Exercises for the chapter that introduced the material  which you missed or with which you are having trouble. After doing the exercises, check the answers in the book.

My Philosophy: Latin is hard, but should be exciting and fun. In general, it is the single best foreign language most UVM students could possibly learn. Languages are learned by small steps upwards towards the lofty goal: take a few steps every day and you will climb far. Skip a few days and you will trip, stumble, "hit the wall," and not be able to catch up easily.

A note about this syllabus and changes to it: this is not really a contract. I will treat it as such, however, unless it becomes clear to me that it is not furthering your Latin learning or that there are "loopholes" that are being taken advantage of, in which case I reserve the right to change any and all parts of it to encourage you to maximize your learning.