COURSE OUTLINE (LATIN III)(SAT) –FEB – JUNE 2024 TEXTBOOK: LATIN VIA OVID
This course will cover chapters 21 to 30 of the textbook together with the interim readings, though the latter will be dealt with less thoroughly. The principal grammar points included are the subjunctive and indirect (reported) statement. PowerPoints illustrating all the stories are now available for download from http://linguae.weebly.com/courses.html ). Other files explaining the grammar, or covering supplementary material, will be sent to you as email attachments and, as before, should be kept in one folder on your computer, but will also be available on the web site, unless covered by someone else’s copyright.
Although the 30-hour course provides time to complete a good proportion of the exercises in each chapter, you will need to spend sufficient time in preparation between classes – for the average student at this level this should mean at least two hours. There is no formal assessment at the end of the course, but an attendance certificate can be provided if required and you may request an exit test to be completed at home if you wish. Flashcards to help in learning the vocabulary are available on www.cram.com, with quick links to individual sets at https://linguae.weebly.com/flashcards.html You will be welcome to email me ([email protected]) at any time if you need help between sessions.
Session 1 –24/2 Interim reading –I – Daedalus et Icarus, and listening to Ovid’s original version (Metam 8: 183-235: http://rhapsodoi.org/full-index-of-sorgll-recitations/) Chapter 21 (Orpheus et Eurydice): PowerPoint and passage
Session 3– 9/3 Video of Orpheus story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bvcHTbz7E Future participle in –ūrus, periphrastic future active (pugnātūrus est etc.), comparison of adjectives and adverbs, Interim reading II – Phaëthon
Session 4 – 16/3 Chapter 23 (Iason et Argonautae): PowerPoint and passage.. Revision of Latin terms for grammatical categories (praesēns, praeteritum imperfectum, cāsus nōminātīvus etc.).
Session 5- 23/3 Indirect statement (accusative and infinitive, use of reflexive pronoun to refer back to subject of verb of reporting, use of negō), the adjective quīdam (a certain’) Chapter 24 (Amor Iasonis).
Session 7 –13/4 Chapter 25 (Labores Iasonis): PowerPoint and passage. The imperfect subjunctive of regular verbs and of sum and possum.
Session 8 – 20/4 Use of subjunctive in purpose (`final’) and result (`consecutive’) clauses, sequence of tenses. Listening comprehension with Nuntii Latini bulletin. Chapter 26 (Facta Magica Medeae): PowerPoint and passage
Session 9- 27/4 Perfect and pluperfect subjunctive of regular verbs and of sum and possum, contrary-to-fact conditions, use of dative with crēdō, pāreō, ignōscō, persuadeō, imperō, placeō, noceō, serviō, parcō and studeō and with compound verbs. Interim reading III – Facta Mala Medeae: PowerPoint and passage.
Session 10 – 4/5 Chapter 27 (Theseus Troezene): : PowerPoint and passage. . Review of previous material including subjunctive, short comprehension test, indirect questions, sequence of tense. Latinitium version of the Theseus story (Part 1) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzDgdhpffk
Session 11- 11/5 ūtor with ablative, locative case. Chapter 28 (Theseus Athenis) : PowerPoint and passage
Session 12 – 18/5 Use of cum (when/since/although) with subjunctive and indicative, adjectives with the dative (grātus,ignārus, cārus), temporal conjunctives (ubi, ut, quandō, cum, dōnec, antequam, postquam, simiul ac (atque), superlatives in –illimus, -errimus Ghost story : https://latinitium.com/halloween-special-in-latin-5-noises-in-the-night/
Session 13 – 25/5 Chapter 29 (Theseus Cretae) : PowerPoint and passage. Relative clauses in the subjunctive (expressing characteristic, purpose) and in sentence-initial position.
Session 14- 1/6 Chapter 30 (Theseus Rex) : PowerPoint and passage Impersonal verbs (oportet, licet, libet, placet), facere ut with subjunctive (to cause to happen), use of the gerund (verbal noun) in the genitive. Review of basic conversation.
Session 15 –8/6 The irregular verbs volō, nōlō and mālō, prohibitions with nōlī/nōlīte, subjunctive in indirect command/request, in subordinate clauses within indirect statement or other dependent subjunctive clauses an with verbs of fearing, use of conjunction cum with main clauses, use of plain accusative for motion towards a city/small island etc,. accusative of extent of time. Interim reading IV: Pluto et Proserpina. Materials for further study (including Fabulae Faciles, Wheelock’s Reader, Cambridge Anthology)