Assignment for Saturday, 05-14-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists (the last time I'll probably call you this):

By 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, May14, please do the following:

(1) Complete Section E (Reading aloud) of our third exam. Call my campus voicemail with your perfected reading of the midterm passage. Before you left the exam, I handed you a sheet with full instructions and a copy of the passage to mark up.

(2) Complete a peer review form for each member of your team (not including yourself). Instructions and a link to the electronic peer review form are available on our course website.

NOTE: If you fail to submit any or all reviews, you will forfeit the chance to earn peer review points this time around.

NOTE: Peer reviews are anonymous. You will receive copies of the review forms that you have sent to me. I, in turn, will anonymize all of the data and send an individual report to each team.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 05-03-16

Dear Hellenists,

Our final assignment, Tuesday morning, April 26, has both a mandatory and an extra-credit component. Please observe the distinction.

FOR EVERYONE:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 25, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Formation of middle/passive participles (#154–8, pp. 163–5)
• Supplementary participles (#159, p. 166);
• Summary of prepositions and their cases (#160, p. 166); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 25 (#161, p. 167)

OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT (up to a whopping 50 extra credit points, 10 points per sentence):

(2) Due by 8:00 a.m.:

• English-to-Greek sentences (all)  (#162, p. 168).

DC

Assignment for Monday, 05-02-16

Dear Hellenists,

Let's cross the finish line into May. By Monday morning, May 2, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 24 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Aspect of participles (#150, pp. 157–8);
• Uses of participles: attributive, circumstantial, and with particles (#151, pp. 158–9); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 24 (#52, p. 159).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Decline in Greek the following article-participle-noun trios. Decline them in all four major cases and in both the singular and the plural (96 forms in all).

— the summoning hope (present active participle)
— the about-to-discover messenger (future active participle)
— the persuading/having-persuaded guardian spirit (aorist active participle)
— the having-remained meal (perfect active participle)

DC

Assignment for Thursday, 04-28-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

By Thursday morning, April 28, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 24, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Formation of active participles in various tenses (#146–7, pp. 154–6);
• The present participle of εἰμί (#148, p. 156); and
• Participles of contract verbs (#149, p. 157).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Test out your participles! Read and translate "Dinner Goes to the Dogs" (#154, p. 161).

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 04-26-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

By Tuesday morning, April 26, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 23, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Expressions of time with genitive, dative, and accusative (#142, p. 148); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 23 (#143, pp. 148–9).  

(2) Reading: Groton, Lesson 24, on participles in general (#145, pp. 153–4).

(3) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Read and translate "Bat, Bush, & Bird" (back in Lesson 23) (#144, p. 151).

DC

Assignment for Monday, 04-25-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

By Monday morning, April 25, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 23 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Relative clauses and pronouns  (#140, pp. 145–7); and
• The adjective πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν (#141, pp. 147–8).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• English-to-Greek sentences 2, 3, and 5 only (#144, p. 150).

HINT: As we'll learn in class on Monday, "within the same time" (in sentence #5) should consist of the adjective "same" modifying "the time," the entire phrase put in the genitive. No need to to translate "within" if you've done this correctly. (See #142, p. 148 if you need more help than this.)

DC

Assignment for Thursday, 04-21-16

Dear Hellenists,

By Thursday morning, April 21, please do the following:

(1) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Read and translate "Monkeying Around" (#139, p. 144).

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 04-19-16

Dear Hellenists,

By Tuesday morning, April 19, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 19 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Basic perfect and pluperfect middle/passive indicatives (and the perfect mid./pass. infinitive) (#133, pp. 137–8);
• Perfect/pluperfects of consonant-stem verbs  (#135, pp. 130–40)
• Fifth principal parts (#132, 134, 136; pp. 137, 138, 140–1);
• The dative of personal agent (#137, p. 141); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 21 (#138, p. 142).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Greek-to-English sentences (all) (#139, p. 143).

DC

Assignment for Monday, 04-18-16

Dear Hellenists,

By Monday morning, April 18, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 21 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• The interrogative pronoun τίς (#126, pp. 131–2);
• The indefinite pronoun τις (#127, pp. 132–3);
• Possessive adjectives (#128, p. 133); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 21 (#129, pp. 133–4).

(2) Extra-credit homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Read and translate "Chat with a Cat" (back in Lesson 19, #119, p. 122).

DC

Assignment for Thursday, 04-14-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

By Thursday morning, April 14, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 20  on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• First and second perfect active indicative and infinitive  (#122, pp. 124–5;
• Principal parts of all verbs to date  (#123, pp. 126–7); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 20 (#124, p. 128).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• English-to-Greek sentences 1, 2, and 4 only (#125, p. 129); and
• "All Caw, No Caution" (#125, p. 130).

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 04-12-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

By Tuesday morning, April 12, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 19 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Reflexive pronouns (#116, pp. 118–19);
• Genitive of possession (#117, p. 119); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 19 (#118, p. 120).

(2) Reading: Groton, Lesson 20 on the following concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• The perfect tense/fourth principal part  (#120, p. 123); and
• Perfect tense theory, esp. reduplication  (#121, pp. 124).

(3) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• English-to-Greek sentences 1, 2, 3, and 5 (#119, p. 121).

DC

Assignment for Monday, 04-11-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

By Monday morning, April 11, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 19 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• The second aorist tense (#114, p. 115); and
• First aorist indicatives, infinitives, and imperatives (#115, pp. 116–18).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Read and translate "Outfoxed" (back in Lesson 17, #107, p. 106).

DC

Assignment for Thursday, 04-07-16

Dear Hellenists,

By Tuesday morning, April 7, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 18 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• The aorist tense (#108, p. 107);
• First aorist indicatives, infinitives, and imperatives (#109, pp. 107–10);
• The aoristic third principal part (#110, pp. 110–11);
• The genitive of value (#111, p. 111); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 18 (#112, pp. 111-12).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Greek-to-English sentences (#113, p. 112).

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 04-05-16

Dear Hellenists,

By Tuesday morning, April 5, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 17 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Third declension sigma stem nouns (#102–4, pp. 101–3);
• Third declension adjectives (#105, pp. 103–4); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 17 (#106, p. 104).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• English-to-Greek sentences 2, 3, and 4 only (#107, p. 105).

DC

Extra-Credit Assignment for Monday, 04-04-16

Dear Hellenists,

For Monday morning, April 4, you have the OPTION of doing the following:

(1) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Lesson 16 English-to-Greek sentences (#101, p. 99).

If you choose to complete this OPTIONAL assignment, it will count as extra credit in your individual assignment points, up to 30 extra points.

If, after preparing for the exam and completing your readings and peer reviews, you choose not to do the assignment, that's fine, too.

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 04-02-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists:

By 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, please do the following:

(1) Complete Section E (Reading aloud) of our second exam. Call my campus voicemail with your perfected reading of the midterm passage. Before you left the exam, I handed you a sheet with full instructions and a copy of the passage to mark up.

NOTE: There's a link to a YouTube video of me reading the practice midterm passage on our Resources page, if you'd like a high-end idea of what a reading might be.

(2) Complete a peer review form for each member of your team (not including yourself). Instructions and a link to the electronic peer review form are available on our course website.

NOTE: If you fail to submit any or all reviews, you will forfeit the chance to earn peer review points this time around.

NOTE: Peer reviews are anonymous. You will receive copies of the review forms that you have sent to me. I, in turn, will anonymize all of the data and send an individual report to each team.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 03-29-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

By Tuesday morning, March 29, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 16 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Special features of the third declension (#99, pp. 96–7); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 16 (#100, pp. 97–8).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Lesson 15, "Mighty Mouse" (#96, p. 93).

DC

Assignment for Monday, 03-28-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

By Monday morning, March 28, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lessons 15 and 16 on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way:

• Contracted futures of certain verbs (#94, pp. 90–1);
• Vocabulary for Lesson 15 (#95, pp. 91–2); and
• Third declension theory, stems, and example forms (#97–8, pp. 95–6).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Lesson 15 Greek-to-English sentences 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 only (#96, p. 92); and
• Lesson 15 English-to-Greek sentences 1, 3, and 4 only (same section as above).

DC

Assignment for Thursday, 03-24-16

Dear Hellenists,

By Thursday morning, March 24, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 15, on the following forms and concepts (#91–3, pp. 87–90). Note any questions along the way:

• Contract verb theory;
• Vowel contractions;
• Accentuation of contract verbs; and
• Forms of τιμάω, φιλέω, and δηλόω.

(2) Midterm exam preview. Read the blog post on midterm exam 2. Note any questions and bring them to class.

(3) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• "Blame it on Mom" (#90, p. 86).

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 03-22-16

Dear Hellenists,

By Tuesday morning, March 22, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 14, on the following forms and concepts (#87–9, pp. 83–5). Note any questions along the way:

• First-person pronouns: ἐγώ and ἡμεῖς;
• Second-person pronouns: σύ and ὑμεῖς
• Third-person pronoun: αὐτός (note the various uses and positions);
• Dative of possession; and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 14.

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Greek-to-English sentences 1–10 (#90, p. 85).

DC