Assignment for Monday, 03-07-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

By Monday morning, March 7, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 11. Note any questions along the way:

• The indicative imperfect middle/passive (#71, pp. 63–65);
• Middle/passive infinitives and imperatives (#72–73, pp. 65–66); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 11 (#77, p. 68)

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

• Greek-to-English sentences 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 (#78, pp. 68–69); and
• "An Ill-Fated Frog" (same section, p. 70).

DC

Assignment for Thursday, 03-03-16

Dear Hellenists,

By Thursday morning, March 3, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 11. Note any questions along the way:

• Indicative present middle/passive, and the future middle; ignore the imperfect tense forms for now (#71, pp. 63–65); and
• Special senses of the middle voice; prepositions and their cases (#75–76, p. 67).

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

• Greek-to-English sentences 1, 3, and 10 only (#78, pp. 68–69); and
• "The Bear Tells All" (#70, p. 62).

DC

Assignment for Tuesday, 03-01-16

Dear Hellenists,

By Tuesday morning, March 1, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 10, on the imperfect tense (#65–67, pp. 57–58). Note any questions along the way.

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

• Greek-to-English sentences 3, 7, 9, and 10 only (#70, pp. 60–61); and
• English-to-Greek sentences 3 and 4 only (same section, p. 61).

DC

Extra-Credit Assignment for Monday, 02-29-16

Dear Hellenists,

For Monday morning, February 29, you have the OPTION of doing the following:

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

• English-to-Greek sentences (#64, p. 55).

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

Vocabulary for Week 6

Dear Hellenists,

Your vocabulary assignments for Week 6 are as follows:

(1) By 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2, please complete at least three Quizlet Study/Play exercises for each of the following sets of flashcards (9 exercises total):

• ΑΩ 8: Vocabulary;
• ΑΩ 9: Vocabulary; and
• ΑΩ 10: Vocabulary.

(2) By 11:00 p.m. on Saturday,  March 5, please complete a Test exercise for each of the above sets (three tests total).

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 02-27-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists:

By 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 27, please do the following:

(1) Complete Section D (Reading aloud) of our first 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

Exam on Thursday, 02-25-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists,

Our first midterm exam on Thursday, February 25, will have the following format.

(1) Declining nouns and adjectives:

I'll give you English noun-adjective pairs in the singular or plural, you give me the Greek forms in the four major cases. The adjectives must modify the nouns in case, number, and gender.

(2) Jump drills:

A series of relatively short sequences in which you "jump" (change) one attribute of a verb form at a time, either person, number, tense, or mood.

(3) Passage to translate:

A short passage of connected Greek prose, using vocabulary and grammar through chapter 9. Read it carefully and write out your translation.

(4) Reading out loud (take-home portion, due Saturday, February 27, 11:00 p.m.):

Practice reading the midterm passage out loud: use Groton's textbook to help you determine vowel/consonant sounds and place accents. When you have perfected your reading, call my campus voice mail and read me the Greek over the phone. 

NOTE: Please prepare for and complete this portion of the exam on your own. I'll supply a copy of the passage for you to practice on and mark up. (No, you do not have to memorize the passage. Yes, you can read from the copy.)

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For this exam, you'll be responsible for all concepts and vocabulary through ΑΩ Lesson 9.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

DC