8/20/2015

At the beginning of class the homework (practice declining nouns) was checked and graded.

We went over the final two of the packet - declining third declension neuter nouns.  These are difficult because neuter nouns have new endings, and because the base of third declension nouns changes based on case.

We did two exercises from Magister Abney's website for Ecce Romani I.  The two exercises practice conjugation neuter words, one is second declension and one is third declension.

We then talked about how to translate each of the six cases into English.

We did exercise three from the following worksheet - changing nouns from singular to plural in the appropriate case and declension.  The answers were covered in class and are listed here.

There will be a quiz on Monday over the information covered on the original noun worksheet from Tuesday.

New Year, New Material

We started off our year this year trying to remember all the things we forgot over the summer about nouns.  We brainstormed a list of things that we knew.

We put all of our ideas together on this notes sheet.

We also need to know all of our endings for nouns, which are on this chart.

We started talking about a new gender - the neuter, which is listed on the chart above.  Being neuter doesn't change the meaning of a word, but it does have some different endings from the masculine and feminine of the same declension.

We then practiced putting together Latin bases and endings, based on the three declensions and three genders on this worksheet, which can be finished for homework.