Tres puellae...
As we start the second semester, you will be doing extensive work with prose composition, which is the translating of English into Latin. You will be working from the book Latin Prose Composition for Schools and Colleges by Robertson. Each chapter I assign contains an explanatory/review section that you must read. Following this are sections marked "Translate into English" and "Translate into Latin." For each of the assigned chapters, you are to complete half of the "Translate into English" sentences and half the "Translate into Latin sentences" in the A section. You will find an A and a B section, but you will only concern yourself with the A section. If ever there is an odd number, round down, e.g. if there are 11 items in the section, you would complete five.
You should work at the rate of a chapter every 1-2 days. For the section that involves translation into English, copy each Latin sentence and show your English translation beneath it. For the section that involves translation into Latin, copy the English sentence, show your identifications of the words beneath it, and then your Latin translation. Your identifications should be as follows:
nouns, pronouns, adjectives: case, number, gender
verbs: person, number, tense, mood, voice
participles: tense, voice, case, number, gender
infinitives: tense, voice
gerunds: case
The chapters you will complete are: 1, 6, 7, 8, read page 34 and do Ch.10, 14, 17, 18, 20, 27, 28, 29, and 35.
While I encourage you to work together, each person is responsible for her own knowledge. Each of you must bring me her paper every day or two. I will correct it and give it back to you promptly.
This is good review for those of you who may be taking Latin in college, and it will lead into a larger project that we will do the second half of this quarter.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Vobis bona fortuna!
