“Moon’s Day (Monday), 4th day before the First of September” = Aug. 29

Dies Martis
ante die III Kalendas Septembres

“Mars’ Day (Tuesday), 3rd day before the First of September” = Aug. 30

Read and Study: Wheelock pp. xxvii–xliv, esp. xxxix–xliv (alphabet & accents)

Prepare and Practice: Pronunciation practice

Write: Workbook Ch. 1, Grammatica 1–20 (pp. 2–3).

Dies Mercurii
Pridie Kalendas Septembres

“Mercury’s Day (Wednesday), day before the First of September” = Aug. 31

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 1 (pp. 1–5 + p. 8); make notecards for and learn vocabulary (pp. 5–6) and paradigms (personal endings , present indicative active of laudat, and present indicative active of monet)

Write: Workbook, Ch. 1 #21–35; Wheelock, Ch. 1, Sententiae 1–10 (pp. 6–7)

Dies Iovis
Kalendis Septembribus

“Jove’s Day (Thursday), 1st of September”

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 1 (pp. 1–5 + p. 8); practice vocabulary (pp.5–6) and paradigms (personal endings , present indicative active of laudo, and present indicative active of moneo)

Prepare and Practice: “The Poet Horace Contemplates an Invitation” – read this passage, note any words or forms with which you have difficulty, but do not write out a translation; we will read and discuss it together in class.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 1 Exercitationes A–C (odds), Vis Verborum (all – N.B. the etymologies provided after each dictionary entry and the section “Latina est Gaudium” will help answer these questions); Wheelock, Ch. 1, Sententiae 11–20 (p. 7).

Quiz: Vocabulary and paradigms, Ch. 1.

“Venus’ Day (Friday), fourth day before the Nones of September” = Sept. 2

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 2; make notecards for and learn vocabulary and paradigm (first declension); be sure to keep practicing material from Ch. 1.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 2 Grammatica #1–10, 12–13; Wheelock, Ch. 2, Sententiae 1–10

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 2; practice vocabulary and paradigm (first declension); be sure to keep practicing material from Ch. 1.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 2 Exercitationes B, D, Vis Verborum; Wheelock, Ch. 2, Sententiae Ant?quae 11–15.

Quiz: paradigm for the first declension (N.B. this need not be porta -ae; any first declension noun (that you have seen) could be used as a model).

Dies Martis
a.d. VIII Idus Septembres
= Sept. 6

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 2; practice vocabulary and paradigm (first declension); be sure to keep practicing material from Ch. 1.

Prepare and Practice: “Catullus Bids His Girlfriend Farewell”.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 2 Workbook, Lectiones 5–18 Wheelock, Ch. 2, Sententiae Ant?quae 16–20.

Dies Mercurii
a.d. VII Idus Septembres
= Sept. 7

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 3; make notecards for and learn vocabulary and paradigms (second declension masculine in -us and -er).

Write: Workbook, Ch. 3 Grammatica #1–11; Wheelock, Ch. 3, Practice and Review 1–10.

Dies Iovis
a.d. VI Idus Septembres
= Sept. 8

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 3; practice vocabulary and paradigms (second declension masculine in -us and -er). Continue to review Chs. 1 and 2.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Pandora’s Box”. [Listen]

Write: Workbook, Ch. 3, Vis Verborum. Wheelock, Ch. 3, Sententiae Ant?quae 1–11.

Quiz: Chs. 2 and 3.

a.d. V Idus Septembres
= Sept. 9

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 4.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 4 Grammatica #1–5, 9–15. Wheelock, Ch. 4, Practice and Review (odds only); Sententiae Ant?quae 1–4.

Dies Lunae
a.d. XIII Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 19

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 6; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Write: Wheelock, Ch. 6, Sententiae Ant?quae 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, "Dr. Fell"

Dies Martis
a.d. XII Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 20

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 7; practice vocabulary and paradigms for third declension (compare and contrast to 1st/2nd declensions); be sure to keep practicing material from Chs. 1–6.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 7, Grammatica 1–9; Exercitationes A, D #1 and 2; Vis Verborum; Lectiones 1–10

An augur or a haruspex would say the gods favor a quiz on the paradigm for Third Declension nouns at the end of today’s class.

Dies Mercurii
a.d. XI Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 21

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 7.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Cleobis and Biton”. [Listen]

Write: Wheelock, Ch. 7, Practice and Review 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14.

Dies Iovis
a.d. X Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 22

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 7.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “The Rape of Lucretia”.

Write: Wheelock, Ch. 7, Sententiae Ant?quae 1–4, 6–10, 13.

Take Home Quiz : Chapters 6 and 7.

Dies Veneris
a.d. IX Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 23

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 8; practice vocabulary and paradigms (third conjugation). Continue to review Chs. 1–7.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “Cicero on the Ethics of Waging War”

Write:Workbook, Ch. 8, Grammatica 1–9, Exercitationes A 1–6; Wheelock, Ch. 8, Practice and Review 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10–12.

Dies Lunae
a.d. VI Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 26

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 8; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Laocöon and the Trojan Horse”.

Write: Wheelock, Ch. 8, Sententiae Ant?quae 3, 5, 9, 10, 15.

Dies Martis
a.d. V Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 27

EXAMEN PRIMUM. Chs. 1-8

Dies Mercurii
a.d. IV Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 28

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 9; practice vocabulary and paradigms for the demonstrative adjectives (hic and ille) and the UNUS NAUTA adjectives.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Nisus and Euryalus”. [Listen]

Write: Workbook, Ch. 9, Grammatica 1–10, 13, 14, Practice and Review 11.

Dies Iovis
a.d. III Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 29

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 9.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 9, Exercitationes A #1–16, C; Wheelock, Sententiae Ant?quae 1–9.

Dies Veneris
a.d. pridie Kalendas Octobres
= Sept. 30

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 9. Continue to review Chs. 1–8.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “When I Have Enough” (Martial 12. 10 only).

Write: Workbook, Ch. 9, Exercitationes D, Vis Verborum; Wheelock, Ch. 9, Practice and Review 1–10, 12–14.

Dies Lunae
a.d. V Nonas Octobres
= Oct. 3

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 10; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Aurora and Tithonus”.
Remember you can listen/podcast recordings of these stories on the course website.
Artists inspired by the myth: de Mura, Solimena (1704), Julien (1800), Rodin (1906); it also inspired a poem by Tennyson (1860) and the adoptive parent of a Manatee.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 10, Grammatica 1–9; Exercitationes B, D, Vis Verborum

Dies Martis
a.d. IV Nonas Octobres
= Oct. 4

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 10; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Write: Wheelock, Ch. 10, Practice and Review 1–7, 10–12, 14, 15; Sententiae Ant?quae 4, 10, 11, 13.

Dies Mercurii
a.d. III Nonas Octobres
= Oct. 5

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 11; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Ulysses and the Cyclops”.
One of the better known mythic moments, this story has inspired artists from 7th century BCE vase painters to Greek Pastoral Poets to Roman sculptors to the Coen Brothers.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 11, Grammatica 1–10, Exercitationes A; Practice and Review 14.

Dies Iovis
a.d. pridie Nonas Octobres
= Oct. 6

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 11; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “Cicero Denounces Catiline in the Senate” There is a well-known painting depicting this scene by Maccari.

Write: Workbook, Ch. 11, Exercitationes B, E #1-2, Vis Verborum; Lectiones 1–8.

Take Home Quiz Due

Dies Veneris
a.d. Nonas Octobres
= Oct. 7

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 11; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Write: Wheelock, Ch. 11, Practice and Review, 1–6, 9–13, 16, 17; Sententiae Ant?quae 2, 7–9, 11.

Dies Lunae
a.d. XVI Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 17

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 12; practice vocabulary and paradigms; Review all verbs from Verb Vocabulary 1–12 Handout.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “A Greek Bearing Gifts”.
Memento: when you prepare a reading, be sure to re-read it until you can read it without looking at notes, vocabulary, or stopping to puzzle over sentences.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–13; Exercitationes A (all); Wheelock, Practice and Review 13.

Dies Martis
a.d. XV Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 18

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 12; practice vocabulary and paradigms. Review all verbs from Verb Vocabulary 1–12 Handout.

Write: Workbook, Exercitationes C #2 and 3. D #1, 3, and 4, Vis Verborum; Wheelock, Practice and Review 1–10.

Dies Mercurii
a.d. XIV Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 19

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 12; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, Ch. 12, “Pliny writes to Marcellinus About...” and “Diaulus Still Buries his Clients”.

Write: Workbook, Practice and Review #14–15; Sententiae Ant?quae # 1, 2, 5, 9.

In-class Quiz Due: Chs. 12 and Principal Parts of Verbs (all).

Dies Iovis
a.d. XIII Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 20

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 13; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Echo and Narcissus”.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–9, 11, and 12; Exercitationes B #1–2,
C #1-4.

Dies Veneris
a.d. XII Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 21

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 13; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, Ch. 13, “Alexander the Great...”.

Write: Workbook, Vis Verborum; Wheelock, Practice and Review, 1–8, 16, and 17.

Dies Lunae
a.d. XVI Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 24

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 13; practice vocabulary and paradigms; ; you may want to start learning and practicing the numbers from 1-21 (p. 451)—we will learn these in Ch. 15, but they are easier to learn over time.

Prepare and Practice: “The Authority of a Teacher’s Opinion”
Memento: when you prepare a reading, be sure to re-read it until you can read it without looking at notes, vocabulary, or stopping to puzzle over sentences.

Write: Wheelock, Practice and Review, 9-14; Sententiae Ant?quae (all).

Dies Martis
a.d. XV Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 25

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 14; learn and practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Europa and the Bull”.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1-11, Exercitationes A; Vis Verborum; Practice and Review #12.

Dies Mercurii
a.d. XIV Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 26

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 14; learn and practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “Store Teeth”

Write: Practice and Review #1–4, 13 ; Sententiae Ant?quae # 1, 2, 5–9, 11, 12.

Take Home Quiz Due: Chs. 12-13.

Dies Iovis
a.d. XIII Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 27

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 15; learn and practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “How the Aegean Got Its Name”.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–10, Vis Verborum; Wheelock, Practice and Review #11, 12.

Dies Veneris
a.d. XII Kalendas Novembres
= Oct. 28

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 15; learn and practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “Fabian Tactics”

Write: Wheelock, Practice and Review #1–5, 7, 13; Sententiae Ant?quae #1, 3–6, 9.

Dies Lunae
pridie Kalendas Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 16; practice vocabulary and paradigms for third declension adjectives; continue reviewing material from previous chapters.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “The Wrath of Achilles”.
Memento: when you prepare a reading, be sure to re-read it until you can read it without looking at notes, vocabulary, or stopping to puzzle over sentences.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–12; Exercit?ti?n?s A (all); Wheelock, Practice and Review # 15.

Dies Martis
a.d. IV Nonas Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 16; practice vocabulary and paradigms for third declension adjectives; continue reviewing material from previous chapters.

Prepare and Practice:“Juvenal Explains His Impulse to Satire”

Write: Workbook, Exercit?ti?n?s C #1–3, D #1, 2, and 4, V?s Verb?rum, Lecti?n?s #1–4; Wheelock, Practice and Review 1–9.

Dies Mercurii
a.d. III Nonas Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 16; practice vocabulary and paradigms for third declension adjectives; continue reviewing material from previous chapters.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “On a Temperamental Friend”

Write: Wheelock, Practice and Review #12–13; Sententiae Ant?quae #1–9, 12, 14–16

Dies Iovis
pridie Nonas Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 17; practice vocabulary and paradigms; continue reviewing material from previous chapters.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “The Myrmidons”.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–6; Exercit?ti?n?s A #1–19 (odds), C #1–3; Wheelock, Practice and Review #14

Dies Veneris
Nonas Novembres

Examen Sedundum (Chs. I-XVI)

Dies Lunae
a.d. VII Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 17; practice vocabulary and paradigms; continue reviewing material from previous chapters.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “On The Pleasures of Love in Old Age”
Memento: when you prepare a reading, be sure to re-read it until you can read it without looking at notes, vocabulary, or stopping to puzzle over sentences.

Write: 1) Workbook, Exercitationes E #1–3, 2) Vis Verborum; 3) Wheelock, Practice and Review 1–5 and 4) Sententiae Antiquae 7–12; for each sentence containing a relative pronoun, also write its form (case, #, gender), antecedent, and role in its clause (e.g. for PR#1: “quae: nom. pl. fem., artium, subject”; N.B. quoque is an adv. new to this chapter, not a relative pronoun).

Dies Martis
a.d. VI Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 17; practice vocabulary and paradigms; continue reviewing material from previous chapters.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “It’s All in the Delivery”

Write: 1) Scanning Practice for Martial 1. 38; 2) Wheelock, Practice and Review 6–13; 3) Sententiae Ant?quae 1–6; for each sentence that contains a relative pronoun, write its form (case, #, gender), antecedent, and role in its clause.

Dies Mercurii
a.d. V Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 18; practice vocabulary and paradigms; continue reviewing material from previous chapters.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “A Wedding Invitation”.

Write: 1) Workbook, Grammatica 1–10; 12–15, 17; 2) Exercitationes C #1;
3) Wheelock, Practice and Review #15

Dies Iovis
a.d. IV Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 18; practice vocabulary and paradigms; continue reviewing material from previous chapters.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “On Death and Metamorphosis”

Write: 1) Wheelock, Sententiae Antiquae 1–6, 2) Practice and Review #8–13.

Dies Veneris
a.d. III Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 18; practice vocabulary and paradigms; continue reviewing material from previous chapters.

Write: 1) Workbook, Vis Verborum; 2) Wheelock, Sententiae Antiquae 7–13;
3) Practice and Review #1–7, 14.

Dies Lunae
a.d. VII Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 19 (Perfect Passive System of All Verbs); Interrogative Pronouns and Adjectives); practice vocabulary and paradigms; Review all verbs from Chs. 1–19.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “The Judgment of Paris”.
Memento: when you prepare a reading, be sure to re-read it until you can read it without looking at notes, vocabulary, or stopping to puzzle over sentences.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–14; Exercitationes B #1; Practice and Review #13

Dies Martis
a.d. VI Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 19; practice vocabulary and paradigms. Review all verbs from Verb Vocabulary Chs. 1–19 Handout.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “The Aged Playwright...”

Write: Workbook, Vis Verborum; Exercitationes C & D; Wheelock, Practice and Review #1–4, 12, 14; Sententiae Ant?quae # 1–3.

TAKE HOME QUIZ, CHS. 17 & 18 DUE

Dies Mercurii
a.d. V Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 19; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “Catullus Bids a Bitter Farewell...”

Write: 1) Workbook, Grammatica 1–10; 12–15, 17; 2) Exercitationes C #1;
3) Wheelock, Practice and Review #15

Dies Iovis
a.d. IV Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 20; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “The Labors of Hercules”.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–8; Exercitationes A (all), C #1–3; E #1 & 3; Vis Verborum; Lectiones #2, 3.

Dies Veneris
a.d. III Idus Novembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 20; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Write: Wheelock, Practice and Review, 1–6, 15; Sententiae Ant?quae # 1–6.

IN-CLASS QUIZ, Verbs, Chs. 1–19.

Dies Lunae
a.d. XII Kalendas Decembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 20; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “Cicero Urges Catiline’s Departure...”.
Memento: when you prepare a reading, be sure to re-read it until you can read it without looking at notes, vocabulary, or stopping to puzzle over sentences.

Write: Wheelock, Practice and Review, 7–14; Sententiae Ant?quae # 7–13.

Dies Martis
a.d. XI Kalendas Decembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 21; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “The Golden Age Returns”.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–5, 7–10; Exercitationes A (all), D #1, 2, 4, Vis Verborum.

Dies Mercurii
a.d. X Kalendas Decembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 21; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Write (VIA EMAIL) : Practice and Review #1–11, 17 (use capital letters to indicate letters with macrons); Sententiae Ant?quae # 1, 3, 5, 9.

Dies Lunae
a.d. IV Kalendas Decembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 22; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Cicero Reports His Victory...”
Memento: when you prepare a reading, be sure to re-read it until you can read it without looking at notes, vocabulary, or stopping to puzzle over sentences.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–11; Exercitationes A (all), B #1, 2; Wheelock, Practice and Review #15, 16.

Dies Martis
a.d. III Kalendas Decembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 22; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “A Visit From the Young Interns”.

Write: Workbook; Vis Verborum; Metrical Worksheet for Wheelock, “A Visit From the Young Interns” (to be collected); Practice and Review #7–12, Sententiae Antiquae #1–8.

Dies Mercurii
a.d. Pridie Kalendas Decembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 22; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “On Ambition and Literature”

Write:Workbook, Practice and Review #1–6, 13; Sententiae Antiquae # 9–16.

Take-Home Quiz Due: Chs. 20 & 21.

Dies Iovis
Kalendis Decembribus

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 23; Supplemental packet on participles; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: 38 Latin Stories: “Watching the Orator at Work”.

Write: Workbook, Grammatica 1–22; Exercitationes A #1–4; Practice and Review # 13

Dies Veneris
a.d. IV Nonas Decembres

Read and Study: Wheelock Ch. 23; practice vocabulary and paradigms.

Prepare and Practice: Wheelock, “Laocoon Speaks Out...”.

Write: Workbook, Exercitationes A #5-13, C # 1–4, Wheelock, Practice and Review # 1–-4, 14; Sententiae Antiquae # 1–3.