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Friday, September 10, 2010

Quondam Abes :: ante diem quartum Idūs Septembrēs: Ludī Romanī

I. latinstonebridge-advanced.blogspot.com & Good Old Pons Saxeus (latinstonebridge.blogspot.com)

II. Ovid. Heroides VII, Dido Aeneae

A. 1. AP students: collected translatio Ovid Heroides VII, ll. 1-6; translate 7-12 for 15 min
2. Latin IV: translatio Ovid Heroides VII, ll 1-6 with lexicon

B. Alpheios (Firefox Plugin http://alpheios.net) and The Latin Library (linked on the homepage of http://alpheios.net). Demonstration of Lookup Tool, Dictionary (Unabridged Lewis & Short), and Inflection tools.

C. Promethean Demonstration. Rehearse Reading with Expectation

III. Libri. 1. AP Song of War; 2. Latin IV CLC IV Purple.

IV. Exegesis, Ovid. Heroides VII, Dido Aeneae. Poetic Figures: epithet (Dardanide); anaphora (legis...lēgī); a nobis (or is it vobis?) links both Dido and Aeneas in the act of reading the same, final words; refresher on the relative clause.

On the Dock for Tuesday 14 September: AP students, translate Vergil II.1-30; REMEMBER TO SKIP LINES SO I CAN GIVE YOU BETTER FEEDBACK! Latin IV, be ready for more fun (we'll be breaking into groupings and working on another, different, Ovid passage).

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