Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Lessons 3

You need this free book in order to do this lesson. First Year Latin by Gunnison


Lesson Three: The First Conjugation. Present Active Indicative. The Accusative Case.

One of the hard things about learning Latin for me is that I am not a grammar person. Learn enough grammar to get by has always been my motto. But that doesn't work when you're trying to learn a foreign language. So on top of learning Latin, I have to learn grammar. You probably already know grammar, but since I had to relearn it, I listed below some of the things the book assumes you know.

1. You conjugate verbs. You decline nouns.

2. To conjugate means to give the different forms of (a verb in an inflected language) as they vary according to voice, mood, tense, number, and person.

3. Vocabulary you need to know:
    Present- takes place now
    Active- subject doing the acting.
    Indicative- stated as a fact
    Accusative - marking the direct object
    Transitive - active verb
    Personal endings - endings that show person
    Principal parts of verbs - see links below
    Inflect - conjugate or decline

Assignment 
    Read the chapter
    Memorize the first conjugation.
    Memorize the model verb
    Inflect section 38. (Do all the conjugating and declining in section 38)
    Memorize rule 3
    Do the translating

  This is what I expect out of my middle schoolers and high schoolers. My younger children will just chant the conjugations and model verbs.


Amo, Amas, Amant: Latin Chant

Required Resources


Textbook: First Year Latin by Gunnison free web book. I got tired of the e book and ordered a hard copy from Amazon.

Flashcards: flashcards on quizlet These are flashcards I made up to go along with the book. The cards are numbered according to the section of the book that they correspond to.

Lectures that go along with the lessons

Online resources that help explain the lesson


moods of verbs (indicative, imperative, subjunctive)

principal parts of verbs


Principal Parts of Verbs

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