Email – Oct 7 2015
Salvete!
Tomorrow your student has a test on noun declensions (1st and 2nd) and verb tenses (present and future). Today in class we went over all of these forms and how they would appear on the test tomorrow (the test format). The HW sheet tonight is in the EXACT format as the test tomorrow. I am never trying to surprise students on tests.
Quiz your student at home tonight. Ask them to…
1 List the 1st declension endings (a, ae, ae, am, a, ae, arum, is, as, is) -
REMIND them that long marks are important! See the highlighted endings on page 18. Maybe have your student write these out several times with long marks included until they can do it with no notes… :)
2 List the 2nd declension endings (us, i, o, um, o, i, orum, is, os, is) REMIND them that long marks are important! See the highlighted endings on page 35. Maybe have your student write these out several times with long marks included until they can do it with no notes… :)
3 Ask them to give you the vocative form of servus (answer: serve)
4 Ask them to give you the vocative form of equus (answer: eque)
5 Ask them what case do vocatives usually look like (answer: nominative)
6 Ask them to list the present tense verb endings (o, s, t, mus, tis, nt) -
Study pages 28-29
7 Ask them to give you THREE possible translations of the verb “porto”
(answer: I am carrying, I do carry, I carry)
8 Ask them to give you THREE possible translations of the verb “laudamus”
(answer: we are praising, we do praise, we praise)
9 Ask them to give you THREE possible translations of the verb “navigas”
(answer: you are sailing, you do sail, you sail)
10 Ask them to list the future tense verb endings (bo, bis, bit, bimus, bitis, bunt) - Study page 56
11 Ask them to give you the case uses:
1 Nominative (answer – subject)
2
3
4
Genitive (answer – possession)
Dative (indirect object)
Accusative – list TWO (answer: direct object; with prepositions – ad)

5
6
Ablative (answer: with prepositions – in)
Vocative (direct address)
Please go over those questions tonight until your student is able to answer all of them easily. Who knows you might learn them too! :)
Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
Magistra Kim