Class Syllabus

Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Session 7
Session 8 Session 9 Session 10 Session 11 Session 12 Session 13 Session 14


Session 1 Tuesday - January 22, 2002 Top
Topic:Introduction to Course

Session 2 Top
Topic:Word Order-Theory & Practice
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) Bradley's Arnold, pp. 1-22 (on word order)
2) "Chapter One" on Word Order, with exercises at end (read through)

To prepare for class: Diagnostic Quiz

Session 3 Top
Topic:Indicative Tenses and their Meanings
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) Bradley's Arnold, Ch. I (Elementary Rules), XXIII (Tenses of the Indicative)
2) Tenses Handout (see below for link)

To prepare for class:

1) Worksheet #1 (= exercises at end of Chapter One handout), write out
2) Write out answers to questions on Tenses Handout (see below for link)

Optional reading (see link below): "Word Order Beyond Caesar"
Beyond Caesar Word Order Handout
Tenses Handout

Session 4 Top
Topic:Time and Space: Space/Time expressions
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) BA XLI-XLII (Space/Time)
2) Cicero and Tacitus Narrative Handout (see link below)

To hand in:

1) Worksheet #2: Tenses of the Indicative (see link below)
2) Space/Time pre-exercises (see link below)
Cicero and Tacitus Narrative Handout
Space/Time Pre-Exercises Sheet
Worksheet #1 Sample Answers
Worksheet #2: Tenses of the Indicative

Session 5 Top
Topic:Time and Space II: Temporal clauses
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) BA LIV-LV (Temporal Clauses)

2) E.C. Woodcock, A New Latin Syntax, XIX (Temporal clauses)

3) (optional) Temporal clause handout (Cicero & Livy; see link below)

No written assignments due. Read BA and Woodcock carefully!
Temporal clauses in Cicero and Livy (examples)

Session 6 Top
Topic:Purpose and Result Clauses
Class Plan:

Readings: BA XIV-XV (Final Clauses, Consecutive Clauses)

To hand in:

1) Worksheet #3: Purpose and Result Clauses (see link below)

2) BA Exercises, Ch. XIV 1, 3, 5; XVA 1-4
Worksheet #3: Purpose and Result Clauses

Session 7 Top
Topic:Participles and Participial Phrases
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) BA LII (Participles)

2) Woodcock VII (Participles)

3) Participles handout (this will be distributed in class only)

To hand in:

1) Exercises in BA, Ch. LII 1, 2, 5, 8, 11

2) Participial Valentine's Day Card (for specified person!)

Session 8 Top
Topic:(No Class--Make-up Day to be Scheduled) Happy V-Day!

Session 9 Top
Topic:Conditionals
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) Woodcock ch. X

2) BA LVII, LVIII, and LVIX (Conditional Clauses)

3) Participles Handout (see link below)


To write out and hand in: BA LVIIA 1, 3, 5, 9; LVIIB 1, 10; LVIIIA 5; LVIIIB 5; LVIXA 4
Participles Handout

Session 10 Top
Topic:Introduction to the Kolon
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) Ad Herennium 4.26-28 (link below)

2) L.P. Wilkinson, Golden Latin Artistry, p. 167-170 (available in 617 Hamilton Classics Library)

3) Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.8-9 (trans. and notes by G. Kennedy)

To prepare: Kolon Handout Exercises (link below)
Ad Herennium 4.26-28
Kolon Handout

Session 11 Top
Topic:Correlatives (Comparative clauses)
Class Plan:

Reading:

1) BA XII (Correlatives), LXII

2) Woodcock ch. XXII

3) Correlative handout (link below)

To write out and hand in: BA XIIA 1, 2, 5, XIIB 1, 4; LXII 2, 4, 8
Correlative Handout

Session 12 Top
Topic:Relatives, Correlatives and Creating Flow
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) BA pp. 16-22 (review); BA X-XI (Relatives)

2) Creating Flow with Relatives and Correlatives Handout (link below)

To hand in: Worksheet #4 (same as Kolon Handout for previous session; complete all exercises and turn in for credit)
Creating Flow with Relatives and Correlatives Handout

Session 13 Top
Topic:Introduction to Periods
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) Cicero, Orator 203-226 (link below; excerpts only)

2) Livy 4.10 with Allen & Greenough, Latin Grammar, sections 600-601 (available in 617 Hamilton, Classics Library)

3) E. Laughton, "The Learner & the Latin Period," in Greece & Rome (1942) 84-91.

To hand in: Worksheet #5: Relatives, Correlatives & Creating Flow (link below)
Cicero, Orator (excerpts)
Worksheet #5: Relatives, Correlatives and Creating Flow

Session 14 Top
Topic:Rhythm and Sound: Basic Prosody
Class Plan:

Readings:

1) W.S. Allen, Vox Latina 89-92 (available in 617 Hamilton, Classics Library, and on reserve in Butler Library)

2) Oxford Classical Dictionary, prose rhythm (2nd ed.) or prose rhythm, Latin (3rd ed.)

3) Allen & Greenough, Latin Grammar, sections 602-606

4) Latin Prose Passage for Reading Practice (link below)

To prepare:

1) Rhythmic Prose Pre-Exercises (link below)

2) Be prepared to read aloud the Latin Passage for Reading Practice! Latin Prose Passage for Reading Practice
Rhythmic Prose Pre-Exercises