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Latin 3b Course Syllabus 2018
Sue Fisher, instructor : sfisher@lukeion.org
Your class page: https://www.quia.com/pages/sfisher370/latin3b2018
For your first semester of 3rd year Latin, you may
have felt like you were swimming in the deep end
without any inflatable-arm-floaties to help you.
Congratulations! Not only did you keep your head
up, you also made your translation muscles much
stronger for your great effort.
Fortune favors the brave.
We will continue the process this spring with more
Latin samples written by the finest authors. The
most important assumptions that you must make
about the Latin is that it is correct, it will make
perfect sense, and that it can be translated into clear
English. The puzzle is yours to solve. Be tenacious.
Re-evaluate your study skills, re-organize your
schedule, roll up your sleeves all over again, and
commit to 1 to 1 ½ hours each day for Latin. Be
serious about the amount of work that Latin 3
requires and you will be happy with the results.
Course expectations and requirements
There is NO hand holding. Everything is considered in your final grade. Students
who successfully undertake this program must:
1. Unfailingly translate the weekly assignment (usually 50-90 lines of Latin) and
turn it in on time each week.
2. Come to class with a prepared translation and cheerfully participate in
discussion using the microphone and classroom chat box.
3. Be prepared to be examined on the context, content and grammar of these
passages in quizzes approximately every two weeks.
4. Write your word studies with careful attention to detail and then take care
when critiquing the work of your classmates.
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Here’s what you must do in painful detail:
Complete your weekly translation online, on time, each week. Translations are due by 7 PM
ET on Tuesdays prior to the class session covering that Latin. Your first assignment is due
BEFORE our first meeting!
o Translations will be given a numeric grade: 80% is based on completion, 20% is based
on accuracy (provided your effort was genuine).
*I do not accept late homework unless you’ve experienced a serious health
When I grade your emergency.
translations I am If you are planning to be out of town, work ahead and give me plenty of warning
looking for so that I can prepare a place for you to submit your work before you leave.
specific evidence
Do not ask for an extension unless one is warranted for all of your
that you are
classmates in the case of some sort of national emergency or if you were
translating the
seriously ill. If you are seriously ill, do your best to notify me that you’ll need
Latin at hand. an extension before the deadline lapses. I’m inclined to say NO if you only tell
Your translation me about trouble after the deadline unless you have photographs and a rabid
should never read baboon is involved.
like a paraphrase
Check to ensure Quia has recorded your work after you submit it each and
of the Latin or
every time. I am notoriously mean about this rule.
your grade WILL If you fail to do so, you may earn a zero for the quiz or assignment in
drop below the question. Read “The Care and Feeding of Quia” handout. If your grade
85% mark… transcript is populated by zeroes at the end of the semester…sad trombone: It
perhaps MUCH is entirely YOUR responsibility to confirm work is in on time and properly
lower. recorded in Quia.
ALWAYS spend time comparing your translation to the sample provided.
Come to class each week. Class meets every Wednesday, 10:15 am ET Arrive on time before I’ve
taken attendance at 2 before the hour. Being late or absent will impact your grade
and make your instructor cranky. Material presented in class will be on your
quizzes. Take participation seriously or see what happens to your final
grade.
Complete quizzes/exams as assigned on time (allow 40-60 minutes).
Quizzes will be available Friday 8 AM ET through 7 PM ET Tuesdays.
o If you are not available during this window (scheduled trip,
competition, etc.), make arrangements to work ahead and give me
plenty of warning to open the link for you early. You may not take any
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exam late unless you’ve experienced a serious health emergency. Once again, if you
miss the deadline without sending an email to me, I’ll only grant an extension if you
experienced some sort of tiger mauling.
o Check to ensure that Quia has recorded your work after you submit it each time.
§ If you fail to do so, you may earn a zero for the quiz or assignment. If Quia
gives you trouble, you must let me know prior to the deadline.
§ “Quia ate my work” is not a valid excuse …unless you demonstrate this
before the deadline and have witnesses.
§ Go to the Quia student zone to see the graded results of your hard work once
I announce that your quiz has been graded by email.
o Complete the final comprehensive exam on time as published. All make-up work must
be submitted by that time if you’ve experienced a monumental emergency and have
demonstrated your emergency well in advance.
Write your word studies with careful attention to detail and then take care when critiquing
the work of your classmates. Critique due dates will be assigned based on when I am able to
return the word study compilations. I usually permit at least 7 days to complete your critiques
online.
Required Textbooks, Web Resources, etc.: (follow the links)
1. Wheelock’s Latin Reader, 2nd edition
2. A fully functional computer headset with microphone and
mute button – if yours is broken, you have one week to get it fixed.
3. Wheelock’s Latin, 7th ed. (or equivalent grammar based
resource for personal review time)
a. Have this resource available for quick review
EX: if your notes mention a passive periphrastic, go review that
construction.
4. Dictionary: Recommended:
Cassell’s Latin Dictionary (hardcover version is best—these take a
beating)
Online Latin dictionary: http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latin.htm
Go to the William Whitaker’s Words link
*You are not permitted to use dictionaries during any quiz.
5. Optional: 501 Latin Verbs (by Prior and Wohlberg)
6. Perseus: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ (clunky…nay, PAINFUL to navigate but a
great source for English translations and materials for word studies).
7. Your Quia class page: https://www.quia.com/pages/sfisher370/latin3b2018
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8. The Quia student zone: http://www.quia.com/web/studentZoneBegin.html
9. Your Adobe Connect classroom: https://lukeionproject.adobeconnect.com/sflat3b/
Skills for Success
1. Develop and maintain a regular study
and translation schedule. Don’t take on
too much at once. Quality of translation
tends to drop off when personal
translation sessions grow long.
2. Plan specific times to study, translate,
submit homework and take quizzes.
Stick to your own schedule.
3. Some authors will be more difficult and
take much longer to translate while
other authors are much easier. You
may not guess which will be which until
you begin. You must not wait until the last minute to start your work each week or this fact
will doom you.
4. Take personal responsibility for the quality and intensity of your study and translation. Have
you forgotten every single use of the subjunctive? Go back and review!
5. Complete your assignments with honesty and integrity.
The Lukeion Project Honesty Policy
Plagiarism and dishonesty will result in immediate removal from
the course without credit or refund. Dishonest use of another
person’s translation is the worst sort of plagiarism in this course.
While you certainly may wish to view a good translation of the
passage prior to your translation, be certain that it is put out of
reach once you begin the process of translating your Latin
assignment.
You may frugally refer to a translation if you find yourself
hopelessly lost. Look at the translation and then set it aside
before you return to the battle with your Latin. Paraphrasing a
translation and submitting it as your own work is dangerous.
Succeed or fail on your own merits.
If you are in this course it is assumed that you are familiar with and are in agreement with the
policy outlined in the Honesty Policy document on the Quia class page. Ignorance is no excuse.
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Beware: it is usually clear when you choose to plagiarize a translation. I have great skills at
confirming my suspicions. If you walk the edge too closely, I may be kind and offer you a warning
but do not count on one. Cross that line with dire results.
There is a ZERO TOLERANCE policy on plagiarism and dishonesty in this course. If you are enrolled
in this course, you are in agreement with this policy and understand that the consequences of
dishonesty are immediate removal from the course.
Parents: If your learner’s integrity is important to you, you will assist him or her in maintaining his
or her honest reputation. Please remove temptation by asking students to complete his or her
work in a (public) family area and completing quizzes while being proctored (rather than privately
behind closed doors). If you have enrolled your student in this course, you are in agreement with
my zero tolerance policy.
So, how does one use an English translation without cheating?
What is permissible before starting your Latin passage in earnest?
Viewing an English translation to get the gist of the project at hand.
What is permissible while working on homework translations and word studies?
Dictionaries (online or paper)
Grammatical aids (such as Wheelock’s or 501 Latin Verbs)
An English translation used frugally (usually but not always available online)
Read the whole passage in English.
Next, divide your Latin into smaller chunks. Re-read the English and then SET IT
AWAY.
Only return to the English once you’ve finished that chunk of Latin and wish to
move to the next one.
An English translation should never be kept in hand during translation
preparation.
What is permissible while completing quizzes?
You may have blank scrap paper and a pencil at hand ONLY. The paper should be
available so you can organize your translations on the quiz.
Wisely use English translations while maintaining your
scholarly integrity
Your translations in this course should be literal. When I read your translation, I
should see every indication that you are working directly from the Latin. You will
be expected to write literal translations for every Latin class you might have all the
way through graduate school. Only published scholars like Lombardo, Fagles and
Martin, get to write elegant and eloquent translations.
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A literal translation means that you must stay close to the Latin, translating every word:
carefully observe tense, mood, voice, case, and proper uses of constructions. If there is a
participle, translate it as such and in the correct tense. Don’t rearrange subjects and objects.
Don’t exchange active for passive. Employ sequence of tenses for subjunctive constructions, etc.
Is there an historical present? Keep it in there.
Be TRUE to what the Latin is doing. However, “literal” here is not code for “sounds like Yoda.”
Observe…
Write Well-crafted English Translations
Your words should make sense in English and your sentences should
be in English word order.
For example: Sciebam te mihi fidelem esse.
· NOT well crafted: I was knowing that you to me faithful
were.
· Well crafted: I used to believe that you were faithful to me.
(NB: this is what the Latin actually says—this IS a literal
translation)
If the Latin requires a bit of idiomatic English, by all means do so:
For example: Facillima saepe non sunt optima.
· NOT well crafted: Easiest things often are not best things.
· Well crafted: The easiest options are often not the best possible options.
(NB: this is what the Latin actually says—a literal translation)
To review: Start each passage or poem by reading an English translation (go
to Perseus when all else fails). This part of the process will help put you on
the right path. After you get the general idea about the passage, put away
the translation and create a clean, clear, literal translation based on your
own understanding of the Latin while using dictionaries, Wheelock, and
other grammar aids.
If you get in a bind, read the Latin and English passage side by side with no
writing tools nearby. You may choose to do a long sentence or paragraph at
a time (in Latin, this could amount to a half page).
Always dispense with the professional English translation once you square
off with your Latin text. A dictionary, grammar-notes, any provided textual
notes and a vocabulary gloss can be used throughout the translation process.
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Beware! Overdependence on a translation will impede your progress in mastering Latin and if you
are not judicious, it may earn you removal from the course.
Broad departures from a literal translation will not be treated kindly. If a verb is passive in Latin,
make it so in English. If the author uses a particularly clever bit of word order, see what you can
do to mimic it in English. If there is a particular Latin construction, make sure you translate it
skillfully (use your textbook to review those tricky constructions that elude your memory).
It is not permissible to create a free-form summary of somebody else’s translation. Know what
you are doing with the actual Latin vocabulary and grammar. I am looking for evidence for this in
your translation and will grade you accordingly. If you submit a translation that does not make
sense in English, expect a failing grade for that passage.
How your course grade is calculated
1. Translations LISTEN well to translations
I give numeric grades on all translations as described above. in class. I may or may not
These will be averaged. For full credit, your translations must: have your translations
1. Make sense in English graded prior to the next
2. Be in modern English (automatic deductions for King
quiz and yet a difficult
James’ style or Victorian vocabulary—always avoid
needlessly archaic translations) passage may appear on
3. Follow the Latin closely. that exam. It is up to you
to get clarifications on
2. Quizzes passages that give you
You will be given a closed book quiz every 2 weeks in this course. trouble. If nobody asks
Quizzes will include “seen” passages plus questions about about a passage in class I
grammar, syntax, vocabulary and content SO BE READY. Expect will simply keep going.
short essays about context and content as assigned or discussed
in class.
The final 1/3 of your grade will be a combination of the following:
1. Word Studies
You will be given 2 word studies this semester. You will read, review and ‘grade’ your classmates’
word studies (by offering feedback) based on the assignment given. Completion of writing and
reviewing the assignment will result in full credit for these three writing assignments.
2. Class attendance and participation
Every week students should arrive in class on time. Volunteers will be asked to pronounce
assigned Latin passages aloud and/or to provide a translation for the passage live in class.
Students should also participate in class discussion, either through text or voice response.
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Have a Good Latin 3 Mindset
Third year Latin is a transitional year in which you move from remembering bits of Latin data to
applying that information so you might produce something that sounds like good English. We
shall occasionally review and refresh the forms and grammar that you have already learned, albeit
quickly. Our focus in class will be dealing with Latin translation. As you decode extended
passages of real Latin, you will discover areas that require your personal and immediate attention.
Take time and responsibility to review personal trouble spots. For example, if subjunctives have
completely fallen off your radar, spend some time in the self-tutorials in Wheelock to improve
your plight now.
Imagine you are taking an upper level algebra class but never mastered addition, multiplication or
division. If you are clever, you can “fake” progress by keeping a handy set of charts and
diagrams on your desk so that you repeatedly look up the answer for 12x6, 9x7, or
93÷3, and all the other basic facts that you should actually know by heart.
When it takes you twice as long to do “math” as your classmates,
you will quickly tire and give up. In Latin you must know the basics
or you will quickly grow frustrated and give up. If you find gaps in
your Latin knowledge there’s no better solution than forcing
yourself to master the material.
Even if you are confident about your Latin knowledge you will
discover a fairly steep learning curve now that you are in real Latin
translation. Stick with it and don’t give up.
Your 3rd year of Latin is about increasing Latin accuracy, escalating
translation speed, and developing ease in creating fine literal translations..
Course Schedule, Points of Emphasis, et cetera.
· Latin 3b meets for one hour at 10:15 am ET on Wednesday, starting January 24 The
classes continue to meet until May 2. There is no class meeting on March 28 for spring
break
· The exam window is from Fridays at 8 AM ET through Tuesday night at 7 PM ET. You may
take your exam at any time in this five day window.
· Translation passages must be typed in a word processing program on your own
computer, saved as a part of your class records, and then submitted by copying and
pasting into the place I’ve provided on Quia by 7 PM ET Tuesdays. At the same time, print
a copy of your translation for class and keep the original on your hard drive. (If you arrive
in class with no translation to contribute, you will get a ‘minus’ in my little grid).
8 Lukeion Latin 3b Syllabus 1.1The window for the final exam is Friday, May 4th, 8 am ET through Tuesday, May 8th, 7 pm ET sharp. Absolutely no extensions are available for the final exam. This is a drop dead deadline: even if you have been eaten by a tiger. The same is true for all course work. As per Lukeion Project Policy, any coursework extensions that may have been granted during the semester will not exceed the end of semester date. Students enrolled in Latin 3b are also enrolled for the Level III version of the National Latin Exam unless they have indicated last semester that they have already taken that version, in which case they will take the Latin III Prose exam. The National Latin Exam will be taken online on March 12th. At the end of the semester I will make every effort to return your final semester grade as soon as possible. Given the end date of the course this year and the date for the Lukeion Project Greece trip, grades may not be in before June. If you absolutely need your grade in May, please let me know. 9 Lukeion Latin 3b Syllabus 1.1
W Where is
K Class Assignment the Latin due by 7 PM
# date due Tue. prior to meeting passage? Additional stuff date listed
Jan Livy, Battle of Cannae, WR: pp. 187- Re-read intro to Livy,
1 24 lines 232-325 193 pp. 136-7, for class
Feb 6
Jan Ovid, Pyramus & Thisbe, Read intro to Ovid, pp. 194-
2 31 WR: pp.205-211 Exam #1
lines 4.55-104 199 for class;
weeks 1-2
Feb Ovid, Pyramus & Thisbe, Read “Scansion” pp 199-203 &
3 7
WR: pp. 211-219 Latin meter handout.
lines 4.105-166
Feb. 20
Feb Ovid, Daedalus & Icarus, Scan lines 55-58 of Pyramus &
4 14
WR: pp.219-225 Thisbe-be ready to do it in class
Exam #2
lines 8.183-235
weeks 3-4
Feb Ovid, Midas & the Golden Scan lines 74-77 of Pyramus & Feb. 27
5 21
WR: pp.235-241 Thisbe-be ready to do it in class
Touch, lines 11.85-145 Word Study #1
Read Catullus’ biography: Mar 6
Feb
6 28
Catullus 1, 2, 3, 5 Handout 1.1 http://www.biographicon.com/vie Exam #3
w/p26dc/Catullus weeks 5-6
Mar 13
Mar
7 7
Catullus 7, 8, 14 Handout 1.2 Word Study #1
Peer Review
Mar Put in extra review time for
8 14
Catullus 45, 49, 51 Handout 1.3
the NLE this week!
National Latin Exam: Mon, March 12.
Mar. 27
Mar
9 21
Catullus 65, 70, 72 Handout 1.4 Exam #4
weeks 7-9
Mar No translation Apr 3
10 28
Spring Break No class meeting
assignment Word Study #2
Apr Catullus 85, 87, 101,
11 4
Handout 1.5
64 (excerpt)
Apr.17
Apr Cicero, De Officiis,
12 11
WR: pp. 85-89 Read intro, pp 82-83, for class Exam #5
lines 1-80
weeks 11-12
Apr 24
Apr Cicero, De Officiis,
13 18
WR: pp. 89-95 Word Study #2
lines 81-136; 161-178
Peer Review
Apr Cicero, Orations against May 1
14 25
WR: pp. 7-11 Read intro, pp. 2-5, for class
Verres, lines 1-61; 74-91 Exam #6
Cicero, Orations against FINAL EXAM
15 May 2 WR: pp. 11-19
Verres, lines 92-111; 133-199 May 4-8
16 th
Comprehensive Final exam available May 4 to May 8 th
at 7 PM ET. No extensions on final exam or any semester work.
WR=Wheelock’s Latin Reader
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