LATIN DAILY LESSON SUMMARY / VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENT /10 (Per Unit)

1. Lesson Summaries / Vocabulary Practice2.Translations3. Reflections - these daily activities are fundamental and crucial for developing your Latin skills.

LATIN DAILY LESSON SUMMARY / VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENT/10 (Per Unit)

Every regular day in class there will be a lesson taught. For each and every lesson, write a minimum 6 point bulleted or otherwise organizedand comprehensive summary of what was taught. This is training in summarizing and simplifying information – very important life skill. You will be graded on this at the end of each unit of study out of 10 marks, based on your not having left out anything important in your summaries. So, be careful to summarize in a way that includes all important points. Drawing visual charts, graphs or other images may help elucidate (shine light on) your points.

Copy out ALL the words in your new lesson’s vocabulary list THREE TIMES. This will help you a lot towards learning what the words mean and remembering both what they are and how they are spelled. It isn’t a perfect method, and you need to use the words in context to fully appreciate them, but this will help you a lot towards remembering what they are. For senior students, do this for every NEW WORD you had to look up in your Latin reading passage.

I also strongly recommend copying out the passage you are translating. You will notice many things about grammar, word order and spelling this way that you otherwise would not.

LATIN DAILY TRANSLATIONS ASSIGNMENT /10 (Per Unit)

Copy out every sentence in your lesson, and immediately below each sentence translate it into good, easy to understand, modern Canadian English. Latin is organized very differently from English so your English translations will use much different word order and idiom from the Latin.

LATIN DAILY REFLECTIONS ASSIGNMENT/10(Per Unit)

Writing is an organization of thought. To consolidate your learning of the day’s lesson, write a reflection of at least (20 – grade 9; 30 - grades 10&11; 40 – grade 12) words per class (or however many words your teacher specifies. Every eleven lessons, these reflections will be collected and graded out of 10 (Thinking and Inquiry) marks. To qualify for a potential A (8-10) marks, you must have the requisite (asked for) minimum number of words. If you miss a class, you must find out what lesson you were away for, and write your missed reflections about it. It is important that you think freely about the topics covered in the lessons so that you develop your own critical and free thinking skills and are not merely reiterating the material presented. You may also reflect on items of personal interest which do not necessarily relate directly to the day’s lesson.

• Incomplete work (including even one reflection missing!)
• Reflections are sometimes thoughtful, or sometimes or always lacking in original thought.
• Some translations were not done or there are more than a few errors in them.

• Daily reflections less than required words
• Reflections are mostly on topic and are understandable
• Reflections include the minimum (or close to it) amount of information to handle the topic thoughtfully.
• There are very few errors in your translations.

• Daily reflections generally between minimum and 10 words longer in length
• Reflections are thoughtful and include evidence from the lesson or other sources to prove points made
• All translations are technically correct but with some parts that could be a bit more normal sounding in English.

• All daily reflections over minimum words in length and many at least 20 words longer
• Reflections are thoughtful and include a great deal of knowledge from the lesson and from outside it to prove the points made
• Reflections demonstrate curiosity and inquisitiveness about the material in the lesson and of that which extends beyond what is in the lesson (e.g. from the news, life experience, internet et cetera.)
• All translations are flawless and clear.