UPDATE:  Updated readings for last week. (4/25/08)
Added readings for last two weeks. (4/17/08)

 
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LAT 102/102H: ELEMENTARY LATIN 2
Mon.-Fri. 11:30-12:20
70 North MacDonald

Instructor:

James M. Pfundstein
Shatzel 222
Phone: 419-372-8278
Office Hours: Tues. & Wed. 12:30-1:20, or by appointment
e-mail: jmpfund@bgnet.bgsu.edu
web-page: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~jmpfund/JMP.html

Text:

(required) Wheelock & LaFleur, Wheelock's Latin(revised 6th ed: HarperCollins, 2005)
               
            website: http://www.wheelockslatin.com/index.shtml

(recommended) Grote, A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin(Bolchazy-Carducci, 2001)

(recommended) Goldman/Szymanski, English Grammar for Students of Latin(Olivia & Hill Press, 1994)

On-Line Resources: All of these are free; the product is of varying quality. Caveat araneo-fluitator! (Let the web-surfer beware!)

The Official Wheelock's website has a section devoted to pronunciation (with streaming or downloadable audio files)

http://www.wheelockslatin.com/chapters/introduction/introduction.html

WORDS, a superb (and freeware) program that parses and briefly defines Latin words, can be downloaded for Windows (of various flavors), Mac OS X, DOS, LINUX and OS/2. (You have to scroll down a bit.)

http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm

There is also an online version of WORDS that should work with any standard browser.

http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe

Ilaria Marchesi has produced a set of high quality, on-line interactive drills for Wheelock's Latin:     

       http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Ilaria_Marchesi/text/list_exercises.htm

An older and incomplete version of Grote is on-line at:
            http://www.carthage.edu/outis/grote.html

Orbilius, a freeware program by Nick Lowe to help you practice conjugations and basic vocabulary (and which includes a Latin version of Hangman) can be found at:
        http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Classics/NJL/Latin/download.html

A DOS program for conjugating verbs can be found at:
        http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/7182/latin.html

A Beta version of a Latin parsing/translating program (DOS/Windows type) can be found at:
        http://www.levity.com/alchemy/latin/latintrans.html

There are some electronic vocabulary flashcards, a parsing program, and assorted other stuff (mostly for Mac) at William Harris' website:
        http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/SubIndex/classics.sub.html

Format:

Electrifying grammatical lectures; exercises and readings in Wheelock's Latin as assigned. Balloons! Prizes!! EVERYONE A WINNER!!! (Your results may vary. "Balloons" is used here in a metaphorical sense. Prizes consist of nuggets of pure incorporeal knowledge. Void where prohibited.)

Grading:

FINE PRINT:

Homework will be collected periodically; it will be graded S (5 pts.) or N (0 pts.), depending on whether or not the work displays a good faith effort to get through the day's assignment; the points so accumulated will be counted under the "Tests"  heading.

The lowest of the five quizzes and tests will drop except for the final, which must receive a passing grade for the student to pass the course. No one can pass the course without taking and passing the final exam.

Test V (= Final Exam) may be taken at the last class period, or at the official Final time (Wed. April 30, 10:45-12:45).

There will be no class on the following days: Mon. January 21 (Martin Luther King jr. Day),  March 1-9 (Spring Break).

The maximum level of extra credit that will be counted toward the final grade = 5% of the total course points.

Missed tests and quizzes may not be made up, except by prior arrangement with the instructor.

"A noun's a thing, a verb's the thing it does. The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz."--Steve Kowit

The instructor reserves the right to recognize significant improvement (or decline) in student performance when awarding the final grade.

The syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor; changes will be announced in class and posted on-line.

No incompletes will be issued, except for pressing reasons and by prior arrangement with the instructor.