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Sipping coffee on my first Institute Friday morning. I made it. Our students made it. Here we are. No new morphology or syntax today. Morning drills followed by an afternoon review of all Week 1 material, Units 1-4, in preparation Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 5, 6:23 a.m.
Just spent about 45 minutes in my office at the Graduate Center drilling second declension nouns, first-second declension adjectives, and noun-adjective agreement with a student, then moving on to sequence of tenses, relative time, purpose clauses and indirect commands. Our Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 4, 9:19 a.m.
Floyd Moreland’s genius, 40 years ago, was to put Latin grammar together like a jigsaw puzzle in which pieces of morphology alternated with pieces of syntax, and heavy morphology days alternated with light morphology days. So, while we slammed our Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 4, 6:44 a.m.
I really needed to catch up on some sleep last night. I was in bed by about 9:30, with my cell phone and my Moreland and Fleischer by my side in case any students tried to call me. At 10:48, Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 3
As I wrote in a previous post, the rule of thumb is that one day at the Institute is like one week in a traditional classroom. I think today our Latin students packed in somewhat more that one week. Today Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 2
Yesterday was DAY 1 of the CUNY Summer Latin Institute (and the CUNY Summer Greek Institute). I had a great day. My morning lecture on Latin pronunciation, syllabification, and accentuation went very well. Our students learned about long and short Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 1
Classes begin TOMORROW. Today is DAY 1 minus 1. Not a lot to report today. I will revise my notes for my blackboard for my pronunciation lecture in accordance with the suggestions I received from my colleagues when I rehearsed Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – Day 1 minus 1
Classes begin on Monday, June 11. Today is DAY 1 minus 2. I think I’m ready. I feel ready. I’m anxious, to be sure; that is probably inevitable. But I know what I’m doing, and I know how to do Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – Day 1 minus 2
Day 1 minus 3 was Friday, June 8. FINAL DAY OF PRESESSING. Classes begin on Monday, June 11. Real students learning real Latin. Real teachers, real teaching. No more mockery. I rehearsed my pronunciation lecture scheduled for Monday morning, with Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – Day 1 minus 3
So just to clarify, Day 1 minus 4 was Thursday, June 7. Another good day of presessing. Some mock-teaching, some mock-lecturing, some actual discussion with program administrator (and text book co-author) Rita Fleischer about registration procedures come Monday, June 11. Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – Day 1 minus 4