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I SCRAM – Sat 11/5
Harker – 2/12
Invitational – TBD
State – Fri 4/7 Sat 4/8
Level
schedule
Meetings:
every
Wednesday
and
Fridays lunch at A 105
Week number Topic
and date
N.B. You should be very familiar with my
Certamen Notes. If you can’t have a printed
version, at least go through it as your primary
resource. All my lectures are based off my Notes.
Assignments changed!
Instead of doing tests,
now write up at least
five questions on the
topic
that
was
discussed the previous
week, and send them
to Tom (to be put into
Certamen
Now).
Questions can be from
most basic to most
obscure
1 – 9/22
Intro/overview – introduction, point out resources, Explore WHS JCL site
expectations, specialization, etc.
Certamen page
2 – 9/28, 30
Myth – creation and Olympians
3 – 10/7
Life – house, family, naming, education
4 – 10/12, 14
Grammar – nouns: case endings and uses (first
three declensions, most common uses +alpha)
5 – 10/19
History – basics, monarchy, early Republic
6 – 10/26, 28
Grammar – verbs: all indicative active (teach 5 History questions
future, perfect, pluperfect, fut perf), moods
(imperatives/infinitives)
7 – 11/2, 4
SCRAM prep – gamesmanship and strategy
8 – 11/9, 11
SCRAM review; Geography lesson
Do 3 rounds
MQA – country/state mottoes; famous orgs; Certamen Now
common phrases
9 – 11/16, 18
Myth – heroes (Jason, Theseus, Hercules)
5 Geography questions
10 – 11/23, 25
Thanksgiving
No meetings!
11 –
12/2
11/30, Grammar – adjectives, adverbs,
comparative/superlative, pronouns?
5 Grammar questions
of
numerals, 5 Myth questions
12 – 12/7, 9
Life – clothing, food, Circus, gladiators, baths
13 – 12/14, 16
History – Punic Wars, First triumvirate, Second 5 Daily Life questions
5 Grammar questions
triumvirate, civil wars
14 – 12/21, 23
Grammar – prepositions, participles, review of 5 History questions
noun and verb endings and uses; irregular verbs
Winter break
Have fun, but don’t forget too much stuff.
15 – 1/11, 13
Myth
–
lovers
and
(Metamorphoses), sinners
16 – 1/18, 20
MQA – quotes, idioms, other phrases.
5 Myth questions
17 – 1/25, 27
Finals
No meeting or Latin
review
18 – 2/1, 3
Grammar – comprehension/translation exercises; 5 MQA questions
4th and 5th declensions, some more uses
19 – 2/8, 10
Life – Rome/forum, military, government, public 5 Grammar questions
works
20 – 2/15, 17
Woodbridge Invitation
gamesmanship
21 – 2/22, 24
Woodbridge Invitational review / analysis
Re-do rounds
22 – 3/1, 3
History – Julio-Claudians and some Flavians 5 Daily Life questions
(mention five good emperors)
23 – 3/8, 10
Myth – Trojan War and aftermath (Iliad, Odyssey)
24 – 3/15, 17
Grammar – more translating; all review and other 5 Myth questions
quirks
25 – 3/22, 24
Prep for State – review and rounds + vocab (tricky 5 Grammar questions
words)
26 – 3/29, 31
Prep for State – review and rounds + vocab (tricky Do 5 rounds
words)
Certamen Now
27 – 4/4, 6
Prep for State – review and rounds
28 – TBD
State review and debriefing – party
prep
Glance at Notes once
in a while
transformations 5 Grammar questions
–
strategy and Do 3 rounds
Certamen Now
Hiatus
until Summer schedule – either under Josh or under Tom
after finals
(at least until Nationals)
of
Review
Strategy
section of Notes
5 History questions
Review the
thoroughly
of
Notes