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Roman Housing Project Due on Lesson 63 It is A.D. 80 and you are preparing to sell your home—and you intend to make a profit! You need to advertise! Romans posted notices to attract the public. For this project you will create a brochure or flier that advertises your home (whether it be a villa, insula, or domus). Your brochure or flier must be entirely in Latin. You may hand‐draw it or generate it on the computer. Step 1: Research Roman Housing 1. Read pg. 16‐17 in Ecce Romani II. 2. Complete the Roman Housing Activity in lesson 51. This activity is worth 15 test points. Be sure to fill in all of the columns. Step 2: Write Your Brochure 1. Based on your research and review, select one of the structures your researched: a villa, an insula, or a domus. 2. Write a brochure entirely in Latin that advertises that structure to prospective Roman buyers. Remember: You are trying to make your villa, insula, or domus look as attractive as possible to potential buyers! Use simple descriptive language that highlights the features of your home.  Your brochure must meet the following specifications:  It must contain at least five adjectives formed to agree with their nouns in case, number, and gender. (Please note that domus, ‐ūs is a 4th declension feminine noun.)  You may use positive, comparative, or superlative forms of adjectives.  Use descriptive adjectives to make your structure look as appealing as possible.  You can also describe the furniture, flooring, artwork, etc. in your home.  Use the attached list for suggestions.  E.g. Est optima domus in Italia!  It must indicate the location of the structure using a preposition such as in or prope. (E.g. Est in Italia.)  It must include at least one quote in Latin from another resident or previous owner praising your villa, insula, or domus. (E.g. Filia mea inquit, ‘In hac villa habitare amo!’)  It must include at least five graphics illustrating the features of your structure and/or the area around it. 2016‐2017 1 Tips for the Roman Housing Project  Make sure adjectives agree with nouns in case, number, and gender. Check the gender of the nouns that you use.
 Check to be sure your nouns are in the correct case. If you say Mea villa est optima, “villa” is nominative because it’s the subject, but if you say Meam villam amo, “villam” is accusative because it’s the direct object.
 Keep your wording simple and brief. Stick to vocabulary and grammar that you know. Check the KET website, under “Verba”. Click on “Home Furnishings” and “Areas in a Villa” for help.
 You may not use any of the Latin phrases in these directions.
Roman Housing Project Grading Criteria 15 points 50 points 10 points 10 points 15 points 85 points Roman Housing Activity (Separate test grade in lesson 51) Includes at least five adjectives which agree with their nouns in case, number, and gender. (See the attached list for suggestions.) Includes at least one quote in Latin from another resident or previous owner praising the structure. Keep it simple, using vocabulary and grammar you know. Indicates the location of the house in Latin using a preposition such as in or prope. Contains at least five graphics, with captions. (E.g. “pulchra domus”) Extra Credit: In addition to the five required adjectives, include up to five more strictly comparative or superlative adjectives that agree with their nouns in case, number, and gender for up to 10 bonus points. TOTAL PROJECT GRADE (Test Category) 2016‐2017 2 Adjectives for the Roman Housing Project Positive Degree Adjectives 
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Look at p. 324‐325 for other examples and for irregular adjectives. Adjectives can have 1st/2nd or 3rd declension endings. Remember: Adjective endings do not always have the same ending as the noun they modify/describe. English Adjective Latin Adjective English Adjective Latin Adjective bad malus, ‐a, ‐um many multi, ‐ae, ‐a big magnus, ‐a, ‐um narrow angustus, ‐a, ‐um black niger, nigra, nigrum new novus, ‐a, ‐um brown fuscus, ‐a, ‐um old antiquus, ‐a, ‐um circular rotundus, ‐a, ‐um purple violaceus , ‐a, ‐um clean tersus, ‐a, ‐um quiet quietus, ‐a, ‐um dark ater, atra, atrum red ruber, rubra, rubrum deep profundus, ‐a, ‐um short brevis, ‐is, ‐e dirty sordidus, ‐a, ‐um slow tardus, ‐a, ‐um empty cassus, ‐a, ‐um small parvus, ‐a, ‐um expensive carus, ‐a, ‐um soft mollis, ‐is, ‐e few pauci, ‐ae, ‐a square quadratus, ‐a, ‐um good bonus, ‐a, ‐um straight rectus, ‐a, ‐um green viridis, ‐is, ‐e tall altus, ‐a, ‐um hard durus, ‐a, ‐um thick densus, ‐a, ‐um heavy gravis, ‐is, ‐e triangular triangulus, ‐a, ‐um inexpensive insumptuosus, ‐a, ‐um white albus, ‐a, ‐um light splendidus, ‐a, ‐um wide latus, ‐a, ‐um long longus, ‐a, ‐um yellow flavus , ‐a, ‐um Comparative Degree Adjectives ‐er, more, rather 
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Comparative adjectives end in ‐ior for masculine and feminine nominative singular and ‐ius for neuter nominative singular. They are declined like third declension positive adjectives. Superlative Degree Adjectives ‐est, very, most 
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Most superlative adjectives add ‐issimus, ‐issima, ‐issimum to the base. But positive degree adjectives that end in ‐er add –rimus, ‐rima, ‐rimum. Six positive degree adjectives that end in ‐lis add ‐limus, ‐lima, ‐limum. (See p. 65, #3.) ALL superlative adjectives will have a double consonant before the ending. 2016‐2017 3