• Friday September 27 First day of class
• Monday September 30 Bring Athenaze; learn Greek alphabet and practice pronunciation drills I-III on the handout. Audio files, if you want them, are here: The Greek Alphabet Song; Drill I; Drill II; Drill III. More Greek writing practice: page 1, page 2.
• Wednesday October 2 Reread the readings from 1α and 1β. Learn the vocabulary from 1α and 1β. Do exercise 1γ (English to Greek). Do not worry too much about accents yet; we will work on them later. Read the culture section on "The Athenian Farmer."
• Friday October 4 Reread the reading from 2α. Vocab Quiz through 2α; sample here. Do exercises 2α and 2γ. Read the culture section on "Slavery."
• Monday October 7 Reread the reading from 2β. Double quiz on verb forms from pages 13-14 and on noun and article forms on the top of page 20; sample here. Do exercises 2δ, 2ε, and 2ζ.
• Wednesday October 9 Reread the reading from 3α; learn the vocab from 3α; learn the new verb forms on page 26; translate sentences in exercise 3α; read the culture section at the end of 3α. Quiz on verb forms; sample here.
• Friday October 11 Reread the reading from 3β; learn the vocab from 3β; learn the new noun forms on page 31; do exercises 3δ, 3ε, and 3ζ. Quiz on noun forms; sample here.
• Monday October 14 Reread the beginning of the reading from 4α and learn 4α vocab. Read carefully all the language info in 4α and learn all the forms of ἡ καλὴ κρήνη. Begin practicing for Wednesday's 5-minute timed quiz on the forms of ὁ καλὸς ἀγρός, τὸ καλὸν δὲνδρον, ἡ καλὴ κρήνη and ἡ καλὴ ὑδρίᾱ; sample here.
• Wednesday October 16 5-minute timed quiz on the forms of ὁ καλὸς ἀγρός, τὸ καλὸν δὲνδρον and ἡ καλὴ κρήνη and ἡ καλὴ ὑδρίᾱ; sample here. Reread the end of the story that begins 4α and do exercises 4β (begun in class), 4δ, and 4ε. Read the culture section at the end of 4α.
• Friday October 18 Reread the story that begins 4β. Reread and study the language information in 4α and 4β. Try your hand at the Greek-to-English sentences in 4λ. Quiz on verb forms (see pages 38-39); sample here.
• Monday October 21 Reread the story that begins 5α. Learn the new verb forms on page 56; make your own chart of the contractions of ε (see page 39) and α (see page 56). Reread the info on elision on page 58-59. Read and write out a translation for the story that begins 5β. Read the language info in 5β (personal pronouns, attributive and predicate position, and possessives). Quiz on verb forms; sample here.
• Wednesday October 23 Master the stuff about αὐτός in 5β and do exercise 5η; read "ὁ Ἄργος τὰ πρόβατα σᾠζει" on page 69. Quiz on personal pronouns (page 65) and all 6 types of first-declension nouns (ἡ κρήνη, ἡ ὑδρίᾱ, ἡ μέλιττᾰ, ἡ μάχαιρᾰ, ὁ δεσπότης, ὁ νεᾱνίᾱς); sample here.
• Friday October 25 Reread the part of the story that begins 6α, and then finish it. Reread all the language material in 6α and begin to master the new middle-voice forms. Quiz on personal pronouns (see page 65); sample here. Make sure you have read culture sections at the end of 5α and 6α.
• Monday October 28 Vocab quiz through 6β. Read 6β "ὁ μῦθος" through page 85 line 25; read all of the grammatical info in 6β, paying special attention to the section on the uses of the dative on page 88.
• Wednesday October 30 Reread the end of the story in 6β. Read the story that begins 7α and read through the grammar info in 7α; we will discuss new noun forms in more detail on Wednesday. Quiz on the middle forms of λύω, φιλέω ανδ τῑμάω learned so far; see pages 77-78; sample here.
• Friday November 1 Reread the story we went over in class. Learn new noun forms; quiz on ὁ φύλαξ, ὁ or ἡ παῖς, and τὸ ὄνομα; sample here. Read the story that begins 7β through line 13.
• Monday November 4 Midterm; sample here.
• Wednesday November 6 Finish 7β "ὁ κύκλωψ" and learn new noun forms: ὁ χειμών, ὁ κλώψ, and ὁ ῥητωρ (see pages 107 and 288-289). Study the forms of σὠφρων, σῶφρον and τίς / τις. Do exercise 7η.
• Friday November 8 Quiz on third-declension nouns: ὁ φύλαξ, ὁ or ἡ παῖς, τὸ ὄνομα, ὁ χειμών, ὁ κλώψ, and ὁ ῥητωρ. Reread the part of 8α "πρὸς τὸ ἄστυ" we read in class, and finish it. Learn the new participle forms on 115-116. Do exercise 8β. Read all culture sections in 8α.
• Monday November 11 Holiday!
• Wednesday November 13 Read 8β "πρὸς τὸ ἄστυ" and do exercises 8δ and 8ε (1-6 only). Learn the material in chapter 8β. Quiz on vocab chapters 1-8.
• Friday November 15 Read the language information and culture section in 9α and learn all 9α vocabulary. Read the story that begins 9α, "ἡ πανήγυρις."
• Monday November 18 Quiz on forms of the present participle of εἰμί, παιδεύω (works like λύω), φιλέω, and τῑμάω (see pages 136-137). Awesome participle/adjective practice sheet here. Do exercise 9β. Read the story that begins 9β. Read through chapter 9β but don't worry too much about the new third-declension nouns. Eventually you will be responsible for the forms of ἡ πόλις, τὸ ἄστυ and ὁ βασιλεύς.
• Wednesday November 20 Read through Chapter 10α and learn the future of λύω on page 158 and try to understand the other groups of futures that are presented after...asigmantic contracted futures, deponent futures, the future of εἰμί. Read the story that begins 10α, "ἡ σύμφορα." Write out your translation; if you can't be in class because of the strike, send me your translation via email.
• Friday November 22 Make sure you have read the culture section from 10α. Read through Chapter 10β and write out a translation of the story that begins it. Be able to conjugate the future (active and middle, indicative and infinitves) of λύω and μένω. Verb conjugation practice sheet here.
• Monday November 25 Do exercises 10ι, 10κ, and 10λ. Read through chapter 11α; translate the first two paragraphs of the story that begins it.
• Wednesday November 27 (day before Thanksgiving) Read through chapter 11β. Translate the story that begins it (it's a long one) paying careful attention to the tenses of verbs and participles.
• Froday November 29 Holiday
• Monday December 2 Do exercises 11λ, 11μ, and 11ν; quiz on principal parts: list here. Sample quiz here.
• Wednesday December 4 Read Chapter 12α and learn vocabulary. Write out a translation of the story that begins it (we did the first paragraph in class). Learn the forms of the first aorist.
• Friday December 6 Write out a translation of the rest of the story that begins 12β (we stopped at line 9). Be very careful to get the verband particiciple tenses correct. Quiz on the present and (first) aorist of παιδεύω. Sample quiz here.
• Tuesday December 10 Final Exam 7:30-10:30 p.m.