Salvete, Parentes et Discipuli!

Greetings, Parents and Students!

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This site contains the news for the fifth grade Latin course at Newark Charter School.

Please check my site weekly before each Wednesday to keep updated on this course.  I usually update my notes by every Sunday afternoon/evening. The schedule of due dates for the whole quarter is always updated at the beginning of each new marking period (see schedule below).

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News for Dies Mercurii, Februarius IV, MMX (Wednesday, February 4, 2010):

Last Wednesday, January 27, students did a tremendous job playing the Latin Boggelus game to help them use prior connections and brainstorming to come up with multiple English derivatives using our current Greek and Latin roots, mentioned below.

This Wednesday, we will be pantomiming the Greek and Latin roots as described below and have students guess which English derivative they make.  We will also be composing rebuses that symbolize the roots we learn and make their English derivatives with pictures.

I introduced our first set of new words for marking period 3, Wednesday,January 20.  This set of Latin/Greek roots is what I call the "See,Hear, Say, Write, Read" words.  When we see a word, hear the wordspoken, say the word ourselves, then write it and read it, we are mostlikely to retain the word in our memory.  It is the way our brainslearn best!

These words are printed on "Flashcards" on this page, which include all the words we have learned and are learning, in order.

Two students who should have been mentioned in the list of top Latin Detectives last week (still printed below for one more week) were Sophia Hannah, class 5-6, and Avonlea Horner, class 5-5.  Both of these great Latin Detectives also will receive the "Cum laude" certificate.

MIRABLE DICTU!! (It is wonderful to say!)

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER FOR THIRD QUARTER!!

February 10 - Quiz I  (use study sheet #4)

March 3 - Quiz II  (use study sheet #5)

                LATIN DETECTIVES CLUB PROJECT DUE!!  (Parents please check and sign it.)

March 10 - Math DSTP

March 17 - Final Test for the marking period

March 23 - Third marking period ends.

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TOP LATIN DETECTIVES FOR 2ND MARKING PERIOD!!

Class 5-1

Morgan White - Magna cum laude

Samuel Lynch -  Cum Laude

Audrey DiBartolomeo -  Cum laude

Wyatt Whittle - Cum laude

Class 5-2

Gabriel Roy - Magna cum laude

Kojo Otchere-Addo - Cum laude

Class 5-3

Samantha Roberts - Magna cum laude

Paige Feldmann - Cum laude

Class 5-4

Alexandria Bahia - Magna cum laude

Sarah Justison - Cum laude

Class 5-5

Jude McGough - Magna cum laude

Mackenna Higgins - Cum laude

Class 5-6

Connor Sweeney - Magna cum laude

Alison Lobo - Cum laude

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Quarterly Latin Detectives Club Project (this description will be posted all year on this page)

May I remind parents and students that being a Latin Detective is a perpetual homework assignment for this year (and hopefully, it will become a life-long "habit"!)  Students should be on the lookout for "clues" that Latin is alive and well in today's society.  Latin phrases and English derivatives from Latin words are everywhere- - in books, magazines, movies, television shows, newspapers, cartoons, road signs, commercials, brand names, slogans, logos, mottos, technology, toys, music, games, the lingo of many professions, etc., etc. (Hey, that's a Latin phrase - - et cetera = "and the rest"!). As you know, students are required to find at least three "clues" each quarter, from different places, with the specific location and date of where the clues were seen or heard clearly entered (documentation).

However, deliberate searches for clues in informational, factual resources is not acceptable.  Examples of these are dictionaries, Latin word/phrase websites, books in Latin or Latin textbooks, class textbooks, and reference books/pamphlets/posters with any listing of Latin words or phrases.  IF a student "comes across" Latin words/phrases in these resources in his/her everyday study/research, THEN that discovery may be entered as a Latin clue and up to five samples of Latin words/phrases from it may be entered as separate clues on the "extra clues" sheet.

Treats and prizes are awarded for finding more than the three required clues.  Top Latin Detectives for each class are given certificates and pins at the end of each quarter, and at the end of every year we honor the top NCS Latin Detective of the year, for collecting the most clues in the whole fifth grade.

(These rules have been printed on the back of the Latin Detectives Club Homework Project Sheet and on the "Acceptable Places to Look for Latin Clues" sheet, which have been handed out to students.  Extra handouts are always available in the back of room 203, in the shelves above the cubbies.)

Credendo Vides!  Vale!  (In believing, you will see!  Be strong!)

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Make-up Work **************************

 Any student who is absent on the day of an assessment should see me on the Wednesday after he/she returns to school in order to make up the quiz/test.  I will always be available for make-up assessments or for extra help during lunch/recess or after school until 4:00 p.m. on Wednesdays in room 203.

I have told students that extra copies of any handouts from Latin class will always be in the bins on top of the cubbies in the back of room 203.  A bin marked "Latin Work" is available for any early or late (up to a week after due date only) completed homework or makeup work to be turned in at any time between classes.  Students can come up during lunch/recess or during homeroom times with permission, as well.  This is for convenience to all, as I am only in the middle school building on Wednesdays.

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Please feel free to email me with any questions.

I am enjoying teaching all my Latin students!!