I began the lesson by giving back the marked tests from the previous lesson (see lesson 34) and taking the students through the correct answers. The most common mistake - which surprised me - was caused by students forgetting the meanings of ‘cur’ and ‘quia’. I was confident before the Easter holidays that students knew these words, so perhaps they slipped from their memory over the break. Some of the questions in the true and false section proved difficult for some students.
2. I told the students yesterday, that if they were unable to complete the entire test they should leave the second page of the translation undone. I chose not to include the mark for this page when calculating the mark for the test, and we now went through it together now. The first two sentences were written in such as way as to illustrate the difference between subject and object in English (word order) and in Latin (word ending). I am trying to reinforce this idea as often as possible.
3. We now read Legonium Disco Lesson 6, in which Marcellus teaches the use of the Vocative. I asked three students to come out to the front of the room. One of them scrolled through the slides, one of them read the part of Marcellus, and one of them chose students from the class to read all the other parts. Like all Disco lessons, it ends with the students putting what they have learnt into practice. Disco Lesson 6 can be found here.
4. I now asked all the students to open their textbooks to page 13, which has a picture of the characters from LLPSI, all labelled with their names. Going from right (Medus) to left (Iulius) I asked one student to greet each of them, practising what they had learnt about using names while greeting.
5. Finally, I set the students a small homework task. I asked them to read through Scaena Secunda of Chapter 4, and to determine what I would be asking somebody to do if I said “Tace!” and “Discede!” to them.