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Elementary Greek I

CLAS 115-01


OUTLINE OF ASSIGNMENTS

Schedule of Units/ Fall Semester:

Sept. 8-10 Week 1 Introduction and Chapter 1: The Alphabet. Verb Forms: Stems and
Endings. Nouns: Gender, Stems, Cases
and Agreement

Sept. 13-17 Week 2 Chapters 1 and 2: Parts of a sentence. Definite Article. Accents.
Indicative Mood. Imperative Mood. Proclitics

Sept. 20-24 Week 3 Chapters 2 and 3: Adjectives. Persistent and Recessive accents. Verb
forms – Infinitive. Accent Shifting

Sept. 27-Oct. 1 Week 4 Chapter 4: Feminine Nouns. Adjectives of 1st and 2nd declension.
Masculine nouns of 1st declension. Feminine nouns of 2nd
declension. Adverbs.

Oct. 4-8 Week 5 Chapter 5: Alpha-contract verbs. Elision. Personal Pronouns. Attributive
and Predicate positions. Possessives.

Oct. 11-15 Week 6 Chapter 6: Middle voice. Deponent. Dative case. Prepositions

• Mid-Semester Exam - Friday, 10/15

Oct. 18-22 Week 7 Chapter 7: Substantive use of adjective. 3rd declension nouns and
adjectives. Interrogative and Indefinite pronouns and
adjectives.

Oct. 25-27 Week 8 Chapter 8: Participles. Numbers. Expressions of Time.

~Mid-Semester Break 10/28-10/31

Nov. 1-5 Week 9 Chapters 8 and 9: Participles. Genitive Case uses. Verb Review

Nov. 8-12 Week 10 Chapters 9 and 10: New Verb Preview. Future Tense. Impersonal
Verbs.

• Mid-Semester Exam - Friday, 11/12

Nov. 15-19 Week 11 Chapters 10 and 11:?Future Participles to express purpose. Aorist
tense.

Nov. 22-24 Week 12 Chapters 11 and 12: More Aorists.

~Thanksgiving Break 11/25-11/28

Nov. 29-Dec.3 Week 13 Chapter 13: Imperfect Tense.

Dec. 6-10 Week 14 Chapters 13 and 14: Relative Clauses. Comparative and Superlative
Adjectives and Adverbs.

Dec. 13-15 Week 15 Chapter 15: Contract Verbs. Review.