Elementary Greek I

CLAS 115-01

Elementary Greek I Old Main 011
Classics 115 Macalester College
Fall 2004 Nanette Goldman

MWF 10:50 –11:50 a.m. plus 1 weekly lab

115L 02 Thursday 9:00 – 10:00 OM 011 or 115L 04 Thursday 2:45- 3:45 CAR 105

Office: Old Main 407 Phone: 651 - 696 - 6659 (x6659)
Office Hours: MF 8:30 – 9:30 Tu 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. and by appointment.
Email: GOLDMAN@macalester.edu
Course Webpage: http://www.macalester.edu/courses/clas115/

Preceptor: Eeshani Kandpal, ekandpal@macalester.edu or eekyeesh@yahoo.com
Phone: 763-350-7179
Office Hours: Thursday 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., Old Main 002

Course Description:
This 15-week course will introduce you to the grammatical principles of ancient Greek, the Attic dialect – the language of classical Athens. You will acquire the language through the translation of actual and graded texts, including Greek Wisdom writings and selections from the New Testament, written exercises, pronunciation drills, quizzes and exams. There are four class meetings per week; the ‘lab’ is treated as a regular class period. By the end of the 2nd semester you will have been introduced to a substantial portion of the grammar required for the courses in the Intermediate sequence: Greek prose (Plato or Herodotus), Homer, New Testament. Upon completion of the 2nd year, you will have mastered the translating skills necessary to read with fluency the literature offered in Advanced Greek: works by such authors as Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Thucydides and many others. The completion of four semesters of Greek or the equivalent fulfills the Macalester foreign language requirement.

Required Materials:

Balme and Lawall. Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Bk I. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. New York. 2003

Lawall, Johnson and Miraglia. Workbook I: Athenaze 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. New York. 2003

Oral pronunciation aids

The Pronunciation and Reading of Ancient Greek: A Practical Guide, Stephen Daitz, 2nd ed., 1984, Audio Forum, Guilford CT.

Available on line from Humanities Resource Center home page (linked through course web page)

Vocabulary and form drill program

Gramma. CD-Rom. Greek vocabulary and form drills keyed to Athenaze.

Available 1) on 2-hour reserve at DeWitt Wallace Library
2) downloadable from course folder
3) installed on computer in the Language Lab at the Humanities Resource Center

Downloadable demo available at http://www.centaursystems.com/catalog/gramma.html

Web support (linked through the course web page)

Supplementary Exercises for Athenaze

http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/cml/jjohnson/athenaze/
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/greek/
http://abney.homestead.com/athenaze.html
http://chss2.montclair.edu/classics/javascript/Greek/5b6b.html

Athenaze: Links and Tips

http://www.montgomerybell.com/~gaffnee/greeklinks.html

Ariadne: Resources for Athenaze

http://cornellcollege.edu/classical_studies/ariadne/

Course Requirements/Fall Semester:

1. Regular attendance and class participation 15%

2. Weekly quizzes (lowest score dropped). 15%

3. Daily assignments (lowest three scores dropped). 20%

4. Two Mid-semester exams. 25%

5. Final Exam (comprehensive). 25%

6. Principal parts exam (no grade, required pass of 75%, take as many times as necessary)

Study suggestions and tips:
Regularity in class attendance and completion of homework is the most important component in acquiring a new language. The average ratio of hours of outside preparation to hours in class is 2/1, however the study of Greek requires a bit more time. Frequent quizzes/evaluations provide the incentive to keep up. Flash cards are enormously beneficial in memorizing the large amount of vocabulary required for this course. The workbook is also a good source of supplementary exercises with keyed answers in the back. Studying with other class members often yields positive results. To that end a class list with names, emails and phone numbers will be distributed within the 1st week of the semester. If you feel yourself falling behind, come see me or Eeshani Kandpal immediately for help in getting back on track.

Absences:
If there is need for absence from class, especially on quiz days, please notify me in advance via email or phone. Missed quizzes due to unexcused absences will be scored as zeroes. If absent, you will be responsible for obtaining all handouts from the class period - available in an envelope outside my office OM 407.

Assignments:
Assignments are due at the beginning of the class period. A weekly schedule of assignments will be handed out every Friday and posted on the course web page.
? Homework turned in late will be graded but will suffer point deductions as follows:
-5% submitted on the due date anytime after the beginning of the class period.
-10% submitted one day after the due date.
? Homework submitted later than one class period after due date will not be accepted

Grading Scale:

93-100 A
90-92 A-
87-89 B+
82-86 B
79-81 B-
77-78 C+
72-76 C
69-71 C-
67-68 D+
62-66 D
59-61 D-
0-58 F

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. ? ????, ? ????.
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??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
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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.

Schedule of Quizzes

F 9/17
F 9/24
F 10/1
F 10/8
F 10/22
F 11/5
F 11/19
F 12/3
F 12/10

Final Exam: Friday, Dec. 17 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.