I can't believe it is already October! You all are working very hard and the progress is amazing! The Latin Club t-shirts are here and the World Language picnic was so much fun.
We will be going to the Corn Maize in October and having even more fun.
The Latin I students are learning infinitives and noun/adjective agreement. As usual, the touchdown day was a hit. My spiral wasn't half bad this year.
The Latin II students are finishing up a unit and have learned all 6 tenses. Congratulations! The Cornelius family is in Rome and starting new and wonderful adventures there.
The Latin III students finally made it through present participles and are learning a new infinitive tense! They are working hard and the translations are getting longer and longer.
Our guest speaker at the end of September was awesome! Learn those word roots and see what happens.
Don't forget - Quarterly Projects are due on October 17th!!!! E-mail sentences to me by Friday, October 14th for a guaranteed review. Check out the website for requirements:
sites.google.com/site/latinatlhs/
Thanks again for all your work and don't forget to post your extra credit to this blog!
Magistra Thomason
From Vacca to Vaccine
ReplyDeleteSometime during the 1770's, Edward Jenner overheard a milkmaid boasting about how she couldn't catch the deadly smallpox because she already had cowpox (the disease only had mild effects on humans). Edward Jenner then took pus from the hand of a milkmaid who had cowpox and gave it to a 8-year old boy. Six weeks later, Jenner then gave the boy's arm smallpox and observed that the boy did not catch smallpox. This process was later known as a vaccine, or a preparation that strengthens the immune system to a particular disease. The word vaccine was derived from the Latin word vacca (meaning cow) because of Edward Jenner's use of cowpox that provided protection from smallpox.
From Lupus to Lupus Erythematosus (Or Lupus Vulgaris, Lupus Anticoagulant and Lupus Nephritis)
Lupus Erythematosus is a disease that can affect any part of the body. It goes and attacks the body's tissue and cells, resulting in inflammation and tissue damage. It often harms the heart, lungs and can cause photo-sensitivity. Lupus Vulgaris, Lupus Anticoagulant and Lupus Nephritis are also painful and harmful diseases. All of these diseases share a common word: Lupus. Lupus is Latin for wolf and there are many reasons why its part of the disease name. A 1590 work described the skin disease as "a malignant ulcer quickly consuming the neather parts; ... very hungry like unto a woolfe". It was described as this, because of the vicious and harmfulness of the disease. Some doctors thought that the rash resembled the fur on a wolf's face. Other doctors believed created lesions that looked like wolf bites or scratches. Whatever the reason was, that's how the word Lupus was turned into part of a disease name.
4th delc neutur noun genu,genus by sarah reardon
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