COURSE+STANDARDS+2012-13

YOU CAN FIND COURSE STANDARDS FOR ALL OF MR BUCK'S 2012-13 LATIN CLASSES ON THIS PAGE.

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Magister Cervus (Mr. Buck) www.hanoverhigh.us > academics > foreign language > Mr Buck

We’ll review Latin grammar and vocabulary.

As we review we’ll read Roman authors unplugged, that is, the actual works they wrote for their own audiences. First we’ll read poems by Catullus, who wrote about love, jealousy, death, dishonesty and about poetry itself. The Catullus text has copious notes alongside the Latin, which you must learn to use intelligently.

Starting after the midterm we’ll read a speech by Cicero in which he prosecuted a corrupt Roman governor who stole artworks from the people of Sicily. We'll compare art theft in Roman times to looting by Napoleon and by the Nazis during world War 2.

We’ll learn how Roman poets used figures of speech to intensify the emotion of their writings. We’ll study the meter of Latin poetry, which is different from the meter of English poetry. Accurate oral recitation will prepare you to compete in the school’s poetry recitation contest. We’ll also practice reading short passages of authors you have not prepared, and answering multiple-choice questions about them. There is no College Board Advanced Placement exam for these authors, so I have the freedom to assign readings which I think you'll enjoy. We do not have a mid-May deadline as we would for an AP exam. However if you would like to study Vergil for the 2013 AP Latin exam on your own, in addition to our class work, talk to me.

Your quarterly grade: 30% from quizzes and tests, 50% from daily preparation/translation, 20% from other class participation.

Daily preparation/translation includes my judgment of how well you prepared the daily reading assignment. Other class participation includes questions you ask, your focus in class, and your attendance. You are not expected to have a perfect translation every day. This is tough stuff. Relevant questions (“I got this part but not that part”) count as good preparation. Midterm and final exams count separately as 20% of the 1st and 2nd semesters. A semester grade equals 40% for each quarter + 20% for the exam. Tardies & Absences: According to the HHS Handbook, three lates equals a cut. After two cuts in the same quarter I’ll ask the Dean of Students to schedule you up. If you have an absence that is planned & excused in advance, it’s up to you to see me about missed work & quizzes. Normally you have the same number of days to make up work as the number of days you were out. For instance, if you were absent for three days you have three days to make up the missed work.

HONOR I expect every student to do his or her own work. Hanover High requires honesty in every class, sport and activity. You may cooperate when preparing. But copying is not cooperating, whether you copy from another student or from a published translation. If you can translate but consistently can’t explain why you translated in a certain way, I will become suspicious.

CHECK-IN DAYS (x-days) === The usual check-in day will be Wednesday.

Latin 4/5 will address the following core competencies per Hanover High School policy:

ACADEMIC SKILLS -- Reading actively and critically. -- Speaking/presenting effectively. -- Listening attentively and critically. -- Identifying and using a variety of resources for obtaining information. -- Employing multiple strategies in critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance.

SOCIAL & CIVIC SKILLS -- Working effectively and responsibly as an individual and in groups. -- Acting as a responsible citizen using the democratic process to address concerns and effect change in the community, state, nation, and world.

ABSENCES from Latin class Many students at HHS take six or seven courses and play sports or do outside activities. I’m happy to teach such energetic students. But please note this section in the HHS Handbook: Attendance Policy first passed in 2008-09

Our first priority at HHS is education, either in the classroom or in other activities planned by classroom teachers. Classroom attendance is the first expectation placed on students by parents, teachers and the administration. A student in the classroom is part of the learning community. The student owes it to himself/herself to be present. It is equally important that he/she owes it to the class and the teacher to contribute to the group’s education. Absent students detract from every other student’s learning. A student’s contribution to the class is part of his/her participation in school life, whether or not the absent student may be able to make up his/her own missed work and keep acceptable grades. The Handbook also says:

Absences from class because of sports or other school-sponsored activities are not counted as absences. This includes drama and field trips – anything sponsored by a staff member. Student absences from school, whether excused by parents or not, will continue to be noted on transcripts. Teachers may consider attendance as a factor in determining class participation grades, even if the absent student makes up his/her individual written work.

NOTE FROM MR BUCK: Non-emergency family trips, or trips for non-HHS athletics, are the types of absences which are most likely to hurt a student’s class-participation grade in this course.

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COURSE STANDARDS LATIN 4, 2012-13

Magister Cervus (Mr. Buck) www.hanoverhigh.us > academics > foreign language > Mr Buck

Latin 4 will meet with Latin 4/5 Honors on most days. Sometimes you'll have the same assignments reading Latin, but more often Latin 4 will have separate assignments in which you'll read certain poems in English and make extra class presentations on them. Also Latin 4 will sometimes be given class periods to work in the library to prepare separate reports and presentations to the combined class.

We’ll review Latin grammar and vocabulary.

As we review we’ll read Roman authors unplugged, that is, the actual works they wrote for their own audiences. First we’ll read poems by Catullus, who wrote about love, jealousy, death, dishonesty and about poetry itself. The Catullus text has copious notes alongside the Latin, which you must learn to use intelligently.

Starting after the midterm we’ll read a speech by Cicero in which he prosecuted a corrupt Roman governor who stole artworks from the people of Sicily. We'll compare art theft in Roman times to looting by Napoleon and by the Nazis during world War 2. Accurate oral recitation will prepare you for the school’s poetry recitation contest.

Your quarterly grade: 30% from quizzes and tests, 50% from daily preparation/translation, 20% from other class participation.

Daily preparation/translation includes my judgment of how well you prepared the daily reading assignment. Other class participation includes questions you ask, your focus in class, and your attendance. You are not expected to have a perfect translation every day. This is tough stuff. Relevant questions (“I got this part but not that part”) count as good preparation. Midterm and final exams count separately as 20% of the 1st and 2nd semesters. A semester grade equals 40% for each quarter + 20% for the exam.

Tardies & Absences: According to the HHS Handbook, three lates equals a cut. After two cuts in the same quarter I’ll ask the Dean of Students to schedule you up. If you have an absence that is planned & excused in advance, it’s up to you to see me about missed work & quizzes. Normally you have the same number of days to make up work as the number of days you were out. For instance, if you were absent for three days you have three days to make up the missed work.

HONOR I expect every student to do his or her own work. Hanover High requires honesty in every class, sport and activity. You may cooperate when preparing. But copying is not cooperating, whether you copy from another student or from a published translation. If you can translate but can’t explain why you translated in a certain way, I will become suspicious.

CHECK-IN DAYS (x-days) The usual check-in day is Tuesday.

Latin 4/5 will address the following core competencies per Hanover High School policy:

ACADEMIC SKILLS

-- Reading actively and critically. -- Speaking/presenting effectively. -- Listening attentively and critically. -- Identifying and using a variety of resources for obtaining information. -- Employing multiple strategies in critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance.

SOCIAL & CIVIC SKILLS -- Working effectively and responsibly as an individual and in groups. -- Acting as a responsible citizen using the democratic process to address concerns and effect change in the community, state, nation, and world.

ABSENCES from Latin class Many students at HHS take six or seven courses and play sports or do outside activities. I’m happy to teach such energetic students. But please note this section in the HHS Handbook: Attendance Policy first passed in 2008-09

Our first priority at HHS is education, either in the classroom or in other activities planned by classroom teachers. Classroom attendance is the first expectation placed on students by parents, teachers and the administration. A student in the classroom is part of the learning community. The student owes it to himself/herself to be present. It is equally important that he/she owes it to the class and the teacher to contribute to the group’s education. Absent students detract from every other student’s learning. A student’s contribution to the class is part of his/her participation in school life, whether or not the absent student may be able to make up his/her own missed work and keep acceptable grades. The Handbook also says:

Absences from class because of sports or other school-sponsored activities are not counted as absences. This includes drama and field trips – anything sponsored by a staff member. Student absences from school, whether excused by parents or not, will continue to be noted on transcripts. Teachers may consider attendance as a factor in determining class participation grades, even if the absent student makes up his/her individual written work.

NOTE FROM MR BUCK: Non-emergency family trips, or trips for non-HHS athletics, are the types of absences which are most likely to hurt a student’s class-participation grade in this course.

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LATIN 2 COURSE STANDARDS 2012-13 cubiculum CCX (Room 210)

Magister Cervus (Mr. Buck) My web site: www.hanoverhigh.us > academics > language > Mr Buck

We'll review the Latin grammar and vocab you learned last year, and meet new material in each chapter. You must show that you understand this material in class and on quizzes.

We'll return with Quintus and Clemens to the fascinating and dangerous city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt. The goddess Isis will be carried through Alexandria in a huge procession. Later, when we return to Roman Britain, we'll read about magic spells and curses. We’ll study Rome's Imperial army and learn how it dominated the barbarians.

As the year goes by we’ll take short walking tours near school to explore Roman influence on our own traditions, such as architecture, Latin inscriptions and funeral customs. We'll do non-textbook projects related to Rome and its language.

Our first goal is to finish Stage 21 in the green book before the midterm exam in January.

HONOS (HONESTY) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I expect every student to do his or her own work. Hanover High requires honesty in every class, sport and activity. If you wish, you may cooperate when you prepare Latin homework, but you must be able to explain your work in class. Students who consistently have high homework grades but low quiz grades probably are copying, not learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">MODUS OPERANDI (CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Common sense. Do not interfere with other students’ learning. Raise your hand before you speak. Come on time with all your materials. Three unexcused lates equals a cut. If you cut twice in the same quarter I will recommend schedule-up to Mr. Smith, the Dean of Students. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Forgetting your materials more than once is a tardy. For instance, coming on time and then asking, "Can I go to my locker to get ...?" is a tardy.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">check-in days (X-DAYS) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Sometimes I will require the whole class to meet on the check-in day, so don’t make plans that conflict. If you have overdue work you must finish it with me in class on the check-in day. An excused or unexcused absence from a regular class means that you automatically come in on the next check-in day. Only five-day weeks have check-in days.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">GRADES: Quizzes and tests count 30%. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">For certain quizzes and tests you may use both sides of one 3x5 card, with notes in your own handwriting. I will announce whether you may or may not have notes on a quiz/test. You may not use notecards for vocab-only quizzes.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">My judgment of your class participation counts 30%. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">You'll have plenty of chances to volunteer questions and answers. You'll probably be called on in class every day. Good class participation does not mean your answers have to be right. You can also show you prepared by asking a relevant question. A relevant question is as good as an answer. For instance, "I got this but I didn't get that ...."

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Typical class-participation grades, depending on circumstances: <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A student who volunteers often, and/or asks extra questions just because something is interesting: 100 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A student who always knows the answer when called on but never volunteers: 80 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A student who doesn't pay attention to the class discussion, or socializes a lot, <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">or rarely knows answers or rarely asks questions: 60 or lower.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Practice (Homework) counts 40%: <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Written homework is due at the beginning of class. We may go over it together before I collect it. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">When I return homework graded, if your grade is 60 or lower, you may increase it to 85 by handing in corrections at the <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">next class period.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Late assignments <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Late assignments without an excused absence can earn a maximum grade of 60 if you hand them in well done the next class day. After that, I will still correct them, but they earn zero.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Semester and Quarterly grades. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> A semester grade equals 40% for each quarter + 20% for the exam.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Latin 2 will address the following core competencies per Hanover High School policy: <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">ACADEMIC SKILLS <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Reading actively and critically. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Speaking/presenting effectively. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Listening attentively and critically. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Identifying and using a variety of resources for obtaining information. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Employing multiple strategies in critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">SOCIAL & CIVIC SKILLS <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Working effectively and responsibly as an individual and in groups. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Acting as a responsible citizen using the democratic process to address concerns and effect change in the community, state, nation, and world.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">ABSENCES from Latin class <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Many students at HHS take six or seven courses and play sports or do outside activities. I’m happy to teach such energetic students. But please note this section in the HHS Handbook:

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Attendance Policy first passed in 2008-09 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Our first priority at HHS is education, either in the classroom or in other activities planned by classroom teachers. Classroom attendance is the first expectation placed on students by parents, teachers and the administration. A student in the classroom is part of the learning community. The student owes it to himself/herself to be present.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">It is equally important that he/she owes it to the class and the teacher to contribute to the group’s education. Absent students detract from every other student’s learning. A student’s contribution to the class is part of his/her participation in school life, whether or not the absent student may be able to make up his/her own missed work and keep acceptable grades.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The Handbook also says: <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Absences from class because of sports or other school-sponsored activities are not counted as absences. This includes drama and field trips – anything sponsored by a staff member.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Student absences from school, whether excused by parents or not, will continue to be noted on transcripts. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Teachers may consider attendance as a factor in determining class participation grades, even if the absent student makes up his/her individual written work.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">NOTE FROM MR BUCK: Non-emergency family trips, or trips for non-HHS athletics, are the types of absences which are most likely to hurt a student’s class-participation grade in this course.

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<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: large;">LATIN 2-H COURSE STANDARDS 2012-13 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">AUC MMDCCLXVI <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">That means ab urbe condita 2766 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">or 2,766 years since the founding of Rome, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">or AD 2012-13

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">cubiculum CCX (Room 210) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Magister Cervus (Mr. Buck) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">My web site:[|www.hanoverhigh.us] > academics > language > Mr Buck

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">We'll review the Latin grammar and vocab you learned last year, and meet new material in each chapter. You must show that you understand this material in class and on quizzes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">We'll return with Quintus and Clemens to the fascinating and dangerous city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt. The goddess Isis will be carried through Alexandria in a huge procession. Later, when we return to Roman Britain, we'll read about magic spells and curses. We’ll study Rome's Imperial army and learn how it dominated the barbarians.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">As the year goes by we’ll take short walking tours near school to explore Roman influence on our own traditions, such as architecture, Latin inscriptions and funeral customs. We'll do non-textbook projects related to Rome and its language.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Our first goal is to finish Stage 21 in the green book before the midterm exam in January.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">HONOS (HONESTY) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I expect every student to do his or her own work. Hanover High requires honesty in every class, sport and activity. If you wish, you may cooperate when you prepare Latin homework, but you must be able to explain your work in class. Students who consistently have high homework grades but low quiz grades probably are copying, not learning.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">MODUS OPERANDI (CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Common sense. Do not interfere with other students’ learning. Raise your hand before you speak. Come on time with all your materials. Three unexcused lates equals a cut. If you cut twice in the same quarter I will recommend schedule-up to Mr. Smith, the Dean of Students.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Forgetting your materials more than once is a tardy. For instance, coming on time and then asking, "Can I go to my locker to get ...?" is a tardy.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">check-in days (X-DAYS) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Sometimes I will require the whole class to meet on the check-in day, so don’t make plans that conflict. If you have overdue work you must finish it with me in class on the check-in day. An excused or unexcused absence from a regular class means that you automatically come in on the next check-in day. Only five-day weeks have check-in days.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">GRADES: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Quizzes and tests count 50% of the quarterly grade.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">My judgment of your class participation counts 30%. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">You'll have plenty of chances to volunteer questions and answers. You'll probably be called on in class every day. Good class participation does not mean your answers have to be right. You can also show you prepared by asking a relevant question. A relevant question is as good as an answer. For instance, "I got this but I didn't get that ...."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Typical class-participation grades, depending on circumstances: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A student who volunteers often, and/or asks extra questions just because something is interesting: 100 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A student who always knows the answer when called on but never volunteers: 80 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A student who doesn't pay attention to the class discussion, or socializes a lot, or rarely knows answers or rarely asks questions: 60 or lower.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Practice (Homework) counts 20%: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Written homework is due at the beginning of class. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> We may go over it together before I collect it. Homework not turned in because of an unexcused absence earns zero. Homework that's on time but earns 50 or below can be corrected and turned in the next class; if you do corrections well, your grade can rise to 85.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Midterm and final exams count separately as 20% of the 1st and 2nd semesters. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A semester grade equals 40% for each quarter + 20% for the exam.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Latin 2H will address the following core competencies per Hanover High School policy: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">ACADEMIC SKILLS <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Reading actively and critically. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Speaking/presenting effectively. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Listening attentively and critically. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Identifying and using a variety of resources for obtaining information. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Employing multiple strategies in critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">SOCIAL & CIVIC SKILLS <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Working effectively and responsibly as an individual and in groups. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Acting as a responsible citizen using the democratic process to address concerns and effect change in the community, state, nation, and world.

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<span style="background-color: #800000; color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">LATIN 3 <span style="background-color: #800000; color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">COURSE STANDARDS <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">AD 2012-13 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Room 210 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Magister Cervus (Mr. Buck)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">www.hanoverhigh.us> academics > foreign language > Mr Buck

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">CONSILIUM NOSTRUM (OUR PLAN) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">starting with stage 29 of the green book.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">We'll review the Latin grammar and vocab you learned last year, and meet new material in each chapter. You must show that you understand this material in class and on quizzes. We'll also do non-textbook projects related to Rome and its language.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">We've left Britannia and now we arrive in Rome itself. The building-contractor Haterius is working himself desperately, trying to finish the emperor's new arch on time. Salvius stalks behind the scenes, scheming to cheat both Haterius and the emperor.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">As the year goes by we’ll take short walking tours near school to explore Roman influence on our own traditions, such as architecture, Latin inscriptions and funeral customs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Our goal is to finish Stage 32 in the purple book before the midterm exam in January.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">HONOS (HONESTY) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I expect every student to do his or her own work. Hanover High requires honesty in every class, sport and activity. If you wish, you may cooperate when you prepare homework, but you must be able to explain your work in class. Students who consistently have high homework grades but low quiz grades probably are copying, not learning.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">MODUS OPERANDI (CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Common sense. Do not interfere with other students’ learning. Raise your hand before you speak. Come on time with all your materials. Three unexcused lates equals a cut. If you cut twice in the same quarter I will recommend schedule-up to Mr. Smith, the Dean of Students.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Forgetting your materials more than once is a tardy. For instance, coming on time and then asking, "Can I go to my locker to get ...?" is a tardy.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">check-in days (X-DAYS) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Sometimes I will require the whole class to meet on the check-in day, so don’t make plans that conflict. If you have overdue work you must finish it with me in class on the check-in day. An excused or unexcused absence from a regular class means that you automatically come in on the next check-in day. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Soon I will tell you our check-in day. Only five-day weeks have check-in days.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">GRADES: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Quizzes and tests count 30% of the quarterly grade. On some quizzes and tests you may make your own 3x5 card. No note-cards for vocab-only quizzes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">My judgment of your class participation counts 25%. Highest marks go to students who ask questions or make comments that show genuine interest beyond the assignment. Next-highest go to students who ask questions about the assignment. Next-highest go to students who rarely ask questions but are prepared with a relevant answer when called on. Lowest marks go to students who are not prepared to take part in class.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Good class participation does not mean your answers always have to be right. An answer such as “I understood this but I didn’t get that” is as good as the correct answer.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Practice (Homework) counts 45%: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework is due at the start of class. Sometimes we'll correct it together before you turn it in. After I turn back an assignment, if your grade is 50 or lower, you may hand in corrections and improve your grade to 85 maximum.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Midterm and final exams count separately as 20% of the 1st and 2nd semesters. A semester grade equals 37.5% for each quarter + 20% for the exam.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Late assignments <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Late assignments without an excused absence can earn a maximum grade of 60 if you hand them in well done the next class day. After that, they earn zero.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Latin 3 will address the following core competencies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Per Hanover High School policy: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">ACADEMIC SKILLS <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Reading actively and critically. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Speaking/presenting effectively. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Listening attentively and critically. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Identifying and using a variety of resources for obtaining information. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Employing multiple strategies in critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">SOCIAL & CIVIC SKILLS <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Working effectively and responsibly as an individual and in groups. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Acting as a responsible citizen using the democratic process to address concerns and effect change in the community, state, nation, and world.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">= = = = = = = = <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #808000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">LATIN 3 - HONORS <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #808000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">COURSE STANDARDS <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">AD 2012-13 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Room 210 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Magister Cervus (Mr. Buck) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">www.hanoverhigh.us> academics > foreign language > Mr Buck

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">CONSILIUM NOSTRUM (OUR PLAN) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">starting with stage 29 of the green book.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">We'll review the Latin grammar and vocab you learned last year, and meet new material in each chapter. You must show that you understand this material in class and on quizzes. We'll also do non-textbook projects related to Rome and its language.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">We've left Britannia and now we arrive in Rome itself. The building-contractor Haterius is working himself desperately, trying to finish the emperor's new arch on time. Salvius stalks behind the scenes, scheming to cheat both Haterius and the emperor.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">As the year goes by we’ll take short walking tours near school to explore Roman influence on our own traditions, such as architecture, Latin inscriptions and funeral customs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Our goal is to finish Stage 32 in the purple book before the midterm exam in January.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">HONOS (HONESTY) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I expect every student to do his or her own work. Hanover High requires honesty in every class, sport and activity. If you wish, you may cooperate when you prepare homework, but you must be able to explain your work in class. Students who consistently have high homework grades but low quiz grades probably are copying, not learning.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">MODUS OPERANDI (CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Common sense. Do not interfere with other students’ learning. Raise your hand before you speak. Come on time with all your materials. Three unexcused lates equals a cut. If you cut twice in the same quarter I will recommend schedule-up to Mr. Smith, the Dean of Students.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Forgetting your materials more than once is a tardy. For instance, coming on time and then asking, "Can I go to my locker to get ...?" is a tardy.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">check-in days (X-DAYS) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Sometimes I will require the whole class to meet on the check-in day, so don’t make plans that conflict. If you have overdue work you must finish it with me in class on the check-in day. An excused or unexcused absence from a regular class means that you automatically come in on the next check-in day.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Soon I will tell you our check-in day. Only five-day weeks have check-in days.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">GRADES: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Quizzes and tests count 50% of the quarterly grade. On some quizzes and tests you may make your own 3x5 card. No note-cards for vocab-only quizzes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">My judgment of your class participation counts 25%. Highest marks go to students who ask questions or make comments that show genuine interest beyond the assignment. Next-highest go to students who ask questions about the assignment. Next-highest go to students who rarely ask questions but are prepared with a relevant answer when called on. Lowest marks go to students who are not prepared to take part in class.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Good class participation does not mean your answers always have to be right. An answer such as “I understood this but I didn’t get that” is as good as the correct answer.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Practice (Homework) counts 25%: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework is due at the start of class. Sometimes we'll correct it together before you turn it in. After I turn back an assignment, if your grade is 50 or lower, you may hand in corrections and improve your grade to 85 maximum.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Midterm and final exams count separately as 20% of the 1st and 2nd semesters. A semester grade equals 37.5% for each quarter + 20% for the exam.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Late assignments <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Late assignments without an excused absence can earn a maximum grade of 60 if you hand them in well done the next class day. After that, they earn zero.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Latin 3 will address the following core competencies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">per Hanover High School policy: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">ACADEMIC SKILLS <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Reading actively and critically. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Speaking/presenting effectively. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Listening attentively and critically. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Identifying and using a variety of resources for obtaining information. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Employing multiple strategies in critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">SOCIAL & CIVIC SKILLS <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Working effectively and responsibly as an individual and in groups. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-- Acting as a responsible citizen using the democratic process to address concerns and effect change in the community, state, nation, and world.