On Wednesday I'll look at each group's translations of the Sententiae Antiquae and the worksheet exercises. I'll have the sentence analyses in a powerpoint. The groups that did not finish them can put theirs on the board at the beginning of class. (I also plan to spend time with 38 Stories, never fear!)
Remember that the 3rd declension deals with noun stems differently from the other declensions. You don't take a few letters off the nominative and put the other endings onto that stem, as you do with the first and second declensions. Instead, you use the stem that the genitive form uses (the second form given in the vocabulary entry). Remove the -is genitive ending from that, and there's your stem.
When you are reading, try to stop and think for a moment about the case of each noun and adjective. Although noun cases seem like a simple thing, it is one of the most common things for students to have difficulty with, up to the second year and beyond. One of the reasons for this is that in short sentences (like the ones we have now), it's often possible to figure the sentence out with knowing the case of every word. But making sure that you know it now, while the sentences are still a manageble length, will make Latin much easier later on.
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