NOTE: this was the schedule for Spring 23 (Greek 1). For the current semester schedule, click here.
Week One: Introduction
Wednesday, January 18: ZOOM
We will meet over Zoom for our first class session today; check your email or contact mfarmer@haverford.edu for the link.
Today we’ll spend some time getting to know each other and getting an overview of our plans for the course.
Before class today, please read the Syllabus, and bring in any questions you have about how the course will work.
If you’d like to get started learning the alphabet, check out the Open University’s Introduction to Ancient Greek. I recommend working through in the following order:
- First, click “Sounds” check out the full Greek alphabet and its associated sounds here. Click the Greek words in the right column to hear the sounds pronounced. Pay particular attention to lower case letter forms.
- Next, click “Letters” to start quizzing yourself on the different letter shapes. Work through a few of these quizzes.
- Finally, click “Words” to try your hand at spelling out a few Greek words.
You can also start practicing with our course vocab by joining our Cerego class here.
Friday, January 20: NO CLASS
Sorry to say I remain a little under the weather, so we won’t be meeting as a class today. We’ll resume our regular meetings in person next week.
Using the time you would have been in class, please:
- Complete the course survey
- Join our Cerego course
- Start practicing the Greek alphabet using the Open University’s Introduction to Ancient Greek. I recommend working through in the following order:
- First, click “Sounds” check out the full Greek alphabet and its associated sounds here. Click the Greek words in the right column to hear the sounds pronounced. Pay particular attention to lower case letter forms.
- Next, click “Letters” to start quizzing yourself on the different letter shapes. Work through a few of these quizzes.
- Finally, click “Words” to try your hand at spelling out a few Greek words.
Week Two: The Alphabet and Chapter One
Monday, January 23
Before you start working today, read “How to Prep for Class.”
- Read the Athenaze Introduction and use the info in parts 1-3 to complete the exercises in part 4
- With each exercise, first listen to me reading the Greek and follow along: the 40 greek words, the names of the gods, and the paragraph of text
- Next, copy the Greek out onto a sheet of paper, and bring it to class on Monday
Before the start of class, start preparing Ath. 1α:
- Begin working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, focusing on pronunciation and reading the alphabet:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Now work back through slowly, marking words you find difficult to read or pronounce
- Finally, listen to me read the text once more, following along with clearer understanding of the letters.
- Finally, copy the text:
- write it out by hand
- OR enable a Greek keyboard on your computer (find instructions by googling your operating system, and look for a Polytonic Greek keyboard)
- Write slowly, focusing on forming the letters correctly, and bring your copy in to class.
Wednesday, January 25
Before you start working today, take another look at “How to Prep for Class.”
Before the start of class, finish prepping Ath. 1α:
- Keep working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, this time starting to focus on what the text means:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use this shared google doc; complete the section with your name
- Note that this chapter, everyone will do each exercise
Friday, January 27
Before the start of class, start preparing Ath. 1β:
- Begin working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, focusing on pronunciation and reading the alphabet:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Now work back through slowly, marking words you find difficult to read or pronounce
- Finally, listen to me read the text once more, following along with clearer understanding of the letters.
- Finally, copy the text:
- write it out by hand
- OR enable a Greek keyboard on your computer (find instructions by googling your operating system, and look for a Polytonic Greek keyboard)
- Write slowly, focusing on forming the letters correctly, and bring your copy in to class.
Week Three: Chapter One Continued
Monday, January 30
Before the start of class, finishing preparing Ath. 1β:
- Continue working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, this time focusing on meaning:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use this shared google doc; complete the section with your name
- Note that this chapter, everyone will do each exercise
Wednesday, February 1
Before the start of class today, please:
- For each section of the chapter 1 homework (α or β), choose one other student and check their work in the chapter 1 homework doc
- If possible, choose a student who has not received corrections, and choose a different student in each section
- Mark places where you think there might be something wrong or where you don’t understand their work with comments
- Feel free to mark work you think is outstanding or that you’ve checked and found no errors
Friday, February 3
Today we’ll have our first in-class quiz! It will last 10-15 minutes, and focus on 1-2 sentences from the chapter readings. Here are some suggestions for preparing:
- This quiz will be based on the main chapter readings (on pg. 2 and 10). Your best strategy for review will be to work with those texts, and ensure you understand what they mean, and why.
- You will be expected to know vocabulary that appears in the chapter vocab lists. Working with Cerego is your best strategy for learning this vocab.
- You will not be expected to know detailed information about vocabulary that appears in the notes below the reading, but you will be expected to understand broadly what is happening in the reading with or without those notes.
- Studying together is much better than studying apart! Make a point of finding ways to connect with other students in the class to prepare together.
- Finally, remember that quizzes in this course are diagnostic tools, not chances to fail. The default expectation is that whenever you take a quiz, you’ll have some mistakes to revise, and that by revising you earn full credit for the quiz.
Week Four: Chapter Two
This chapter introduces our first enslaved character and contains an overview of the system of slavery in Greek society. The textbook does a woefully inadequate job of introducing this topic, and we’ll be discussing the realities of Greek slavery in class. If you’d like to read more about Greek enslavement, with a particular emphasis on recovering the voices of enslaved persons, I highly recommend starting with Sara Forsdyke’s Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece: introduction here; full text here.
Monday, February 6
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 2α:
- Start working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, this time focusing on meaning:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use your assigned group’s shared hw document
- Read each section of the grammar reading, then do the associated exercises
- Note that you only need to do the number of exercises listed in the HW document
Wednesday, February 8
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 2β:
- Start working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, this time focusing on meaning:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use your assigned group’s shared hw document
- Read each section of the grammar reading, then do the associated exercises
- Note that you only need to do the number of exercises listed in the HW document
Thursday, February 9th
Between the end of class Wednesday and the start of class Friday, you should meet with your group to correct your homework document and review both of the chapter readings to ensure everyone in the group understands the material. It is up to you to decide how to structure these meetings but my expectation is that you should meet for 30-45 minutes.
Friday, February 10
Before the start of class today, click here to complete the Contribution Survey for weeks 3-4.
Week Five: Chapter Three
Monday, February 13
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 3α:
- Start working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, this time focusing on meaning:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use your assigned group’s shared hw document
- Read each section of the grammar reading, then do the associated exercises
- Note that you only need to do the number of exercises listed in the HW document
In class today we’ll use this shared google doc workspace.
Wednesday, February 15
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 3β:
- Start working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, this time focusing on meaning:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use your assigned group’s shared hw document
- Read each section of the grammar reading, then do the associated exercises
- Note that you only need to do the number of exercises listed in the HW document
Thursday, February 16th
Meet with your study group at your agreed upon time, review and correct your homework exercises, and prepare for tomorrow’s quiz!
Friday, February 17
Today we’ll a quiz covering chapters 2 and 3. It will last 10-15 minutes, and focus on 1-2 sentences from the chapter readings. Here are some suggestions for preparing:
- This quiz will be based on the main chapter readings. Your best strategy for review will be to work with those texts, and ensure you understand what they mean, and why.
- You will be expected to know vocabulary that appears in the chapter vocab lists. Working with Cerego is your best strategy for learning this vocab.
- You will not be expected to know detailed information about vocabulary that appears in the notes below the reading, but you will be expected to understand broadly what is happening in the reading with or without those notes.
- Studying together is much better than studying apart! Make a point of finding ways to connect with other students in the class to prepare together, especially during your Thursday study group meeting.
- Finally, remember that quizzes in this course are diagnostic tools, not chances to fail. The default expectation is that whenever you take a quiz, you’ll have some mistakes to revise, and that by revising you earn full credit for the quiz.
Bonus: ὁ ἀροτός
Still don’t understand what a plough is or how you plough a field? Take a look at this clip about traditional farming methods in India, where an ox-plough just like Dikaiopolis’ plough is used!
Week Six: Chapter Four
Monday, February 20
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 4α:
- Start working with Cerego on the vocab
- Remember: Either make use of Cerego, or contact me about alternative ways of working with vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, focusing on meaning:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use your assigned group’s shared hw document
- Read each section of the grammar reading, then do the associated exercises
- Note that you only need to do the number of exercises listed in the HW document
In class today, we’ll work from this shared workspace.
Wednesday, February 22
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 4β:
- Start working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, focusing on meaning:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use your assigned group’s shared hw document
- Read each section of the grammar reading, then do the associated exercises
- Note that you only need to do the number of exercises listed in the HW document
Thursday, February 16th
Meet with your study group at your agreed upon time, review and correct your homework exercises, and revise last week’s quiz!
Friday, February 24
Complete your quiz revisions and be ready to hand them in during class today.
Before the start of class today, click here to complete the Contribution Survey for weeks 5-6.
Week Seven: Chapter Five
Monday, February 27
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 5α:
- Start working with Cerego on the vocab
- Remember: Either make use of Cerego, or contact me about alternative ways of working with vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, focusing on meaning:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use your assigned group’s shared hw document
- Read each section of the grammar reading, then do the associated exercises
- Note that you only need to do the number of exercises listed in the HW document
We’ll work from this shared workspace in class today.
We’ll also play around with Greek names today!
Wednesday, March 1
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 5β:
- Start working with Cerego on the vocab
- You can listen to me read the vocab, if you find that helpful
- Read the text four times, focusing on meaning:
- First, listen to me read it and follow along
- Next, read it aloud yourself
- Third, work through carefully, taking notes, marking questions, looking things up
- Fourth, read aloud again, with clear understanding
- Complete the homework exercises
- Use your assigned group’s shared hw document
- Read each section of the grammar reading, then do the associated exercises
- Note that you only need to do the number of exercises listed in the HW document
Thursday, March 2
Meet with your study group at your agreed upon time, review and correct your homework exercises, and prepare for this week’s quiz.
Friday, March 3: NO CLASS
You’ll have received the chapter 4-5 quiz at the end of class on Wednesday. Be sure to turn it in before you leave for spring break. You can leave it in my mailbox in Hall 101, or email me a scan of it.
Spring Break
Monday, March 6: No Class
Wednesday, March 8: No Class
Friday, March 10: No Class
Week Eight: Chapter Six
Monday, March 13
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 6α:
Wednesday, March 15
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 6β:
- Vocab
- Text
- Homework
- Note new study groups:
- 1) Chaitan, Olivia, Alexis, Sid
- 2) Okasha, Kylie, Daniella, Zoey
- 3) Anthony, Zeus, Drew
- Note new study groups:
Thursday, March 16th
Meet with your new study groups at your scheduled time to complete homework and quiz revisions.
Friday, March 17
Before the start of class today, click here to complete the Contribution Survey for weeks 7-8.
Remember to return your revised quiz to me in class today!
In class, we’ll use this shared workspace.
Week Nine: Chapter Seven
Monday, March 20
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 7α:
Wednesday, March 22
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 7β:
Tonight, join us for the ORALiTea at 7pm in the London Room of Old Library at Bryn Mawr!
Friday, March 24
Today we’ll a quiz covering chapters 6 and 7. It will last 10-15 minutes, and focus on 1-2 sentences from the chapter readings. Here are some suggestions for preparing:
- This quiz will be based on the main chapter readings. Your best strategy for review will be to work with those texts, and ensure you understand what they mean, and why.
- You will be expected to know vocabulary that appears in the chapter vocab lists. Working with Cerego is your best strategy for learning this vocab.
- You will not be expected to know detailed information about vocabulary that appears in the notes below the reading, but you will be expected to understand broadly what is happening in the reading with or without those notes.
- Studying together is much better than studying apart! Make a point of finding ways to connect with other students in the class to prepare together, especially during your Thursday study group meeting.
- Finally, remember that quizzes in this course are diagnostic tools, not chances to fail. The default expectation is that whenever you take a quiz, you’ll have some mistakes to revise, and that by revising you earn full credit for the quiz.
Week Ten: Chapter Eight
Monday, March 27
Wednesday, March 29
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 8β:
Friday, March 31
Before the start of class today, click here to complete the Contribution Survey for weeks 9-10.
Week Eleven: Chapter Nine
Monday, April 3
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 9α:
Wednesday, April 5
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 9β:
Friday, April 7
Please bring your papyrus letter worksheet from last week to class today.
Today we’ll a quiz covering chapters 8 and 9. It will last 10-15 minutes, and focus on 1-2 sentences from the chapter readings. Here are some suggestions for preparing:
- This quiz will be based on the main chapter readings. Your best strategy for review will be to work with those texts, and ensure you understand what they mean, and why.
- You will be expected to know vocabulary that appears in the chapter vocab lists. Working with Cerego is your best strategy for learning this vocab.
- You will not be expected to know detailed information about vocabulary that appears in the notes below the reading, but you will be expected to understand broadly what is happening in the reading with or without those notes.
- Studying together is much better than studying apart! Make a point of finding ways to connect with other students in the class to prepare together, especially during your Thursday study group meeting.
- Finally, remember that quizzes in this course are diagnostic tools, not chances to fail. The default expectation is that whenever you take a quiz, you’ll have some mistakes to revise, and that by revising you earn full credit for the quiz.
Week Twelve: Chapter Ten
Monday, April 10
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 10α:
Wednesday, April 12
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 10β:
Friday, April 14
Remember to complete your quiz revisions and turn them in at the start of class.
Before the start of class today, click here to complete the Contribution Survey for weeks 11-12.
Week Thirteen: Chapter Eleven
Monday, April 17
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 11α:
Wednesday, April 19
Before the start of class, prep Ath. 11β:
Friday, April 21
Today we’ll a quiz covering chapters 8 and 9. It will last 10-15 minutes, and focus on 1-2 sentences from the chapter readings. Here are some suggestions for preparing:
- This quiz will be based on the main chapter readings. Your best strategy for review will be to work with those texts, and ensure you understand what they mean, and why.
- You will be expected to know vocabulary that appears in the chapter vocab lists. Working with Cerego is your best strategy for learning this vocab.
- You will not be expected to know detailed information about vocabulary that appears in the notes below the reading, but you will be expected to understand broadly what is happening in the reading with or without those notes.
- Studying together is much better than studying apart! Make a point of finding ways to connect with other students in the class to prepare together, especially during your Thursday study group meeting.
- Finally, remember that quizzes in this course are diagnostic tools, not chances to fail. The default expectation is that whenever you take a quiz, you’ll have some mistakes to revise, and that by revising you earn full credit for the quiz.
Week Fourteen: Semester Wrap-Up
Due to the tragic events on our campus last week, we’re going to pivot away from trying to complete Chapter 12, and focus on our letter writing project this week. You do not need to complete the Ch 12 homework – we’ll start with Ch 12 in the fall. Class will be offered as usual, but everyone will receive full contribution points for the final survey.
Monday, April 24
Today in class, we’ll read a couple of the letters your groups chose to focus on last week.
Wednesday, April 26
Today in class, we’ll take a look at some resources for reading Greek over the summer. We’ll also complete the course feedback form, which you can find here if you don’t take it in class today.
Friday, April 28
In class today, we’ll complete our papyrus letter writing project.
Remember to submit your revised quiz in class today.
Finals
Friday, May 12
Your Final Reflection is due today at noon (12:00pm eastern).
