Old Homework (Fall 2001)

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Write the alphabet
Write your first name in large Greek letters (table card)
Copy the Lord's prayer section Mt 6:9b-10 in Greek letters.
Transcribe the section.
Memorize section in Greek
Audio files: Matthew 6:9b // Matthew 6:10
Read chapter one in the text book and answer questions from the web
Do the exercises #1.6 in the text book
Read Mt 1:1-6 aloud. Repeat the exercise until you can read it fluently.

Memorize Mt 6:9b-10 in Greek
Audio files: WB01361_.gif (611 bytes) Matthew 6:9b // Matthew 6:10

Write vocabulary cards:

Textbook p. 7. WB01361_.gif (611 bytes) (chapter 2)

vocabulary book p. 12-15 (I require only those words printed in bold -- but do as many as you find time for). Write the Greek word on the front of the card, English on the back, the frequency number on the front and back in the upper right corner.

memorize the words.

Do Exercises 2.8 (text book) (will be used for self-assessment)

Read chapter 2 and answer questions on the web.

Read Mt 1:1-6 aloud. Repeat the exercise until you can read it fluently.

Exercise 3.4 text book p.13. Do it in written form.
Write your vocabulary cards: p.11 in the text book ("Essentials"), and from p. 16-18; 65 [67 in new edition; all words 400 and more often in the NT] in the "Vocabulary" book.
Memorize Matthew 6:11-13.
Learn paradigm for present active indicative (example: akouo-, akoueis, akouei, akouomen, akouete, akouousin; infinitive: akouein) -- Part of next session's assessment.

Study chapter 3 and answer questions on the web.
Exercise: Analysis of Mt 1:17 (handout)

2^nd Declension paradigms -- memorize tables on p.16, 18-19.

Vocabulary: Essentials p.15; Greek Vocabulary p. 19-22.

Exercises Essentials, 4.9.

Study chapter 4 and answer questions on the web.

2 Corinthians 13:13. Memorize it in English. Memorize it in Greek.

Analytical exercise: identify all the verbs of the Lord's prayer.

There are more exercises following. Do as many as you enjoy!

the 1st Declension paradigms -- learn p.12-23 by heart.

Vocabulary: Essentials p.21; Greek Vocabulary p. 23-26; .

Exercises Essentials, 5.5.

Study chapter 5 and answer questions on the web.

There will be more exercises on the web. Do as many as you enjoy!

Next time you can "graduate" from one objective, reading Greek, if you are ready. Pick one passage that you want to read to me fluently. Then I will pick a passage and ask you to read it to me. If both are fine, you are done with this exercise.

Adjective: learn paradigm for agathos and dikaios (p.26).

Vocabulary: Essentials p.25; Greek Vocabulary p. 25-27 (thanatos); .

Exercises Essentials, 6.5.

Study chapter 6 and answer questions on the web. // Questions last session

Work on Lord's prayer and 2Cor 13:13: try to memorize.

Next week: Vocabulary test (155 times and more often in the NT).

Vocabulary: Essentials p.29; Greek Vocabulary p. 28-32 (psyche-) .

Exercises Essentials, 7.7.

Study chapter 7 and answer questions on the web.

Analytical Exercise Mt 1:21ff: Write the correct words under the Greek words, look up underlined words in dictionary, (copies handed out in class).

Learn the paradigm of the personal pronoun (Essentials, p.39-40)

This time focus on vocabulary: Essentials p.35 (prepositions), 38 ; Greek Vocabulary p. 32-36 (new edition 32-38); 66-67 (new ed. 69-70).

Study chapter 8 and 9, and answer questions on the web.

Exercises Essentials, 8.7 (sentences 11-20); 9.7 (sentences 1-10).

You can "graduate" from one objective, reading Greek, if you are ready. Pick one passage that you want to read to me fluently. Then I will pick a passage and ask you to read it to me. If both are fine, you are done with this exercise.

Study form and function of demonstrative pronoun (chapter 10)
Study vocabulary (words occurring 50 times or more; until p.40, new edition 41)
Learn the function of the Greek tenses:

	Future (67) 14.3 predictive, sometimes imperative
	Imperfect (57) 12.3 continuous action in the past
	Aorist (71) 15.3 undefined action in the past
	Perfect (114) 23.4 action in the past which stands completed (perfected) in the present // usually English present perfect: I have taught
	Pluperfect (115) 23.5 action in the past which was completed in the past, true past tense // English past perfect tense: I had taught

3. Assess your ability and design your personal study plan:

Goals listed in the syllabus: At the end of the semester you will:

	be able to read aloud any passage of the Greek New Testament
	possess a working Greek vocabulary
	be able to analyze the structure of Greek sentences
	be able to parse nouns, adjectives and most verbs

How are your reading skills? Do you need more exercise?

Where are you now in the textbook (which lesson [1-9]) and where do you want to be in three weeks (which lesson)?

Where are you now as far as vocabulary is concerned and where do you want to be in three weeks (words occurring 400, 155, 50 times or more)?

Design you own homework for next meeting.

Homework for 12/3:

Learn paradigm of third declension: p. 163-164.

Homework for last session:

Translate Mt 9:1-9 and compare it to the version in Mark 2:1-12 (set printer on landscape mode).

Meetings with Priscilla during the January break:

	we are going to meet Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 to 5 pm in Michael Huddy’s office -
	January 7, 9, 14 (if the seminary is closed for MLKJr Bday, we’ll meet at my apartment), 16, 21, 23.
	On Mondays we’ll review the text + vocab and on Wednesdays we will go over the gospel for the upcoming Sunday -Matthew 3: 13-17; John 1:29-34 or 35-39 or 40-42; Matthew 4:12-17 or 18-23.

Greek Home

	Textbook p. 7. (chapter 2)
	vocabulary book p. 12-15 (I require only those words printed in bold -- but do as many as you find time for). Write the Greek word on the front of the card, English on the back, the frequency number on the front and back in the upper right corner.
	memorize the words.