- Review Information
Make sure you know Lesson 2 grammar and vocabulary (as well as the alphabet!) pretty well before doing Lesson 3. Each Lesson builds on the previous weeks' knowledge, but there is repetition of grammar and words such that if you didn't quite master everything, succeeding Lessons will help reinforce what you've earlier been exposed to. However, there is sufficient new information in each Lesson that you will sooner or later (and it's usually sooner, not later!) begin falling behind if you don't do your best to master as much as you can each week.
Be sure to read out loud as much as possible. Use the CD to work on and improve your pronunciation.
- Class Notes and Comments
Important Sections and points (read every Section in Lesson 3, though):
15. Memorize the vocabulary and the extra vocabulary. Read the blog entry "Learning Vocabulary" (the audio files are recorded by saying the article before the noun).
See Sidebar for Lesson 3 vocabulary (MS Excel - as noted, you will need to install the TekniaGreek font to read the Greek characters), including the extra word from the LXX-NT vocabulary (δουλευω - shown as δουλευσατε (Aorist Active Imperative 2nd-Person Plural) in the LXX-NT vocabulary list), plus the other extra words you are to learn (words that occur 25x or more in the New Testament). An audio file of the words is in the Sidebar.
17. Read this to understand the various functions of the cases. As stated in class, verbs are parsed by Tense, Voice, Mood, Person and Number, and nouns, pronouns and adjectives are parsed by Gender (feminine, masculine, neuter), Number (singular, plural) and Case (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative). Since most 1st-declension nouns are feminine, that is the Gender you will indicate for the nouns in this Lesson (the article that is listed with the noun indicates the Gender - η for feminine; ο for masculine; το for neuter).
18. Learn these forms, and how to tell if a 1st-declension noun follows the α pattern, the η pattern, or the mixed pattern. (As you can see, this only applies to the singular; the plural forms all use α's in the endings.) Note that ι is a clue that you're dealing with a dative case (whether it's a regular ι or a subscripted ι - the subscript ι is just as much a letter and part of a word's spelling as any other letter).
19. For the third time - MEMORIZE THE [DEFINITE] ARTICLE PARADIGM! ;^)
20. Read and try to remember the accent(uation) rules in the textbook.
21. Do all the Exercises. Again, make sure you know the vocabulary (Section 15, as well as the Lesson 2 vocabulary) and the Lesson grammar before doing the Exercises so you are really able to do the Exercises with understanding, and not have to keep looking back in the Lesson to know what to write.
You'll notice, e.g., in a few of the LXX sentences for Lesson 3 that Croy introduces some forms that he has not yet discussed in the book. E.g., he uses the genitive singular form of the article in sentence 1., even though he doesn't discuss the article until Lesson 5 (but we have already discussed all the article forms in class). Also, e.g., in the NT section he uses a singular masculine accusative ending in one sentence, even though you won't learn the masculine 2nd-declension noun endings until Lesson 4 (i.e., at our forthcoming class).
In other words, you will at times be introduced to things you have not yet learned, but should be able to deduce based on what you have learned. As I've looked ahead, I see he does this in future Lessons, too. So, don't feel badly if on occasion you get something wrong, or can't quite figure out how to translate something. It's purposeful.
(There are Greek to English and English to Greek vocabulary lists in the back of the book if you get really stumped, but you should rely mostly on the words and things you've learned before turning there.)
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