Grammar
This tense describes a completed action in the past and uses endings like -vit and -ērunt.
Answer: What is the perfect tense?
Translate: “puer urbem intrāvit.”
Answer: What is “The boy entered the city”?
This ancient city in Italy is where Caecilius lived.
What is Pompeii?
This is the bird most commonly eaten on Thanksgiving.
What is a turkey?
If we show up, we gon' show out
Smoother than a fresh _____________
jar of Skippy
This common verb in Stage 6 means “to be able,” and often appears with an infinitive.
Answer: What is potest / poterant (forms of possum)?
Translate: “lupus in silvā errābat.”
Answer: What is “The wolf was wandering in the forest”?
A wealthy Roman’s front door area was called this, and visitors waited there.
What is the atrium?
This U.S. president made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Seek it out and ye shall find
Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that _____
bold
This tense uses the marker -ba- and means “was/were ___ing.”
Answer: What is the imperfect tense?
Translate: “umbra per viam ambulat.”
Answer: What is “The ghost walks through the street”?
This large open area in a town served as a marketplace and the center of public life.
Answer: What is the forum?
This large parade in New York City is shown every Thanksgiving morning.
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
There was nothing that compared to my baby
And nobody came between us nor ___________________
could ever come above
These two tenses contrast ongoing action (was ___ing) with completed action (___ed).
Answer: What are the imperfect and perfect tenses?
Translate: “spectātōrēs puerōs laudant.”
Answer: What is “The spectators praise the boys”?
This famous Roman goddess of wisdom, recognized by her helmet and owl, appears in many myths studied in Stage 5.
Answer: Who is Minerva (Athena)?
This sport is famously played on Thanksgiving and watched by millions.
What is American football?
Fed to the rules and I hit ground runnin'
Didn't make sense not to _____________
live for fun
Parse this sentence: “servus dominum salutāvit.”
servus: nominative subject, masculine
dominum: accusative direct object, masculine
salutavit: 3rd person singular perfect
Translate: “gladiatōrēs ferōcēs arenam intrant.”
Answer: What is “The fierce gladiators enter the arena”?
In what year did Mt. Vesuvius erupt, covering Pompeii (where Caecilius lives) in rubble and ash?
Answer: 79 C.E.
These Indigenous people helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter.
Who are the Wampanoag?
I hate the beach, but I stand
In California, with _________________
my toes in the sand