{"id":423,"date":"2019-02-08T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/?p=423"},"modified":"2019-02-08T21:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T21:37:35","slug":"slack-letter-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Slack Letter Three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Write a letter of recommendation for an acquaintance (familiaris, necessarius, amicus) who is applying to Davidson College.&nbsp;&nbsp;Study the letters we have read for useful vocabulary; pay attention to syntactical construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use available resources!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Latinitium: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Smith and Hall Latin Dictionary (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latinitium.com\/smithhall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smith and Hall Latin Dictionary<\/a> <ul><li>If you search for &#8220;study&#8221; you get this marvelous <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"entry (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latinitium.com\/smithhall?s=study\" target=\"_blank\">entry<\/a> <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Morgan Owens Lexicon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/neolatinlexicon.org\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Owens Lexicon<\/a> <ul><li>e.g if you go to the <em>adumbratio<\/em> and search for college, one of the things you get is: school: where do you go to school (or college)?&nbsp;&nbsp;ubi studia exerces? (EGGER&nbsp;L.D.I. 100) <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Logeion (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/logeion.uchicago.edu\/lexidium\" target=\"_blank\">Logeion<\/a><ul><li>helps you look for construction and other words used with the word you chose <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please address the following (as found on the peer application review for Davidson College:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How long and  how well have you known the applicant?<\/li><li>What opportunities have you had to interact with and observe the applicant?<\/li><li>What do you see as the applicant&#8217;s strengths?<\/li><li>What do you consider to be the applicant&#8217;s weaknesses? <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please bear in mind that Latin very often uses verbs where we are inclined to use nouns!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/2019\/02\/08\/personal-qualities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Personal Qualities (opens in a new tab)\">Personal Qualities<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write a letter of recommendation for an acquaintance (familiaris, necessarius, amicus) who is applying to Davidson College.&nbsp;&nbsp;Study the letters we have read for useful vocabulary; pay attention to syntactical construction. Use available resources! Latinitium: Smith and Hall Latin Dictionary If you search for &#8220;study&#8221; you get this marvelous entry Morgan Owens Lexicon e.g if you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/?p=423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slack Letter Three&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auxilia","category-exercitia","category-latinitas-viva","category-slack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/lat350\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}