CLA201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carl Linnaeus, Geoffrey Chaucer, Greek Alphabet
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Course information: professor: ben wheaton, office hours: erindale hall room 212, wednesdays 4-5pm. What the course is about: scientific uses, eg. Assessment: weekly assignment- 10% total, weekly quiz- 2. 5% each, 20% total, midterm- 15% total, vocabulary analysis paper- 15% total, final exam- 40% total. Sample quiz question: analyze the following word, diving it into its latin and greek elements and giving the meaning of each (1 mark/stem, carnivorous: carni-vor-ous, flesh + to eat + having the characteristic of . Include elements from quizzes: true/false questions, short answer question on history of scientific terminology. Final exam: cumulative, two hours, combine etymological dissections + discussions of terminology, short answer questions on historical development of scientific terminology. Brief history of english: old english, thunder comes form heat and from moisture. These blazes, daughter, giving more light than heat, extinct in both even in their promise as it is amaking, you must not take for fire (shakespeare, hamlet: sources of modern english vocabulary.
