Etymologies
Etymologies is a Humanities course in the CTY program with no prerequisites. Its course code is ETYM, and it is offered at Baltimore, Lancaster, and Los Angeles.
Course Description
Etymologies is an introduction to an in-depth understanding of the English language. Although exact curricula vary between teachers to the extent of completely different texts and information, the course generally covers a history of the development of the English language and between 500 and 700 Latin and Greek word roots (and thus utilizes 500-700 notecards)(They tell you that you need 300. This is not true. Bring more for yourself and to share with the people who only brought 300). A knowledge of Latin and Greek is very helpful, but the course sometimes also includes an intro to basic Latin and Greek grammar.
Class History
PARSE! PARSE! PARSE! PARSE! ASSIMILATION!!
The Adventure of English movies were a widely used teaching device during one session. It was apparently rather boring, and it repeated the book, but had some very interesting theme music. The D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths is also commonly read in some classes.
During 05.2, 06.2, a war was waged between the Etymologies and Number Theory and is now immortalized on the Hall of Fame:LAN
In 06.1 at an unknown site, Etymologies was taught by Lizzie and TA'd by Rosie. Rosie used the phrase "CTY inappropriate" often, and was apparently disliked by the class.
In 07.1, at Carlisle, Etymologies once again had Rosie as the TA. Active resistance was undertook by the students who had met her before. When Rosie had control of the class, two things would happen: the class would go out of control, or all the students would hide from her during study hall in the massive library.
For everyone in ETYM.LAN.06.2: We all know that Joe Groves is and always will be the coolest T.A. that ever lived. None of us will ever forget the clown joke, or Cinna the Poet. (I'm Cinna The Poet!)
For everyone in ETYM.LAN.07.1: We all know that spore cows rock (or sautee), dead baby/lawyer jokes are banned, the Magna Mater is to be worshipped, we are all pumas (who are all related because Sir Joe Groves was everyone's Uncle), Beowulf could swim in 90 pound armor AND carry a sword, Matt was everyone in Julius Caesar, and Prongs shall never be forgotten. (yeah right. I was the only one who noticed the board was clean, and when Sir Joe finally finished his speech and I pointed out that Prongs was gone, THEN you all started screaming. -Sarah)
For everyone in ETYM.LAN.07.2: We all know that Joe Groves should smile more, and gave his lanyard to Nine(Sean Lake dissected Joe for this action, causing --- Zhang to be happier). Also, Sean Lake is a beast for ripping off his shirt during class.
ETYM.LOS.07.2 was taught by a sheltered egyptian child and an amazing TA named Naomi. We talked about pimping roosters, English and it's sexy affairs with Bragg, and ohter amazing things. :]
ETYM.LAN.08.01 : "You think your friendships will last forever, but if you don't fight, one day, one of you will die!!"
ETYMA.LAN.08.2: The End! Intense! It is ten-fifteen! The End!
ETYM.JHU.08.01 was taught by the ultimate multitasker Jonathon Pirnia. He teaches everything from science to music to Latin. He is well known for teaching the tango class during a few activity periods. Jon's jokes were probably strangest, especially the never ending butter joke, which he told for 3 hours and never revealed the punchline. The class ended with an epic Shakespeare insult "diss- off".
ETYM.LAN.09.2 was taught by the amazing Sean "Whipcream Daddy" Lake. We now know that all men are hoes, there are 39 words for prostitute in Greek but only one for suffering, treefrogs are taking over the world, and all is is is is. There were several extremely epic moments in that class, including but not limited to: duct-taping Sean to the door to freak out Caroline, our extremely paranoid and sometimes really annoying TA, whipcream-pieing Sean in the face, and reading Ayers in voices including Borat, Yoda, an angry politician, Davrique, and the famous first date voice. We learned a lot of random and interesting things pertaining to Greek myths and the English language. Any member of ETYM.LAN.09.2 can attest to the awesome times we shared. ETYM.LAN.09.2 may also be known as "SexMonstersDeathDreams: Taking You to the Moon in Green Bathrobes."
