| Latin 2 - Honors |
| Class Meets: C, D, & E Blocks |
| Location: A-103 |
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| Latin II Honors classes proceed at a rapid pace with challenging curriculum. They require students to have earned a grade of B+ or better in Latin I and to have demonstrated a very strong work ethic in regards to homework and test preparation. |
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Latin II Honors: Learning Goals by Quarter
(time frames are estimates) |
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| First Quarter |
| Grammar: |
- Relative pronouns and relative clauses
- Indefinite adjectives
- Interrogative pronouns
- Interrogative adjectives
- Active and passive voice
- Present passive infinitives
- ipse, ipsa, ipsum
- idem, eadem, idem
- Perfect passive participles
- Adjectives: Positive, comparative, and superlative degrees
- New uses of the Ablative: personal agent, comparison, price
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| Roman Life: |
- Hairstyles
- Town house and apartment
- Roman dining, meals, and recipes; Upper-class dinner parties
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| Word Study: |
- Latin compound verbs
- 4th declension nouns formed from verbs
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| Roman History and Mythology |
- Tiberius Gracchus through Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
- Selected Greek/Roman myths
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| Poem: |
- Catullus 13, "Cenabis bene"
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| Sententiae: |
- Selected Latin quotes, phrases, and abbreviations
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| Second Quarter |
| Grammar: |
- Comparisons (quam & ablative)
- Adverbs: positive, comparative, and superlative degrees
- Expressing dates in Latin
- The various uses of quam
- Deponent verbs
- Cardinal and ordinal numbers, 1-20, 50, 100, 500, 1000
- Forms of domus
- Place and time expressions
- Semi-deponent verbs
- Present participles
- Perfect active infinitives
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| Roman Life: |
- Roman Education: School, writing, letters, books
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| Word Study: |
- Suffixes -osus, -idus, -bilis
- Present participle word study
- Latin in medicine
- Latin in the law
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| Roman History and mythology: |
- Cicero, Caesar, and the collapse of the Republic
- Augustus
- Selected Greek/Roman myths
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| Sententiae: |
- Selected Latin quotes, phrases, and abbreviations
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| Third Quarter |
| Grammar: |
- Imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive
- Subordinate clauses with the subjunctive
- Review of perfect passive participles
- Ablative absolute
- Linking qui
- Future active participles
- Indirect statement
- Irregular verbs: fio and malo
- Full participle charts
- Full infinitive charts
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| Roman Life: |
- Piracy
- The baths
- Games played by children and adults
- Public entertainment: Circus, arena, gladiators
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Word study:
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- Diminutive suffixes
- Frequentative verbs
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Roman History/Mythology
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- The early Empire
- Selected Greek/Roman myths
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| Poetry: |
- Selections from Martial's epigrams
- Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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Sententiae:
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- Selected Latin quotes, phrases, and abbreviations
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| National Latin Exam in March (Date TBA) |
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| Fourth Quarter |
Grammar:
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- Present and perfect subjunctive
- Result clauses
- Sequence of tenses
- Indirect commands
- Impersonal verbs
- Purpose clauses
- Ut
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Roman Life:
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- Opposition to the games
- Trier
- Coming of age ceremony
- Roman religion
- Roman weddings
- Roman funerals
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Word study:
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- Suffixes -arium and -orium
- Latin and the Romance languages
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| Roman History |
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| Sententiae: |
- Selected Latin quotes, phrases, and abbreviations
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