| Latin 2 Honors |
| Class Meets: B and E Blocks |
| Location: A-103 |
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| Course Description |
| In Latin 2, students learn how to read, write,
and speak in increasingly complex Latin sentences. Students
achieve these goals by translating Latin passages into clear
English and by translating simple English into Latin. Students
respond orally and in writing to Latin questions asked about
the content of their assigned reading passages. In addition,
students continue to learn about Roman culture, mythology, and
history from the founding of the Rome to the early Roman empire. |
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| Students taking the course for Honors credit
are required 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. Honors level students
should be prepared for an extra challenging curriculum. |
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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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