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Latin 3 - Honors & CP1
Class Meets: H block
Location: A-103
 
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Course Description
This course builds upon the foundation that students have built over Latin 1 and 2. Students will continue to improve their ability to read and write Latin through the review and further study of Latin grammar and syntax. Students will read and translate longer passages from original Latin texts and compose Latin sentences. A combination of Latin and English readings will increase students’ understanding of Roman culture, history and literature. All students will take the National Latin Exam in the spring.
Both the CP1 and Honors levels will meet together in the same class and proceed at a similar pace, yet each level will have differentiated work and assessments. The CP1 level is a standard level class and will cover a traditional Latin 3 curriculum. The Honors level is designed for the highly motivated student and will include more challenging work and assessments.
The authors we will be reading include (but are not limited to):
  • Eutropius, a historian writing about the fall of the Roman Republic and beginning of the Empire
  • Asconius, writing about a key political murder
  • Cicero, a famous orator
  • Julius Caesar
 
Latin 3: Topics and Learning Goals
New Forms
• Gerunds
• Gerundives

Important New Constructions
• The Passive Periphrastic (a.k.a. “Gerundive of Obligation”)
• The Active Periphrastic (another way of expressing the future)
gratia or causa with the genitive
ad + gerund or gerundive to express purpose

New types of sentences and clauses
• Conditional sentences
• Clauses of Fearing
• Relative clauses of purpose
• Relative clauses of characteristic

New functions of cases
• Genitive of specification/description
• Dative of Agent
• Dative of Possession
• Dative of Reference (advantage/disadvantage)
• The Double Dative
• Dative after certain adjectives
• Ablative of specification/description/quality
• Ablative of separation
• Genitive/Dative/Ablative with certain verbs

New uses of the subjunctive
Cum concessive clauses
• Relative clauses of characteristic
• Relative clauses of purpose
• Hortatory/Jussive subjunctive
• Potential subjunctive

Indefinite pronouns and adjectives

Verbs with Forms in the Perfect System Only (odi, memini)

Assorted topics to facilitate reading Latin literature
• Passive verbs used impersonally
• Omission of words (Gapping)
• Correlatives (tantum...quantum, non modo…sed etiam, etc.)
• The construction is qui
• Nested Clauses
• Adjectives as Substantives
• Omission of prepositions

Unusual forms found in literature:
• The 3rd person plural perfect active indicative ending -ere instead of -erunt
• Syncopated Verbs

Figures of speech and literary devices:
• Chiasmus (A-B-B-A word order)
• Interlocked Word Order / Synchysis (A-B-A-B word order)
• Alliteration
• Anaphora
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Rhetorical Questions
• Simile
• Metaphor

Other Topics:
• Greek and Roman myths, mythological figures, and mythological references
• Latin authors and their major works
• Famous Roman men and women and their roles, deeds, and accomplishments
• Roman government and society
• Major events, wars, battles, etc.
• The Roman army
• Latin vocabulary, idioms, roots, and affixes
• Sententiae: Latin sayings, phrases, quotations, and abbreviations
• Geography of the Roman world (Rivers, seas, oceans, cities, towns, Roman provinces, foreign lands, other geographical features)