— Scope of Latin Curriculum —

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Grade/Year


Primary Text

Supplementary Text
 

Culture &
History Topics


Specific Skills
& Topics Emphasized

3rd Grade


Latina Christiana I (Chs. 1-10)

Roman & Greek History
1-2nd Conjugations, Present Tense
1-2nd Declensions; nouns used as subjects

4th Grade


Latina Christiana I (Chs. 11-22)
 
Mythology
1-2nd Conjugations, Present Active System
1-2nd Declensions; nouns used as subjects, predicate nominatives, direct objects, and objects of prepositional phrases
2-1-2 Adjectives

5th Grade


Latina Christiana II (Chs. 1-15)
 
Mythology

1-3rd Conjugations, Present Active System
1-3rd Declensions; use of nominative, dative, accusative and ablative cases
2-1-2 Adjectives

6th Grade


Latina Christiana II (16-19, 21-22)
Wheelock’s Latin (Chs. 1-8)
Latin Via Ovid
 
The Roman Family;
Roman Foods;
The Roman House;
The Roman Army

1-4th Conjugations, Present Active System
1-3rd Declensions
2-1-2 Adjectives
Demonstrative Pronouns

7th Grade


Wheelock’s Latin (Chs. 9-20)
Civis Romanus
Duces Romanorum
Latin Via Ovid (4th quarter)
 
The Kings of Rome;
Heroes of the Republic;
Mythology

1-4th Conjugations, all tenses
The Passive Voice 1-4th Declensions
2-1-2 and Third Declension Adjectives
Demonstrative, Personal, Identical, Relative, Reflexive, and Interrogative Pronouns Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers

8th Grade


Wheelock’s Latin (Chs. 21-33)
Duces Romanorum
Gallic Wars
Latin Via Ovid (4th quarter)
 
Roman Republican Government;
Roman Conquest

5th Declension
Present, Future and Perfect Participles
Present, Future and Perfect Infinitives
Indirect Statements, Indirect Questions, Indirect Commands
Degrees of Adjectives
Subjunctive Mood

9th Grade


Wheelock’s Latin (Chs. 33-40)
Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars
Cicero’s Orations and Letters
Vergil’s Aeneid (4th quarter)
Ovid’s Metamorphoses (4th quarter)*

Context of original literature read;
Roman Rhetoric;
Roman Poetry: form and content

Conditional Sentences
Deponent Verbs
Jussive Noun Clauses
Irregular Verbs
Relative Clauses of Characteristic
Specific Case Usages
Gerunds, Gerundives and Supines
Clauses of Fearing
* Students will be encouraged to take the Latin SAT II and the AP Latin Prose exam at the end of this year.

 

10th Grade


Vergil’s Aeneid
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Poems of Catullus**

History and culture of the early Roman Empire;
Elements of Roman poetry;
History and heritage of the epic genre

Syncopated Forms
Poetic Meter
Scansion Poetic
Rhetorical Devices
** Students will be encouraged to take the AP Latin Vergil exam at the end of this year.