Latin II Unit Plan and Curriculum Map Course Overview: In Latin II, students refine reading skills in Latin as well as continue to strengthen their English reading and vocabulary skills through vocabulary building and analyzing sentence structure. Through the reading selections and class discussions, students acquire a more in-depth knowledge about the daily lives and history of the Romans and continue to make comparisons relevant to today s society. Although students do not conduct face-to-face conversations in Latin, they may use Latin orally to initiate and respond to more complex statements and commands as well as read Latin aloud. Intermediate writing tasks also build a bridge to understanding the written word. Georgia Performance Standards Standards: Classical Language: Georgia Performance Standards for Latin II Primary Text: Latin Alive! Book 2 Other Texts: Aeneid by Vergil; Metamorphoses by Ovid Unit Outline Time Content Classical Strategies/ Instruction Assessment Unit I : The Augustan Age Review of Latin I material Chapters 1-5 August- September Chapters 2-5 Top 50 most used words in Latin Nouns: 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, and 5 th Declensions, Nominative (subject and Predicate Noun), Genitive (Possession), Dative (Indirect Object), Accusative (Direct Object), Ablative (Object of Certain Prepositions), Vocative (Direct Address) cases Adjectives: 1st and 2nd declension and 3 rd declension (Positive Degree) Translation Caesar s Eulogy The Battle of Actium Pax Romana Nunc est bibendum The 2 nd Tirumvirate
Battle of Actium Cleopatra Unit 2: The Julio- Claudian Emperors Chapters 6-10 September - October Chapters 6-10 Adjectives: All adjectives (Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Degrees) Adverbs: Formations from 3rd declension adjectives (e.g.: potenter, acriter) and all three degrees Nouns: (Irregular Verb: volo, nolo, malo) Person: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Number: Singular and Plural Tenses: Present, Imperfect, Future Mood: Indicative and Imperative Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus Claudius Seneca advises Nero The Fire at Rome Julio- Claudian Emperors Nero and the Christians Unit 3: Heroes of the Roman Republic Chapters 11-14 October- November Chapters 11-14 Nouns: Ablative use (agent) Verbs: Voice (Passive, all tenses) Vespasian
Titus and the Fall of Jerusalem Pliny s Letter about Pompeii Josephus the Historian Pompeii Pliny the Younger Roman expansion Patron- Client System Unit: Writing Project December 2 weeks Students will read Where the Wild Things Are in Latin and bring their favorite childhood book to translate into Latin. Reading Project Creative Writing Unit 4: Silver Age Authors Chapters 15-18 January Chapters 15-18 Sentence Structure: Dependent Clauses, Compound Sentences, Relative Clauses, questions Pronouns: Relative, interrogative Adjectives: Special ius Translation Pliny about the Christians Difficile est saturam non scriber Meditationes Liber apologeticus, caput V Satire Silver age authors House Project
Unit 5: Roman Entertainment Chapters 19-22 February Chapters 19-22 Verbals: Participles: Present Active, Perfect Passive, and Future Active/ Passive Gerunds and Gerundives Sentence Structure: ablative absolute, passive periphrastic Epitoma rei militaris De spectaculis Vitruvius de balnea Entertainment in the Empire o Gladiators, Chariot racing, Theater, Baths Unit 6: End of the Empire Chapters 23-27 March- April Chapters 23-27 Sentence Structure: indirect statement, ut clauses Pronouns: intensive, reflexive Deponent Verbs: All four conjugations Reign of Diocletian A civil war: Maxentius and Constantine The Last Emperor in the West St. Augustine and the Aeneid Attila the Hun Fall of the Roman Empire
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