Latin Intermediate I Curriculum September 2011
Goals: By the end of this year students will be able to
· Translate, analyze and write about Latin texts of Golden Age authors in the original, unadapted Latin.
· Understand the historical and cultural background of these authors.
· Use all Latin grammatical constructions, both English to Latin and Latin to English.
· To enter into either Latin IV, Vergil AP or Advanced Topics in Latin poetry.
· Be prepared for the SAT II subject test in Latin.
Expectations:
§ Homework is an essential piece of the teacher-student feedback process. As such, it will count for 10 - 15% of the grade. Additionally, more than one missed assignment will result in the forfeiture of extra help for that week and the forfeiture of that term’s retake.
§ Quizzes will be frequent and will account for at least 40% of the grade. These will be a mix of vocabulary, morphology/syntax, and translation (both Latin to English and English to Latin). The vocabulary quiz grades will be weighted less than the others.
§ Tests will be comprehensive and infrequent. They will account for 30-35% of the grade.
§ There will be occasional papers and projects on literary, cultural, and historical topics. These will count for 10-15% of the grade.
§ There will be one quiz retake per student per term.
Methods:
· Daily translation and close reading
· English to Latin composition as well as Latin to Latin paraphrasing to reinforce grammar skills
· Vocabulary quizzes
· Grammar quizzes with a focus on form and function (morphology and syntax)
· Class notes on background material
· Tests/ projects
Texts:
· Review Latin Grammar, John Colby
· Latin Library Online for Caesar’s De Bello Gallico I & II, Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae, and Cicero’s In Catilinam I and Pro Caelio
· Perseus (Tufts Classical text site: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html)
· Horace, Selected Odes
· Ovid, Selections for Metamorphoses I
· Teacher generated materials for Caesar and Cicero units
First Quarter
Colby, Chapters II-XX
· Review of pronouns
· Double Dative construction
· Special Verbs with Genitive, Dative, and Ablative
· Impersonal Verbs
· Review of all verb forms via the review of indirect statement, use of the subjunctive in indirect questions, and indirect statements.
· Review of gerunds, gerundives, and passive periphrastic.
· Review of fear clauses
· Review of purpose and result clauses
· Relative clauses of characteristic
· Hortatory Subjunctive and review of commands
· Conditional Clauses
Second Quarter
Julius Caesar Unit
Teacher generated background information
Introduction, War with the Helvetii: De Bello Gallico, I.1-I.5
Defeat of Nervii: DBG, II.1-2, 15-28
Classes and customs of Gauls and Germans: DBG, VI. 13 -28
Sallust, selections from Bellum Catilinae
Third Quarter
Cicero Unit
Teacher generated background information
Roman oratory, Ciceronian style
In Catalinam I. 1-27
Pro Caelio, sections 1-14, 30-36, (more if time allows)
Ovid, Metamorphoses I, Daphne and Apollo
Fourth Quarter
Poetry Unit
Ovid: The Flood, Jupiter and Io (Metamorphoses I)
Horace, Odes: 1.5, 1.11, 1.23, 1.37, 1.38, 3.1, 3.21