Grade VI New View

Enduring understanding for year: Latin is a language that has left us with both a cultural and a linguistic legacy. It is a beautiful, elegant, and highly flexible language that allows its practitioner to express himself/herself using word endings, thus freeing up word order to convey style.

Enduring Understandings/ Unit One / Essential Questions/Unit One
Unit One /
  • The heritage of Classical Culture and Latin extends deeply into all areas of Western Civilization.
  • The Latin influence on English began with the French conquest ofEngland in 1066.
  • In an inflected language, word endings replace word order to convey meaning.
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  • Why study Latin?
  • What is an inflected language and how does it work?
  • Corollary 1: how do transitive verbs differ from intransitive verbs and linking verbs?
  • Corollary 2: how do noun cases function?
  • How do languages change over time?
  • Why did the Greeks and Romans have “myths” and multiple gods?

Learning Objectives/ Unit One / Skills/Unit One
  • The students will begin to develop an appreciation for Rome’s legacy to western civilization.
  • They will cover topics including the Roman family, Roman dress, the roman villa, Aeneas, and the Titans and Olympic gods.
  • They will be able to replace word order with word endings as they begin to translate and compose in the present tense.
  • They will be able to recognize Latin roots in English vocabulary.
  • The students will learn that personal pronouns are rarely necessary; they can find the subject in the verb ending or carry it over from the previous sentence.
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  • functions of nouns: subject, complement, direct object (nominative and accusative)
  • verbs: agreement with subject, infinitives, principle parts, transitive vs. intransitive, the verbs “to be” and “to be able.”
  • prepositional phrases
  • possession and the genitive
  • singular vs. plural
  • adjectives: agreement with noun
  • declensions: first and second, including neuter
  • gender
  • derivatives

Assessments/Unit One
  • Diagnostic
  • Quia games for prior knowledge/misconceptions
  • Survey on basic grammar, terminology, and culture
  • Personal letters
  • Formative
  • In-class translations
  • Language Lab. activities, including “chat’ feature and teacher-generated Quia games, both grammatical and cultural
  • Student-generated questions, in-class and homework, both for class and for tests
  • Teacher-generated questions
  • Student-generated Latin composition demonstrating knowledge and application of concepts
  • Games, including charades, pictionary, battleship, fleet-of-pen, connect five
  • Teacher-generated Quia games
  • Summative
  • Quizzes -- vocabulary for each chapter, with grammar component; often divided into two, vocab then grammar/application
  • Labeling quiz after Chapter 4
  • Review vocabulary test on Chapters 1-8
  • Review grammar test
  • Mythology RAFT (ongoing)
  • Roman House real estate brochure

Unit Name / Enduring Understandings/Unit Two / Essential Questions/ Unit Two
Unit Two /
  • Greco-Roman mythology shaped the art, music, and literature of the Renaissance and beyond.
  • Inflected languages permit flexibility not allowed in English, which is only mildly inflected.
  • Latin and many languages express verb tenses in two aspects, completed and and ongoing: perfective and imperfective.
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  • How does an inflected language offer flexibility (n.b: The two words come from the same root!)
  • How might you use this flexibility?
  • How does Latin convey time?
  • How does the passive voice function and differ from the active voice?
  • Why do we avoid the passive voice in English?
  • How do the gods of Greco-Roman mythology reflect human archetypes?
  • What does verb aspect mean?

Learning Objectives/ Unit Two / Skills/ Unit Two
  • The students will have an increased understanding of and appreciation for Greek and Roman legend and mythology. They will learn of the legendary founding of Rome and the Trojan War.
  • Students will be able to approach translation using all available information: case endings, verb agreement, context clues, common sense.
  • They will learn that Latin verbs have six tenses, with endings and principal parts that serve as tense markers, and that the patterns are consistent and repetitive.
  • They will learn how to go from the active to the passive voice, in all six tenses.
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  • Verbs: conjugation ofall six tenses, passive and active, of first conjugation verbs.
  • nouns and adjectives: multiple uses of all five cases, including dative of indirect object, ablative of means, ablative of agent.
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Assessments/Unit Two
  • Formative
  • In-class translations
  • Language Lab. activities, including “chat’ feature and teacher-generated Quia games, both grammatical and cultural
  • Student-generated questions, in-class and homework, both for class and for tests
  • Teacher-generated questions
  • Student-generated Latin composition demonstrating knowledge and application of concepts
  • Games, including charades, pictionary, battleship, fleet-of-pen, connect five
  • Teacher-generated Quia games
  • Conjugation Graphic
  • Declension Graphic
  • Summative
  • Quizzes -- vocabulary for each chapter, with grammar/application component; often divided into two
  • Comprehensive quizzes on the passive voice in all tenses
  • Verb synopses
  • Review vocabulary test on Chapters 1-12
  • Review grammar test on Chapters 1-12
  • Mythology RAFT (ongoing)
  • Culture Project

Unit Name / Enduring Understandings/Unit Three / Essential Questions/ Unit Three
Unit Three /
  • The passive voice is useful for dodging responsibility.
  • Case endings in Latincan communicate entire phrases in English.
  • Legends serve an historical purpose andsometimes are based on fact, dimly recalled.
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  • How canone case be used to communicate different concepts?
  • How do history and legend relate?
  • How do heroes reflect their time and culture?

Learning Objectives/ Unit Three / Skills/ Unit Three
  • The students will solidify their basic knowledge of noun function as it relates to noun case.
  • They will be able to distinguish between and use both the imperfects, or continuous action verbs, and the perfect, or completed verbs.
  • They will be able to give commands using 1st and 2nd conj.
  • They will learn basic numbers and the Roman numeral system.
  • They will study the kings and heroes of early Rome and continue with Greek mythology.
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  • The imperative mood/commands
  • 3rd declension and 3rd i-stem nouns
  • Genitives: partitive, subjective, objective
  • numbers and numerals
  • formation of adverbs
  • noun/adjective agreement, now with 3rd decl.
  • kings of Rome

Assessments/Unit Three
  • Formative
  • In-class translations
  • Language Lab. activities, including “chat’ feature and teacher-generated Quia games, both grammatical and cultural
  • Student-generated questions, in-class and homework, both for class and for tests
  • Teacher-generated questions
  • Student-generated Latin composition demonstrating knowledge and application of concepts
  • Games, including charades, pictionary, battleship, fleet-of-pen, connect five
  • Teacher-generated Quia games
  • Summative
  • “Passifying Machine”
  • Quizzes -- vocabulary for each chapter, with grammar component; often divided into two
  • Neuters/numbers/kings quiz
  • Create-your-own chapter project
  • Review vocabulary test on Chapters 1- 16
  • Review grammar test on Chapters 1-16, student-generated, by and for individual student
  • Mythology RAFT (due)