SYLLABUS FOR LATIN I

 GRAMMAR:    

• Three declensions of nouns including the neuter nouns
• Case usage
• Three to four tenses of verbs
•  Infinitives
• Adjectives and agreement
• Adverbs and other modifiers
• Prepositional phrases
• Sentence structure (statements, questions, commands, subordinate clauses)

ROMAN LIFE: 

• Roman life through the character of Horace
• Roles/Duties of family members
• Slaves/Slavery/Slave Markets
• Names
• Numerals
• Market Days
• Education

 MYTHOLOGY:

• The Olympian gods
• The Iliad/Aeneid
• Founding of Rome

HISTORY:    

• The Monarchy (seven kings)
• The early republic

SYLLABUS FOR LATIN II

GRAMMAR:   

• pluperfect, future and future perfect tenses
• time and place expressions
• 4th and 5th declension nouns
• more extensive case usage
• comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs
• participles
• passive voice
• relative pronouns and clauses

CULTURE:      

• schooling in Rome and abroad
• toga virilis ceremony
• elections and government
• Roman social classes
• entertainment--theatre, games, baths
• patron/clients
• Stoic/Epicurean philosophy
• births/childhood/weddings

HISTORY:   

• Pompey/Caesar/Crassus
• Civil War
• War in Greece
• Cicero
• Fall of the republic
• Antony/ Octavian/ Senate

PROJECTS:   

• Monster Mash
• Calendar
• Arena Games

SYLLABUS FOR LATIN III

GRAMMAR:    

• Subjunctive Tenses
• Sequence of Tense
• Subjunctive Clauses
• Deponent Verbs
• Ablative Absolutes
• Future Participles
• Indirect Statements
• Gerunds/Gerundives/Passive
• Periphrastics

CULTURE:     

• Oracle at Delphi
• Roman army/camp/weaponry
•  Divorce
•  Death/Funerals

HISTORY:    

• Battle of Philippi
• Brutus/Crassus
• Octavian's rise to power
•  Battle of Actium
• Cleopatra
• Roman Empire

AUTHORS:

• Caesar
• Cicero
• Livy
• Horace

SYLLABUS FOR LATIN IV

GRAMMAR:    

• Indirect Statements
• Conditionals
• Subjunctive as a main verb
• Cum Clauses
• Fearing Clauses
•  Impersonal Verbs
• Dative of Purpose

CULTURE:     

• Poets/Poetry
• Books
• Maecenas
• Travel
• Patrons/Clients
• Housing

 HISTORY:    

• Trojan War--real or fiction
• Excavations at Crete, Mycenae
• Hissarlik
• Eruption of Vesuvius

AUTHORS:    

• Ovid
• Vergil
• Catullus
• Horace