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High School Latin I

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Suggested Prerequisites

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Description

Discover the culture and rich storytelling tradition of the ancient Romans! In this course, you'll build a foundation of grammar and vocabulary skills to help increase fluency and language proficiency. You will explore the mythology, history and culture of Rome and apply what you learn through translation practice, writing, listening, and conversation exercises, while reading Roman stories that have stood the test of time. Get ready to follow your Latin roots through history into modern language and culture!

Module One: When in Rome

-Cognates and derivatives

-Pronunciation

-Greetings

-Nominative case

-1st Declension

-Verb endings and principal parts

-Accusative case

-Noun-verb agreement

-Roman celebrations, customs, and food


Module Two: Roman History

-Personal pronouns

-Present tense

-1st and 2nd Conjugation verbs

-Verb translation using ending and noun subjects

-2nd Declension, masculine and neuter

-Prepositions and Ablative nouns

-Rome's origin, Trojan War, and the Aeneid

-Roman monarchy, republic, and empire 


Module Three: The Hero's Journey

-1st and 2nd Declension adjectives

-Noun-adjective agreement

-3rd and 4th Conjugation verbs

-Genitive nouns

-Cardinal and ordinal numbers

the verb possum

-Present tense infinitives

-Classical and ancient heroes


Module Four: Life in Rome

-Ablative uses (place, time, means)

-Accusatives uses (with prepositions and time)

-Dative case

-Noun case summary

-Personal pronouns

-Prefixes

-Idioms with the verb agere

-Daily life in ancient Rome

-Roman virtues

Module Five: Nature of Things

-Imperfect tense

-Adverbs

-Question words

-Future tense

-Present system of sum and possum

-Science and Latin

-Ancient Roman medical practices

-Roman inventions


Module Six: The Ancient World

-3rd Declension, nouns and adjectives

-3rd Declension i-stem

-imperative verbs

-vocative case

-wonders of the ancient world

-Roman influences with other ancient civilizations


Module Seven: Reviving the Past

-Perfect tense

-Pluperfect tense

-Future perfect tense

-Perfect system of sum and possum

-Pompeii and Herculaneum

-Classical archeology

-Roman art