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High School Latin III Honors

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Suggested Prerequisites

Latin 1, Latin 2

Description

Venture forth through ancient Romans through the study of classical Latin! In this course, you'll explore the stories, politics, history, battles, speeches and myths of ancient Rome through its rich literary tradition. The voices of famous Romans, including Julius Caesar, Vergil, and Ovid will speak to you from the past. Along the way, you'll learn more advanced grammar concepts and vocabulary and apply your skills to translation practice, writing, listening, and conversation exercises. Get ready to bring new life to Roman poetry and prose written thousands of years ago!

Module One: History in the Making

-Gerunds

-Gerundives

-Deponent verbs, present system

-Deponent verbs, perfect system

-Life and death of Julius Caesar

-Caesar's political and military accomplishments

-Classical historians


Module Two: Literary Traditions

-Subjunctive, active voice

-Hortatory and jussive subjunctive

-Deliberative and optative subjunctive

-Purpose and result clauses

-Latin prose

-Roman calendar


Module Three: Rules of Rhetoric

-Subjunctive of sum and possum

-Subjunctive, passive voice

-Literary devices

-Cum clauses

-Ablative of cause, description, origin and separation

-Ablative absolute

-Roman social classes

-Cicero's life and writings

Module Four: Power of Poetry

-Poetic meter and scansion

-Literary devices

-Poetic forms

-Dative uses (possession, reference, special adjective)

-Accusative uses (degree, extent, purpose)

-Augustan poets

-The Aeneid and epic poetry


Module Five: Transformation Tales

-Indirect question

-Genitive uses (with indirect questions)

-Fear clauses

-Indefinite pronouns

-Locative case

-Accusative uses (place to which)

-Ovid and his writings

-Roman myth stories


Module Six: Ancient Art Forms

-Indirect command

-Irregular verbs volo, nolo, malo

-Irregular verbs eo, fio, fero

-Idioms

-Impersonal verbs and expressions

-Expressions and abbreviations

-Supines

-Roman art and architecture

-Roman philosophy

-Oracles and augury