Dover Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

 

 

Course Title:                             Latin                    Grade:           8         

 

Unit:                                         2                                             

Month Presented:         December-March                        Unit Length (in weeks):          13       

 

Essential Question (s):

What is poetry?

Does literature reflect history?

 

Learning Objectives:

The students will learn how the key figures of the Late Republic interrelated through the study of the poet Catullus and his circle.

The students will learn how to use the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs.

They will learn the basic indirect statement.

They will learn how to translate the hortatory and jussive subjunctives, as well as how to translate the subjunctive in indirect questions.

They will read several poems by Catullus in the original.

Students will prepare for and take the National Latin Exam.

Skills:

Comparison of Adjectives, regular and irregular

Comparison of Adverbs, regular and irregular

Indirect Statements

Subjunctive

Instructional Strategies & Activities:

Reading and dissecting Latin sentences and paragraphs.

Overhead with color-coding. Games. Composition.

Finding examples of material covered in the poems of Catullus.

Poetry circle. Student-produced test questions.

Materials Utilized:

Ecce Romani II, Ecce Romani II Workbook, original material, Catullus poems selected for interest and relevant grammatical content, language lab, internet, overhead, copies of past National Latin Exams.

 

Assessment Strategies:

Daily reading and questioning, quizzes on vocabulary and grammar, student teaching, comprehensive test using poems of Catullus, essay/journal on Catullus’s love affair with Lesbia/Clodia.