Course Title: Latin
Grade: 8
Unit: 2
Month Presented: December-March Unit Length (in weeks): 13
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Essential Question (s): What is poetry? Does literature reflect
history? |
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Learning Objectives: The students will
learn how the key figures of the 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. |
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Skills: Comparison of
Adjectives, regular and irregular Comparison of
Adverbs, regular and irregular Indirect Statements Subjunctive |
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Instructional Strategies & Activities: Overhead with
color-coding. Games. Composition. Finding examples of
material covered in the poems of Catullus. Poetry circle. Student-produced
test questions. |
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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. |
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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. |