Course Title: Latin Grade: 8
Unit: 3
Month Presented: March-June Unit Length (in weeks): 14
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Essential Question (s): Was the Pax Augustiana worth the century of upheaval that produced it? What is the relationship between history and literature? (Part II) How flexible is the Latin language? |
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Learning Objectives: Students will learn how to use two new participles, the present and future active. They will improve their ability to read and use the indirect statement. They will understand basic sequencing of tenses in Latin, especially with participles and infinitives in indirect statements. They will begin to understand how the subjunctive is learned. They will read two excerpts from Vergil’s Aeneid, selected for content and grammatical relevance. They will memorize
and recite, in meter, a total of 27 lines of the Aeneid,
in two parts. They will explore the historical and cultural context of Vergil’s great epic. |
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Skills: Deponent Verbs Participles, present and future active Indirect Statement, II The Subjunctive in clauses of purpose, indirect questions and the conditional. Dactyllic Hexameter Reciting verse in meter from memory |
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Instructional Strategies & Activities: Reading aloud and dissecting paragraphs and poetry, color-coded outlining of structure on the overhead, internet and library research, literature circles, imprinting grammatical constructions through memorization of examples in Vergil, chanting as a class in meter, having students declaim (memorized) verse in front of the class, student-produced test questions. |
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Materials Utilized: Ecce Romani II. Ecce Romani
II workbook, original material, excerpts from the Aeneid, overhead projector, language lab, internet, games. |
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Assessment Strategies: Vocabulary and Grammar quizzes, daily readings and questions, reflective essays, cultural project, memorization of two passages, comprehensive test using Vergil. |