Dover Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

 

 

Course Title:                             Latin                                                     Grade:              8         

 

Unit:                                         1                                             

Month Presented:  September.-November                             Unit Length (in weeks): 11          

 

Essential Question (s):

Can the Roman Republic endure?

What makes a Julius Caesar?

Why have a Passive Voice?

 

Learning Objectives:

The students will gain a basic understanding of the complex forces behind the fall of the Roman Republic, and they will study Julius Caesar in greater depth.

The students will learn how to create and translate relative clauses.

They will learn the passive voice in all tenses.

They will learn participial phrases using the perfect passive participle.

They will read Julius Caesar in the original, as a wrap-up of pronouns and passive voice.

 

Skills:

Relative pronouns, relative clauses and antecedents

Demonstrative, Interrogative, Intensifying, and Indefinite pronouns

The Passive Voice

Perfect Passive Participle

 

Instructional Strategies & Activities:

English pronoun confusion paragraph. Relative mayhem paragraphs.

“Killing” sentences, at home and on overhead.

Passifying Machine.”

Julius Caesar research assignment.

Julius Caesar as consummate practitioner of the Latin language: De Bello Gallico, I i.

Student-produced test questions.

Materials Utilized:

Ecce Romani II, Ecce Romani Workbook II, Internet, Language Lab, original materials, De Bello Gallico, overhead, videos, games.

 

Assessment Strategies:

Chapter quizzes on vocabulary and grammar. Passifying Machine. Caesar facts. Daily reading and participation. Caesar test. Caesar essay.