Course Title: Latin Grade: 8
Unit: 1
Month Presented: September.-November Unit Length (in weeks): 11
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Essential Question (s): Can the What makes a Julius Caesar? Why have a Passive Voice? |
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Learning Objectives: The students will
gain a basic understanding of the complex forces behind the fall of the 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. |
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Skills: Relative pronouns, relative clauses and antecedents Demonstrative, Interrogative, Intensifying, and Indefinite pronouns The Passive Voice Perfect Passive Participle |
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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. |
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Materials Utilized: Ecce Romani II, Ecce Romani Workbook II, Internet, Language Lab, original materials, De Bello Gallico, overhead, videos, games. |
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Assessment Strategies: Chapter quizzes on vocabulary and grammar. Passifying Machine. Caesar facts. Daily reading and participation. Caesar test. Caesar essay. |