LATIN III Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 Course Credit: 1 credit, 5 periods/week, full year Description: Latin III students examine the Roman influence on American life in the areas of language, government, domestic life, art, and ideas. Students read and understand, with appropriate assistance, passages of Latin adapted from original authors, including letters, inscriptions, poetry, and history. Students develop an enhanced ability to read, write, understand, and speak English based on their knowledge of Latin. Latin III students recognize and use elements of the Latin language to enlarge their English vocabulary as well as to prepare for the PSAT and SAT I Verbal tests. Students understand the link between classical languages and certain professional fields through specialized terminology. Prerequisite: Latin II Fee: $5.00 National Latin Exam
LATIN IV: LATIN LITERATURE SURVEY Grade Level: 11, 12 Course Credit: 1 credit, 5 periods/week, full year Description: Latin IV students read translate, understand, analyze and interpret un-adapted Latin passages, including the various works of Catullus, Ovid, and Cicero. Students learn the scansion of various poetic meters (dactylic hexameter, elegiac couplet, and the hendecasyllabic line). In studying poetry and rhetoric, the students will also learn poetic and rhetorical devices and figures of speech employed by Latin authors. Students gain an understanding of the development of Latin lyric poetry as a literary genre and the importance of Classical rhetoric as a foundation for public speaking in the Western world. Prerequisite: Latin III Fee: $5.00 National Latin Exam
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