Latin IA grade 7 Course Description The first year of Latin is an introduction to the reading of Latin. The course emphasizes Latin grammar (first three declensions of nouns and all six tenses of verbs in the active voice, indicative mood), syntax, vocabulary, and English derivatives so that each student can successfully read and translate Latin passages. The course also touches on Roman daily life, history, and mythology. Essential Questions ● What can we learn from ancient Rome that is meaningful today? ● How can we encounter classical Rome across time, distance, language? ● What can the inflected and highly regular language Latin teach us about the structure of English? ● How can becoming a better reader and writer elevate our daily use of language? Skills Benchmarks ● Read Latin stories with accuracy with familiar vocabulary, using all six cases of nouns and six tenses of verbs (active voice). ● Memorize and identify all forms of vocabulary specified for this purpose. ● Give a synopsis of any regular verb in the active voice, all 6 tenses, indicative, if the principal parts and meaning are given. Do the same with irregular verbs: sum, possum and fero. ● Recognize and write present active imperative singular and plural and present active infinitive. ● Decline any noun of 1st, 2nd, 3rd declension, given nom. sg. and gen. sg. forms. ● Differentiate between adjectives of the 1st/ 2nd declension and 3rd declension. Pair with a noun and decline or give the requested form. ● Nominative usages: write, recognize, translate subjects and subject complements. ● Genitive usage: write, recognize, translate possession. ● Dative usage: write, recognize, translate indirect objects. ● Accusative usages: write, recognize, translate direct objects and objects of common prepositions. ● Ablative usages: write, recognize, translate time when, manner, means. ● Prepositions: distinguish between prepositions taking accusative (ad, in, per, prope) and ablative (in, sub, ex, cum) and apply appropriate endings to objects. ● Generate and respond to Latin questions with –ne, cur, ubi, quis, quid ● English to Latin Composition: write full Latin sentences from given English, using mastered vocabulary from packet lists and appropriate endings for all 6 cases (nom. gen., dat., acc., abl., voc..) and all 6 tenses (active voice). ● Locate major cities and provinces of the early Roman Empire. ● Identify and place in context basic elements of a Roman household, family, dress, and daily life. ● Associate major Greek and Roman deities with their attributes and domains.
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