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Latin IV (HON) 350
Course Description

TIME FRAME: One semester
GRADE: 9-12
CONTACT:

         MAP LEVEL: 1
30.0 WORLD LANGUAGE

30.0.1.9.6 -- Students will share their personal reactions and feelings about authentic literary texts such as poems, plays, short stories and novels.

30.0.1.9.7 -- Students will discuss their personal feelings and ideas with members of the target culture in order to consider alternate viewpoints.

30.0.9.9.5 -- Students will read literature, listen to music and view films and websites in the target language for entertainment.

30.0.2.9.1 -- Students will understand the main ideas and relevant details of extended discussions, lectures and formal presentations on topics related to daily life and/or historical or contemporary themes in the target culture.

30.0.2.9.5 -- Students will comprehend the main ideas and significant details of full-length feature articles in newspapers, magazines and websites on topics of current or historical importance in the target culture.

30.0.3.9.3 -- Students will prepare oral and/or written analyses in the target language of the plot, character, descriptions and development, and themes found in authentic literary works, including poems, plays, short stories and short works of fiction or nonfiction.

30.0 WORLD LANGUAGE

30.0.3.9.5 -- Students will write letters in the target language to peers in the target culture, describing and analyzing current events of mutual interest.

30.0.4.9.1 -- Students will identify and analyze products and practices of the target culture (e.g., social, economic, legal and political), and explore the relationships between these products and practices and the perspectives of the culture.

30.0.4.9.2 -- Students will identify, experience or read about, and discuss expressive forms of the culture, including but not limited to literature, periodicals, films, television, websites and the fine arts, in order to explore their effects on the larger community.

30.0.4.9.4 -- Students will identify, discuss and analyze various patterns of behaviors or interactions that are typical of the target culture.

30.0.4.9.5 -- Students will identify, discuss, analyze and evaluate themes, ideas and perspectives that are related to the target culture.

30.0.4.9.6 30.0 WORLD LANGUAGE

30.0.5.9.1 -- Students will use information acquired from other school subjects to complete activities in the world language classroom.

30.0.5.9.2 -- Students will acquire more complex and abstract information from a variety of authentic sources in the world language classroom and integrate it with other school subjects.

30.0.5.9.3 -- Students will analyze the similarities and differences among sources, selecting the most appropriate information for specific purposes.

30.0.5.9.4 -- Students will use new information and perspectives gained through world language study to expand their personal knowledge and interdisciplinary connections.

30.0.6.9.1 -- Students will use multiple media resources to analyze aspects of the target culture(s) and apply their knowledge to new situations.

30.0.6.9.2 -- Students will access and analyze materials, looking for sources of information for potential use in original work on the target language or culture(s).

30.0 WORLD LANGUAGE

30.0.7.9.1 -- Students will analyze various elements of the target language (such as time or tense), and compare and contrast them with comparable linguistic elements in English.

30.0.7.9.2 -- Students will evaluate the style of a communicative interaction in the target language.

30.0.8.9.5 -- Students will use new and evolving information and perspectives to demonstrate understanding of the similarities and differences across cultures.

30.0.8.9.6 -- Students will use new and evolving information and perspectives to identify universals of human experience across cultures and to demonstrate empathy and respect for the people(s) of other cultures.

30.0.9.9.2 -- Students will establish and/or maintain interpersonal relations with speakers of the target language via letters or e-mail and/or exchange programs.

30.0.9.9.3 -- Students will use their target language skills and demonstrate cultural understanding while participating in career exploration, volunteer experiences, school-to-work projects or school/individual exchanges with homestay.

08.1 SOCIAL STUDIES - HISTORY

08.1.1.9.2 -- Students will gather, analyze and reconcile historical information, including contradictory data, from primary and secondary sources to support or reject hypotheses

08.1.1.9.3 -- Students will interpret oral traditions and legends as 'histories'

08.1.1.9.5 -- Students will describe the multiple intersecting causes of events

08.1.3.9.2 -- Students will give examples of the visual arts, dance, music, theater and architecture of the major periods of history and explain what they indicate about the values and beliefs of various societies

08.1.3.9.4 -- Students will identify various parties and analyze their interest in conflicts from selected historical periods

08.1.4.9.4 -- Students will display empathy for people who have lived in the past



1. What is the relationship of the Aeneid to the epics of Homer?
2. What are Vergil's motives as an author?
3. What is the relationship of the Aeneid to other Latin literature previously covered?
4. How are the grammatical and syntactical rules of Latin employed by Vergil to create desired effects in authentic texts?
5. How does Roman epic compare to other Latin literary works?
6. How does Vergil manipulate Latin to create poetic figures of speech?
7. What Roman values does Vergil promote?
8. How do the themes of the Aeneid relate to universal human issues?
9. What can Vergil reveal to us about his own milieu?
10. How does Greco-Roman civilization continue to influence the world today?




Latin IV focuses on the reading of authentic Latin literature with the further refinement of grammatical precision and aesthetic sensitivity. Reading selections are from the Latin Advanced Placement Vergil syllabus. Latin IV content includes the following:
--selections from Vergil's Aeneid (books I, II, IV, VI, X, XII),
--vocabulary building,
--continued refinement of grammatical skills,
--English derivatives and cognates,
--Romance language derivatives and cognates,
--ancient Roman and Greek cultural practices,
--ancient Roman and Greek values, as revealed by Vergil,
--topics in Roman history (Late Republic, Augustan Age),
--geography of the ancient Mediterranean world,
--the Trojan War saga,
--Homer and Homeric scholarship,
--allusion and intertextuality,
--classical mythology,
--ancient philosophy,
--Hellenistic poetry,
--Neotericism,
--dactyllic hexameter,
--literary figures of speech.





Students in Latin IV will develop the ability to exhibit the following skills:

-- Improve the level of profiency in reading, oral recitation, and writing,
-- Recognize, identify, and appropriately use or translate advanced and subtle grammatical constructions,
-- Increase vocabulary and grammatical skill in English and Romance languages through Latin,
-- Use cultural knowledge to make inferences about written source,
-- Translate accurately from Latin into English and from English into Latin,
-- Read unadapted, authentic Latin text with precision, sensitivity, and pleasure,
-- Read authentic Latin by sight,
-- Engage in literary analysis based upon close readings of texts,
-- Learn to use secondary sources appropriate for classical scholarship,
-- Meaningfully compare texts of different Roman authors,
-- Metrically scan Latin poetry.



Latin IV students will:

-- Improve the level of proficiency with the material described under the "Content" heading for Latin I and II,
-- Continue improving facility with the more advanced aspects of Latin grammar and syntax so as to read unadapted Latin texts (Ovid, Horace, or Vergil),
-- Note similarities between Roman poetry and contemporary literature,
-- Compose original sentences and paragraphs in Latin,
-- Learn scansion of Latin verse,
-- Learn the rhetorical figures of speech employed by Latin poets,
-- Establish a foundation of preparation for the Latin Advanced Placement Exams.





Latin IV students will be assessed by means of the following:

Completion of daily assignments
Quizzes (vocabulary and morphology)
Tests (vocabulary, morphology, translation, composition, cultural information)
Class presentations
Oral recitations
Latin compositions
Latin translations
CAPT-style essays (in English) on cultural and historical topics
Final examination (25% multiple choice, 75% translation, essay, and grammatical exegesis of an authentic (unadapted) Latin text)
Research paper



Students may experience the following: occasional field trips, Italy trip (every 2-3 years),
appropriate movies



library
computer labs
video/dvd collection
texts, primary and secondary




The current text for Latin IV is either:
Clyde Parr: Vergil's Aeneid , I-VI or Ronnie Ancona: Horace: Satire I.9 and selected Odes.

Students who have maintained an A average in Latin I and II may apply to join the Latin Honor Society.

After-school tutoring is available for all Latin students on assigned days.