Latin 3 and 4
1 credit year, Grades 11-12
These competency based courses will have students work on advanced grammar and vocabulary skills as reading moves from adapted to original textual materials. In even numbered school years, students will focus on the prose works of Caesar, Cicero, Livy and Tacitus along with the history and figures of the late Republic. Odd numbered school years will have students focusing on the comedic, lyric, satirical and epic poetry of the Romans along with the history and figures of the Augustan Age and empire. Course content will be delivered using educational technology and activity learning together to influence student learning in fundamental ways. Prerequisite is credit in Latin 2.
Latin 3/4 is based around these essential questions:
Poetry | Prose |
|---|---|
What is satire? How did these genres allow the Romans to communicate without saying what they meant? How do we use satire today? | What characteristics have always been and continue to be necessary for other people to consider a man “great?” |
Why is it important to understand the perspectives (value systems) of another culture? | How does Cicero’s thinking, as revealed in his writings, further elucidate traditional Roman values during the Republican era and the seeds of its downfall? |
How does the lifestyle portrayed by Catullus’ poetry differ from that of the lifestyle in the late republic and early empire? | In what ways do the authors portray the various non-Roman peoples that appear in the works? |
What does Metamorphoses tell us about Augustan Rome? | Why do wars happen? What questions do these works raise about the consequences of war? |
How would the many elaborate similes employed in the Aeneid, in view of the politics of Vergil’s day be especially meaningful for his audience? | What are important events that lead to the downfall of the Roman Republic? |
What skills are necessary to analyze, read, and demonstrate a fuller comprehension of Latin poetry with increasing proficiency? | What characteristics have always been and continue to be necessary for other people to consider a man “great?” |