Latin IV Advanced

Standard 1.2, 1.2 Communicate: Communicate in languages other than English

Standard 2.1 Cultures: Gain knowledge and understanding of other cultures

Standard 3.1, 3.2 Connections: Connect with other disciplines and acquire information

Standard 4.1, 4.2 Comparisons: Understand the nature of language and cultures

Estimated Time Range:

Academic Year August to June

ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS

The student will understand that:

1.	The subjunctive mood of a verb is used to express ideas not facts
2.	The hortatory and jussive subjunctive are used to give commands
3.	The continued study of word derivatives expand the Latin language to English
4.	The subjunctive mood expresses purpose; both positive and negative
5.	Irregular and deponent verbs don’t follow the regular rules
6.	Result clauses take the subjunctive mood
7.	Indefinite pronouns and adjectives refer to people and things in an indefinite ways
8.	Obligation and necessity is expressed with the future passive participle called the gerundive
9.	Indirect commands use the subjunctive
10.	A gerund is a verbal noun
11.	Special verbs use the Dative case
12.	The Roman Empire had its largest extent during the reign of Vespasian
13.	There are many famous stories about Romans that all young children learned about
14.	The acquisition of new vocabulary continues to loosen up and expand the way a story can be translated.
15.	The story of Jason and The Golden Fleece is a traditional Roman epic story

SAMPLE ASSESSMENTS

Unit tests, word derivatives quizzes, new translations from other sources, TV programs produced on classical themes

1.	How did the Romans express more complicated grammatical patterns of speech?
2.	What are the similarities and differences in Ancient and modern Western marriage ceremonies?
3.	Why was Delphi an important place especially to the Greeks?
4.	Why were athletic games an important part of life in Greece, especially for a man?
5.	Who were the national heroes of ancient Greece?
6.	Who were the famous Greek philosophers?
7.	What were some of the famous people and traditional stories Titus Livy wrote about?
8.	Why was the story of Jason and the Argonauts preserved by the Romans as great literature?

The student will be able to:

1.	Learn and use the forms of the present subjunctive, both active and passive
2.	Learn and use the imperfect, perfect, pluperfect subjunctive, active and passive voice.
3.	Translate purpose and result clauses in Latin into English
4.	Translate horatory and jussive passages from Latin into English
5.	Translate the different sequences of time into correct English
6.	Learn and use different common deponent verbs in translating stories
7.	Memorize and translate different types of ablative phrases into English
8.	Translate indirect questions into English
9.	Translate and use the gerundive or the gerund of any verb
10.	Translate and use the Dative case with special verbs
11.	Continue to learn about Roman and Greek cultures through the translation of passages .
12.	To read and understand the story of Jason and the Argonauts.
13.	Acquire new vocabulary in the context of reading.
14.	To recognize Latin roots and their derivatives in English

Latin for Americans, Second Book, Units 1 - 3. Glencoe McGraw/Hill 1997

Movies and videos that are appropriate for the cultural material presented

Ancillary materials such as stories or segments of longer stories that are gathered from a variety of smaller readers

Museums that contain classical collections of artifacts; special exhibits of classical natures

World languages, literature of the world, history, cultural anthropology, archeology