Standard(s):
[LAT] LA2 (7-12) 2 : 2) Read, understand, and translate Latin at an Intermediate Low level.
a. Summarize and translate passages of adapted or unadapted Latin appropriate to their level.
b. Answer questions in Latin or English to demonstrate understanding of adapted or unadapted Latin appropriate to their level.
Examples of grammar and syntax appropriate to Level II: See the Latin Grammar Addendum.
[LAT] LA3 (7-12) 2 : 2) Read, understand, and translate Latin prose at an Intermediate Mid to Intermediate High level.
a. Demonstrate understanding of the main idea of paragraph-length Latin prose texts about familiar ideas.
b. Find information in Latin texts for practical purposes, including literary analysis.
c. Read, translate, and and demonstrate understanding of Latin texts that offer differing perspectives.
d. Analyze the style of Latin prose authors to comprehend content.
Examples: Describe the tone of a passage from Cicero
Explain the use of rhetorical devices in speeches by Cicero.
e. Answer questions in Latin or English to demonstrate understanding of adapted or unadapted Latin prose authors appropriate to Level III.
Examples of grammar appropriate to Level III: See the Latin Grammar Addendum (Appendix A, page 67).
Examples of Latin prose authors: Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Sallust, and Livy.
[LAT] LA3 (7-12) 10 : 10) Use knowledge of Latin and Greco-Roman culture in a multilingual world of diverse cultures.
a. Investigate important and influential works written in Latin.
Example: Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
b. Identify and correctly use English derivatives of Latin words commonly used in Latin prose.
Examples: Avarice, vulgar, suspicion, and perdition.
[LAT] LA4 (7-12) 2 : 2) Read, translate, and understand Latin poetry at an Intermediate High level.
a. Analyze the style of Latin poets to comprehend content.
Example: Describe how the meter of a poem affects its meaning.
b. Identify metrical patterns by scanning selected Latin poetry.
Example: Dactylic hexameter in Vergil's Aeneid —"Ārmă vĭr/ūmqŭe că/nō Trō/iāe quī/prīmŭs ăb/ōrīs" (DDSSDS).
c. Answer questions in Latin or English to demonstrate understanding of adapted or unadapted Latin poetry.
Examples of grammar appropriate to Level IV: See the Latin Grammar Addendum (Appendix A, page 67).
Examples: Vergil, Ovid, Horace, and Catullus.