Course Overview-Latin III


Grammar-Subjunctive Mood, Indirect Statement, Indirect Command, Deponent Verbs, Cum Clauses, Purpose and Result Clauses

Culture-Roman Army, Latin Literature & Authors, Patrons & Clients,Marriage &Divorce, Death & Funeral Customs, History ( Roman Empire to 312 AD)

Mythology-Chapters 11-20 in Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Word Study- Continued study of Greek/Latin  prefixes,roots, suffixes, Latin legal terms used today

LATIN III    Texts:  Oxford Latin Course, Part III
      Edith Hamilton’s Mythology

Week One

Review of five declensions, sentence structure
Review of case usage
Review of pronouns
Review of prepositions and adverbs

Week Two

Review of verb tenses
Review of verb voices
Study guide on Hellenic Greece
Video-Ancient Greece

Week Three

Subjunctive mood-present/imperfect tenses
Jussive subjunctive
Purpose clauses
Greek roots-units I-IV
Chapter 34 exercises

Week Four

Indirect command
Sequence of tenses
Formation of pluperfect subjunctive
Greek roots-Units V-IX
Chapter 35 exercises

Week Five

Deponent verbs
Present passive infinitive and imperative
Roman army structure
Chapter 36 exercises
Video-Roman War Machine,I and II

Week Six

Review of participles
Ablative absolute
Chapter 37 exercises
Roman army camp and equipment
Video-Roman War Machine, III, IV

Week Seven

Future participles
Chapter 38 exercises
Roman law
Mythology selections

Week Eight

Indirect questions
Formation of perfect subjunctive
Sequence of tenses
Roman law continued
Chapter 39 exercises

Week Nine

Further uses of ablative case
Semi-deponent verbs
Adverbs expressing motion
Chapter 40 exercises
Mythology selections

Week Ten

Review of present infinitives
Future and perfect infinitives
Indirect statement
Chapter 41 exercises

Week Eleven

Cum clauses
Dum clauses
Result clauses
Funeral inscriptions
Latin poetry
Chapters 42 & 43 exercises

Week Twelve

Conditional clauses
1. contrary to fact
2.  Future
Roman authors research
Latin literature survey
Chapter 44 exercises

Week Thirteen

Hortatory subjunctive
Deliberative questions
Roman authors continued
Roman travel
Chapter 45 exercises
Mythology selections

Week Fourteen

Alternative verb and noun forms
Impersonal verbs
Roman Empire in First Century
Roman divorce
Chapater 46 & 47 exercises

Week Fifteen

Clauses of fearing
Roman inscriptions
Roman Empire continued
Chapter 48 & 49 exercises

Week Sixteen

Gerunds and gerundives
Funerary inscriptions
Patrons and clients
Chapter 50 exercises
Mythology selections

Week Seventeen

Gerundives of obligations
Passive Periphrastic
Dative of purpose
Roman provinces
Chapters 51 & 52 exercises

Week Eighteen

Summary of ut clauses
Relative clauses with subjunctive
Reading from Virgil and Horace
Chapters 53 & 54 exercises