Grammar-Complete review of Latin grammar & syntax, gerunds, gerundives, ablative absolute, subordinate clauses, Latin meter, verse forms

Culture- Study of roman calendar, religion, history (Roman Empire 312-476AD, Roman provinces, koine Greek, independent studies based on students' interests in classical culture

Word Study-Advanced study of derivatives, mottoes, phrases in use today, linguistic history of Latin language, and in-depth study of  Latin literary periods
 

LATIN IV     TEXTS:  Ecce Romani, III, Oxford Latin
PACING GUIDE     Reader, Wheelock’s Latin

Week One

Verbs: First and second conjugations
Nouns & cases: First declension
Second declension: Nouns & adjectives
Word order
Apposition

Week Two

Second declensions neuters:Adjectives
Present indicative of sum
Substantive adjectives
Survey of Latin literature

Week Three

First & second conjugations
Adjectives in –er
Sum & possum
Complementary infinitives
Selected authors

Week Four

Third declension nouns
Third conjugation verbs
Demonstrative pronouns
Imperatives
Selected authors

Week Five

Personal pronouns
Perfect active verbs
Reflexive pronouns
Intensive pronouns
Ablative of means & manner

Week Six

Genitive of the whole
Ablative of time
Third declension –I stem nouns
Numerals with the ablative
Selections from Seneca’s Letters

Week Seven

Third declension nouns
Relative pronouns
Passive voice of present system
Selections from Martial’s epigrams
Later Roman emperors

Week Eight

Ablative of agent
Perfect passive system
Interrogative pronouns
Selections from Juvenal’s Satires

Week Nine

Fourth declension
Ablative of separation
Third & fourth conjugation: Passive voice
Fifth declension
Roman provinces

Week Ten

Ablative of place where
Participles
Ablative absolute
Passive periphrastic
Dative of agent
Selections from Livy

Week Eleven

Indirect statement
Ablative of comparison
Comparison of adjectives
Rise of Roman Principate

Week Twelve

Present subjunctive
Jussive & purpose clauses

Imperial propaganda
Res gestae divi Augusti

Week Thirteen

Imperfect subjunctive
Subjunctive of sum & possum
Result clauses
Emperor and empire
Pliny’s Letters

Week Fourteen

Perfect & pluperfect subjunctive
Indirect questions
Sequence of tenses
Trajan’s building program
Geography ancient & modern

Week Fifteen

Cum clauses, fero
Formation of adverbs
Volo, nolo
Proviso clauses
Religion and the state

Week Sixteen

Conditional clauses
Deponent verbs
Dative with adjectives, special verbs
Noun clauses
Selections from Pliny & Ovid

Week Seventeen

Constructions of place & time
Conjugation of eo
Clauses of characteristic
Love poetry of Catullus

Week Eighteen

Gerunds & gerundives
Fearing clauses
Genitive & ablative of description
Loqui Antiqui