Latin 1
Syllabus
Course Essential Questions
- How did the Latin language shape ancient communication and culture?
- How do we communicate in Latin through reading, writing, and listening at the novice level?
- What strategies can be employed to convey meaning in Latin?
- How does Latin continue to impact modern languages and cultures today?
Course Learning Objectives
- Describe the people and events that shaped the human experience during the Roman Empire.
- Interpret text and identify cultural norms of the Roman Empire.
- Demonstrate written proficiency by identifying, forming, and translating grammar and vocabulary.
- Read and comprehend sentences and stories in Latin with accuracy.
- Identify connections between Latin and English through derivatives and by comparing grammatical structures.
- Compare and contrast cultural products and practices between the ancient and modern worlds.
Unit 1: Roman Realities (Weeks 1-5)
Unit Level Essential Question
- How do we describe the culture and language of Ancient Rome?
Week 1: Welcome to Latin 1
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Greet others in Latin and share what you know about the Romans.
- Respond to prompts to show understanding of the online tools.
- Reflect on the language learning skills that can help me succeed in learning Latin.
Week 2: Sabina in the Subura
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify the singular verb and subject of Latin sentences and practice vocabulary.
- Compare and contrast how the urban population of Rome lived with urban living in the 21st century.
- Write simple Latin sentences with singular verbs and appropriate unit vocabulary.
Week 3: Life in the City
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify Latin sentence patterns and English derivates.
- Compare and contrast working conditions in the Subura with modern work and gender norms in your community.
- Write Latin sentences about life in the Subura.
Week 4: First Impressions of Rome
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify nouns as subjects or direct objects.
- Compare and contrast the nature of Rome's growth with the growth of your community.
- Apply nominative and accusative knowledge while reading about public spaces.
Week 5: Frictions and Friendships
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Classify nouns according to their declension and gender.
- Evaluate the historical and cultural significance of the forum.
- Apply declension and gender knowledge when reading or writing about marketplaces.
Unit 2: Games and Gods (Weeks 6-9)
Unit Level Essential Questions
- How do we interpret social norms during the Roman Empire based on their cultural extensions?
- How do we structure Latin sentences to convey meaning?
Week 6: Spectacle at the Circus
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify nominative plural nouns and plural verb forms and English derivatives.
- Compare and contrast the significance of public festivals in ancient Rome with festivals and entertainment in the 21st century.
- Apply the rules of agreement for plural subjects and verbs when reading or writing about entertainment.
Week 7: Fierce Females
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify accusative plural nouns.
- Evaluate the risks and benefits of ancient and modern racing.
- Apply accusative forms and functions when translating text about racing.
Week 8: Faith and Festivals
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Distinguish personal pronouns by number.
- Compare and contrast the nature and role of ancient Roman polytheism with a religion of your choice.
- Apply personal pronoun forms when reading or writing about religion.
Week 9: Public and Private Worship
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify nouns by gender, declension, and English derivatives.
- Compare and contrast ancient Roman worship practices with today's worship practices.
- Translate text about religion and distinguish nouns by gender and declension.
Unit 3: Challenges of Status (Weeks 10-13)
Unit Level Essential Questions
- How did socioeconomics impact life in ancient Rome?
- How do we add temporal or circumstantial details to a Latin sentence?
Week 10: A Fevered Farewell
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Use the complementary verb posse and distinguish infinitives by conjugation.
- Explain the key features of a Roman bath and hygiene/bathing practices and contrast them with today.
- Apply posse when translating a text about bathing.
Week 11: Despair and a Daring Escape
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify verbs requiring complementary infinitives and English derivatives.
- Compare and contrast ancient Roman water usage and sanitation practices with practices in your community.
- Translate text about bathing while applying the rules of complementary infinitives.
Week 12: Debt and Danger
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify prepositional phrases and ablative uses.
- Explain how ancient enslaved persons lived.
- Apply prepositional phrases when reading or writing about enslavement.
Week 13: Warnings from Afar and City Woes
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Use ablative prepositional phrases and distinguish them from accusative prepositional phrases.
- Explain the manumission of the enslaved and ancient letter-writing conventions.
- Write a Roman-style letter using varied ablative and accusative case functions.
Unit 4: Britannia (Weeks 14-18)
Unit Level Essential Questions
- How did Roman colonization impact Britannia?
- How do we convey actions occurring at different times in Latin?
Week 14: Echoes of the Provincial Past
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Differentiate the imperfect tense from the present tense and identify English derivatives.
- Explain life and cultural products in ancient Londinium.
- Read or write about life in Londinium using the imperfect tense.
Week 15: Adventures from Boars to Apples
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Differentiate between verbs in the present and ongoing past.
- Compare and contrast ancient Roman and modern foods and foreign impact on cuisine.
- Apply tense endings to create an artifact inspired by Roman dining.
Week 16: A Vanishing Act
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify and write perfect tense verbs.
- Compare and contrast pre-Roman infrastructure with provincial Roman Britain infrastructure.
- Apply tenses when translating a text about provincial Britain.
Week 17: Vengeance
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify stem-changed perfect tense verbs and differentiate perfect from imperfect and present tenses.
- Explain how British resistance and Camulodunum changed over time.
- Translate text about British resistance using stem-change perfect tense verbs.
Week 18: Hearings and Heroics
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify degrees of adjectives and English derivatives.
- Interpret the cultural significance of the Amazons in the ancient and modern worlds.
- Apply adjectives when describing powerful influences.
Unit 5: Provincial Rebellion (Weeks 19-24)
Unit Level Essential Questions
- How did British resistance impact Romanization?
- How do we add details to sentences in Latin?
Week 19: Messages and Mayhem
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify the dative case and English derivatives.
- Explain the structure of Roman governance in the provinces.
- Apply the dative case when reading about governance.
Week 20: Dilemmas and Departures
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify the dative case and write nouns across three cases.
- Compare and contrast the nature of military forces and the role of women in ancient Roman and British culture.
- Apply the dative case when comparing Roman and British military cultures.
Week 21: Escape from Londinium
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify verbs that require the dative.
- Explain the incentives for joining the Roman army.
- Distinguish special verbs from regular verbs when translating text about the Roman army.
Week 22: Constructing the Aquae Sulis
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify nouns modified by first, second declension adjectives and identify English derivatives.
- Explain the significance of the Aquae Sulis before and after the Roman invasion.
- Apply adjective formation and agreement rules when reading or writing about cultural entanglement.
Week 23: Prayers and Curses
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify adjectives by declension and noun and adjective pairings.
- Explain life in a Roman military camp.
- Describe Roman military camps using adjective formation and agreement rules and apply the rules when translating.
Week 24: Parting Ways
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify noun and adjective pairs based on the rules of agreement.
- Compare and contrast the customs and norms of British life with Roman life.
- Describe Roman and British life using noun and adjective pairs.
Unit 6: Waves of Change (Weeks 25-28)
Unit Level Essential Questions
- What were ancient Roman attitudes towards the sea and seafaring?
- How do we reflect relationships between nouns in Latin?
Week 25: Ostia
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify the genitive singular and English derivatives.
- Compare and contrast Roman attitudes towards the sea to today’s in your culture.
- Apply genitive singular when translating text about seafaring.
Week 26: Sabina's Voyage
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify the genitive plural.
- Research significant underwater archaeological discoveries and ancient Roman technology used in maritime navigation.
- Apply the genitive plural when writing about the sea and seafaring.
Week 27: Pirate Stories
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify and explain the possessive usage of the genitive.
- Research to compare and contrast ancient and modern piracy.
- Apply the genitive case function when reading or writing about piracy.
Week 28: Stormy Seas
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Explain and use enclitics.
- Outline the ancient Roman dangers at sea and mitigation strategies.
- Apply enclitics when combining ideas.
Unit 7: Danger and Destruction in Rome
Unit Level Essential Questions
- What were the mythological and historical significance of fire in ancient Rome?
- How do we use mood to communicate with one another in Latin?
Week 29: Rome Ablaze
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify positive imperatives and English derivatives.
- Explain the significance of fire deities and how Romans managed fire.
- Apply rules of imperatives when translating a text about fire's significance and impact.
Week 30: Chaos and Collapse
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify negative imperatives and distinguish verbs by conjugation.
- Outline the sequence of events during and impact after the Great Fire of Rome.
- Apply negative imperatives when translating text about the Great Fire.
Week 31: Plunder and Peril
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Identify vocatives and distinguish by declension.
- Explain the historical significance of the Great Fire and the Domus Aurea.
- Use vocatives when translating text about fire and origins.
Week 32: Nero's Domus Aurea
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Differentiate nouns between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declensions.
- Compare the impact of fires on ancient Rome with fire's impact in the modern world.
- Apply rules of inflection when reading or writing about the Great Fire.
Week 33: Farewell, Rome
Weekly Learning Objectives
- Differentiate verbs between the present, imperfect, and perfect tenses or indicative, infinitive, and imperative moods.
- Reflect on an aspect of ancient Rome that is present in today's world.
- Apply verbal inflection when crafting an artifact inspired by the Roman world.