Latin 2

Course Essential Questions

• How can studying Latin enhance our understanding of Roman culture, values, and historical perspectives?
• How does Latin grammar and syntax enable us to interpret and communicate in Latin?
• In what ways does Latin influence the vocabulary, structure, and expressions of modern languages?
• How does exploring Roman texts, history, and art connect us to the legacy of the ancient world in our modern context?

Course Learning Objectives

• Investigate and contextualize Roman culture, values, and historical events through primary texts and artifacts.
• Critically evaluate the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of the ancient Romans and make connections with contemporary society.
• Compose and translate Latin passages that demonstrate an intermediate level understanding of vocabulary, grammar, and cultural context.
• Interpret Latin texts by applying Intermediate level grammar and syntax knowledge.
• Identify and explain the linguistic patterns and connections between Latin and modern languages.
• Synthesize insights from Roman literature, history, and art to develop a comprehensive understanding of their contribution to the ancient world and their enduring impact.

Unit 1: Recalling Rome and the Romans (weeks 1-3)

Unit Level Essential Question

How do we describe ancient Roman culture and language at a Latin 1 level?

Week 1: Introduction to Latin 2

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: Verba Latina and Noun Cases

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze the role of religion in daily life for the ancient Romans.
• Identify Latin nouns by case, number, gender, and declensions (1-3).
• Formulate sentences using foundational vocabulary.

Week 3: Person, Number, and Tense

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare origin stories and tales of star crossed lovers in ancient and modern entertainment.
• Identify verbs in the present, imperfect, and perfect tenses.
• Formulate sentences using foundational verb forms.

Unit 2: Baking Bread and Building Towns (weeks 4-7)

Unit Level Essential Questions

How do we add details about actions and nouns in Latin?

How did daily life in Roman towns reflect the values and priorities of Roman society?

Week 4: Geese and Gossip

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare ancient Roman urban planning with one's own town or city.
• Identify relative clauses and derivatives.
• Practice relative clauses.

Week 5: Memory and the Stage

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare ancient Roman theater with entertainment in one's own community.
• Identify relative pronouns.
• Apply relative clauses in text.

Week 6: Mosaic Making and Matters of the Heart

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Infer cultural significance and patron preferences from Roman mosaics.
• Identify English derivatives and future tense verbs in the first and second conjugations.
• Translate text with future tense verbs.

Week 7: Choices and Chances

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Infer the impact of Roman mining techniques on the environment and workers.
• Differentiate comparative adjectives from other degrees.
• Translate text with adjectives of varying degrees.

Unit 3: Roman Country Life and Love (weeks 8-11)

Unit Level Essential Questions

How do Latin pronouns and indirect statements show relationships and add meaning?

How did Roman estates, marriages, and households reflect societal values?

Week 8: Whispers and Warnings

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze Roman estates to understand their reflection of societal values and class.
• Identify indirect statements and derivatives.
• Practice indirect statements.

Week 9: Dinner, Deception, and Dangerous Secrets

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare ancient Roman dining customs and food with modern practices.
• Identify tense and pronoun usage in indirect statements.
• Translate text with indirect statements.

Week 10: Bricks and Big News

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare the significance of wool production in ancient Rome with modern clothing production.
• Identify derivatives and demonstrative pronouns.
• Practice demonstratives.

Week 11: Conspiracies and Commitment

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare how marriage shaped ancient Roman societal values with marriage customs today.
• Identify the use of the personal pronoun.
• Translate text with the personal pronouns.

Unit 4: Pompeii (weeks 12-15)

Unit Level Essential Questions

How do Latin tenses and adverbs help narrate events across time?

What does daily life in Pompeii reveal about Roman values and priorities?

Week 12: Dawn and a Deserted Dwelling

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare the Roman domus to one's own home.
• Distinguish the pluperfect tense and identify derivatives.
• Practice the pluperfect tense.

Week 13: From Laundry to Liberty

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze the economic impact of trades in ancient Roman life.
• Identify Latin adverbs and the four verb conjugations.
• Apply conjugations in text with adverbs.

Week 14: Patrons and Plots

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare the relationships of patrons, clients, and freed people in Roman society with those of citizens and non-citizens in one's country.
• Identify verbs in the future tense and identify derivatives.
• Translate text with future tense.

Week 15: Secrecy and Conspiracy

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze how the ancient Roman division of time shaped daily life and societal roles.
• Identify impersonal constructions and forms of the verb eo.
• Apply impersonal constructions and verbs of motion in text.

Unit 5: Funerals and Fighters (weeks 16-19)

Unit Level Essential Questions

• How does Latin show actions and events in different ways?
• What do ancient Roman funerals and entertainment tell us about their beliefs and values?

Week 16: Tears and Tombs

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare Roman funeral practices and beliefs about the afterlife with modern death rituals.
• Identify derivatives and use present participles to describe simultaneous actions.
• Apply present participles.

Week 17: Feasts and Farewells

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze the importance of Isis in the Ancient Roman world.
• Identify forms of fero and its compounds.
• Translate text with forms of fero.

Week 18: Spectacles and Ships

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze how amphitheaters functioned and shaped Roman identity across the Empire.
• Identify derivatives and distinguish present passive verbs.
• Translate text with present passive verbs.

Week 19: Gladiators and Glory

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze how gladiatorial combat reflected broader Roman cultural norms.
• Distinguish imperfect passive verbs and uses of the ablative case.
• Apply passive verbs in text.

Unit 6: Daily Life in North Africa (weeks 20-24)

Unit Level Essential Questions

How do passive and deponent verbs function to describe ancient Roman life?

How did clothing, cosmetics, and education shape identity in the ancient Roman world?

Week 20: At the Harbor and Beyond

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare the roles of animals in the ancient Roman world with modern times.
• Distinguish forms of the perfect passive participles and identify derivatives.
• Practice perfect passive participles.

Week 21: A Disguise and a Daring Escape

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare ancient Roman fashion and beauty standards with modern practices.
• Identify perfect passive verbs.
• Translate text with perfect passive verbs.

Week 22: Hope and Heartache

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze how interactions between Rome and Africa shaped African civilizations.
• Identify pluperfect passive verbs.
• Translate text with pluperfect passive verbs.

Week 23: Teaching and Tragedy

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare ancient Roman education with modern schooling.
• Identify deponent verbs and derivatives.
• Translate text with deponent verbs.

Week 24: Unraveling Fate

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze how attitudes toward fertility and children shaped family structures in ancient Rome.
• Identify the present passive infinitive.
• Apply passive verb forms in text.

Unit 7: Philosophy, Power, and the Past (weeks 25-28)

Unit Level Essential Questions

How do Latin clauses convey cause, result, and complexity?

How did political power and Greek philosophy influence ancient Roman leadership and governance?

Week 25: Ambitions in the Shadows

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Evaluate the impact of the Senate on political careers and social hierarchy.
• Identify the pluperfect subjunctive and derivatives.
• Translate text with the pluperfect subjunctive.

Week 26: Tests of Loyalty

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze the role of freedmen in the ancient Roman political system.
• Identify and distinguish the imperfect subjunctive.
• Practice imperfect subjunctive.

Week 27: Reflections in Athens

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Analyze how Rome’s conquest of Greece influenced Roman culture and products.
• Identify result clauses and derivatives.
• Translate text with result clauses.

Week 28: Power and Purpose

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Evaluate the impact of rhetoric in ancient Roman education and its relevance in modern public speaking.
• Identify compound verbs and fourth declension nouns.
• Apply result clauses and past subjunctive tenses.

Unit 8: Ambition and Deception (weeks 29-33)

Unit Level Essential Questions

How do indirect speech and advanced grammar enhance narratives?

How did athletic competition and body ideals reflect ancient Roman and Greek values?

Week 29: Nero’s Triumph and Terrors

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare the values and nature of ancient Olympic Games with those reflected in the modern Olympic Games.
• Identify derivatives and indirect commands.
• Practice indirect commands.

Week 30: Olympic Legacies

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare ancient Roman sports and exercise with modern sports culture.
• Identify and distinguish indirect questions.
• Translate text with indirect questions.

Week 31: Whispers of Betrayal

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare Roman and modern views on physical fitness and body image.
• Distinguish fifth declension nouns.
• Translate text with fifth declension nouns.

Week 32: Music and Power

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Compare the role of music in ancient Roman society with its role in modern religion, military, and entertainment practices.
• Identify purpose clauses.
• Practice purpose clauses.

Week 33: Reflecting on the Romans

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Reflect on a favorite cultural topic in this course.
• Take a proctored exam to demonstrate proficiency in intermediate level Latin.
• Apply dependent clauses and noun cases.