GREEK 2 CALENDAR OF LESSONS 2013
Textbooks:
Reading Greek (Grammar, Vocabulary, and Exercises), Joint Association of Classical
Teachers, Cambridge. Abbreviated GVE below.
Reading Greek (Text), Joint Association of Classical Teachers, Cambridge. Abbreviated RG
below.
Supplementary readings and exercises from Greek to GCSE, Ancient Greek Alive, First Greek
Course, Introduction to Ancient Greek, and Thrasymachus (handouts)
Week
Grammar
Reading
Culture
1 Jan. 28Feb.1
Review interrogative and
indefinite pronoun;
participle of “to be”
Reading Greek 4 A-B
Athens during the Peloponnesian
War
2 Feb. 4-8
3
Feb. 11-15
Participles of other verbs
Future tense of regular
verbs
Reading Greek 4C
Reading Greek 4D, Greek
to GCSE, and First
Greek Course selections
Altars and supplication
Greek religious thought
4 -5 Feb.
20-Mar.1
Winter break; imperfect
tense of regular verbs,
active and middle
National Greek Exam
preparation; impersonal
verbs
Imperfect tense of
contract verbs; collateral
assigned
Overview of pronouns;
SPRING BREAK
Selections from “Ancient
Greek Alive”
Folk tales
Reading Greek 5A
The intellectual atmosphere in
Athens at the time of the story
Section 5B in RG
Socrates and the sophists
Middle voice verbs that
have different meanings
from active
Future tense of middle
voice verbs and
participles
Indefinite and
interrogative words
Aorists
Section 5C in RG
Aristophanes; collateral
presentations
Section 5D in RG
Collateral presentations
Section 5E in RG
Ancient science
Section 5E in RG 38
Review
TBA
Ancient mathematics and
measurement
Students’ choice
6
Mar.4-8
7-8
Mar. 11-22
9-10
Mar. 25April 5
11-12
April 8-19
13-14
April 22May 3
15-16
May 6-17
17-18
May 20-31
19-20 June
1-10