Grade VI
New View
Enduring understanding for year: Latin is a language that has left us with both a cultural and a linguistic legacy. It is a beautiful,
elegant, and highly flexible language that allows its practitioner to express himself/herself using word endings, thus freeing up word
order to convey style.
Enduring Understandings / Unit One Essential Questions/Unit One
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Unit One
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The heritage of Classical Culture
and Latin extends deeply into all
areas of Western Civilization.
The Latin influence on English
began with the French conquest
of England in 1066.
In an inflected language, word
endings replace word order to
convey meaning.
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Why study Latin?
What is an inflected language and
how does it work?
Corollary 1: how do transitive verbs
differ from intransitive verbs and
linking verbs?
Corollary 2: how do noun cases
function?
How do languages change over
time?
Why did the Greeks and Romans
have “myths” and multiple gods?
Learning Objectives/ Unit One
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The students will begin to develop an appreciation for Rome’s legacy
to western civilization.
They will cover topics including the Roman family, Roman dress, the
roman villa, Aeneas, and the Titans and Olympic gods.
They will be able to replace word order with word endings as they
begin to translate and compose in the present tense.
They will be able to recognize Latin roots in English vocabulary.
The students will learn that personal pronouns are rarely necessary;
they can find the subject in the verb ending or carry it over from the
previous sentence.
Skills/Unit One
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functions of nouns: subject, complement, direct
object (nominative and accusative)
verbs: agreement with subject, infinitives,
principle parts, transitive vs. intransitive, the
verbs “to be” and “to be able.”
prepositional phrases
possession and the genitive
singular vs. plural
adjectives: agreement with noun
declensions: first and second, including neuter
gender
derivatives
Grade VI
New View
Enduring understanding for year: Latin is a language that has left us with both a cultural and a linguistic legacy. It is a beautiful,
elegant, and highly flexible language that allows its practitioner to express himself/herself using word endings, thus freeing up word
order to convey style.
Assessments/Unit One
 Diagnostic
o Quia games for prior knowledge/misconceptions
o Survey on basic grammar, terminology, and culture
o Personal letters
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Formative
o In-class translations
o Language Lab. activities, including “chat’ feature and teacher-generated Quia games, both grammatical and cultural
o Student-generated questions, in-class and homework, both for class and for tests
o Teacher-generated questions
o Student-generated Latin composition demonstrating knowledge and application of concepts
o Games, including charades, pictionary, battleship, fleet-of-pen, connect five
o Teacher-generated Quia games
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Summative
o Quizzes -- vocabulary for each chapter, with grammar component; often divided into two, vocab then
grammar/application
o Labeling quiz after Chapter 4
o Review vocabulary test on Chapters 1-8
o Review grammar test
o Mythology RAFT (ongoing)
o Roman House real estate brochure
Grade VI
New View
Enduring understanding for year: Latin is a language that has left us with both a cultural and a linguistic legacy. It is a beautiful,
elegant, and highly flexible language that allows its practitioner to express himself/herself using word endings, thus freeing up word
order to convey style.
Unit
Enduring Understandings/Unit Two Essential Questions/ Unit Two
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Unit
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Greco-Roman mythology shaped the
art, music, and literature of the
Renaissance and beyond.
Inflected languages permit flexibility
not allowed in English, which is
only mildly inflected.
Latin and many languages express
verb tenses in two aspects,
completed and and ongoing:
perfective and imperfective.
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How does an inflected language offer flexibility
(n.b: The two words come from the same root!)
How might you use this flexibility?
How does Latin convey time?
How does the passive voice function and differ
from the active voice?
Why do we avoid the passive voice in English?
How do the gods of Greco-Roman mythology
reflect human archetypes?
What does verb aspect mean?
Learning Objectives/ Unit Two
Skills/ Unit Two
 The students will have an increased understanding of and appreciation for
 Verbs: conjugation of all six tenses, passive
Greek and Roman legend and mythology. They will learn of the legendary
and active, of first conjugation verbs.
founding of Rome and the Trojan War.
 nouns and adjectives: multiple uses of all
 Students will be able to approach translation using all available
five cases, including dative of indirect
information: case endings, verb agreement, context clues, common sense.
object, ablative of means, ablative of agent.
 They will learn that Latin verbs have six tenses, with endings and principal parts that
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serve as tense markers, and that the patterns are consistent and repetitive.
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They will learn how to go from the active to the passive voice, in all six tenses.
Grade VI
New View
Enduring understanding for year: Latin is a language that has left us with both a cultural and a linguistic legacy. It is a beautiful,
elegant, and highly flexible language that allows its practitioner to express himself/herself using word endings, thus freeing up word
order to convey style.
Assessments/Unit Two
 Formative
o In-class translations
o Language Lab. activities, including “chat’ feature and teacher-generated Quia games, both grammatical and cultural
o Student-generated questions, in-class and homework, both for class and for tests
o Teacher-generated questions
o Student-generated Latin composition demonstrating knowledge and application of concepts
o Games, including charades, pictionary, battleship, fleet-of-pen, connect five
o Teacher-generated Quia games
o Conjugation Graphic
o Declension Graphic
 Summative
o Quizzes -- vocabulary for each chapter, with grammar/application component; often divided into two
o Comprehensive quizzes on the passive voice in all tenses
o Verb synopses
o Review vocabulary test on Chapters 1-12
o Review grammar test on Chapters 1-12
o Mythology RAFT (ongoing)
o Culture Project
Grade VI
New View
Enduring understanding for year: Latin is a language that has left us with both a cultural and a linguistic legacy. It is a beautiful,
elegant, and highly flexible language that allows its practitioner to express himself/herself using word endings, thus freeing up word
order to convey style.
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Enduring Understandings /Unit Three Essential Questions/ Unit Three
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The passive voice is useful for
dodging responsibility.
Case endings in Latin can
communicate entire phrases in
English.
Legends serve an historical
purpose and sometimes are based
on fact, dimly recalled.
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How can one case be used to communicate different
concepts?
How do history and legend relate?
How do heroes reflect their time and culture?
Learning Objectives/ Unit Three
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The students will solidify their basic knowledge of noun function as
it relates to noun case.
They will be able to distinguish between and use both the
imperfects, or continuous action verbs, and the perfect, or completed
verbs.
They will be able to give commands using 1st and 2nd conj.
They will learn basic numbers and the Roman numeral system.
They will study the kings and heroes of early Rome and continue
with Greek mythology.
Skills/ Unit Three
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The imperative mood/commands
3rd declension and 3rd i-stem nouns
Genitives: partitive, subjective, objective
numbers and numerals
formation of adverbs
noun/adjective agreement, now with 3rd decl.
kings of Rome
Grade VI
New View
Enduring understanding for year: Latin is a language that has left us with both a cultural and a linguistic legacy. It is a beautiful,
elegant, and highly flexible language that allows its practitioner to express himself/herself using word endings, thus freeing up word
order to convey style.
Assessments/Unit Three
 Formative
o In-class translations
o Language Lab. activities, including “chat’ feature and teacher-generated Quia games, both grammatical and cultural
o Student-generated questions, in-class and homework, both for class and for tests
o Teacher-generated questions
o Student-generated Latin composition demonstrating knowledge and application of concepts
o Games, including charades, pictionary, battleship, fleet-of-pen, connect five
o Teacher-generated Quia games
 Summative
o “Passifying Machine”
o Quizzes -- vocabulary for each chapter, with grammar component; often divided into two
o Neuters/numbers/kings quiz
o Create-your-own chapter project
o Review vocabulary test on Chapters 1- 16
o Review grammar test on Chapters 1-16, student-generated, by and for individual student
o Mythology RAFT (due)