NOVA CLASSICAL ACADEMY
Latin Essentials
Level at Nova
Curriculum
Kindergarten-Grade 2
Latin Vocabulary: 20 minutes each week of vocabulary units including
animal names, colors, numbers and counting, classroom terms, etc.
Grade 3
Introductory Latin I
Minimus: Starting Out in Latin (all, ch. 1-12)
(supplemented with grammar chants and additional translations)
Includes parts of speech, noun and verb endings, and translation. Culture
topics include family, school, travel, and the Roman Army.
Grade 4
Introductory Latin II
Minimus Secundus: Moving On in Latin (all, ch. 1-12)
(supplemented with grammar chants and additional translations)
Builds on grammar and culture learned in 3rd grade and also includes
infinitives, impersonal verbs, pronouns, and more complex translations.
Additional culture topics include the lives of soldiers, Greece, special
occasions and holidays.
Grade 5
Latin I
Oxford Latin I (Chapters 1-14)
Grammar and translation starts anew with the Oxford series. Grammar
includes memorizing and knowing how to use noun and verb endings,
declining nouns and conjugating verbs, infinitive, imperatives, pronouns,
prepositional phrases and subordinate clauses. History and culture lessons
follow the life of the poet Horace in his childhood. From here, grammar
and culture builds on skills learned in 5th grade until students attain the
skills to read original Latin literature in level IV.
Grade 6
Latin II
Oxford Latin I (Chapters 13-16) and
Oxford Latin II (Chapters 17-28)
Grade 7
Latin III
Oxford Latin II (Chapters 27-33) and
Oxford Latin III (Chapters 34-44)
Grade 8
Latin IV
Oxford Latin III (Chapters 44-55) and
Unit 1 of Ecce Romani III
Grades 9-12
Super Latin
Oxford Latin I-III (Chapters 1-55)
Grade 9
Latin V
Ecce Romani III Units 2-6
Grade 10
Latin VI
Petronius, Cicero (College in the Schools: Latin 3003)
4 college credits from the University of Minnesota
Grade 11
Latin VII
Caesar, Virgil (College in the Schools: Latin 3004)
4 college credits from the University of Minnesota
Grade 12
Latin VIII
Advanced Readings: Catullus, Ovid, Plautus, Suetonius, St. Augustine
NOVA CLASSICAL ACADEMY
Latin Essentials
Lateral Entries (Nova students coming in their 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th grade year)
Year 1
Sequence above, beginning with Latin I with Upper School students
Year 2
Sequence above, beginning with Latin I with Upper School students
Year 3
Sequence above, beginning with Latin I with Upper School students
Year 4
Begin Latin IV and proceed to VII, if possible
-ORGrades 9-12
Super Latin Option
Oxford Latin I-III (Chapters 1-55)