SYLLABUS: Latin II
Tutor: Mrs. Beth Harvey
Meets: Tuesdays/ Thursdays 11:30am - 12:50pm ET
Cost: $ 580/ year
Textbooks: Latin for the New Millennium by Minkova & Tunberg - Level 1 Textbook & Student
Workbook; The LNM Level 2 Textbook and Student Workbook will be needed by December.
Fall Semester is from September 6 - December 15, 2016. Winter Semester is from January 3 May 25, 2017.
Prerequisite: The student must have studied the first sixteen chapters of LNM Level 1; it covers
the concepts of Latin in a much different order than most Latin I texts do.
Description: This course is a study of Latin for the New Millenium: Level 1 and part of Level 2.
We will finish up Chapters 17-21 of the Level 1 text. We then move into the Level 2 Book
covering circa two chapters per month. Students will have access to recordings of the sessions
throughout the year, so if you are absent or simply wish to review a session, you can just click on
the link and view the recorded session later. I am always available for questions outside of class.
The student will have two assignments per week, which will be promptly graded and returned
with many helpful notes regarding any mistakes they make.
Live Sessions: Students are expected to be at their computers with the proper materials before
the online session begins. If there is a pattern of entering late or not being ready for the class, a
student’s participation grade will suffer. In the online session, part of the time will be a
presentation of material, but most of the time you will be actively participating. You will be able
to come to the board to translate sentences together, and will be able to ask questions, etc. The
students will get to know each other as they discuss together what they have been learning.
Grading:
33% Homework, Translations, Class Participation
33% Quizzes – Regular online quizzes will test the students on vocabulary, plus (occasionally)
verb formations and translations.
33% Tests – There will be about 5-6 tests.
Quizzes: Short vocabulary/grammar quizzes will take place roughly two or three times a
month. They may cover any words or endings learned in the previous week or two. Because
quizzes will be frequent and often dedicated to only one topic, proper drill and practice will
drastically improve your grade, but neglect of that will be disastrous.
Homework: Your homework assignments will be posted on our course Moodle site. You will
have instructions on what you do for independent study and also specific assignments “to turn
in.” These assignments are to be turned in for grading, but please remember that in order to do
well in this subject, you must do more than simply turn in those assignments and show up for
class. You should study the chapters, practice conjugating verbs, practice declinging nouns, and
master the vocabulary. By your performance on regular quizzes and this homework, we will be
able to tell whether you are keeping up with your independent work.
Tentative Schedule
Finishing LNM: Level1
September:
Ch 16: Perfect Tense Verbs; Perfect Tense of Sum and Possum; Dative of Possession
Ch 17: Pluperfect Active Tense of All Conjugations; Pluperfect
Tense of Sum and Possum; Fourth Declension Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter Nouns
October:
Ch 18: Future Perfect Active Tense of All Conjugations; Future
Perfect Tense of Sum and Possum; Fifth Declension Nouns
Ch 19: Perfect Passive Participle; Perfect Passive Tense of All
Conjugations; Review of Principal Parts of Verbs;
November:
Ch 19: Demonstrative Pronoun and Adjective Hic
Ch 20: Pluperfect Passive Tense of All Conjugations; Perfect Active
and Passive Infinitives; Demonstrative Pronoun and Adjective Ille
December:
Ch 21: Future Perfect Passive Tense of All Conjugations; Future
Active Participle; Future Active Infinitive
January:
Ch 1: The Subjunctive Mood: First Conjugation Verbs
Ch 2: The Subjunctive Mood: Second, Third, and Fourth Conjugation Verbs
February:
Ch 3: The Subjunctive Mood: Imperfect Tense of All Verbs
Ch 4: Purpose Clauses & the Sequence of Tenses
The Subjunctive Mood: Perfect and Plu-perfect Tenses
Wishes; Indirect Questions; Sequence of Tenses
March:
Ch 5: The Subjunctive Mood: Indirect Commands
Ch 6: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives/ Adverbs
SPRING BREAK – March 21-25
April:
Ch 7: The Irregular Verbs: Volo, Nolo, and Malo / Negative Commands
Ch 8: The Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives; Quam; Deponent Verbs
Ch 9: The Irregular Verbs: Fero and Fio
May:
Ch 10: The Irregular Verbs: Eo / The Reflexive Pronoun and Adjective
Ch 11: The Present Active Participle
Ch 12: Temporal & Causal clauses / Conditional Clauses
REVIEW of ALL for Final Exam
Most of the concepts in Chapters 13 -15 will be introduced along with the material in earlier
chapters, usually as we see examples of them:
Ablative Absolute
The Present Active Participle
Formation of Adverbs
Gerund & Gerundive
Passive Periphrastic