Latin I (LAT1)
CTY Course Syllabus
Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Sunday 1
Evening
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Pre-test
Introductions
Language background
Course info
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Day 1
Monday
Morning
Part I
- Parts of speech
- Morphology and Syntax
- Inflection in English and Latin
(Latin as “inflected
language”)
- Conjugations and
declensions
- Wheelock 1 & 2 (1/2 conj
pres act ind/inf/imp, 1 decl +
adj)
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Give date in Latin (Dies Solis, Ante
Diem X Kalendas Iulias, Ab Urbe
Condita MMDCCLXVI)
Why Latin? 5min free writing
Discussion/intros
Latin alphabet, phonemes, and
pronunciation
Reading practice exercises (famous
passages)
Preview of course content
Discussion and examples in English
first
Sample English and Latin sentences
Conjugations and declensions with
English comparanda
Verb and noun paradigms for 1-2
conj pres act ind/inf/imp, 1 decl f +
adj
Day 1
Monday
Morning
Part II
- Origins of Rome lecture,
mythological and historical
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Aeneas and Troy
Romulus and Remus
Asylum, Sabines
Romans as newcomers
Day 1
Monday
Morning
Part III
- Translation intro
- Vocabulary study
-
Wheelock sentences translation
practice
Making vocab cards demonstration
Day 1
Monday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Greco-Roman mythology
overview
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Lecture and discussion on gods,
goddesses, heroes, epic cycles
Day 1
Monday
Afternoon
Part V
- Wheelock 3 (2 decl m, appos,
word order)
- Class translation
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Diff b/w Eng and Lat word order
Further n/adj agr.
Wheelock 3 sentence syntax
analysis
38 Stories read & trans
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Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Day 1
Monday
Evening
Part VI
- Aeneid 1-3
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Read individually
Day 1
Monday
Evening
Part VII
- Vocab study
- Syntax practice
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Make/study flash cards
Syntax worksheet (correct and
return)
Day 2
Tuesday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz on vocab and
morphology
- Review previous lessons
- Wheelock 4 (2 decl neut,
sum, pred n/adj, subst adj)
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Introduce irregular verbs through
English examples, discuss
suppletion
Copula, pred. n/adj in English &
Latin
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Day 2
Tuesday
Morning
Part II
- Etruscan civilization
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Lecture on Etruscan archaeology,
art, language, religion (mostly from
archaeological record), influence on
Rome and Latin
Day 2
Tuesday
Morning
Part III
- Syntax practice and
translation from Wheelock 4
- Group morphology activity
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Chapter 4 sentences, brief
translation and syntax analysis
Morpheme cards activity in groups
Day 2
Tuesday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Early Republican History
- Roman names
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Lecture on origins of Roman
Republic, Tarquins and Brutus,
heroes/villains of the early Republic
Breakdown of names; students
choose Roman names for
themselves (with appropriate
background)
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Day 2
Tuesday
Afternoon
Part V
- Wheelock 5 (1-2 conj
fut/impf, -er adj)
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Discussion of tenses and aspect
New morphology for fut and impf
Practice with Wheelock sentences
Day 2
Tuesday
Evening
Part VI
- New vocabulary
- 38 stories 4 translation
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Practice with cards
Written individual translation
Day 2
Tuesday
Evening
Part VII
- Aeneid 4-5
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Individual reading
Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Day 3
Wednesday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz
- Review
- Wheelock 6 (sum -fut/impf
ind, possum-pres/fut/impf
ind, comp inf)
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Day 3
Wednesday
Morning
Part II
- Punic Wars
- Greek historical background
- Hannibal, Scipio, Fabius, Philip V
- Rome as world power
Day 3
Wednesday
Morning
Part III
- Recap Wheelock 6
- Syntax practice
Day 3
Wednesday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Conquest of Greece
- Greco-Roman culture
- Architecture
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Grk vs Latin lang
Grk philosophy, government
Gk architecture adapted by Romans
Significant Roman structures
Modern adaptation of GrecoRoman architecture
Day 3
Wednesday
Afternoon
Part V
- Wheelock 5-6 translation
- 38 Stories 5 translation
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Class trans of book passages
Indiv/small group trans of stories
Day 3
Wednesday
Evening
Part VI
- 38 Stories 6 translation
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Translate individually
Day 3
Wednesday
Evening
Part VII
- Livy and Polybius readings on
Punic and Macedonian Wars,
Roman government
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Read individually and answer
questions on worksheet
Day 4
Thursday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz
- Review content to Ch. 6
- Wheelock 7 (3 decl. n)
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Morphology lecture
Review declensions
Textbook syntax study
Day 4
Thursday
Morning
Part II
- Late Republic to Civil Wars
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Lecture and discussion of Gracchi,
Marius, Sulla, Cicero, Catiline,
Social War, Mithridates
Day 4
Thursday
Morning
Part III
- Wheelock 7 practice
- Vocabulary study
-
Class textbook read & translate
Assimilation
Inf in Lat vs gerund in Eng
Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Day 4
Thursday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Civil Wars to Actium
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Lecture and discussion on Caesar,
Pompey, Antony, Octavian,
Cleopatra, 1st/2nd triumvirate, misc.
history up to end of Civil
Wars/Republic
Day 4
Thursday
Afternoon
Part V
- Wheelock 8 (3 conj inf/imp,
pres/fut/impf)
- Wheelock 8 practice
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Review conjugations
Morphology lecture
Parsing & construing introduced
Day 4
Thursday
Evening
Part VI
- Aeneid 6-7
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Individual reading
Day 4
Thursday
Evening
Part VII
- 38 Stories 7-8 translation
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Individual translation
Day 5
Friday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz Wheelock 7-8
- Review Week 1 material
- Detailed Ch. 8 syntax analysis
w/practice sentences and SA
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Parse & Construe
Class translation
Day 5
Friday
Morning
Part II
- Games and Entertainment
- The Baths
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Gladiators
Circus
Drama
editors and social role of
entertainment
Day 5
Friday
Morning
Part III
- Latin story game
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Group writing and reading of
simple sentences
Day 5
Friday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Augury and Auspices
- Republican government
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Telling the future
Examples of following/disobeying
auspices
Offices in Republic (cursus
honorum)
Part V
- Latin mottoes, inscriptions
- Prose composition
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Day 5
Friday
Afternoon
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Dedications, writing outside with
chalk
Composing extended passages
(translate Eng-Lat or ex nihilo)
Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Sunday 2
Evening
Part VI
- Aeneid 8-9
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Read individually
Individual review worksheet (and
discuss in groups)
Sunday 2
Evening
Part VII
- Review exercises for Week 1
- Vocabulary Review
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Vocabulary cards
Day 6
Monday
Morning
Part I
- Week 1 Quiz (30min)
- Wheelock 9 (demonstratives
and secret 6 decl)
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Morphology and syntax
Principle of deixis
Day 6
Monday
Morning
Part II
- Greco-Roman literary history
- Genres of poetry and prose
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Origins of literature (Homer,
Hesiod, Hecataeus, Herodotus, etc,
oral vs written)
Epic, lyric, elegiac, iambic, satire,
etc.
History and historiography,
philosophy, biography, technical
treatises
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Day 6
Monday
Morning
Part III
- Wheelock 9 syntax practice
- Wheelock 9 passages
translation
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Read passages to parse & construe
Class translation
Day 6
Monday
Afternoon
Part IV (extended)
- Aeneid and Homeric epic
- Age of Augustus
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Overview of Homer, key characters
and passages
Comparison with Aeneid
Augustan literature, Maecenas,
patronage
Day 6
Monday
Afternoon
Part V (shortened)
- Vocabulary study
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Vocabulary cards
Day 6
Monday
Evening
Part VI
- Aeneid 9-10
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Read individually
Day 6
Monday
Evening
Part VII
- 38 Stories 9 translation
- Vocabulary review
-
Translate individually
Flash cards individually or with
partner
-
Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Day 7
Tuesday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz
- Wheelock 9 Review
- Wheelock 10 (4 conj/3io
conj)
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Review conjugations
Morphology lesson
Day 7
Tuesday
Morning
Part II
- Early Empire 1 (JulioClaudians)
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Creation of office of Emperor
Sequence of events
Issues of succession
Role of women
Day 7
Tuesday
Morning
Part III
- Wheelock 11 (pers prons,
more demonstr prons)
- Sentence composition with
morpheme cards
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Anaphors, r-expressions
Introduce morpheme game
Day 7
Tuesday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Roman religion
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Private vs civic
Everyday vs mythological
Emperor cult and deification
Eastern religions (Isis, Mithras, etc)
Day 7
Tuesday
Afternoon
Part V
- Wheelock 10 & 11 review
and detailed study
- Vocabulary study
- 38 Stories 10/11 class
read/trans
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Translation, parse & construe,
syntax exploration
Class translation
Day 7
Tuesday
Evening
Part VI
- Finish Aeneid
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Read to end
Day 7
Tuesday
Evening
Part VII
- Aeneid response writing
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Response paper with selection of
essay prompts
Day 8
Wednesday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz
- Review Wheelock 10 & 11
- Wheelock 12 (perf act sys)
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Review discussion on aspect vs
tense
Introduce timeline of tenses
Day 8
Wednesday
Morning
Part II
- Early Empire 2 (Flavians)
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Personality of the Emperor
damnatio memoriae and
manipulation of memory
Date
Session
Lessons
Day 8
Wednesday
Morning
Part III
- Review morphology to ch.12
- Morpheme cards game
Day 8
Wednesday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Aeneid discussion
Content and Format
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Day 8
Wednesday
Afternoon
Day 8
Wednesday
Overall response
Favorite characters
Aeneas: hero or not?
Further comparison with Homer
Problematic scenes (gates of
dreams, Dido, theodicy,
Share response papers (turn in
afterwards)
Part V
- Hexameter scansion, select
passages to recite
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Afternoon
Part VI
- Pompeii and Vesuvius
eruption
- Cities
- Houses
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Eyewitness accounts (Pliny)
Highlights of preserved city
Roman cities in general
Town houses and villa
Wall painting
Day 8
Wednesday
Evening
Part VII
- Metamorphoses 1-3
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Read individually
Day 8
Wednesday
Evening
Part VIII
- Ch. 12 Syntax practice
- 38 Stories 12
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Identification from readings
Individual/group translation
Day 9
Thursday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz
- Review perfect active system
(Wheelock 12)
- Wheelock 13 (reflexives,
possessives, intensives)
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Review other pronouns as well
Anaphors again
Sentence study, translation
Day 9
Thursday
Morning
Part II
- Early Empire 3 (second
century)
-
Five Good Emperors
Expansion and contraction
Imperial succession
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Scansion lesson with rules and
pronunciation
Practice select lines
Choose Aeneid passage of ~10 lines
to memorize and recite
Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Day 9
Thursday
Morning
Part III
- Wheelock 14 (3i dec, abl
means/inst/manner/accom)
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Review declensions
Ablative with/without preposition
Day 9
Thursday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Reading and writing
- History of Latin
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Papyrus, inscriptions, tablets
Literacy
Audiences
Archaic, Classical, Medieval, NeoLatin
Day 9
Thursday
Afternoon
Part V
- Class translation from
Wheelock
- 38 Stories translation
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Passages from textbook together
Class translation together
Day 9
Thursday
Evening
Part VI
- Metamorphoses 4-6
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Read individually
Day 9
Thursday
Evening
Part VII
- Vocabulary study
- Recitation practice
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Flash cards
Reading and memorizing, practice
inflection
Day 10
Friday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz
- Wheelock 13-14 review
- Wheelock 15 (numbers,
gen/abl, abl time)
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Cardinal vs ordinal
Time when vs within which
Day 10
Friday
Morning
Part II
- Roman clothing and styles
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Powerpoint presentation (statuary,
paintings)
Dress-up and fashion show (time
permitting)
Day 10
Friday
Morning
Part III
- Wheelock 16 (3 decl adj)
- Morphology quiz game
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Brief morphology lecture
Team game for points
Day 10
Friday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Roman cultural/ethnic
identity
- Minorities and Others
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Polybius, Tacitus, Josephus
Jews, Greeks
Assimilation
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Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Day 10
Friday
Afternoon
Part V
- Recap Week 2
- 38 Stories translation 15-16
- Wheelock translation 15-16
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Small group/individual and class
translation
Syntax discussion
Sunday 3
Evening
Part VI
- Metamorphoses 7-9
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Individual reading
Sunday 3
Evening
Part VII
- Vocabulary study
- Morphology/syntax review
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Individual or with partner
Forms ID practice
Day 11
Monday
Morning
Part I
- Week 2 Quiz (30min)
- Wheelock 17 (rel pron)
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Antecedents and agreement
Compared with other prons
Day 11
Monday
Morning
Part II
- Middle Empire (3rd century)
to Diocletian
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Severans
Soldier emperors
Non-Roman emperors
Tetrarchy
Day 11
Monday
Morning
Part III
- Wheelock 18 [+21] (pass pres
sys, abl agent)
- Class syntax study on
Wheelock 17-18
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Discuss voice as verb feature
Act/pass, Eng pass vs Lat pass
Parsing and construing
Subject, object, agent
Day 11
Monday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Late Empire
- Christianity
-
Constantine
Edict of Milan
Transformation of Roman
institutions into Christian
Latin language in Christianity
Day 11
Monday
Afternoon
Part V
- Recap of Wheelock 17-18
- Group translation from 38
Stories
- Morpheme and/or story
game
-
Morpheme review
Translate 17/18 together
Use new morphology and syntax
Day 11
Monday
Evening
Part VI
- Metamorphoses 10-12
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Read individually
Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Day 11
Monday
Evening
Part VII
- Vocabulary study
- Recitation practice
- Syntax + morphology
practice
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Flash cards
Syntax worksheet
Day 12
Tuesday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz
- Review vbs (esp. pass)
- Wheelock 19 (perf pass sys,
int pron/adj)
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Introduce participles (esp. ppp)
Reiterate tense vs aspect
Day 12
Tuesday
Morning
Part II
- Caesar BG reading and
translation
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Complete original text, with vocab
and occasional glosses
Day 12
Tuesday
Morning
Part III
- Recap of Wheelock 19
- Syntax exercises (act/pass)
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Conversion of active passive,
changes in tense, exploration of
syntactic and semantic
relationships between active and
passive
Day 12
Tuesday
Afternoon
Part IV (extended)
- Rome in contemporary mass
media (film and television)
- Viewings, lecture, discussion
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Age-appropriate excerpts from
cinema and tv (Spartacus, Ben-Hur,
Star Trek, I Claudius, Gladiator,
Titus, Hunger Games)
Explicit vs implicit adaptations of
Rome
Interpretations of history and
historical figures
Imagery and iconography of Rome
in pop culture
Readings of Roman identity
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Individual reading
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Day 12
Tuesday
Afternoon
Part V (shortened)
- Vocabulary and morphology
practice (Wheelock 19,
passive verbs)
Day 12
Tuesday
Evening
Part VI
- Finish Metamorphoses (1315)
Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Day 12
Tuesday
Evening
Part VII
- Begin Met response
-
Response paper with choice of
prompts
Day 13
Wednesday
Morning
Part I
- Quiz
- Review passive voice
- Wheelock 20 & 22 (3/4 decl)
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Morphology lecture
Ablative overview
Sentence and passage translation
from textbook
Day 13
Wednesday
Morning
Part II
- Roman military & militarism
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Organization and equipment of
army
Army as location of power
Military in Roman and modern
culture
Day 13
Wednesday
Morning
Part III
- Figures of speech and
rhetoric
- Vocabulary study
-
Reading aloud of prose (and
poetry)
Day 13
Wednesday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Barbarian conquests
- Late antiquity
- Survival of Roman culture
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Goths, Vandals, Germans (Alaric,
Odoacer, Valens, Theoderic)
Byzantine Empire (Justinian,
Belisarius)
Charlemagne, HRE
Pope, Democracy/Fascism, etc.
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Day 13
Wednesday
Afternoon
Part V
- Wheelock 23 (participles)
- Participle syntax practice
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Wheelock syntax and translation
Rel clause vs part phrase (rewriting
exercises)
Day 13
Wednesday
Evening
Part VI
- Met responses + discussion
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Share papers (turn in afterwards)
Guided discussion
Favorite myths, favorite themes
Overall reaction
Compared with Aeneid
Day 13
Wednesday
Evening
Part VII
- Selected poetry (orig + trans)
group reading and discussion
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Catullus, Tibullus, Lucretius,
Propertius, Horace, Lucan
Other meters
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Date
Session
Lessons
Content and Format
Day 14
Thursday
Morning
Part I
- Review Week 3
- 38 Stories small group
translation and reading
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Rel pron.s, pass vbs, part.s
Translate in small groups
Read aloud and share translation
with class
Discuss issues of translation and
interpretation (what can you
change, when, why?)
Day 14
Thursday
Morning
Part II
- Prepare for debate: Augustus
and the Empire – good or
bad?
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Readings of Aen/Met
Caesar, Antony, Civil Wars
Freedom vs Order
Day 14
Thursday
Morning
Part III
- Translations discussion
- Studying Classics
-
Verg. Aen. & Ov. Met. translation
compare & contrast
Using commentaries
Manuscripts and codicology
Day 14
Thursday
Afternoon
Part IV
- Debate: Augustus and the
Empire – good or bad?
Day 14
Thursday
Afternoon
Part V
- Review for post-test
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Day 14
Thursday
Evening
Part VI
- Post-test
- Final recitation practice
Day 14
Thursday
Evening
Part VII
- Passage recitations
- Final evaluations (SPEs)
Day 15
Friday
Morning
-
Convivium Latinum
Ludi varii et iucundi
Doctor Quis “Ignes
Pompeiani”
Vocabulary study
Group and individual
morphology/syntax review
Translation practice
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Recite + brief discussion of passage
selections and interpretations
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Discussion of Roman parties
Non-alcoholic beverage
alternatives
Story game
Ieopardia
Time travel
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