Latin III
Overview
Fee Details
Overview
Strengthen your Latin vocabulary skills and develop an appreciation for well-crafted writing by visiting the library of great authors. You will read the timeless words of Roman poets, storytellers, and orators and recognize why Latin, and those who speak it, are still relevant today.
Major Concepts:
- Caesar vocabulary and accompanying English derivatives
- Gerunds
- Gerundives
- Passage from Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic Wars
- Caesar’s Helvetian Campaign
- Deponent Verbs
- Irregular Verbs
- Battle of Alesia/Hercynian Forest/Druids
- Life of Julius Caesar
- Roman archaeological legacy in Provence, France
- Stylistic and rhetorical devices
- Cicero vocabulary and accompanying English derivatives
- Latin passages from Cicero’s In Catilinam
- Entire In Catilinam in English
- Subjunctive mood, 5 uses (volitive, purpose, result, cum clauses and indirect question), 4 tenses (present, imperfect, perfect, past perfect), active and passive voices
- Sequence of tenses using the subjunctive mood
- Structure of an oration
- Cicero’s thoughts from On Oratory and De Officiis
- Life of Tullius Cicero
- Poetic meter: dactylic hexameter, hendecasyllabics, elision, spondee, dactyl, liquid, etc. Oral scansion as a metrical exercise
- Ovid vocabulary and accompanying English derivatives
- Latin passages from the Metamorphoses re: Daphne and Apollo
- Art through the ages using the Daphne and Apollo story
- English passage from the Metamorphoses re: Pyramus and Thisbe
- Catullus vocabulary and accompanying English derivatives
- Life of Catullus
- Assorted Latin poems of Catullus: II, III, V, LXXXV
- Analysis of writing style and content of both authors
- Life of Vergil
- Poetic forms of dactylic hexameter
- Vergil vocabulary and accompanying English derivatives
- Latin passages from the Aeneid: Lines 1-33, 50-64, 81-101, 124-131, 148-153, 198-209
- Oral reading of the introduction to the Aeneid
- Essay writing to include substantiation of position via the Latin text, English translation and assessment of author’s usage of rhetorical devices
Fee Details
S.No. | Program Name | Fee Component | Amount (USD) | Description |
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1. | Regular | Course Fee | $ 450 | To be paid by the student at the time of Enrollment. |
2. | Honors | Course Fee | $ 475 | To be paid by the student at the time of Enrollment. |
Grade Level
Grade 9, 10, 11, 12
Duration
Annual
Requirements
Microphone and speaker, or headset.
Prerequisites
Latin I & II