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The Course Outline
A. Corpus of Grammar
- Nouns
- cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative)
- declensions (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
- Verbs
- conjugations (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th)
- active voice, indicative mood
- imperatives, active
- affirmative
- negative
- present active infinitive
- tenses (present, imperfect, future, perfect)
- irregular (sum, possum, nolo,
volo, fero, eo)
- principal parts
- Adjectives
- declensions (1st, 2nd, 3rd) positive degree
- demonstrative
- hic
- ille
- numerals and numbers
- noun/adjective agreement
- Pronouns
- personal (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
- demonstrative
- Prepositional phrases
- Adverbs (interrogative adjectives used as adverbs)
- Formation of questions
- Noun/adjective agreement
- Appositives
B. Vocabulary
- Vocabulary lists correlated to reading in texts
- Word study
- derivatives
- formation
- prefixes
- suffixes
- Latin phrases in English use
- Abbreviations
- Base and stem
C. Civilization
- Roman life and culture (family, travel, slaves, aqueducts, houses, dress, circus games)
- Rome, the city
- Introduction to three periods of Roman history (monarch, republic, and empire)
D. Greek and Roman Mythology (Enrichment)
- How the world began
- Twelve Olympian gods and goddesses
- gods of the sky
- stories of Jupiter and Minerva
- stories of Venus
- stories of Apollo
- stories of Diana
- gods of nature
- The Underworld
There may be times when we have to alter the syllabus in
order to accomplish our goal: learning to interact in a new language.
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