Stephen’s Episcopal School
8th Grade Latin
First Six Weeks
2008-2009
Teacher: Lisl Bambas
Class time: 1st period, 8:45-9:10, Wednesday 9:00-9:20
Course description: Text: Latin Grammar for Christian and Home Schools; The students have already learned to form and use first and second declension nouns in the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative cases through exercises and brief translations. In this course we add the third, fourth, and fifth declensions. They have learned the six active tenses of first conjugation verbs. We add the second, third and fourth conjugations in both the active and passive tenses. The students continue to link Latin words to their English and Spanish derivatives.
Grading Scheme: Participation 10%; Homework 15%; Class work 15%; Quizzes 20%, Tests 25%; Homework is due on the date assigned. Late work will not receive a grade but must be completed.
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Week |
Content/Question |
Skills |
Activities |
Assessment |
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Week One |
Review: What are the 5 noun cases |
Reviewing cases and what they stand for |
Board work and questions |
Discussion
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Week Two |
What is a second conjugation verb? |
Present, future, imperfect tenses of second conjugations verbs |
Translate Latin to English/English to Latin sentences
Review questions |
Discussion
Chapter exercises
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Week Three |
What do you remember? |
Vocabulary review
First Latin reading |
Read & respond;
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Vocabulary test
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Week Four |
More second conjugation verb tenses
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Forming the perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses |
Translate Latin to English/English to Latin sentences
Review questions |
Skills review, Discussion: chapter exercises |
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Week Five |
Verb synopsis
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Conjugation using various starting points |
Exercises and translations |
Skills review, Discussion: chapter exercises
Vocabulary quiz |
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Week Six |
General review |
Review of vocabulary and conjugations |
Chapter exercises
Translate Psalm 150 |
Rubric: case and tense accuracy; word recognition
Vocabulary quiz |
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