Seventh Grade Latin

Recommended Prerequisites: None

Grade Offered: 7^th

Credit: None

State Code: 0703

MNPS Course Code: FLA1077Y

 

Course Description

The emphasis of this course is placed on providing students with a solid foundation for learning Latin.  Students gain an understanding of pronunciation, develop listening and reading comprehension skills, and are able to hold simple, guided conversations.  They learn to translate in the present and imperfect tenses.  Students learn to use nouns and adjectives of the first, second, and third declensions.  They study Roman culture and its influences on the modern world.  This course can be offered as the first part of a two-year course for Latin I high school credit.

 

Course of Study: Students are expected to use and understand the following topics.

·        Roman Empire: countries & important cities

·        Latin alphabet

·        Cognates

·        Greetings and farewells

·        Classroom vocabulary (words for school supplies and classroom objects)

·        Numbers (1 – 1000)

·        Colors

·        Body parts

·        The months of the year

·        Yes/no questions

·        First, second, and third declension nouns and their plurals

·        First, second, and third declension adjectives

·        Present and Imperfect Verb Tenses

·        Weather

·        Clothing

·        Seasons

·        Question words

·        Some Roman customs, compared and contrasted with American customs

·        Some Roman mythology

·        Animals

·        Food

·        Roman names

·        Roman house

·        Olympian Gods

 

Standards

Standards are based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Standards and the Tennessee Standards.

ACTFL Standards: http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3392#standards

Tennessee Standards: http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/ciforeignlang/ciflclassic.htm

 

Recommended Textbook

Latin for Americans published by Glencoe if the course is offered as the first half of the Latin I for high school credit course.

 

Resources

Lingua Latina

Ecce Romani published by Pearson Prentice Hall

These organizations have materials and useful information:

The American Classical League, Miami University at Oxford, Ohio

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (www.camws.org)

The National Committee of Latin and Greek (www.promotelatin.org)

The American Classical League and the Junior Classical League (http://www.tjcl.org)