Sept

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

March-April

May-June

Textbook Chapters

Stage 35

Stage 36

Stage 37

Stage 38

Stage 39

Stage 40

Stage 41

Stage 42

Major Skills

Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension

Themes

Personal letters

Country villas

City life vs. country life

Epigrams

Recitations

Power

Integrity

Marriage

Education

Laws and the Courts

Life in the Provinces

Parables and invective

Topics

Passive and deponent verbs

Indirect Statement

Present subjunctive, including sum, possum, and volo.

Perfect tense ending –ere. Ablative of comparison

Perfect infinitives in indirect statement after present tense introductory verbs. Perfect subjunctive.

Indirect statement; future active and present passive infinitives; perfect subjunctive; deliberative subjunctive; possessive dative

1st and 2nd person plural, present, future, and imperfect passive (including deponents)
historic present

Indirect statement (all infinitives) after past verb of speaking, etc.gerundive with ad

Gerunds and gerundives; irregular verb fio;

Conditional sentences; interlocking word order in poetry

Coached Projects

Compose and recite an original epigram

Create a poster on the political life of an emperor.

Reenactment of a Roman wedding.

Create a travel brochure to a Roman province

Seminars

Excerpt from a letter of M. Tullius Cicero.

Martial 1.10

Excerpt from Tacitus’ Life of Agricola.

Excerpt from a letter of Pliny

Quintillian’s views on education

Excerpt from Cicero’s de Legibus

Excerpt from Tacitus’ Histories

Selected fables of Aesop or Phaedrus