Course Syllabus

Contact info:

Mr. Tim Horton

Email: hortont@wellesleyps.org

                                            LATIN 3

Salve! Welcome to Latin 3! Throughout this year we will continue to use the Oxford Latin Course series, which follows the life of a famous Roman poet named Quintus Horatius Flaccus (known to us as ‘Horace’ in English).

Afterwards, we will turn our attention to selections from Virgil's Aeneid, an epic poem about the foundation of Rome. 

Below is a brief overview of the course units, which follow the chapters of the textbook for the first section of the course. 

Oxford Latin Course Book 2

• Chapter 30

• Grammar
• Perfective passive participles
• Reading 
• Latin readings: Roman weddings, Republic comes into danger
• English cultural reading: Roman weddings

• Chapter 31

• Grammar
• Passive voice (perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect)
• Reading
• Latin readings: Brutus comes to Athens, Marcus joins Brutus against Octavius
• English cultural reading: Antony, Octavian and the senate

• Chapter 32

• Grammar
• Present, future, imperfect passive
• Reading
• Latin readings: Civil war, Death of Cicero
• English cultural reading: Second triumvirate 

• Chapter 33

• • • No new grammar for this chapter
    • Reading
      • Latin reading: Scintilla writes to Quintus
      • English cultural reading: Birth and Childhood

• Chapter 34 (Beginning of Book 3)
  • Grammar: Subjunctive (present and imperfect) 

• • Latin readings: Quintus goes to Delphi
  • English cultural reading: Oracle at Delphi

• Chapter 35

• Grammar
• Indirect command
• Pluperfect subjunctive, cum clauses 
• Imperfect subjunctive, cum clauses
• Passive forms of present, imperfect, pluperfect subjunctive
• Reading
• Latin reading: Quintus and Pompey plan to join the forces of Brutus.
• English cultural reading: Roman Army — Part I

• Chapter 36

• Grammar
• Deponent verbs
• Reading
• Latin reading: Quintus joins the forces of Brutus
• English cultural reading: Roman Army — Part II

• Chapter 37

• • Grammar
    • Ablative absolute
  • Reading
    • Latin reading: Philippi
    • English cultural reading: Brutus and Cassius
• Chapter 38
  • Reading
    • Latin readings: Quintus flees to Athens, Quintus returns to Italy
    • English cultural reading: Octavian returns to Italy

The Aeneid

• Grammar: Indirect statement, indirect question, future active participle
• Selections: 
  • Book 1: Lines 1 - 304. 
  • Book 1: Lines 417 - 519.
  • Book 2: 1 - 75.
  • Book 2: 195 - 297.
  • Book 2: 559 - 623.