Latin II Honors: First Semester Objectives


Chapter 25 -- “First Morning in Rome”

    * fourth and fifth declension nouns
    * aspects of the city of Rome

Chapter 26 -- “A Grim Lesson”
    * demonstrative pronouns
    * Roman conquest and domination

Chapter 27 -- “A Visit to the Races”
    * chariot racing / Circus Maximus
    * personal, possessive, and reflexive pronouns

Chapter 30 -- “Fire!”

    * passive voice (present, imperfect, and future)
    * struggles in the Roman Republic

Chapter 31 -- “Pseudolus”
    * present passive infinitive
    * ablatives with passive verbs
    * intensive pronouns
    * the pronoun idem

Chapter 32 -- “Dinner Preparations”
    * pluperfect, perfect, and future perfect passive forms
    * mythology -- aspects of the Underworld

Chapter 33 -- “At Dinner”
    * perfect passive participles
    * Roman meals and recipes

Chapter 34 -- “The Commissatio”
    * positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives
    * aspects of the commissatio

Chapter 35 -- “Crime”
    * quam / ablative of comparison
    * positive, comparative, and superlative adverbs
    * Cicero, Caesar, and the collapse of the Roman Republic
    * Latin legal terminology

Chapter 36 -- “A Letter”
    * Roman dates
    * uses of the word quam