Theme 1: Roman Life

Communication

Reading for Understanding

• Read various passages about entertainment, the patron-client system, rituals and beliefs, and religion.
• Interpret and understand Roman daily life as found in Latin excerpts from targeted authors, such as Petronius, Martial, Catullus, etc.

Using Oral and Written Language for Understanding

• Find contextual evidence and quote the text to answer questions in Latin pertaining to aspects of Roman daily life, such as clothing, food, holidays, entertainments, customs, etc.
• Read or recite texts related to Roman daily life, whether as a prepared recitation or spontaneously.
• Translate passages and sentences in Latin with appropriate grammar related to the Latin 3 Program of Studies, such as gerundives, concessive clauses, and the hortatory subjunctive.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products

• Demonstrate an understanding of the Roman daily life practices in the era of the author being read and studied.
• Discuss the concepts of gravitas, pietas, otium, and religio.

Connections, Comparisons and Communities

Making Connections Through Language

• Demonstrate how various aspects of Roman daily life continue to influence western culture, such as in sports, the calendar, religion, cults, etc.
• Contrast the Roman idea of state religion to the American ideal of separation of church and state.
• Recognize how the rise of Christianity has affected music, history, literature, architecture, the calendar and art.

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

• Discuss modern holidays and their Roman origins.
• Recognize derivatives based on Roman daily life, such as pontifex, epicurean, cathedral, piety, impediment, subliminal, etc.

Communication Across Communities

• Inform others about the Romans by making cultural bulletin boards about topics such as the state religion, Roman art and painting, etc.
• Recognize the evidence of Roman daily life in the study of recent archaeological excavations.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Pietas and gravitas
• Hauspex, flamen, salii, fetiales
• Avocatus, testis, iudex
• Otium vs. negotium

Theme 2: Geography

Communication

Reading for Understanding

• Read various passages featuring sites such as Judaea, Britannia, Gallia, Graecia, Africa, Bythinia, and Asia Minor.
• Read various adapted and/or authentic texts which emphasize the expansion of the Romans and its effect on the native population.

Using Oral and Written Language for Understanding

• Locate on a map of the Roman world specific sites, cities, regions, bodies of water and other topography pertinent to specific authors.
• Respond to questions about the locations of significant sites being studied.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products

• Discuss the effects of displacement as a result of Roman expansion.
• Analyze and discuss how the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean world facilitated travel, trade and the exchange of ideas.

Connections, Comparisons and Communities

Making Connections Through Language

• Demonstrate how the geographic locations of the Roman world continue to influence the modern political map and current events.

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

• Produce English derivatives from place names of geographical areas outside of Italy.
• Expand knowledge of Latin place expressions, using accusative, ablative and locative.

Communication Across Communities

• Recognize patterns of Greco-Roman geographical names used for countries and cities worldwide.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Place names such as Delphi, Mt. Parnassus, Olympia, Alexandria, Libya, Alps, Etruria, Gallia, Gergovia, Lutetia, Bithynia, etc.

Theme 3: History

Communication

Reading for Understanding

• Read various passages focused on important figures from the end of the republic through the imperial period such as Caesar, Catiline, Clodia, Antonius, and Cleopatra, Augustus and the Julio-Claudians, and later emperors such as Constantine.
• Read excerpts from a variety of authors from Roman times to the Renaissance and modern times, such as Caesar, Pliny, Livy, Cicero, Sallust, Eutropius, Catullus, Ovid, Horace, Virgil, Martial, Suetonius, Thomas Aquinas, etc.

Using Oral and Written Language for Understanding

• Find textual evidence and quote the text to answer questions in Latin pertaining to Roman history, such as historical figures, dates and events.
• Read and recite texts aloud, either as a prepared recitation or spontaneously.
• Write in Latin about historical figures or events using appropriate grammatical structures related to the Latin 3 Program of Studies.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products

• Demonstrate an understanding of the political and social climate of the era of the author being read and studied.
• Demonstrate understanding of the impact of the individual personalities of significant historical figures on their known world.
• Identify the ways in which the Roman army continued to exert an influence on Roman history.
• Demonstrate understanding of the evolution of the Roman government from monarchy through the republic to imperial rule.

Connections, Comparisons and Communities

Making Connections Through Language

• Demonstrate how the historical development of the Roman world continues to influence western history and current events.

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

• Discuss how the Romans viewed themselves and others in different time periods and compare them to modern cultural views.
• Identify historical terms derived from Latin, such as empire, Kaiser, Tzar and fascism.
• Discuss Latin phrases and imagery used in modern historical contexts, such as e pluribus unum, novus ordo saeclorum, semper fidelis, fasces, etc.

Communication Across Communities

• Share knowledge of Roman history with others in the school community through activities such as reenactments of the Ides of March, etc.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Historical present and historical infinitive
• Founding fathers (pater patriae) vs. the principate
• Political words such as president, politician, veto, congress, senate, gubernatorial, vote, etc.

Theme 4: Mythology

Communication

Reading for Understanding

• Read various passages about the underworld, foundation myths, creation stories, transformations, and love stories by authors such as Ovid, Virgil, Apuleius, etc.

Using Oral and Written Language for Understanding

• Find textual evidence and quote the text to answer questions in Latin pertaining to mythology.
• Read and/or recite texts about mythology, either as a prepared recitation or spontaneously.
• Respond in Latin to questions pertaining to mythological passages.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products

• Demonstrate understanding about why the Greco-Roman world believed in mythological figures and their underlying importance to its cultural identity.
• Discuss how a targeted author employs mythological allusions in his writing.

Connections, Comparisons and Communities

Making Connections Through Language

• Identify mythological references in literature and the arts throughout the ages, such as Pyramus and Thisbe, the fall of Icarus, etc.
• Recognize examples of mythology in science and medicine.

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

• Discuss and compare creation stories from various cultures.
• Identify general mythological terms, such as mercurial, cyclopean, iliadic, and odyssean.

Communication Across Communities

• Recognize the use of mythology in NASA projects, the automobile industry and other industries.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Greek and Roman names of mythological figures, such as Orpheus and Eurydice, Cupid and Psyche, Baucis and Philemon, etc.
• English derivatives, such as narcissism, echo, etc.
• Names of mythological groups, such as nymphs, satyrs, centaurs, fates, Muses, etc.