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What You Will Learn in Latin II:
Communication
This is the big one: You will learn to communicate in Latin. To do this, you will learn
what words mean—vocabulary—and how the language works—grammar, grammar,
grammar! Latin II picks up where Latin I left off in the grammar and readings, so you’ll
be learning what is sometimes called “intermediate” grammar but is in fact some of the
most difficult parts of the Latin grammar. Be warned….You will learn many Latin words
and how they relate to English words. You will learn to read, write, speak, and listen to
Latin and understand it all!
Cultures
You will learn about Roman culture—how Roman people lived and what they left behind
to tell us about them. You will study the countries and provinces of the Roman empire,
the people of Rome and her neighbors, Roman food, dress, roads, myths, history, and
holidays. You’ll learn basic facts about the Romans and then apply your knowledge in
creative activities and in analyzing the world we live in and its debt to the ancient
civilization.
Connections
You will learn how Latin applies to other school subjects—for example, how over half of
the words in English come from Latin words that give a clue to their meanings, or how
modern architecture, art, mathematics, music, literature, military, medicine, law, etc. have
developed from Roman ideas. You will come to see the modern world from a Roman
point of view.
Comparisons
You will discover comparisons between Latin and English; between Roman culture and
your own culture; and between other areas of Roman ideas and modern ideas.
Communities
You will have opportunities to use Latin both in school and in extracurricular settings
(Join the Junior Classical League!). You will become a part of the state-, nation-, and
worldwide community of classical scholars when you learn Latin and will have
opportunities to compete and demonstrate your mastery of Latin in the National Latin
Exam and at JCL events. You will become a life-long learner and Latin Lover when you
discover the Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur that was Rome!
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Curricular Details
Latin II
Latin II is your opportunity to complete your knowledge of the core of Latin grammar and vocabulary.
Specifically, in Latin II we will discover the following topics about this great language and culture.
Things that are changed/new from Latin I are in bold type.
COMMUNICATION
 Nouns in Six Cases and Five Declensions—and how to translate special case uses like the
Ablative of Comparison, Time, and Agent.
 Pronouns of every shape and size: relative, interrogative, personal, reflexive,
demonstrative…quis, qui, ego, tu, se, hic, ille, is, and more…
 Adjectives in three declensions and how they pair up with Nouns—to give your Nouns some
personality! Also make your adjectives more impressive or the most exquisite by forming
comparatives and superlatives! There will also be math. Because numbers are adjectives,
too.
 Verbs in Six Tenses and Four Conjugations, both Active and Passive Voice—and a handful
of Weird irregular verbs, like SUM and POSSUM, VOLO/NOLO/MALO, FIO, EO, FERO,
and some impersonal verbs like LICET, PLACET, VIDETUR.
 Participles—a form of Verbs that pretend to be Adjectives
 Infinitives—a form of Verbs that have no subject
 Adverbs, including regular and irregular ones—to give your Verbs some personality. Also
do things more impressively or most exquisitely with comparative and superlative adverbs!
 Conjunctions—to hold things together
 Enclitics—words that hold things together from behind the rest of the words!
 Clauses with special Subjunctive verb forms for special circumstances!
 Interrogatives—at this point you’ll have lots of questions so we’ll learn the question words
 Idioms—some phrases that mean more than they appear!
CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
 Geography: expand your empire to visit the provinces that Rome ruled!
 History: Focusing on prominent characters like Augustus, Hannibal, Julius Caesar,
Cleopatra, Marc Antony, Spartacus, and major events like the Punic Wars and Caesar’s
conquest of Gaul
 Mythology: Follow ancient heroes as they face off with ancient monsters!
 Roman Life: How they learned, relaxed, and were entertained
LATIN IN USE
 Thematic vocabulary: Taste the rainbow with Latin color words
 Basic spoken phrases: How to say “Hello! How are you? What was the homework?” and
more…
 Derivatives: How words got from English to Latin
 Expressions, Mottoes, and Abbreviations: Latin terms that English was too lazy to change so
we borrowed them in toto*
The Schedule for Latin II is based on Ecce Romani II, Fourth Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson
Education, Inc., 2009.
*in toto: Latin for “in its entirety,” one of those Expressions that we were too lazy to change and therefore
borrowed in toto