Skills+Form+I

=Skills You Will Have Mastered by the End of the Year   =   1. How to read Latin word order, in which the verb is often placed at the end of a sentence. 2. How to recognize, form, and translate the nominative case.  3. How to recognize, form, and translate the accusative case. 4. How to recognize the declension of a noun. 5. How to make adjectives agree with nouns in case, number, and gender. 6. How to conjugate and translate verbs of each conjugation. 7. How to recognize and translate infinitive verb forms. 8. How to recognize, form, and translate the vocative case. 9. How to form questions with the most common interrogative words.  10. How to recognize, form, and translate the ablative case. 11. How to recognize, form, and translate the common irregular verbs //sum, possum// and //eō//. 12. How to recognize, form, and translate imperative verb forms. 13. How to form prepositional phrases with the most common prepositions. 14. How to recognize, form, and translate the genitive case. 15. How to recognize, form, and translate adverbs. 16. How to decline nouns and adjectives of differing declensions. 17. How to recognize, form, and translate the dative case.  18. How to recognize and translate subordinate clauses. 19. How to recognize, form, and translate the relative pronoun //quī, quae, quod.// 20. How to recognize, form, and translate the demonstrative pronouns //is// and //ille.// 21. How to recognize, form, and translate the personal pronouns //ego, nōs, tū, vōs.// 22. How to recognize, form, and translate the possessive adjectives //meus, tuus, noster, vester.// 23. How to recognize, form, and translate the reflexive pronoun //sē// and adjective //suus.// 24. How to recognize, form, and translate the irregular verbs //volō// and //nōlō.//  25. How to recognize, form, and translate the demonstrative pronouns //hic// and //ipse.// 26. How to decline nouns of the first, second, and third declensions 27. How to compose simple, grammatically correct Latin sentences. 28.   How to recognize Latin roots in large number of English words. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> In addition to the language skills listed above, you will become familiar with some figures <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> of Roman history and literature; you will get to know the characters and storyline of Homer's //Iliad// and //Odyssey//; and you learn a little bit about the study of classics.