Skills+Form+II

=Skills You Will Have Mastered by the End of the Year=

1. How to recognize, form, and translate the imperfect tense. 2. How to recognize, form, and translate the perfect tense. 3. How to look up a verb in a Latin dictionary by its principal parts. 4. How to differentiate cardinal and ordinal numerals, as well as how to decline them. 5. The accusative case used to express DURATION of time. 6. The ablative case used to express TIME WHEN or WITHIN WHICH. 7. How to recognize, form, and translate the pluperfect tense. 8. The accusative case used to express MOTION TOWARDS names of cities and towns. 9. The ablative case used to express MOTION FROM cities and towns. 10. How to recognize, form, and translate the locative case. 11. Nouns of the 4th declension. 12. Nouns of the 5th declension. 13. Ways to translate the ablative case: //by, with, from, in, on, at//. 14. How to recognize, form, and translate the irregular verb //ferre//. 15. How to recognize, form, and translate the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. 16. The different ways to use //quam// with positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives. 17. How to recognize, form, and translate the comparative and superlative forms of adverbs. 18. How to recognize, form, and translate adjectives and adverbs with irregular comparative and superlative forms. 19. How to recognize, form, and translate the forms of the present active participle. 20. How to recognize, form, and translate the future tense for all regular verbs and the irregular verb //sum.// 21. How to recognize, form, and translate the future perfect tense. 22. The full declension of the relative pronoun //qui, quae, quod.// 22. How the adjectives alter, uter, and uterque are declined and translated. 23. How to recognize, form, and translate the forms of the perfect passive participle. 24. How to recognize, form, and translate the passive forms of the perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect tenses. 25. How to recognize, form, and translate the passive forms of the present, future, and imperfect tenses.

In addition to the language skills listed above, you will learn much about Roman culture and history. You will become familiar with the following terms/items: elections and government, SPQR, Cicero, chariot racing, triumphs, toga virilis, republic, Stoic and Epicurean philosophy, weddings, Second Triumvirate. You will also continue to learn about the life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the famous Roman poet that moderns call Horace.