This program is provisional and subject to change in accord with the specific needs of the students.
Course overview
Prerequisites:
The student can access this level either if he/she has completed the appropriate second level course organized by the Polis Institute in Rome or if he/she has successfully passed the placement test during the first day of the Summer course.
Level 3 is for students with an intermediate knowledge of Latin grammar and a background of at least 1000 words of common vocabulary.
Objective:
Intermediate Classical Latin. The course will extend the student's understanding of Latin morphology (case system, verb system and vocabulary) with the goal of being able to hold a conversation, write a simple text, and to read and understand intermediate in Latin without translating.
Course topics:
All five nominal declensions, including subsets (i-stems, etc.)
Advanced usage of the 7 cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative, locative)
Advanced usage of adjectives (including comparative, superlative, etc.)
Complete system of verbs: indicative, subjunctive, imperative, participle and infinitive for all applicable tenses.
Pronouns (ille, ipse, idem, quiddam, etc.)
Intermediate syntax : purpose clauses, oratio obliqua, conditionals, etc.
N.B. Topics addressed from this list will depend on the level of students enrolled
Lessons and materials
Class format:
Polis method: Full immersion with use of various comprehensible input (CI) techniques, such as total physical response (TPR), participative storytelling (TPRS), and more.
Teaching aids:
Book "Familia Romana".
Exams and grading system
- Three exams during the course
- Morphology and syntax exercises
- Short essay
Grade:
A: Excellence: 96 - 100%
B: Above the average standard: 86 - 95%
C: Average standard: 76 - 85%
D: Below the average standard: 66 - 75%
E: Minimum criteria to pass: 60 - 65%
E: Fail: 0 - 59%
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