LATIN II

1st Bell

4th Bell

Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

Course Credit: 1 credit, 5 periods/week, full year

Latin II students read, understand and interpret stories, graffiti and poems.  The communicative skills of listening, speaking and writing are emphasized as tools to improve reading.  Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other academic disciplines, especially history, science and English, through various interdisciplinary connections with Latin.  Students recognize the influence of Latin on the specialized language of various professional fields and recognize its use in the media.  Latin II students begin to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the linguistic relationship between English and Latin, using their knowledge of Latin to figure out the meaning of English words.