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The aims of Latin teaching in Years 10 and 11
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We aim to increase linguistic awareness and ability, to foster consciousness of cultural variety and development by study of an ancient culture over a relatively short timespan, to promote knowledge of a world which is a source of many and varied elements of the contemporary world, particularly in Europe and Spain, to develop a critical approach to learning about the past, understanding the importance of evidence and its evaluation.
The general purposes of Latin
- To improve pupils' understanding and use of their own language(s), both the grammar and the vocabulary;
- To train pupils' minds to be precise both in analysis of language and in application;
- To help them learn other languages, both related to and not related to Latin;
- To understand and question critically their cultural environment;
- To have a fuller and richer knowledge of the history and culture of a major European civilisation;
- To be familiar with and to appreciate surviving features of that civilisation - physical remains, works of art and literature;
- To encourage pupils to appreciate non-vocational studies.
Subject special skills
- To understand a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar grammatical concepts; to learn accidence; to learn vocabulary;
- To use written language carefully;
- To understand and appreciate the way people lived in the past;
- To make comparisons with the pupils' own experience;
- To develop an understanding of sources of knowledge;
- To appreciate their limitations.
- To be able to read, understand and interpret some ancient literature in the original language.
The Course
This is based on the Cambridge Latin Course, Units IV and V in Year 10, and leads at the end of Year 11 to Latin GCSE. In 2006 the GCSE will be that of the AQA board; from 2007 onwards, it will be the OCR GCSE. Both of these include sections designed for those who have studied the Cambridge Latin Course since Unit I. Some of the exercises in these two units are omitted, others are added; some of the literature in V is not read. For the GCSE selections of literature to be prepared for the examination come from other books. Also used at the end of Year 10 and the start of Year 11 is "Latin Passages for Translation and Comprehension" by Dale. Photocopied sheets in booklet form are used in Year 11 for Roman life revision, for grammar notes, for vocabulary and for set-book translations.
Year 10
- Autumn Term
- Stages 29 to 32: Language
- Revision of nouns
- Passive (Present, Imperfect, Perfect and Pluperfect)
- ne Purpose Clauses and Indirect Commands
- qui / ubi Purpose Clauses
- Ablative Absolute
- Deponent Verbs
- Future Participle
- Indo-European languages
- Stages 29 to 32: Roman world
(Which topics are covered in depth in a particular year depends on syllabus)
- The city of Rome and building techniques
- Patronage
- Social organisation
- Alternatives to Roman religion
- The siege of Masada
- Spring/Summer
- Stages 33 - 40: Language
- Transitive Gerundives of Obligation
- Future Indicative - Active and Passive
- Future Perfect
- Infinitives (Present, Future, Perfect - Active and Passive)
- Indirect Statement (Accusative and Infinitive)
- Pronoun revision
- Fourth Declension
- Present Subjunctive
- Perfect Subjunctive
- Purpose expressed by ad + Gerundive
- Stages 33 - 40: Literature
- Martial's epigrams
- Ovid's account of the flood
- Stages 33 - 40: Roman world
(Which topics are covered in depth depends on syllabus)
- Early Christianity
- Chariot-racing and other entertainments
- Freedmen
- Books and recitationes
- Politics
- Women and marriage
- Tacitus' account of Agricola's career (in English)
Year 11
- Autumn
- Revision of grammar, particularly Noun endings, Infinitives and Participles
- Unseen translation practice from Dale and old papers
- Set books
- Druids and Boudica's Rebellion (Caesar, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder)
- Roman world
- Revision of Romans in Britain, Cogidubnus and Fishbourne
- Spring/Early Summer
- Revision of grammar as necessary
- Vocabulary work from GCSE list
- Unseen translation practice mainly from old papers
- Set books
- Poetry (Horace, Catullus and Ovid)
- Revision notes on both set-books
- Roman world
- Revision and new work on remaining Roman life topics
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