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 Latin I in one of the former courses organized by the Polis Institute or if he/she has succesfully passed the placement test during the first day of the Summer course.

Level II is addressed to students with an elementary knowledge of Latin grammar and a background of at least 500-1000 words appertaining to the ordinary vocabulary.
Level II is specially addressed to students with only a passive acquaintance of grammatical issues, and/or have approached the original Latin texts only for translations goals. The aim of the course is to acquire greater active expertise of the Latin language both at the oral and written level.

Course topics:
1) Knowledge of around 1000-1500 words of ordinary vocabulary
2) Active expertise of all declinations:
    - study of all declinations case by case, including all 5 substantive declinations, the 2 adjectival declinations and pronouns
3) Active expertise of verbal categories of time and mode:
    - present imperative
    - present indicative, imperfect, perfect, future
    - present subjuntive
    - passive forms
     - participials
4) Active expertise of syntactical issues:
    - subordination
    - particiapial proposition
    - infinitive proposition

Goals
Reading without a dictionary simple texts.

Lessons and materials

Class format:
POLIS Method
Total physical response
Story telling
Conversations (in group with teacher)
Active and passive learning of the vocabulary through images, sign language, synonyms, contextual phrase.
Various different exercises.
Reading of dialogues
Reading of easy texts
Reading of selected original texts
Writing fables, letters and dialogues
Performing dramatic dialogues
Songs
Community games

Teaching aids:
Draft of the book Forum

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%