Department of Languages - Latin summer courses - Groups and Programs - Group III (= level II)

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.

Course topics:
Lesson 1: Subjunctive (Continuation)
Lesson 2: Passive (Continuation)
Lesson 3: Declensions, 4th & 5th
Lesson 4: Adjectives, comparative and superlative
Lesson 5: some essential points on Syntaxis

Goals
Reading without dictionary or grammar, some normal texts.


Lessons and materials


Class format:
POLIS Method.
Total physical response.
Story Telling
Conversations (by small groups and with the teacher)
Readings

Teaching aids:
Draft of the Forum textbook


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%