GRADE V LATIN CLASS

Grade V Latin is the fourth course of Latin study, for students who have completed the Latina Christiana text covered in Grades III & IV Latin. Based on the trivium model of teaching grammar systematically in order to facilitate retention and understanding, Grade V Latin is designed for grammar skills mastery and rapid recognition of inflected forms.

The class text, First Form Latin Student Workbook, Second Edition has 4-6 pages of exercises per lesson. These exercises teach concepts through practice and mastery learning, and includes a grammar catechism intended for daily rapid-fire review.

The text is supplemented with special songs, poems, historical literary/scientific excerpts, quotes & phrases according to the day's feast in the liturgical calendar. This interdisciplinary approach offers students an opportunity to reflect on the role of language in relation to concepts studied in other academic subjects.

After finishing First Form, the student will have mastered:

The six indicative active tenses of the first two verb conjugations

Five noun declensions

First and second declension adjectives

185 vocabulary words

The class text First Form Latin, is specifically designed for students who are still building their English grammar skills and wish to learn Latin as they continue to practice English grammar concepts in the process. Its goal is to teach and reinforce an understanding of the basic parts of English speech while reviewing and introducing new Latin vocabulary and grammar forms. In succession to the material covered in Grade IV Latin, the course continues to ground the fundamental concepts of English grammar, the key to Latin study.