GRADE VI LATIN CLASS

Grade VI Latin is the fifth course of Latin study, for students who have completed the First Form Latin text covered in Grade V Latin. Based on the trivium model of teaching grammar systematically in order to facilitate retention and understanding, Grade VI Latin continues the journey of learning Latin grammar. Building on what the student learned the previous year in Grade V Latin, the class text, Second Form Latin, reviews all material covered in First Form Latin, and completes the verb paradigms for all four conjugations in the indicative active and passive.

The Second 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.

The Second Form Latin Student Workbook has 4-6 pages of exercises per lesson. These exercises teach concepts through practice and mastery learning, and are presented in a spiral-bound book with an attractive, 2-color format. This Workbook also includes a grammar catechism intended for daily rapid-fire review.

After finishing Second Form Latin, the student will have mastered:

Six indicative active and three indicative passive tenses of all four verb conjugations

Five noun declensions, including -er/-ir nouns and i-stem nouns

Adjectives in three declensions

Personal pronouns

Prepositions

365 vocabulary words (185 in First Form, and another 180 new words in Second Form)

The class caters to students who are continuing to practice their English grammar skills as they learn Latin. Its goal is to 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 V Latin, the course continues to ground the fundamental concepts of English grammar, the key to Latin study.