GRADE VII LATIN CLASS

Grade VII Latin is the sixth course of Latin study, for students who have completed the Second Form Latin text covered in Grade VI Latin. Based on the trivium model of teaching grammar systematically in order to facilitate retention and understanding, Grade VII Latin is designed for grammar skills mastery and rapid recognition of inflected forms. The course introduces students to the Third Form Latin text, which continues their journey of Latin grammar by reviewing all material in First and Second Form texts covered during the previous two years, fostering the mastery of:

• Perfect system passive indicative of all four conjugations

• Active and passive subjunctive (all tenses) of all four conjugations

• Imperative mood and vocative case

• 4th declension neuter nouns

• 3rd declension adjectives of one & three terminations, and nine irregular adjectives

• Regular and irregular comparison of adjectives and adverbs

• Pronouns: 3rd person personal, demonstrative, intensive, and reflexive

• Syntax: apposition, adjectives used as nouns, purpose clauses, exhortations, deliberative questions, and objective & partitive genitive

Third Form Latin Student Text contains thirty-six concise two-page lessons offering a systematic presentation of grammar in five logical units and includes appendices with English grammar, prayers, conversational Latin, and an extensive vocabulary index.

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 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 VI Latin, the course continues to ground the fundamental concepts of English grammar, the key to Latin study.