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LATIN LANGUAGES

YEAR 7 – SIXTH FORM
BRILLIANCE CURRICULUM
ART AND DESIGN
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Latin is the language which was spoken 9
by the Romans.
• Roman baths • Caecilius' family CULTURE • Why do we learn Latin? • Making connections between • Arguments for studying Latin
Latin is one of the ‘parent’ languages for the • Local electoral practices • Roman daily life • Relevance of Latin in today’s world Roman history and today’s world • Using original sources
‘Romance languages’ which include: • Eruption of Mt Vesuvius CE79 • Roman town houses Learning about culture (science, technology, medicine, law) • Ancient customs and • Studying Roman values through
French • Extended project: • Town of Pompeii • Learning vocabulary belief systems • culture topics
• Our Roman heritage • Roman forum shapes how we see • Translation and comprehension skills • Translating from English to Latin • Articulating the lasting influence
Italian • What have the Romans ever done for us? • Roman theatre ourselves, others and • Descriptive writing • How do Roman values compare of the Classical world
• What other skills do we learn from Latin?
with our own?
Portuguese • Enslavement in Roman times the world. • Latin used in everyday language • English derivations
• Beliefs about life after death
(abbreviations, mottos, advertising)
Romanian • Gladiatorial combat • Design and make a board game
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Spanish YEAR YEAR 10
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and lots of other smaller languages. COMMUNICATION
Together the Romance languages have over • Olympian Gods Language is at the core • Understanding the value of • Articulating the value of studying Latin
900 million speakers; they are all speaking a • Roman Heroes LANGUAGE of all human interaction; archaeological sites • Writing about Roman sources
language which comes directly from Latin origins. • Roman Gods being able to communicate • Writing in detail about original sources • Understanding rhetorical terms
Roughly 60% of English words come directly • Favour and punishment AND LITERACY clearly is vital to our lives; • Learning about Roman values from • Writing about the style of
original sources
Virgil’s poetry
or indirectly from Latin. • Saturnalia
• Festivals, games and shows Understanding linguistic it breaks down barriers • Learning about our own values from • Writing extended answers
• Prophecy and fate patterns improves our culture topics • Analysing themes and characters
• Power: monarchy, republic, emperors and is life affirming. • Writing extended answers in the text
• The legacy of the Classical world understanding of
our own language. L6
• Analysing rhetorical devices
YEAR
L6 YEAR 10 YEAR YEAR YEAR • Translating Latin prose
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• Stylistic analysis
• Answering comprehension questions
• Writing natural English translations
• L6 prose and verse literature • Verse literature: final study • Roman army: camp layout, training • Cases of nouns • 6 cases of nouns • Ablative case • Thematic analysis and extended writing
• Wider academic essay writing
• Introduction to the authors • Roman villas • Roman roads: construction, routes • Present tense • Future tense: an introduction • Adjectives • Translating Latin verse
(e.g. Cicero, Catullus) • Roman Bath (Aquae Sulis) • Verse literature • Word order • Demonstrative adjectives • Infinitives
• Historical context • The amphitheatre • Introduction to Virgil • Connectives • Pronouns • Genitive and dative cases • Understanding Latin metre and scansion
(hexameter)
• Close study of the text • The theatre at Pompeii • Text study • Questions • Irregular verbs • More about irregular verbs
• Negatives
• Questions
• Pluperfect tense
• Thematic analysis • Dinner parties • Stylistic features of the poem • Adverbs • Comparative and superlative adjectives • Subordinate clauses
• Wider academic reading • Chariot racing • Analysis of themes and characters • Imperfect tense • Numbers • Present participles
and essays • Perfect tense • Scholarship exam grammar • Possessive adjectives U6
• Prepositions • Imperatives
• More about the future tense
• Numbers • Understanding Latin metre
• Time phrases and scansion (elegiacs)
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U6 YEAR 10 • Learning verse vocabulary
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• Translating Latin verse
• Extended stylistic analysis
• Comprehension skills
• U6 prose and verse literature • Future active infinitives • Pluperfect subjunctive • Pluperfect tense • More about pronouns • Past active infinitives • Learning prose vocabulary
• Stylistic analysis • 4th and 5th declension nouns • ‘cum’ clauses • Present and imperfect passives • Irregular imperatives, • Past passive infinitives • Extended essay writing
• Contextual analysis • Imperfect subjunctive • Indirect questions • Past passive participles • Present passive infinitives • Indirect statement • Thematic analysis
• Themes, characters and arguments • Purpose clauses • ‘ad’ + gerundive • Future participles • Ablative absolutes • Complex pronouns • Exam preparation
• Study of the text as a whole with • Result clauses • ‘dum’ clauses • Future, perfect and • Deponent and
sections in English • Fearing clauses • Overview of subjunctive uses pluperfect passives semi-deponent verbs
MAKING GLOBAL
CONNECTIONS L6 U6 COMMUNITY
Language learning widens A different language gives
our access to different ideas • Verb consolidation • Purpose clauses • Gerunds and gerundives • Cardinal and ordinal numbers us a different vision of life.
and enables us to make • Future perfect tense • Indirect commands • Conditionals • ‘quin’/ ‘quominus’ clauses It encourages an open-
multidisciplinary links. • Relative clauses • Prefixes/compounds • Temporal, causal and • Subordinate clauses in indirect speech minded view of the world
• Sequence of tenses • Fearing clauses concessive clauses • Comprehension practice
• Present subjunctive • Result clauses • Paired words • Features of verse translation practice and gives us insight into
• Perfect subjunctive • Indirect questions • Predicative dative • Verse and prose unseen translation how others see us.
• Independent uses of • Future passive infinitives • Conjunctions • Structures revision and exam practice
the subjunctive • Impersonal verbs • Wishes • Scansion (hexameter and elegiacs)

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