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to communicating with
the ancient world.
---Standards for Classical
Language Learning
Eighth grade students have begun working in Stage 7. In this chapter,
students learn to recognize the various manifestations of the perfect tense and
have the opportunity to compare changes that occur in Latin verbs with ones
that occur in English verbs. For example, changes in consonants occur in
English verbs (send-sent) as well as in Latin ones. (dicit-dixit); changes in
vowels also occur in English verbs (run-ran) as well as in Latin ones
(facit-fecit). The cultural information for the chapter concerns Roman beliefs
about life after death, including burial customs and superstitions about
ghosts. English derivatives from the
Latin vocabulary in this chapter include lachrymose (< lacrimat, cries), pulchritude (< pulcher, pulchra, beautiful), propinquity (< prope, near), and annihilate (< nihil, nothing). Certain eighth grade
students have moved on to Stage 8. In this chapter, students learn to recognize
accusative plurals of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declensions.
Students are reading longer, more complex stories and are translating orally or
answering oral comprehension questions. The cultural information for the
chapter includes detailed discussions of the several types of gladiators,
including net-fighters and beast-fighters.
Seventh grade students have begun Stage 4. In this chapter, students
learn to distinguish 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person
singular verb forms in the present tense (indicative), including the forms of
the irregular verb esse, “to be.”
Studying these forms complements their study of Spanish verb forms, since the
endings are either identical or similar. The cultural information for this
chapter presents more detailed information about the forum in