Mastery:

At the end of the third year, the student achieves mastery when he/she knows and understands progressively accumulated vocabulary, grammar and syntax in order to render consistently proficient translations. The specific content skill areas needed to accomplish mastery are listed in Section XIII.

When a Latin III student has mastered the specified content skills, he/she consistently is able to communicate successfully, understand cultural knowledge and significance, connect with this expanded knowledge to other disciplines, and develop insight into Latin=s effect on our own and other cultures= languages and civilizations.

Section II: Goals:

• Translating, understanding, and interpreting Latin using oral, aural, and written Latin as a part of the learning process;

• Gaining knowledge and understanding of Greco-Roman culture, history, and literature as revealed in the practices and products of the classical world;

• Reinforcing and connecting to knowledge in other disciplines through the study of classical language and through the reading of Latin and the study of ancient culture;

• Developing insight into and increased knowledge of the student=s own language and culture through comparisons to classical language and culture;

• Participating in a global, multi-lingual world through knowledge of classical language and culture.