Novice Latin

Novice Latin Interpretation and Presentation

Novice Latin Intercultural Practices and Products

Novice Latin Connections and Comparisons

Interpretive Listening - recognizes memorized words and some phrases to identify the sound of a letter, determines isolated words accompanied by gestures or pictures. (G7)

Interpretive Listening - recognizes memorized words and phrases to identify greetings and courtesy phrases, and isolated words and phrases learned for specific purposes. (G8)

Interpretive Reading - recognizes memorized words and some phrases to identify Roman letters, including those that function differently from those of the English alphabet, and connects some words or phrases to their meanings, and distinguishes the patterns in different parts of speech. (G7)

Interpretive Reading - recognizes memorized words and phrases to identify words and phrases with the help of visuals, uses prefixes and roots of words to interpret the meaning of new words, and distinguishes the patterns in different parts of speech. (G8)

Presentational Speaking - uses memorized words and some phrases to recite what they have learned, states the names of familiar people, places, and objects with visual support, and introduces oneself to a group. (G7)

Presentational Speaking - uses memorized words and phrases to describe familiar items in one's immediate environment, describes oneself and others, states likes and dislikes, describes daily activities, recites parts of poems or rhymes. (G8)

Presentational Writing - uses memorized words and some phrases to copy some letters, words, and phrases presented from a variety of texts, labels familiar people, places, and objects in a variety of texts. (G7)

Presentational Writing - uses memorized words and phrases to write about oneself and writes notes about something they have learned using lists, phrases, and memorized expressions. (G8)

Intercultural Practices - uses appropriate gestures and oral expressions in social interactions, identifies age-appropriate cultural activities, uses words and phrases to describe what people from classical cultures are doing in texts or visual media, draws conclusions about characteristics of daily life in classical culture, lists practices observed in a visual representation or text concerning a festival or holiday celebrated in classical culture.

Intercultural Products - observes, discusses, and produces types of artwork, crafts, or graphic representations made within the classical culture, identifies cultural products and their purposes in classical culture, demonstrates the relationship between products, practices, and perspectives.

Making Connections - identifies and labels maps of the classical world, identifies items on charts or visuals used as instructional materials in other content areas, recognizes and uses Roman numerals and the vocabulary associated with counting, reads or listens to stories from classical culture and compare them to familiar stories from the same genre, identifies the planets and some constellations and the inspirations for their names.

Applying Connections - identifies classical elements of a work of art, determines words that originate from Latin, determines meaning of new words based on classical roots.

Language Comparisons - cites and uses examples of words from Latin that are similar to one's own language, recognizes loaned words, phrases, mottoes, and abbreviations from Latin, compares word order in simple sentences of Latin to one's own language, compares and contrasts the sounds and writing systems of one's own language with Latin.

Cultural Comparisons - contrasts tangible and intangible products of classical cultures to one's own, compares simple patterns of behavior of classical cultures to one's own, explores celebrations and holidays from one's own culture and those in the classical cultures.