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Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

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  • Gallic Wars 1.1.1 (adapted)
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Gallic Wars 1.1.1 (adapted)

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Read the First Part of Caesar's Gallic Wars
    • Form 3rd Person Singular and Plural Present Indicative Actives
    • Form 3rd Person Singular and Plural Present Indicative Passives
    • Understand Gender and Number Agreement
    • Use Nominative, Accusative, and Ablative Cases
  • Gallic Wars 1.1.2
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Gallic Wars 1.1.2

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Read Gallic Wars 1.1.2.
    • Practice the Demonstrative Pronouns hic and is
    • Use the Gerundive as a Gerund with ad
    • Use the Nominative, Accusative, Ablative, Genitive, and Dative Cases
    • Use the Relative Pronoun quī
  • Gallic Wars 1.1.3
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Gallic Wars 1.1.3

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Read Caesar's Gallic Wars 1.1.3
    • Distinguish Reflexive from Non-Reflexive Third Person
    • Use the Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, and Ablative Cases
    • Use the Prepositions cum , dē , and in
    • Use aut... aut...
  • Gallic Wars 1.1.4 (adapted)
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Gallic Wars 1.1.4 (adapted)

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Read Caesar's Gallic Wars 1.1.4
    • Understand Deponents
    • Use the Passive Present Infinitive
    • Use Third-Declension Case Forms
    • Use Third-Person Passive Forms
  • Phaedrus' "The Frog that Burst" 1
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Phaedrus' "The Frog that Burst" 1

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Read the First Half of Phaedrus' Fable, "The Frog that Burst"
    • Expand the Third Declension
    • Make Comparisons
    • Practice Demonstratives
    • Use the Perfect
    • Use esset in Indirect Questions
  • Phaedrus' "The Frog that Burst" 2
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Phaedrus' "The Frog that Burst" 2

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Read the Second Half of Phaedrus' Fable, "The Frog that Burst"
    • Create Third Person Imperfect Subjunctives
    • Form Third Declension Ablative Singular Adjectives
    • Produce Indirect Statements and Questions
    • Understand Ablative Absolutes
    • Use the Passive Participle
  • Martial 6.60
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Martial 6.60

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Read Martial Book 6, Epigram 60
    • Be Introduced to the Fourth Declension
    • Expand the 1st Person Singular and Plural Personal and Possessive Pronouns
    • Form First Person Singular Present Indicative Actives
    • Practice Indirect Discourse
    • Produce Perfect Infinitives
  • Cicero, Pro Archia 13.1
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Cicero, Pro Archia 13.1

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Understand the First Part of Cicero's Pro Archia 13
    • Expand the First Person Singular Pronoun
    • Form Purpose Clauses with ut
    • Practice the Gerund and Gerundive with ad
    • Produce Third Person Present Subjunctives in -a-
    • Use the Genitive of Amount
  • Cicero, Pro Archia 13.2
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Cicero, Pro Archia 13.2

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Understand the Second Half of Cicero's Pro Archia 13
    • Create Indirect Questions in the Present
    • Form Gerundive Predicates
    • Form Relative Clauses with quantuscumque
    • Produce Third Conjugation Third Person Futures
    • Use Correlative quantum...tantum...
  • Cicero, Pro Archia 14.1
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    Latin Readings: Caesar, Phaedrus, Martial, and Cicero

    Cicero, Pro Archia 14.1

    Conversational Goals Grammar Goals
    • Understand the First Part of Cicero's Pro Archia 14
    • Be Introduced to nisī
    • Create First Person Singular Pluperfect Subjunctives
    • Form First Person Singular Perfect Indicatives
    • Practice Indirect Statements