• Lesson Plan

    Latin 101 is a college Latin course, with the same content as is typically taught in a one-semester course in a top university.  This course provides you with video-streamed lessons that parallel the textbook, Learn to Read Latin.  Each video lesson will introduce to you and explain various grammatical concepts.  You will then read the corresponding chapter and complete the assigned exercises, both from the book and directly from the website.  An answer key will be provided for you to check your work.  You may then review the relevant parts of the textbook, video lessons and Latin Grammar to master the relevant concept.  It is important that you achieve a certain mastery of existing concepts before continuing to the next lesson.

    Following is the lesson plan:

    LESSON 1

    How to Read Latin: Some Basic Concepts

    • The sentence: Structure and Elements
    • How to identify sentence elements in Latin and English
    • The word: Parts of Speech
    • Function, form, and meaning of words: Morphology and Syntax

    LESSON 2

    Nouns in Latin

    • The concepts of case and declension: stems and endings
    • The meanings and functions of cases
    • Prepositions and cases
    • The Latin declension system: the 5 declensions
    • The vocabulary entries for Latin nouns

    LESSON 3

    The First and Second Declensions

    • The endings of the First Declension
    • Gender of First-Declension nouns
    • Special forms of First-declension nouns
    • The endings of the Second Declension
    • Gender of Second-Declension nouns
    • Special forms of Second-declension nouns

    LESSON 4

    Verbs in Latin

    • The form of Latin Verbs: Stem and personal endings
    • The agreement of Subject and Verb: Person and Number
    • The properties of Latin Verbs: Tense, Mood, and Voice
    • The Latin conjugation system: the 4 conjugations
    • The vocabulary entries for Latin verbs: Principal parts

    LESSON 5

    The First and Second Conjugations. The Verb SUM

    • The Present Active Indicative
    • The Imperfect Active Indicative
    • The Future Active Indicative
    • The conjugation of Sum and Possum
    • The conjugation of Eo

    LESSON 6

    Sentence Patterns in Latin.

    • Transitive and Intransitive sentences
    • Linking sentences
    • Complementary and Object Infinitive
    • Subject Infinitive
    • Dative of the Possessor Construction
    • Ablative of Means and Ablative of Manner
    • Conjunctions
    • Direct questions
    • Word Order in Latin

    LESSON 7

    Adjectives in Latin

    • Agreement of Nouns and Adjectives
    • First and Second declension adjectives
    • Substantive and Predicate adjective

    LESSON 8

    The Passive Voice

    • The passive sentence
    • The Present, Imperfect, and Future Passive Indicative of First and Second Conjugations
    • The Ablative of Agent
    • The uses of video in the passive voice

    LESSON 9

    The Third and Fourth Conjugations

    • The indicative and passive tenses of the Third Conjugation
    • The indicative and passive tenses of the Fourth Conjugation

    LESSON 10

    The Imperative. Uses of the Genitive Case

    • The active and passive forms of the imperative mood
    • The Partitive Genitive
    • The Subjective and Objective Genitive

    LESSON 11

    Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives

    • Personal Pronouns
    • Reflexive Pronouns and Adjectives
    • Possessive Adjectives
    • The Intensive Adjective ipse

    LESSON 12

    The Tenses of the Perfect Active System. Adverbs

    • Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future Perfect Active Indicative of All Verbs
    • The verb fero

    LESSON 13

    Subordinate Clauses

    • Subordinate Conjunctions
    • Subordinate clauses in the Indicative Mood
    • Conditional Sentences: Part 1

    LESSON 14

    The Tenses of the Perfect Passive System

    • Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future Perfect Passive Indicative of All Verbs

    LESSON 15

    The Thrid Declension.

    • Consonant-Stem Nouns
    • I-Stem Nouns
    • Irregular Nouns of the Third Declension

    LESSON 16

    Uses of the Ablative Case. The Locative Case

    • Ablative of Respect
    • Ablative of Cause
    • Ablative of Separation
    • Ablative of Place From Which
    • Ablative of Place Where
    • The Locative Case

    LESSON 17

    The Subjunctive Mood

    • The Subjunctive in Latin and English
    • The Present Subjunctive
    • The Imperfect Subjunctive
    • The Perfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive
    • The Uses of the Subjunctive in Main Clauses
    • Conditional Sentences: Part 2

    LESSON 18

    The Fourth and Fifth Declensions. Uses of the Dative Case

    • The Fourth Declension
    • The Fifth Declension
    • Dative of Purpose: The Double Dative Construction
    • Dative of Interest

    LESSON 19

    Third Declension Adjectives. Demonstrative Pronouns

    • Third Declension Adjectives
    • Demonstrative Pronouns
    • Special Uses of Demonstrative Pronouns

    LESSON 20

    Deponent and Semideponent Verbs. Expressions of Time

    • Deponent Verbs
    • Semideponent Verbs
    • Accusative of Duration of Time
    • Ablative of Time When
    • Ablative of Time Within Which