The content in this class will build from one week to the next. We may not read continuous passages, getting every single sentence along the way; but we will advance in difficulty from one week to the next and move more or less sequentially through the chapters of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata. 

This course is ideal for students who want to keep Latin concepts fresh over longer school breaks, for students currently enrolled in Latin wanting to hone certain reading skills, or for students who just can't get enough Latin in their regular classes! This course is meant to be an accompaniment to a formal Latin class: I will give mini lessons about the grammar as we read, but in general we will not have formal grammar lessons in this Latin Language Reading Club. 

Students of various levels are welcome to attend, and translation of sentences will generally be on a volunteer basis - i.e. if a student doesn't want to share a translation, they don't need to! Therefore, this class works best when students are willing to translate aloud. I'm always happy to fill in words or grammatical questions as students process sentences in the live class - working through a translation like that, making mistakes along the way, and really wrestling with a Latin text is one of the best ways to polish one's Latin skills! 

We often end class with a short vocabulary game on Quizlet, or a more interactive game like Pictionary or Charades. 

Here's the link to the textbook we will be reading from in class: https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia-dp-1585104205/dp/1585104205/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= 

***THE SECTION BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER 2023 IS BEST SUITED FOR STUDENTS READING AT AN EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL OF LATIN OR HIGHER***

For those unfamiliar with this text/curriculum, the following topics are prerequisite for reading beginning in Chapter 10: 
1) nouns in declensions 1, 2, 3 including neuters
2) basic grammatical functions for all noun cases, including vocative
3) present active and passive verbs, 3rd person singular and plural only
4) imperative verbs, singular and plural
5) prepositions with accusative and ablative case
6) ablative of means, agent, accompaniment
7) relative pronoun (qui-quae-quod), personal pronoun (is-ea-id), and demonstratives (hic-haec-hoc, ille-illa-illud)

September 13, 20, 27: Chapter 10; infinitives (active and passive)

October 4, 11, 18: Chapters 10-11; indirect statement with accusative and infinitive
*NB: No class on October 25

November 8, 15, 29: Chapter 12; comparative adjective; dative of possession
*NB: no class on November 22