Latin I follows the National Standards for Language Arts created by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, the National Standards for Classical Language Learning, and the Kentucky Educational Standards. Communication 1.1 Students read, understand, and interpret Latin or Greek. Students demonstrate reading comprehension by answering simple questions from their textbook in Latin about the chapter readings and using online review quizzes.
Students also associate vocabulary words with pictures and text from the televised instruction.
Students demonstrate knowledge of story comprehension, basic inflectional systems and syntax by watching the televised instruction and using online multiple choice quizzes in Latin. Students read and understand Latin passages adapted from the original authors using online vocabularies, assisting documents, and emailing the teacher. 1.2 Students use orally, listen to, and write Latin or Greek as part of the language learning process. Students recognize and reproduce the sounds of Latin pronunciation and vocabulary by listening and repeating after the teacher and using the online Verba and Latin classroom sounds. Students write phrases and sentences in Latin taking teacher driven chapter story dictations, answering exercises from the textbook, creating an ending to a story, and constructing projects, for example, their family tree and a floor plan for a modern Roman villa rustica or villa urbana.