After reviewing first-year grammar and vocabulary, students study more advanced grammatical constructions. They finish learning all declensions as well as additional uses of Latin cases. They learn the formation and application of the subjunctive mood, deponent and impersonal verbs, participles and infinitives, and all irregular verbs. They read selections from Livy, Jason and the Golden Fleece , and parts of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gaelic Wars . Book I and Latin for Americans, Book II by Ullman, Henderson, and Henry.
Students study the oral reading of Latin poetry and scansion of dactylic hexameter.
They learn all figures of speech used in the Aeneid and analyze all selections translated. A unit on mythology in Gayley's Classic Myths is included. The text is Clyde Pharr's Vergil's Aeneid . Students who complete this course may take the Advanced Placement examination. Offered in alternate years.