Mission, Vision, Competencies, Standards, and Benchmarks

ecognizing them in English words of Latin or Greek origin. Seeing Biblical Hebrew
derivatives in English.
‣ Understanding some Latin, Greek, or Biblical Hebrew phrases, mottoes, and
abbreviations used in English.
‣ Comparing and contrasting the language patterns and grammar of the TL to the
structure and grammar of English.
‣ Recognizing Greco-Roman elements of architecture in features of familiar buildings.
‣ Comparing, contrasting aspects of their own public and private lives to those of theTC.
‣ Comparing and contrasting themes and heroes of TL literature to their own folklore
and modern-day culture.
Communities
‣ Recognizing the influence of the TL on the specialized language of professional fields
and use in the media.
‣ Recognizing from study of the ancient world that cultural diversity has been an integral
feature of society from antiquity
By close of the intermediate level of instruction (including Latin I and II), students will work to
master:
Communication
‣ Reading and understanding passages in the TL composed for acquisition of content
and language skills.
‣ Reading and understanding, with appropriate assistance, passages in the TL adapted
or unadapted from original authors.
‣ Recognizing figures of speech, style of authors.
‣ Demonstrating reading comprehension by interpreting the meaning of passages they
read.
‣ Reading TL aloud with accurate pronunciation, phrasing, voice inflection, and imitating
models they have heard.
‣ Responding appropriately to questions, statements, commands, and other stimuli.
‣ Writing phrases and sentences in the TL.
Culture
‣ Demonstrating knowledge of the daily and life and thought of the TC.
‣ Demonstrating knowledge of the people and facts of the TC, history and political life.
‣ Relating their reading of selected texts, literary and non-literary, adapted and
unadapted, to understand the TC.
Connections
‣ Recognizing and making connections with the TL terminology in modern day sciences,
history, social sciences, and professions, and to literature and artistic achievement.
‣ Acquiring information about the ancient world and TC by reading adapted or selected
TL sources.
‣ Reading passages in the TL derived from the Bible.
‣ Demonstrating knowledge of comparisons of culture in the TC to the history accounted
in the Bible.
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