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Lesson Plans for Semester 1 Latin Students:
- Somewhere It's Green: Gender Roles in Livy's Heroes
- Objective: Students Will Be Able To: analyze the virtues and vices of early Roman heroes [in passages adapted for the first semester Latin student] of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita for Roman perspectives of gender roles
- Somewhere It's Green: Gender Roles in Livy's Heroes
- Love, Hate & War: Trojan War Valentines
- Objective: Students Will Be Able To: create a Valentine’s Day card in the perspective of a Trojan War figure based on internet research of Greco-Roman mythology
- Love Hate & War: Trojan War Valentines
Lesson Plans for Semester 2 Latin Students:
[assumed level of competency in: noun cases, noun endings in all five declensions; all pronouns; all indicative verb forms in both active and passive]- The Girl Loves the Poet: Active / Passive Love Triangles
- Objective: Students Will Be Able To: differentiate active and passive voice by creating modeled Latin sentences using manipulatives
- The Girl Loves the Poet: Active / Passive Love Triangles
Lesson plans for Semester 3 Latin Students:
[assumed level of competency in: noun cases, noun endings in all five declensions, all pronouns; indicative and subjunctive forms; participles, ablative absolutes, and infinitives; uses of subjunctive mood]- Soulmates, Celestial Bodies, and the Origin of Love
- Objective: Students Will Be Able To: Infer Greco-Roman perspectives on sexuality and gender roles by analyzing an adapted Latin text of Plato’s Symposium 189ff
- “Feet of Clay:” Analyzing Gender Roles and Sexual Mores in Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian Creation Myths:
- Objective:Students Will Be Able To: analyze Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian creation myths to infer their culture’s perceptions of gender roles and sexual mores
- "Counting Kisses:" A Lesson in Hyperbole
- Objective: Students
Will Be Able To: analyze the hyperbolic trope of counting
kisses in the poems of Catullus and Martial to infer some perspectives of Roman
sexuality
- LGBT Meets SPQR Lesson Plan 10: Counting Kisses, a Lesson in Hyperbole
Lesson Plans for Advanced Students / Readers of Latin:
- "Dangerous Beauty: The Impact of Beauty in the Abduction Myths of Hylas and Persephone"
- Objective: analyze the impact of gender in the abduction myths of Persephone (Ovid, Meta. V.385-408) & Hylas (Propertius, Eleg. I.20)
- "Let Each One Sing of Whomever They Love:" Nemesianus' Fourth Eclogue
- Objective: Students Will Be Able To: compare portrayals of heteronormative and same-sex couples in Nemesianus’ Fourth Eclogue to analyze ancient perspectives of gender and sexuality
- Voices of War: Self / Family / Community: Selections from Quintus of Smyrna's Trojan War Epic
- Objective: analyze the impact of war on women, noncombatants, and family structures through translation of passages from Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica
