Latin Discussion Questions: Poetry

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

World Languages

Grade(s)

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

This Latin activity offers 5 warm-up style discussion activities encouraging students to talk about the appearance of Roman poetry in ancient graffiti. Students are asked to interact with the text/graffiti as they analyze and discuss the poetry references uncovered by archeologists. There are 2 examples from Virgil's Aeneid, 1 from Ovid's Ars Amatoria, and 2 from unnamed poems.

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - Latin

WL17.LAT.L1.2

Read and understand appropriate Latin vocabulary, inflectional systems, and syntax.

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - Latin

WL17.LAT.L2.2

Read, understand, and translate Latin at an Intermediate Low level.

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - Latin

WL17.LAT.L2.9

Compare language patterns of Latin and their own language.

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - Latin

WL17.LAT.L3.2

Read, understand, and translate Latin prose at an Intermediate Mid to Intermediate High level.

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - Latin

WL17.LAT.L3.4

Relate Roman cultural products to perspectives.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

Custom

Resource Provider other

The Ancient Graffiti Project
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