Latin 2 > Geography

Communication

Reading for Understanding

• Read various passages which feature the Roman Forum, Baths, Colosseum, and other aspects of life in the Roman city.
• Read various passages set in ancient Greek cities and other locations around the Mediterranean.

Using Oral and Written Language for Understanding

• Locate on a map of Rome significant sites in ancient Rome, such as the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus, aqueducts, places in the Forum, roads and the hills.
• Locate on a map key places outside of Italy, such as Gaul, Britain, Germany, Greece, etc.
• Respond to questions about the locations of significant sites being studied.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products

• Discuss the role of the balnea/thermae in daily life and the different features of the bathing complex.
• Analyze the role of the Forum Romanum as a central part of daily life in Rome.
• Recognize the uses of the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus.
• Identify the oracle of Delphi as well as other sites in Greece and their relationship to Hercules.

Connections, Comparisons and Communities

Making Connections Through Language

• Relate geographic locations of the Roman world to the modern political map.

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

• Compare the growth of Rome and the Roman empire to the colonies and the United States.
• Produce English derivatives from place names of geographical areas outside of Italy.

Communication Across Communities

• Recognize patterns of Greco-Roman geographical names used for cities, towns, and roads in American place names.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Place names such as Gallia, Germania, Cisalpina et Transalina Gallia, Aegyptus, Carthago, Pharsalus, Actium, etc.
• Places in the Forum, such as rostra, Arch of Titus, Curia, Basilica Julia, House of the Vestal Virgins, Regia, Temple of Saturn, etc.
• Locative case and accusative of place to which

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