Latin 3 > Geography

Communication

Reading for Understanding

• Read various passages featuring sites such as Judaea, Britannia, Gallia, Graecia, Africa, Bythinia, and Asia Minor.
• Read various adapted and/or authentic texts which emphasize the expansion of the Romans and its effect on the native population.

Using Oral and Written Language for Understanding

• Locate on a map of the Roman world specific sites, cities, regions, bodies of water and other topography pertinent to specific authors.
• Respond to questions about the locations of significant sites being studied.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products

• Discuss the effects of displacement as a result of Roman expansion.
• Analyze and discuss how the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean world facilitated travel, trade and the exchange of ideas.

Connections, Comparisons and Communities

Making Connections Through Language

• Demonstrate how the geographic locations of the Roman world continue to influence the modern political map and current events.

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

• Produce English derivatives from place names of geographical areas outside of Italy.
• Expand knowledge of Latin place expressions, using accusative, ablative and locative.

Communication Across Communities

• Recognize patterns of Greco-Roman geographical names used for countries and cities worldwide.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Place names such as Delphi, Mt. Parnassus, Olympia, Alexandria, Libya, Alps, Etruria, Gallia, Gergovia, Lutetia, Bithynia, etc.

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