Year of Study

Text

Scope

Grammar Content

Other content

First Year

(Usually beginning
any time from 6th grade to 9th grade)

Volumes I and II

Volume I
Lessons 1-16

Volume II 
Lessons 1-4

Forms; vocabulary of 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd declension nouns; adjectives; numerals; all six tenses of 1^st conjugation verbs; adjectives; adverbs, indicative and imperative moods of verbs; interrogative and relative pronouns, 2nd conjugation verbs

History of Italy; Geography, Roman calendar; Circus Maximus; Introduction to the Vulgate; Birth of Jesus; Pledge of Allegiance; Story

 Second Year

Volume II

Vol. II
Lessons 5-18

Remaining verb conjugations; infinitive with subject accusative; objective genitives; demonstrative pronouns; comparison of adjectives and adverbs; 4^th declension nouns; participles

Lex Rex; Jesus at the Temple; the nobleman's son; Psalm I; Sermon on the Mount; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Matt. 28; Roman Arch; Attributes of God; Climate of Mediterranean; Magnificat

  
Third Year

Volume III

Vol. III
Lessons 1-20

Malo, nolo, volo; 5^th declension; infinitives; datives; subjunctive mood; indirect questions; ablative absolute;deponents; cum clauses; gerunds; impersonal verbs; passive periphrastic

Psalm 121; Good Shepherd; Roman homes; Roman empire; Roman Law; Lord's Prayer; Psalm 100; a Real Man; Gnosticism; Psalm 21; Mary and Martha; Caesar; Lazarus; Zaccheus; Good Samaritan; James; Cicero; Psalm 145

  
Fourth Year

Volume IV

Volume IV
Lessons 1-16

A few obscure grammatical constructions

Acts of Apostles; Caesar; First Oration against Cataline; Catullus; intro to Aeneid; Shakespeare; Proverbs; Ovid; James and other Roman poets