Scope and sequence · Languages
Grade 8 Greek
The capstone quarter: five years of Greek come due as the student reads real, unaltered Greek — the Bible’s first sentence in the Septuagint, the opening line of the Iliad, and John 1:1–5 worked through word by word for the Capstone Evening — while the last tools arrive honestly sized: the infinitive, the contract verb read on sight, the participle recognized as a verb wearing a noun’s badge, and the whole story running from Alexander’s one-Greek world to Erasmus putting printed Greek in Europe’s hands.
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What to cover
10 of 10 lessons are MUST COVER. They are tested on the unit tests and exams, or are skills the SAT/ACT relies on. OPTIONAL lessons are enrichment. Do them if time allows. The course is complete when the MUST COVER lessons are done.
Unit 1: One World, One Greek
- MUST COVER 1.1 The Seventy · unit test
- MUST COVER 1.2 In the Beginning: Genesis in Greek · unit test
Unit 2: The Verb Completed
- MUST COVER 2.1 Love Is a Verb · unit test
- MUST COVER 2.2 To Be or To Do: the Infinitive · unit test
Unit 3: Reading the Poets
- MUST COVER 3.1 The Wrath of Achilles · unit test
- MUST COVER 3.2 The Marble and the Word · unit test
Unit 4: Ad Fontes
- MUST COVER 4.1 Erasmus and the Printed Greek · unit test
- MUST COVER 4.2 The Oldest Pages · unit test
Unit 5: The Word
- MUST COVER 5.1 In the Beginning Was the Word · unit test
- MUST COVER 5.2 The Capstone Evening · unit test
36-week pacing calendar
This is a 10-week course. Pair it with another course in the same subject, or spread it over the year at a lighter pace.
| Week | Plan | Done | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | Session 1: Lesson 1.1 The Seventy: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 1.1 activity (the Chart Book rebuild and the one-world map) and Greek notebook Session 3: Worked examples, practice, and the first Grand Chant recitation | ||
| Wk 2 | Session 1: Lesson 1.2 In the Beginning: Genesis in Greek: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 1.2 activity (the Genesis Scroll) and Greek notebook Session 3: Worked examples, practice and recitation Session 3 (end of unit): Unit 1 review and unit challenge (the Chart Book presented, the Genesis Scroll read without helps) | ||
| Wk 3 | Session 1: Lesson 2.1 Love Is a Verb: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 2.1 activity (the Agape Ledger begun) and Greek notebook Session 3: Worked examples, practice and recitation; the Ledger runs all week | ||
| Wk 4 | Session 1: Lesson 2.2 To Be or To Do: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 2.2 activity (the Life-Verbs page) and Greek notebook Session 3: Worked examples, practice and recitation Session 3 (end of unit): Unit 2 review and unit challenge (the completed Agape Ledger and the Life-Verbs page read aloud) | ||
| Wk 5 | Session 1: Lesson 3.1 The Wrath of Achilles: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 3.1 activity (the Iliad broadside) and Greek notebook Session 3: Worked examples, practice and recitation | ||
| Wk 6 | Session 1: Lesson 3.2 The Marble and the Word: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 3.2 activity (the Two Monuments page) and Greek notebook Session 3: Worked examples, practice and recitation Session 3 (end of unit): Unit 3 review and unit challenge (broadside and Two Monuments presented as a pair) | ||
| Wk 7 | Session 1: Lesson 4.1 Erasmus and the Printed Greek: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 4.1 activity (the Printer's Page) and Greek notebook Session 3: Worked examples, practice and recitation | ||
| Wk 8 | Session 1: Lesson 4.2 The Oldest Pages: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 4.2 activity (the Fragment Facsimile) and Greek notebook Session 3: Worked examples, practice and recitation Session 3 (end of unit): Unit 4 review and unit challenge (Printer's Page, Fragment Facsimile, and the two-minute ad fontes telling) | ||
| Wk 9 | Session 1: Lesson 5.1 In the Beginning Was the Word: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 5.1 activity (the Capstone Scroll begun) and Greek notebook Session 3: Worked examples, practice, and John 1:1–5 read aloud, as far as lettered | ||
| Wk 10 | Session 1: Lesson 5.2 The Capstone Evening: warm-up, video, teaching and picture study Session 2: Lesson 5.2 activity (program, rehearsal, and the scroll finished and ribboned) and Greek notebook Session 3: Dress rehearsal: every chant and reading run once, worked examples and practice Session 3 (end of unit): Unit 5 review and unit challenge (the Capstone Evening itself) | ||
| Wk 11 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 12 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 13 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 14 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 15 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 16 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 17 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 18 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 19 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 20 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 21 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 22 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 23 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 24 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 25 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 26 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 27 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 28 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 29 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 30 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 31 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 32 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 33 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 34 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 35 | Open week: second course, project or review | ||
| Wk 36 | Open week: second course, project or review |
Grading: Recitation and reading aloud (the Grand Chant, flashcards, the real texts read to the family) 30%, Greek notebook and Chart Book (dated pages, rebuilt charts, glosses, translations) 25%, Practice (both directions plus text glosses, corrected with the answer key) 15%, Unit reviews 15%, Unit challenges 15%. Scale: A 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69. Below 60: rebuild the week's chart, re-chant, and retake the review orally.