Galicia PAU Greek II study plan
Galicia PAU Greek II · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Translation of an Attic Greek prose text (with dictionary/lexicon support) & Morphological analysis (nominal and verbal forms)
Translate 400-500 words of Attic prose (Xenophon, Lysias, or Plato) daily from a plain OCT-style text, writing out a full Spanish version before consulting any lexicon.
Annotate every unknown lemma in a personal vocabulary notebook with its principal parts and a one-line Spanish gloss, aiming for 120 new lemmas by week's end.
Parse every noun, adjective, and participle in the passages translated, labelling case, number, gender, and declension.
Drill the definite article and first/second declension paradigms aloud until recall is automatic.
Complete two timed sight-translation sessions of 25 minutes each, marking every construction that slowed you down.
Your checkpoint
A dated translation notebook containing four complete passages in Spanish plus a 120-lemma vocabulary list with principal parts.
Translation of an Attic Greek prose text (with dictionary/lexicon support) & Morphological analysis (nominal and verbal forms)
Translate 500-600 words of Attic prose, this time including at least one passage of Thucydides or Demosthenes for syntactic density.
Master the third declension (consonant and vowel stems) by writing out full paradigms for ten representative nouns and adjectives.
Identify and parse every verb form in the week's passages, recording tense, voice, mood, person, and number.
Memorise the principal parts of 40 high-frequency verbs (including -mi verbs) and test yourself from memory.
Compare your translation against a published Spanish version and log every divergence with a reason.
Your checkpoint
A self-marked translation portfolio of five passages with a written error analysis of at least 300 words identifying recurring mistakes.
Translation of an Attic Greek prose text (with dictionary/lexicon support) & Syntactic analysis (cases, subordinate clauses, verbal syntax)
Translate 600 words of Attic prose while explicitly labelling every genitive, dative, and accusative by syntactic function (partitive, agent, instrument, respect, etc.).
Map the argument structure of two speeches or dialogue passages, marking subject, predicate, and complement for every clause.
Analyse ten subordinate clauses, naming the type (temporal, causal, conditional, concessive, final, consecutive) and the mood of the verb.
Drill the rules for indirect statement (accusative plus infinitive) and indirect question by composing ten original Greek examples.
Review the uses of the participle (attributive, circumstantial, genitive absolute) and find five examples of each in your reading.
Your checkpoint
A syntax worksheet with 30 fully annotated clauses from real passages, each labelled by type, mood, and case function.
Translation of an Attic Greek prose text (with dictionary/lexicon support) & Syntactic analysis (cases, subordinate clauses, verbal syntax)
Complete two full mock translation papers under exam timing (90 minutes each), using only a lexicon and no notes.
Self-correct both mocks against reference translations and assign a score using the official weighting (accuracy, fluency, handling of constructions).
Revise the five syntactic constructions that caused the most lost marks, writing out the rules in your own words.
Analyse the moods in conditional sentences (real, contrary-to-fact, future) and produce ten original examples.
Re-test 60 lemmas from weeks 1-3 and retire the ones you now recall instantly.
Your checkpoint
Two timed mock translations with scores, corrected versions, and a one-page list of the five weakest constructions to target in weeks 5-8.
Translation of an Attic Greek prose text (with dictionary/lexicon support) & Etymology and Greek lexical roots in modern Galician/Spanish
Translate 500 words of Attic prose at exam pace, aiming to cut lexicon lookups by a third compared with week 1.
Trace 40 Greek roots to their modern Galician and Spanish reflexes, noting sound changes (e.g. ph to f, y to i).
Build a root-family chart grouping words by shared stem (e.g. graph-, log-, polis, demos) with modern derivatives for each.
Identify the Greek origin of 20 technical or everyday Galician words and write a one-sentence etymology for each.
Explain five learned compounds (e.g. democracy, philosophy, geography) by decomposing them into their Greek elements.
Your checkpoint
A root-derivative chart covering 40 Greek roots with at least two modern Galician or Spanish descendants each, plus etymologies.
Translation of an Attic Greek prose text (with dictionary/lexicon support) & Literary genre, authors and works of Greek prose (historians, orators, philosophers)
Translate 500 words from three different prose genres (history, oratory, philosophy) and note the stylistic markers of each.
Summarise the defining features of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Lysias, Demosthenes, Plato, and Aristotle in a comparison table.
Match ten anonymised prose excerpts to their likely author or genre, justifying each choice with two textual features.
Memorise the structure and purpose of a forensic, deliberative, and epideictic speech, with one example work for each.
Review the key dates and output of the major Attic prose authors, testing yourself from memory.
Your checkpoint
A genre-and-author comparison table plus a written identification exercise of ten excerpts with justifications.
Syntactic analysis (cases, subordinate clauses, verbal syntax) & Cultural and historical context of classical Athens / Greek civilisation
Explain the Athenian political institutions (Assembly, Council of 500, courts, liturgies) in a written summary of 400 words.
Describe the historical background of the Peloponnesian War and its significance for Thucydides and Xenophon.
Connect five passages you have translated to their cultural context (e.g. funeral oration, legal procedure, symposion).
Revise the syntactic constructions most tied to oratory (rhetorical question, antithesis, periodic sentence) and find examples in Demosthenes or Lysias.
Complete a 40-question self-test on Athenian institutions, authors, and dates, scoring at least 80%.
Your checkpoint
A context dossier linking five translated passages to their historical and institutional setting, plus a scored self-test.
Translation of an Attic Greek prose text (with dictionary/lexicon support) & Morphological analysis (nominal and verbal forms) & Syntactic analysis (cases, subordinate clauses, verbal syntax)
Sit three full mock exams under strict timing, covering translation, morphological analysis, and syntactic analysis.
Mark each mock against the official criteria and track your score progression across the three attempts.
Re-drill the ten forms and five constructions that still cause errors, using spaced repetition.
Review your vocabulary notebook and root chart one final time, flagging anything still uncertain.
Write a one-page exam-day strategy covering time allocation, dictionary use, and order of sections.
Your checkpoint
Three scored mock exams with a final error log and a written exam-day strategy sheet.
Milestones
Week 2: You can translate 500 words of Attic prose in under 60 minutes with a lexicon and correctly parse every third-declension noun and every verb form in the passage.
Week 4: You score at least 55% on two timed mock translations and can name and explain the five constructions that cost you the most marks.
Week 6: You correctly identify the author or genre of at least 7 of 10 anonymised prose excerpts and can trace 30 Greek roots to modern Galician or Spanish words.
Week 8: You score at least 70% on a full timed mock exam and can state your time allocation and section order for exam day.