Madrid PAU Greek II (Griego II) study plan
Madrid PAU Greek II (Griego II) · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Translation of an original Greek prose text (with dictionary support) & Morphological analysis (declensions, conjugations, nominal and verbal forms)
Parse every noun, adjective and article in a 12-line Attic prose passage into case, number, gender and declension before translating it.
Identify the five cases' core functions in that passage and mark nominative, genitive, dative and accusative uses with a colour code.
Translate the passage into Spanish in 45 minutes with a dictionary, keeping a written log of every lexical guess.
Review the middle-voice and passive endings of the present and imperfect by writing out full paradigms for two verbs from the passage.
Build a personal list of 40 high-frequency prose words met in the passage, with principal parts for the verbs.
Your checkpoint
A one-page annotated translation of a 12-line passage: parsed forms in the margin, colour-coded cases, and a 40-item vocabulary sheet.
Translation of an original Greek prose text (with dictionary support) & Morphological analysis (declensions, conjugations, nominal and verbal forms)
Conjugate the aorist (weak and strong) and future of ten verbs drawn from two short prose passages, writing stem, tense marker and ending separately.
Translate a 15-line narrative passage in 50 minutes, resolving participle phrases before main clauses.
Decline the third declension types (sigmatic, liquid, vocalic) for eight nouns occurring in the text.
Explain in writing why each participle in the passage takes the case it does.
Self-correct yesterday's translation against a model version and categorise each error as morphology, syntax or lexicon.
Your checkpoint
An error log of at least 15 categorised mistakes plus a completed conjugation table for ten verbs.
Translation of an original Greek prose text (with dictionary support) & Syntactic analysis (cases, subordinate clauses, verbal syntax, particles)
Identify every subordinate clause in a 15-line passage (relative, causal, temporal, conditional, purpose) and label its mood and tense.
Map the functions of the genitive and dative in a passage, listing absolute, partitive, possessive and instrumental uses.
Translate a passage containing at least three subordinate clauses in 50 minutes without leaving any clause unaccounted for.
Explain the force of particles such as men, de, gar, oun and ge in context, writing one line each.
Recognise indirect statement with the infinitive and the accusative subject in three constructed examples and in the set passage.
Your checkpoint
A clause-map diagram of one passage: every verb boxed, every subordinate clause bracketed and labelled with mood, tense and function.
Translation of an original Greek prose text (with dictionary support) & Syntactic analysis (cases, subordinate clauses, verbal syntax, particles)
Translate a 20-line Attic prose passage under 60-minute exam conditions with dictionary only.
Justify every translation choice in a separate syntax commentary of at least 150 words.
Analyse the syntax of the optative and subjunctive in hypothetical and purpose clauses found in the passage.
Compare your translation with a model and rewrite the three weakest sentences.
Recite from memory the functions of the four cases with one example each from your own reading.
Your checkpoint
A full mock translation of 20 lines with a 150-word syntax commentary, scored against a model on a morphology/syntax/lexicon rubric.
Literary commentary and genre analysis of the translated text & Historical, cultural, and mythological context of Greek literature
Identify the genre of your set texts (historiography, oratory, philosophy, biography) and list three formal features that justify the classification.
Write a 250-word commentary on one translated passage covering author, addressee, purpose and rhetorical or narrative technique.
Place each set author in chronological order and state the political context of each work in two sentences.
Summarise the main myths or historical episodes alluded to in your passages, with names and outcomes.
Memorise ten fixed formulae used in Greek prose prefaces or openings and note which genre they signal.
Your checkpoint
A 250-word literary commentary plus a one-page timeline linking each set author to genre, date and historical context.
Historical, cultural, and mythological context of Greek literature & Literary commentary and genre analysis of the translated text
Explain the institutional background (assembly, courts, gymnasium, symposium) behind three passages you have translated.
Identify the narrative techniques of your prose author (speeches in indirect discourse, ethnographic digressions, ring composition) with textual examples.
Answer five short context questions in exam format in under 25 minutes.
Compare two authors' treatment of the same theme and write a 200-word comparison.
Check your knowledge of key mythological genealogies relevant to the set passages by writing them from memory.
Your checkpoint
Five timed short-answer context questions plus a 200-word comparative commentary, self-marked against a checklist.
Etymology, Greek lexicon, and semantic evolution into Spanish & Morphological analysis (declensions, conjugations, nominal and verbal forms)
Trace 30 Spanish words to their Greek etyma, giving the Greek form, transliteration and semantic shift.
Explain regular sound correspondences (ph to f, y to i, initial aspiration loss) with five examples each.
Distinguish learned cultisms from popular patrimonial derivatives for ten Greek roots.
Identify false friends and semantic narrowing in five Greek-derived Spanish words.
Revise the ten morphological paradigms you missed most often in weeks 1 to 4.
Your checkpoint
A 30-entry etymology table with Greek etymon, Spanish reflex, type (cultism/patrimonial) and semantic change, plus a five-item false-friend list.
Translation of an original Greek prose text (with dictionary support) & Syntactic analysis (cases, subordinate clauses, verbal syntax, particles) & Literary commentary and genre analysis of the translated text
Sit two full timed mock exams (translation plus morphology, syntax, commentary and context questions) under real time limits.
Mark both mocks against a rubric and list the five error types that cost the most marks.
Re-translate the three sentences you scored lowest on and confirm the correction without notes.
Recite the case functions, clause types and particle meanings from memory in a 15-minute self-test.
Finalise a one-page exam-day checklist covering timing, dictionary use and answer order.
Your checkpoint
Two completed mock exams with rubric scores and a one-page exam-day checklist.
Milestones
Week 2: You can parse and translate a 15-line passage in 50 minutes with no unresolved verb forms.
Week 4: Mock translation of 20 lines scores at least 60% on the combined morphology/syntax/lexicon rubric, with a written syntax commentary.
Week 6: You answer five context and commentary questions in 25 minutes and justify each genre classification with textual evidence.
Week 8: Both full mocks are completed within time limits, with the second scoring higher than the first on every rubric section.