Matura Latin and Classical Culture study plan

Review and tabulate the full Latin noun declension system (five declensions) and adjective declensions, writing out one paradigm per declension from memory and checking against a grammar reference.

Conjugate the present, imperfect, and future indicative active of all four conjugations plus esse and posse, producing a written table with no reference.

Parse and translate 30 short original Latin sentences (5-10 words) containing only indicative active verbs, marking case, number, gender, tense, person, and function for every noun and verb.

Build a personal vocabulary list of 120 high-frequency Latin words (pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, common verbs) with principal parts and Polish glosses.

Master the passive voice: conjugate present, imperfect, and future indicative passive in all conjugations and translate 20 passive sentences into Polish, distinguishing personal from impersonal constructions.

Drill the demonstrative, relative, and personal pronoun systems (is, ille, hic, qui, quae, quod, ego, tu, nos, vos), writing full case tables and translating 20 sentences containing relative clauses.

Apply the sequence of tenses and the use of the subjunctive in purpose clauses (ut/ne) and result clauses (ut/non), composing 15 original Latin sentences that each use one construction.

Translate one continuous adapted prose passage of about 80 words into Polish, then annotate every subordinate clause by type.

Identify and translate all non-finite verb forms: present active and passive infinitives, perfect active infinitive, future active infinitive, and the four participles, across all conjugations.

Recognize and translate the ablative absolute, the accusative-with-infinitive (indirect statement), and the nominative-with-infinitive, finding five examples of each in a continuous Latin text.

Translate one continuous original prose passage of 100-120 words into Polish under a 40-minute time limit, then revise the translation against a dictionary and grammar without looking at any model translation.

Memorize the principal parts of 60 common verbs and self-test by writing them from memory.

Translate two original prose passages of 120-150 words each into Polish under exam timing, applying a fixed five-step method: read whole, identify main verb, bracket subordinate clauses, translate clause by clause, polish style.

Answer ten comprehension questions in Polish about the content, structure, and argument of the passages translated, citing the Latin phrase that supports each answer.

Review and correct the ten most frequent error types from weeks 1-3 by rewriting flawed sentences correctly and stating the rule violated.

Build a glossary of 80 additional exam-relevant vocabulary items drawn from the passages translated.

Read two short original passages (one prose, one verse) and identify speaker, addressee, occasion, and rhetorical purpose in writing for each.

Map the major literary genres - epic, elegy, lyric, satire, historiography, oratory, comedy, tragedy, philosophical dialogue - to at least two representative Roman authors and one characteristic work each.

Define and illustrate ten core rhetorical and stylistic devices (anaphora, chiasmus, asyndeton, polysyndeton, hyperbaton, apostrophe, rhetorical question, tricolon, metaphor, metonymy) with a Latin example you locate yourself.

Scan and mark the metre of ten lines of dactylic hexameter, identifying feet, caesura, and the position of the main caesura.

Construct a chronological timeline from the founding of the Republic to the fall of the Western Empire, placing at least 20 key events, and write one sentence on the significance of each.

Summarize the political institutions of Rome (consuls, senate, tribunes, assemblies, cursus honorum) and of classical Athens (ekklesia, boule, strategoi, ostracism), noting one difference in how power was distributed.

Describe the main phases of Roman expansion and the causes and outcomes of two major conflicts (the Punic Wars and one civil war), with dates and key figures.

Read one short passage of Roman historiography and explain in writing how the author's rhetorical aims shape the presentation of events.

Retell the core myths of at least twelve major figures (Zeus, Hera, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Demeter and Persephone, Dionysus, Heracles, Odysseus, Aeneas, Romulus) with their Greek and Roman names and one key attribute or episode each.

Explain Roman religious practice: state cult, priesthoods, sacrifice, augury, the Vestals, and the imperial cult, and distinguish it from Greek civic religion in writing.

Trace three specific classical motifs through later European culture (for example a mythological figure in painting, a Latin phrase in modern political language, and a tragic plot in later drama), citing the source text and one later work for each.

Identify the Latin origin and meaning of 25 classical expressions and allusions used in modern Polish and European languages.

Complete two full mock exams under strict timing, translating one original prose passage of 150 words and answering comprehension and grammar questions without notes.

Score both mock exams against a marking scheme, record the score per domain, and list the three weakest areas with a concrete remediation action for each.

Re-drill the grammar points that produced errors in the mocks by writing ten corrected sentences per point.

Recite from memory the noun and verb paradigms and the principal parts of the 60 core verbs, confirming retention after seven weeks.