Latin at St. Mary’s High School

• Why study Latin?• Latin Course Offerings• St. Mary’s Classics Club• National Junior Classical League

Why Study Latin• Latin helps with English grammar and

vocabulary. Approximately 60% of English words, 90% of words over two syllables, come from Greek and Latin.

• Because it is an inflected language, Latin helps with any foreign language study, but it is especially helpful for the study of the Romance Languages.

• Knowing Latin vocabulary is very useful for work in scientific and medical fields.

• Latin is very attractive to law schools because of its training in analytical and synthetic thinking.

• Latin is the living language of the Roman Catholic Church.

• Latin helps verbal SAT scores.

Latin Course Offerings Latin I and Honors Latin I Latin II and Honors Latin IILatin III and Honors Latin III Honors Latin IV Honors Latin V

Latin I and Honors Latin I

Latin II and Honors Latin II

Latin III and Honors Latin III

Honors Latin IV

Honors Latin V

• Catullus• Horace• Ovid• Cicero• Ancient

Greek• The Gospel

According to St. John

St. Mary’s Classics Club

Latin Organizations

• National Latin ExamLevel I: First Year LatinProse Level III/IV: Third Year LatinPoetry Level III/IV: Fourth Year Latin

• National Junior Classical League• Honors Society of the NJCL• National Latin Honors Society• Maryland Junior Classical League