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This CD contains Volumes I-V of the Activitates Pro Liberis series. Together, the volumes comprise more than 150 effective and innovative lessons and activities. This series is perfect for enrichment, everyday classroom use, and standards preparation. Each lesson is extremely detailed, with a complete listing of objectives, materials needed, and procedures. *VOLUME I , 125 pages, includes lessons on such topics as: Mythology - What is Myth, the Theogony, gods and goddesses, monsters, beasts, and creatures; Roman Culture - geography, families, homes, architecture, weddings; Classical Latin - numerals, numbers, colors, animals, months, days of the week, weather, adjectives, phrases and mottoes; Conversational Latin - greetings and commands, classroom items, foods, anatomy, emotions, inscriptions; Activities - Classical allusions in Pokemon, mosaics, Mythology Through the Arts, Roman names, bullae. *VOLUME II, 155 pages, is an entirely new curriculum, with lessons and activities focusing on such topics as: Mythology - Introduction to Myth, deities, Daedalus and Icarus, Perseus, cross-cultural myth; Roman Culture - education, government and politics, the Army, heroes, theatre and drama; Classical Latin - Roman authors, interpreting Latin poetry through music, inscriptions and scrolls, seasons and telling time, numbers and numerals; Conversational Latin - greetings and commands, Latin names, foods, the home and furniture, trades and professions, school and the classroom; Activities - archaeology, mosaics, roads, temples, spinning and weaving, Olympics, clothing. *VOLUME III, 185 pages, is an entirely new curriculum. Lessons and activities focus on such topics as: Art & Mythology - Coins and the Symbol of Myth, Temples and the Gods, Mosaics and Mythical Beasts, Sculpture and the Gods, Pottery and Mythical Heroes; Roman Culture - the city, coins and economy, house, geography, and the Circus Maximus; Classical Latin - What is Latin?, Vergil's Aeneid, Romulus and Remus, Horace, phrases and mottoes; Conversational Latin - greetings and commands, foods and colors, emotions, family, parts of the body, a Day in a Roman Classroom; Activities - military standards, Pandora's box, Roman games, scrolls and chariots, frescoes, oil lamps, amphorae. *VOLUME IV, 256 pages, is SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR GRADES 1-2! Lessons and activities focus on such topics as: Introductory Activities - Roman Names, Weekdays, Weather; Mythology Activities - gods and goddesses, constellations, nature myths, plant & flower myths, transformation myths; Conversational Latin Activities - numbers, family, classroom, foods, animals, colors, nature, body parts, verbs, adjectives; Sentence Structure Activities - sentence patterns, illustrating Latin sentences, foam & felt sentences, scene/caption cards, story starters; Roman Culture Activities - roads, geography of Italy, mosaics, archaeology, clothing, banquets, house, animal figurines; Review Activities - the alphabet game, Jeopardy. *VOLUME V, 248 pages, contains ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE & CULTURE ACTIVITIES! Lessons and activities focus on such topics as: Culture Activities - Introduction and the Alphabet, Polis and the Agora, Athens and Sparta, Plato’s Cave, Comedy and Tragedy, Homer and the Trojan War, Scholars, Temples; Vocabulary Activities - Adjectives, Verbs, Animals, Foods, Natural World, Review. Basic grammar study (including linking and action verbs, subject and object nouns, and adjectives) is seamlessly integrated into the vocabulary exploration. A pronunciation guide (complete with audio files), full glossary, and list of derivatives is included.