The Jesuits ha an excellent four year plan. 9th grade was grammar, declensions, conjugations, sentence formation and structure, and vocabulary. 10th grade was Caesar. He wrote in a strict grammatical style. So he came easily. 10th was Cicero’s First Oration . Written for the ear as much as the eye. Using stylistic language and metaphor. Required deeper reading and reader understanding. Finally there was Vergil and The Aeneid. Combining the styles exemplified by Caesar and Cicero and adding the intricacies of epic poetry. It taught us more than Latin. It was the basis for our studies. Acquire skills and knowledge and use them to gradually encounter, overcome, and understand more intricate objectives.
Wow, you had a great high school education. Can’t say the same here. This should be required as well as rhetoric and logic by the 12th grade. Self-taught but have worked with some of the top minds in the fields of “classics”. Now, you will get the 1619 project and if you happen to be white in color, you will be taught how you are the sources of all the world’s problems. I knew I would find very educated people here.