Easing into the study of Latin by admiring its beauty and impressive history; exploring the letters and sounds of the restored classical pronunciation, which approximates the way Latin is spoken in the classical era; covering the rules of accents.

Studying Latin verbs with the third conjugation; practicing the present tense indicative of ago; learning four principal parts of ago, the key words that allow one to conjugate any form; imperative endings that permit one to issue commands.

Learning how the long vowel a is the key to the present subjunctive mood in verbs such as pono; the subjunctive expresses doubt or potential; exploring its use by the poet Catullus in a famous love poem to survive from the ancient world.

Learning two important irregular verbs, sum and possum; mastering their present tense indicative, imperative, infinitive and subjunctive forms; noticing how the tiniest linguistic details can be powerful markers.

Learning to decline nouns; investigating the largest class of nouns, called the third declension; discovering the function of the five cases and how to identify the noun stem; practicing with masculine and feminine nouns.

Exploring the third-declension neuter nouns, specifically the word corpus; noting the distinctive features of the neuter declension; practicing these endings; examining several celebrated Latin expressions that feature corpus.