General Course Description of Advanced Placement Latin
This is a two-year curriculum, requiring all students to elect both the junior and senior year courses and to sit for the Advanced Placement examination in May of their senior year. After an initial accelerated review of grammar, the course will proceed through the beginning of the curriculum on the Commentarii de Bello Gallico of Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), with the end of junior year and all of senior year comprised of our study of the Aeneid of Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BC).
This course will begin senior year with discussion and testing of the students’ knowledge of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, which were read over the summer.
The students will be expected to translate and learn between 250 and 300 lines of text each quarter, as well as maintain a sufficient knowledge of all of the Caesar and Vergil texts translated in the prior quarters. Exercises and assessments will reinforce skills in prepared translations, sight translations, grammatical analysis of both authors, as well as scansion and many of the rhetorical devices commonly used and found in Vergil. Beyond the daily translations, there will be regular vocabulary quizzes, spot quizzes and outside readings. Students will be expected to have an understanding of the life and times of Caesar and Vergil, and will be required at times to complete reading assignments over vacations.
Detailed Two-Year Syllabus
Vocabulary Lists for Third Year
Vocabulary Lists for Fourth Year
Rules of Scansion
Rhetorical Terms