AP Latin Vergil Plan for 2010-2011

AP Latin Vergil plan for 2011-12

Texts:

A Vergil Workbook, by Bradley and Boyd; (VW)

A Latin-English dictionary

An English Translation of the Aeneid

Texts assigned to students:

A Song of War: Readings from Vergil’s Aeneid (SOW)

Website:

Calendar of Assignments, Meetings, Due Dates, and Assessments:

Summer Reading: The entire Aeneid in English, and the short Latin summaries of each book. These Latin summaries will be given to you as a handout, and they should become VERY familiar to you.

Latin IV-AP Vergil Option

Dr. Patrick

Fall Calendar of Assignments, Meetings, Due Dates, and Assessments

Grading for Latin AP Vergil

Formative Assessments35 %

Summative Assessments45 %

Performance Final10%

Semester Final10%

For those doing the AP Vergil work as their contracted work, the Vergil Workbook material will always be recorded as “Formative Assessment”, and the Essays you write for each chapter will be recorded as “Summative Assessment”. Your Performance final grade will be based on in class work that we all do together. The written portion will be your Commonplace book. I will let you discard your two lowest essay grades at the end of the semester. Your 10 points will not be added until the end of the semester.

Creating ongoing notes

Your Vergil Workbook in itself becomes a collection of very important review materials for you as you approach the AP Exam. Doing it consistently and completely is essential. In addition to the WK, you should have a notebook in which you make notes about the commentary from Song of War. Learn to look for those insights from the commentary that will help you write good essays. The insight may actually be your own, inspired or initiated by something in the commentary for the reading. Create headings in your notebook that correspond to the Workbook chapter numbers and Aeneid lines so that you can match up your Workbook notes with your own commentary notes. If you do this consistently from now until the end of the year, your review sessions will be much easier for you.

Mondays of every week are “conference days”. I will be in conference with one group of students each Monday—Personal Project, AP, or SAT option students. While I am in conference with one group, the other groups will work together in cooperative learning. This is the ONLY in class time that you will have for your contracted options. All other contracted options take place outside of class. Essay assignments are due through the assignment submission on the Latin 4/AP page of Dr. Patrick’s website by Sunday night, 10 PM.

Second Semester