AP
Latin /
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  • Equivalent to a 1 semester college Latin course
  • May earn college credit with an AP exam score of 3, 4, or 5
  • Students should have successfully completed Latin V (exceptions may be made for rising seniors who have excelled in Latin IV)

Main Themes in AP Latin:
  • Literary Genre and Style
  • Roman Values
  • War and Empire
  • Leadership
  • Views of Non-Romans
  • History and Memory
  • Human Beings and the Gods
/ Assignments:
  • Interactive notebook of literary devices, grammar terms, and themes
  • Frequent translation of Caesar’s De Bello Gallico and Vergil’s Aeneid
/ Assessments:
  • Frequent quizzes
  • Individual work & projects
  • Tests timed & modeled after the AP exam

Workload:
  • Expect a college-level workload
  • Expect homework every day
  • Expect a lot of vocabulary
  • Expect a pre-course summer assignment
/ AP Exam:
  • Given in May, 3 hours long
  • 50 multiple choice
  • 5 open ended questions, including 2 translations, 1 analytical essay, and 2 short answer sections

/ Description of AP Latin from the College Board:
AP Latin is designed to provide advanced high school students with a rich and rigorous Latin course, approximately equivalent to an upper-intermediate (typically fourth or fifth semester) college or university Latin course. With explicit attention to developing skills for reading, translating, and analyzing Latin texts, as well as to demonstrating contextual knowledge, making connections to other disciplines and comparisons between Latin and English usages, the AP Latin course is clearly consistent with the goal areas of the Standards for Classical Language Learning. Using Vergil and Caesar as a base, the course helps students reach beyond translation to read with critical, historical, and literary sensitivity. This is an ambitious goal, but it is hoped that when exposed to the characteristic method of classical philology, with its rigorous attention to linguistic detail coupled with critical interpretation and analysis, students will be able to apply the skills they acquire in this course to many areas of learning and professional pursuits.