AP Latin Vergil

The AP Latin Course is parallel to a middle-level or sophomore college course. The course will concentrate on developing the following skills: writing literal English translations of selected Latin passages; defining specific words and/or phrases in context; identifying the content and significance of short excerpts from the required readings, analyzing characteristics or noteworthy features of the authors mode of expression, word choice and placement, imagery, figures of speech, and sound and metrical effects; discussing particular motifs or general themes in specific passages and in the poem as a whole; and analyzing characteristics or situations as portrayed in specific passages. In applying these skills the student will learn to support any observations in paragraphs or essay form, while citing the specific Latin and English in selected passages. The course will concentrate on Vergil's Aeneid, although other dactylic hexameter works will be read in preparation for the sight translation passages on the Advanced Placement Examination. Students are required to take the AP Language Examination which is administered in May.