Latin Continuers

The Preliminary course (120 indicative hours) is structured to provide students with opportunities to read original Latin texts, developing the skills needed to study the prescribed texts for the HSC course and to translate unseen texts. Students extend their vocabulary, consolidate their language skills and study additional linguistic features not prescribed in the Years 7–10 syllabus. Students also begin to appreciate the purpose and point of view of different authors and their effective use of language.

The HSC course (120 indicative hours) is designed to allow students to apply and extend the knowledge and skills gained through a wider reading of authors in the Preliminary course to a detailed study and analysis of two prescribed texts, one verse and one prose. Students apply their linguistic skills and their familiarity with Latin literature in the independent translation of unseen passages of original Latin text.

A Prose Author:

• Intensive study of a selection (approximately 400 lines) of one of Cicero’s speeches.

• Contextual reading of the remainder of the speech in English.

• Linguistic, Rhetorical and Thematic analysis.

• Accessing and reacting to scholarship on the work.

A Verse Author:

• Intensive study of a selection (approximately 400 lines) of one book of Vergil’s Aeneid.

• Contextual reading of the remainder of the book in English.

• Linguistic, Rhetorical, Metrical and Thematic analysis.

• Accessing and reacting to scholarship on the work.

Unseen Translation

• Extensive practice in unseen translations from similar works/selections of the same authors.

• Grammatical analysis to improve comprehension.