594 AP Latin H

Gr 11 - 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle  

Advanced Placement Latin offers students in their fourth or fifth year of Latin study the opportunity to explore in depth Virgil’s Aeneid and Caesar’s Gallic War. Following the syllabus that will enable participants to perform successfully on the AP examination, students read the required selections in Latin as well as prescribed sections in English. Concentration is focused on the specific elements of Latin style, structure, and diction of each work as well as on the ways in which it expresses the writer’s outlook and intent. Students discuss and examine these works with respect to literary traditions, historical events, political forces, and cultural elements of the classical world, with particular emphasis on developments in the Roman world in the first century BCE. All activities prepare students for the Advanced Placement Examination.