Objectives And Activities for AP Latin

-Multiple choice section: sight reading Latin prose and poetry objectives-

An AP Latin candidate should have attained proficiency in reading and translating Latin literature as demonstrated by an ability to: (1) read at sight Latin prose of an intermediate level of difficulty; (2) read at sight Latin poetry of intermediate level of difficulty written in dactylic hexameter or elegiac distich; (3) draw inferences from material read; and (4) decode unfamilar words, idoims, or structures based on a broad, general vocabular and knoweldge of grammar and syntax.

-Activities-
 NATIONAL LATIN EXAM in March 
  Selection of reading material for the NLT should emphasize a wide variety of authors, such as: Livy, Aesop, Ovid, Tibullus, Propertius, Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, Cicero, Livy, Nepos, Suetonius, Pliny, and The Vulgate of St. Gerome.

A reading proficiency at the AP level presumes substantial and sustained traning over several years. A student's comprehension of a text can be strengthened by following this basic sequence:

1. become familar with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and scansion
2. comprehend the text factually
3  learn to extract overall meaning and to accurately interpret the salient features of the text
4. read the text closely for recognition of linguistic and sylistic features, such as rhetorical figures, meaning, humor, irony, etc.
5. demostrate knowledge of terminology and content through paraphrasing the text and answering questions based on it.