Latin

Course summary

The Latin A Level syllabus allows students to develop linguistic skills and the ability to translate with accuracy and fluency. In addition, an extract of Latin verse and one of Latin prose will be studied in detail in each year. LOWER SIXTH: In the Lower Sixth, language study will focus on the consolidation of grammar, development of vocabulary and the practice of translation skills. There is a set vocabulary list for girls to learn and the skills of literary analysis which have been developed at GCSE will be further improved. UPPER SIXTH: Students have to translate a verse unseen and a prose unseen, but they are also required to answer comprehension and grammatical questions on a prose passage in the prose comprehension paper, identifying particular cases of noun for instance and accounting for these endings. The set texts increase in difficulty in this year and students are expected to write longer and more detailed analyses of passages in the examination.