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Assessment

Paper 1: students engage with an un-adapted, unseen Latin passage with the support of a dictionary, demonstrating their understanding through a variety of tasks including comprehension and translation. HL students answer additional questions on a second, shorter unseen text. SL – 30 marks: 1 hour 30 minute paper – 35% HL – 40 marks: 2 hour paper – 30% Paper 2: In addition to reading two companion texts from a variety of authors, including Pliny the Younger, Tibullus and Catullus, SL students study one core text and HL students study two core texts: one verse and one prose. The core text authors are Vergil, Ovid, Livy and Cicero. The paper is assessed by answering short questions on a core text involving critical analysis of each author’s style, choice of vocabulary and figures of speech and writing an extended response to a prompt. SL – 32 marks: 1 hour 30 minute paper – 35% HL – 32 marks: 2 hour paper – 30% Internal Assessment: students create a Research Dossier, which is an annotated collection of 7-9 primary source materials. This may include quotations from classical authors and/ or visual material such as pictures, diagrams, and photographs. Students make a prediction about the outcome of their own research question and assess the validity of their findings in a conclusion. Students may select any topic of particular interest ranging from the language, literature, history, religion, mythology, archaeology, art and architecture. SL – 28 marks: coursework – 30% HL – 28 marks: coursework – 20% Composition: a piece of original Latin prose writing, of no more than 120 words, aiming to be accurate and varied in form. Students include an additional rationale to analyse their work and the influence of their sources and evaluate choices made in the drafting process. (HL only – 25 marks – coursework – 20%)