Latin

Assessment

At the end of the second year of study, there will be four papers. Paper 1 – Unseen translation This paper requires students to translate a passage of unseen narrative prose and a passage of unseen poetry in English and to scan two lines of Latin verse. The prose passage will come from the historian Livy and the poetry from Ovid, so we will prepare for the examination by reading extracts from their work. Paper 2 – Prose Composition or Comprehension For this paper, students are given a choice: they can either translate unseen material from English into Latin or demonstrate their understanding of a passage of unseen prose text through comprehension, translation and grammatical questions. Paper 3 – Prose Literature You will study two set texts in depth and will read some other work in translation to help with contextualisation. Questions will include translation, comprehension, and analysis and we will spend time on analytical and essay-writing techniques. Cicero, Tacitus, and Pliny are the current authors we can choose from. Paper 4 – Verse Literature You will study two set texts in depth and will read some other work in translation to help with contextualisation. Questions will include translation, comprehension, and analysis and we will spend time on analytical and essay-writing techniques. Virgil, Juvenal, and Ovid are the current authors we can choose from.