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ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) LATIN

The AP Vergil and the AP Latin Literature courses are designed to provide rigorous, intermediate college level classical language courses for high school students. The College Board recommends that teachers complete an AP Institute or workshop before teaching an AP course. However, there is no official AP teacher certification issued by the College Board or by the state. Additional information on teacher professional development is available at the College Board website http://apcentral.collegeboard.com. AP teachers can also join a discussion group with other AP teachers in their discipline by signing up on AP Central. Students can visit www.collegeboard.com/apstudents for additional information.

With permission of the College Board, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has adapted the College Board materials to provide course outlines in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study format. These course outlines are in no way intended to replace, but are to be used in conjunction with, the extensive guidelines provided by the College Board. The AP course description books for each subject, which include the recommended topics and required skills, are revised frequently. It is the responsibility of AP teachers to obtain and follow the current course description for their course.

Students enrolled in the course are expected to take the AP exam in order to validate their academic experience, although students are not required to take the course before taking the exam. In order to be successful in this course, students need previous intensive language development and/or a minimum of three years of formal language instruction or the equivalent.

In Advanced Placement Vergil, students study lines from the Aeneid, that appear on the course syllabus. In Advanced Placement Latin Literature, students follow one of three syllabi, which focus on a pair of authors and their works.

Therefore, both courses emphasize the skills required for the student to successfully read, translate into English, understand, analyze and interpret the required readings, including the cultural, social, and political context of the literature on the syllabus. Students will also focus on writing well-developed essays in English.

COMPETENCY GOAL 1:	COMMUNICATION - The student will read, write, understand and interpret Latin developing oral, auditory and written skills as part of the language learning process.
	Objectives 1.01 Write a literal English translation of a Latin passage, accurately reflecting the tense, voice, number and mood of verbs, maintaining both subject-verb agreement and the tense and voice of participles in English. 1.02 Explicate specific words or phrases in context. 1.03 Identify the context and significance of excerpts from the required readings. 1.04 Identify and analyze characteristic or noteworthy features of the authors' modes of expression in passages, including their use of imagery, figures of speech, sound, and metrical effects. 1.05 Discuss motifs or themes common to reading selections of a particular author. 1.06 Analyze characters and/or situations as portrayed in passages of a particular author. 1.07 Write an analytical and interpretive essay about an issue of importance relevant to a passage in Latin that refers specifically to the Latin to support its arguments in English. 1.08 Scan the meters used by poets in selected texts.
COMPETENCY GOAL 2:	CULTURES - The student will gain knowledge and demonstrate understanding of the relationship among practices, products and perspectives of the Greco-Roman culture.
	Objectives 2.01 Analyze and discuss variations in patterns of behavior or interaction within the Greco-Roman culture as reflected in the readings. 2.02 Analyze and discuss Latin literature and classical art in order to understand the cultural practices and perspectives of the Greco-Roman world as reflected in the readings. 2.03 Examine the geographical features of the Greco-Roman world as reflected in the readings. 2.04 Evaluate the impact of influential people and events on Greco-Roman culture as reflected in the readings. 2.05 Form and support opinions about daily life in Greco-Roman culture as reflected in the readings. 2.06 Demonstrate an understanding of the role of cultural diversity in the Greco- Roman world as reflected in the readings.
COMPETENCY GOAL 3:	CONNECTIONS - The student will relate Latin and the Greco- Roman world to other disciplines.
	Objectives 3.01 Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of implicit and explicit allusions in Latin literature to Greco-Roman mythology and history. 3.02 Make inferences and draw conclusions about the impact of choice authors on subsequent literature and visual arts. 3.03 Apply and integrate information, skills and learning strategies developed in the Latin class to other disciplines orally, in writing or using print, non-print, electronic resources, multimedia tools or cultural artifacts.
COMPETENCY GOAL 4:	COMPARISONS - The student will develop insight into the English language and their own culture through the study of Latin and the Greco- Roman world.
	Objectives 4.01 Compare and contrast, orally and in writing, increasingly complex structural patterns used by choice Latin authors with English. 4.02 Analyze similarities and differences of various literary genres in Latin and in English. 4.03 Analyze similarities and differences between Greco-Roman culture as reflected in the Latin literature, and the student's culture(s). 4.04 Compare and contrast the cultural traditions and celebrations in the Greco- Roman world, as reflected in the Latin literature with the student's culture(s). 4.05 Assess the influence of Latin and Greco-Roman culture, as reflected in the Latin literature, on the student's culture(s).
COMPETENCY GOAL 5:	COMMUNITIES - The student will use and apply their knowledge of Latin and Greco-Roman culture in a diverse world.
	Objectives 5.01 Share, exchange, and present information about the influence of Latin and the Greco-Roman culture, as reflected in the Latin literature to others in the school and in the extended community using advanced presentational technology such as web design or web quest. 5.02 Evaluate Greco-Roman influences throughout the global community using presentational technology. 5.03 Participate in the community of classical scholars in cultural events, contests, lectures, and scholarship at levels appropriate to the AP student (e.g., SAT II, local declamation contests, statewide and national academic contests, classical league meetings and conventions, etc.) 5.04 Compare and contrast the cultural diversity in the Greco-Roman world, as reflected in the assigned texts, with today's multi-cultural society.

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