AP List of Required Readings –
AND sight recommendations and terminology to know FOS grammar etc
Required Readings in Latin
Vergil, Aeneid
Book 1: Lines 1–209, 418–440, 494–578
Book 2: Lines 40–56, 201–249, 268–297, 559–620
Book 4: Lines 160–218, 259–361, 659–705
Book 6: Lines 295–332, 384–425, 450–476, 847–
899
831
209+22+84
16+48+29+61
58+102+46
37+41+26+52
315
154
206
156
Old Vergil
Book 1: lines 1-519
Book 2: lines 1-56, 199-297, 469-566 and 735-804
Book 4: lines 1-448, 642-705
Book 6: lines 1-211, 450-476, 847-901
Book 10: lines 420-509
Book 12: lines 791-842, 887-952
Caesar, Gallic War
Book 1: Chapters 1–7
Book 4: Chapters 24–35 and the first sentence of Chapter 36 (Eodem die legati
…venerunt.)
Book 5: Chapters 24–48
Book 6: Chapters 13–20
Required Readings in English
Vergil, Aeneid
Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12
Caesar, Gallic War
Books 1, 6, 7
Suggested authors for sight reading
In order to develop students’ ability to read Latin at sight, teachers should choose texts
with relatively common vocabulary and straightforward grammar and syntax. Prose
authors recommended for sight-reading work include Nepos, Cicero (but not Cicero’s
letters), Livy, Pliny the Younger, and Seneca the Younger rather than, say, Tacitus or
Sallust. Recommended verse authors include Ovid, Martial, Tibullus, and Catullus rather
than, for example, Horace, Juvenal, or Lucan. Portions of the works of Vergil and Caesar
that are not included in the required reading list are also recommended for use in class to
work on reading at sight. The names given here are representative of authors whose works
may be used for sight-reading passages on the AP Exam — the list is neither exclusive nor
exhaustive.
Recommended Themes
Literary Genre and Style
Views of Non-Romans
Roman Values
War and Empire
Leadership
History and Memory
Human Beings and the Gods
Grammar and Syntax
modifies, complements, is dependent on, antecedent
gerundive, gerund, supine
fearing clause, result clause, purpose clause, relative clause, relative clause of
characteristic, relative clause of purpose
indirect statement, indirect question, indirect command
conditionals
mood, imperative, hortatory, or jussive subjunctive
passive periphrastic, deponent
partitive genitive, genitive with impersonal verb, genitive with adjective, genitive
with verb of remembering (forgetting)
dative of possession, dative of purpose, dative with compound verb, dative of
agent, dative of reference, dative with special verbs
accusative of duration of time, accusative of respect
ablative,
ablative absolute,
ablative of separation,
ablative of comparison,
ablative of specification, [AKA Abl respect]
ablative of cause,
ablative of description,
ablative of degree of difference,
ablative with special verbs,
ablative of time when,
ablative of time within which
vocative
Literary Style
alliteration,
anaphora,
apostrophe,
asyndeton,
chiasmus,
enjambment,
hyperbaton,
hyperbole,
litotes,
metaphor,
metonymy,
onomatopoeia,
personification,
polysyndeton,
rhetorical question,
simile,
synchesis,
tmesis
Multi-choice passage 2012
11 questions
translation grammar reference - ille refers to..., what does quo in line xyz refer back to
figure of speech meter –
Big Changes
Translation passages are 15 chunks at 1pt a piece [not 18]
Everything done on a 5 point system instead of a 6 point system
“Spots” or short-answer questions have replace the old short essays on the Latin syllabus
reading and the English syllabus reading—on Vergil and Caesar—which allow students to
demonstrate their ability to provide literal translations, to scan dactylic hexameter (for poetry), to
identify grammatical constructions, and to provide contextualization and show comprehension
of connections to the English readings.
English readings will account for three to five percent of the exam and will be limited to syllabusbased multiple-choice and “spot” (or short-answer) questions.
Staying the Same
Multichoice points given for correct answers, no deductions for wrong.
No dictionaries
Scan dactylic hexameter
Test Breakdown of Question Types and Example Formats
Using Official Practice Exam as Example
Full 3 hr test
Multiple Choice
50%
Free Response
50%
1 Hour
20 syllabus-20%
10% Verg
10% Caes
30 Sight-30%
15% poetry
15% prose
2 hours
15 chks Verg trans-7.5%
15 chks Caes trans-7.5%
45 min Essay-20%
5-7 sht ans Verg-15%
5-7 sht ans Caes-15%
Number of lines and questions per section based on
analysis of practice test [NOT on info from college
board]
10 lines – 12 questions
15 lines – 12 questions
13 lines – 13 questions
16 lines – 13 questions
5 lines
5 lines
6 lns Caesar vs 9 lines Vergil – comparison
7 lines – 5?’s [who, scan 1 line, content question
w/Latin support, grammar point with translation,
comparison to English elsewhere]
7 lines – 6?’s [content, who, why historical context,
content, grammar point with translation, comparison
to English elsewhere]
MultiChoice –
breakdown of question types for each multiple choice
passage
2-4 background/English reading ?’s [syllabus based only]
2-5 content summary [more for sight]
2-4 translation [one word, a phrase, or a whole sentence]
2-4 grammar
1 reference [qui/haec etc. refers to]
1 figure of speech/literary device
1 scan [poetry]
1 theme [maybe]
Format of some of the typical questions:
Content/summary
In line x [abc..def,] we learn that…
From lines x-y [abd…def,] we can infer that…
Meter
The metrical pattern of the first four feet of line x
[abc…def] is:
a. spondee-dactyl-spondee-spondee
Translation
Line x [abc…def] is translated
In line x, abc is translated
Figure of speech/literary device
A stylistic device used in line x [abc…def] is
What feature of literary style occurs in lines x-y
[abc…def]?
Grammar
In line x, the grammatical function of abc def is
In line x, abc is an ablative/accusative/etc of
In line x, the case of abc is dependent on
The case and number of abc [line x] are
The verb abc [line x] is subjeunctive because it
appears in [type of clause]
In line x, abc isthe object of
In line x, -que connects
2-5 content summary [more for sight]
Content/summary
In line x [abc..def,] we learn that…
From lines x-y [abd…def,] we can infer that…
2-4 translation [one word, a phrase, or a whole sentence]
Translation
Line x [abc…def] is translated
In line x, abc is translated
2-4 grammar
Grammar
In line x, the grammatical function of abc def is
In line x, abc is an ablative/accusative/etc of
In line x, the case of abc is dependent on
The case and number of abc [line x] are
The verb abc [line x] is subjeunctive because it appears in [type of clause]
In line x, abc isthe object of
In line x, -que connects
1 reference [qui/haec etc. refers to]
1 figure of speech/literary device
Figure of speech/literary device
A stylistic device used in line x [abc…def] is
What feature of literary style occurs in lines x-y [abc…def]?
1 Meter-scan [poetry]
The metrical pattern of the first four feet of line x [abc…def] is:
1 theme [maybe]
Hustwit’s breakdown for creating tests that mirror the actual test
30 minutes
10% Syllabus based
Verg – 5 lines, 6 ?’s
Caes – 7.5 lines, 6 ?’s
15% Sight
Poetry – 7.5 lines, 7 ?’s
Prose – 8 lines, 7 ?’s
1 hr- 1/3 test
single author
[6wks test]
20 minutes
7% Syllabus based
Verg or Caes – 8 lns, 8?’s
no other author
10% Sight
Poetry- 4 lns, 4-5 ?’s
Prose- 5 lns, 4.5 ?’s
1 hour
Translation
Verg- 2.5 lns, 7-8 chunks
Caes – 2.5 lns, 7-8 chunks
40 min
Translation
Verg/Caes 3 lns, 10 chunks
no other transl
20% 45 min Essay6 lns Caesar vs 9 lines Vergil –
comparison
23 min Essay
15 min Essay
Short Answer
15%-5-7?’s sht ans Verg7 lines – 5?’s [who, scan 1 line,
content question w/Latin support,
grammar point with translation,
comparison to English elsewhere]
Short Answer
3 sht ans Verg
3.5 lns, 3 ?’s
Short Answer
4-5 sht ans Verg/Caes
no other sht ans
5 lns, 4-5 ?’s
Full 3 hr test
Multiple
Choice
50%
1 Hour
20% Syllabus10% Verg-10 lines – 12 questions
[80wds]
10% Caes-15 lines – 12 questions
[100wds]
30 Sight-30%
15% poetry-13 lines – 13 questions
15% prose-16 lines – 13 questions
Free
2 hours
Response Translation
50%
7.5%-15 chks Verg trans-5 lines
7.5%-15 chks Caes trans-5 lines
1.5 hr - ½ test
[semester exam]
15%- 5-7?’s sht ans Caes3 sht ans Caes
7 lines – 6?’s [content, who, why
3.5 lns, 3 ?’s
historical context, content, grammar
point with translation, comparison
to English elsewhere]
Short Answer – transl, scan, grammar, context, Eng connections