Higher Grade Latin
Syllabus Content
- Interpretation:
- Verse: 40 hours
- Text: Plautus, "The Rope",
line 1-484 (in English)
line 485-705 (in Latin)
- Interpretation:
- Prose: 40 hours
- Text: Cicero, Against Verres V
lines 26-34/59-62 (in English)
lines 63-73 (in Latin)
- Translation:
- 40 hours
- Translating a passage of Latin Prose into English (with a vocabulary key)
Core Skills
Interpretation:
- Extract information
- Explain content
- Identify theme
- Explain author's technique
- Make and justify personal response
- Draw inference of intended effect from choice of words.
Translation:
- Recognise vocabulary and category of word
- Apply knowledge of syntax
- Analyse relationship between clause
- Express overall meaning in context
Final Exam
- Paper I
- Interpretation: Verse
- Interpretation: Prose
- Time: 2 hours
- Marks: 100
- Paper II
- Translation
- Time: 45 minutes
- Marks: 50