AP Latin Summer Prep 2015
Highly recommended (required):
Read in English: Aeneid, Books 1, 2, 4, 6
Read in English: De Bello Gallico, Books 1, 4, 5, 6
Keep a notebook of events, characters, descriptions for each text.
Highlight (6 different colors) notes based on 6 AP themes.
AP Latin Themes
 Roman Values
 War and Empire
 Leadership
 Views of Non-Romans
 History and Memory
 Human Beings and the Gods
Recommended for overall understanding of literature in context:
Caesar: A Biography – Christian Meier
Augustus: A Biography – Anthony Everitt
Overview/SparkNotes of The Iliad.
Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
Recommended for 3rd year students – and everyone else:
Use LatinTutorial on Youtube or other online Latin Grammar aids (thelatinlibrary.com/101/) to gain
understanding of or further understanding of:
Passive Verbs, endings and meanings
Objective Genitive
Indirect Statement, formation, translation
Datives of Reference, Agent, Purpose
Tenses of Infinitives
Various Ablative Uses and Terminology
Ablative Absolute – this is essential
Latin Scansion and Meter (dactylic hexameter)
Gerundives, uses
Rhetorical and Literary Devices
Gerunds, how to tell apart from gerundives
JUNE 26 Lunch and Learn at Claymore’s house - or we can go out
to discuss Vergil’s Aeneid
JULY 20 Lunch and Learn at Claymore’s house – or we can go out
to discuss Caesar’s DBG
Schedule for August – In order to meet the challenge of the 1st 2 weeks of AP Latin, it is highly recommend
August 10: Intro to AP course
August 17: Noun declension test
August 11: Outline provided; Article HW
August 18:
August 12: Commentary Discussion; Article HW
August 19: AP Essay Themes
August 13: Epic Tradition; History HW
August 20:
August 14: Historical Background
August 21: Outline of Works Test