Latin 11B (also called Latin 3B): Course Description
This course will continue students' experience in reading original Latin prose and will introduce them to Latin poetry, including scansion and figures of speech. The year will begin with a thorough review of forms, vocabulary, after which students will read selections from Cicero’s philosophical works and oratory, from the mythological poetry of Ovid, from Tacitus' Annals, and the private letters of Pliny. Latin 3B students must of course demonstrate proficiency in translation skills, but must also move beyond mere translation to develop their own understanding, on firm textual evidence, about what they read. Capable Latin 3B students are strongly encouraged to enroll in AP Latin at the usual time next spring, and to take the SAT II subject exam in Latin.
READING SYLLABUS
Required Reading:
Odysseus stories in Fabulae Graecae
M. Tulli Ciceronis oratio in L. Sergium Catilinam in senatu habita prima
P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses (Deucalion et Pyrrha)
Corneli Taciti Annales 15. 44
C. Plini Caecili Secundi Epistulae Selectae (6. 16 and 10. 96-97)
Optional Reading:
M. Tulli Ciceronis pro Archia poeta 12-16 (annotated text on-line)
--selections from de amicitia (annotated text on-line)
P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses (Philemon et Baucis; annotated text on-line)
C. Plini Caecili Secundi Epistulae Selectae (6. 20; annotated text on-line)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Latin 3B students will be able to …
--read, with appropriate assistance, authentic Latin prose and poetry
--translate selected passages from the above required syllabus
--translate short passages of Ciceronian prose not previously seen
--answer key questions of comprehension about both seen and unseen passages
--identify substantives by case form and function in context
--identify finite and non-finite verb forms and uses
--identify principal types of subordinate constructions
--identify metrical patterns in lines of verse (dactyl, spondee, elision, caesura)
--scan dactylic hexameter verse and recite metrically
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Reading materials
--Ulysses (FG 81-100)
--Cicero: De Amicitia
--Cicero: Pro Archia Poeta 12-16
--Cicero: in Catilinam oratio prima
--Ovid: Deucalion and Pyrrha
--Ovid: Philemon and Baucis
--Plinius: Epist. 6.16
--Plinius: Epist. 6.20
--Plinius: Epist. 10.96 and 97
--Tacitus: Annales 15.44
Ulysses
Ulysses 81-100 (doc) (pdf)
Ulysses 81-100 text only -- for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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Cicero: De Amicitia Selections. Annotated Texts
De Amicitia 17-62 (doc) (pdf)
De Amicitia 17-62 text only -- for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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Cicero: Pro Archia Poeta, 12-16 Annotated Texts
Pro Archia 12-16 (doc) (pdf)
Pro Archia 12-16 text only -- for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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Cicero: in Catilinam oratio prima Annotated Texts
In Catilinam oratio prima (doc) (pdf)
In Catilinam oratio prima text only -- for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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Ovid: Deucalion and Pyrrha. Annotated Texts.
Ov. metam. 1. 313-415 (doc) (pdf)
Ov. metam. 1. 313-415 text only for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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Ovid: Philemon and Baucis. Annotated Texts.
Ov. metam. 8. 620-724 (doc) (pdf)
Ov. metam. 8. 620-724 text only for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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Plin. epist. 6. 16 Annotated Texts
Plin. epist. 6. 16 (doc) (pdf)
Plin. epist. 6. 16 text only for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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Plin. epist. 6. 20 Annotated Texts
Plin. epist. 6. 20 (doc) (pdf)
Plin. epist. 6. 20 text only for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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Plin. epist. 10. 96-97. Annotated Texts
Plin. epist. 10. 96-97 (doc) (pdf)
Plin. epist. 10. 96-97 text only for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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Tac. Ann. 15. 44 Annotated Texts
Tac. Ann. 15. 44 (doc) (pdf)
Tac. Ann. 15. 44 text only for classroom display (doc) (pdf)
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