A Level Latin (OCR)

A Level Latin

Dates Available

• Week 1: 29 March – 2 April
• Week 2: 5 April – 9 April
• Week 3: 12 April – 16 April

Boards

OCR H443

Length of Course

As required.

Times

Subject to requirement.

Tuition in this subject is available for all the modules on the syllabus. The subject is taught on an individual basis or in small groups and students must phone to discuss their requirements before completing a registration form.

The course will consist of intensive coverage of the two set texts and of practice in translating unseen Latin passages. As for the literature, tuition will concentrate on translation, stylistic assessment and exploring themes and characters of:

Prose
Cicero, pro Roscio Amerino, 5-29, 29-32 and 37-57
OR
Nepos, Life of Hannibal, 1–13 and Tacitus Annals 14, 29-37 and 59-65

Verse
Virgil, Aeneid Book 4, lines 1–128, 259-396, 416-503 and 529–629
OR
Tibullus 1.2, 1.5 and 2.4 and Lucretius De Rerum Natura book 1, lines 1-224

You must clearly state which texts are required at time of booking.

Where the language is concerned, unseen passages from Cicero’s dialogues and courtroom speeches will be translated in class and the grammar and syntax of these analysed in detail.

Practice in Latin prose composition will also be offered if it is required.

Text
OCR Cicero pro Roscio Amerino: A Selection with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by Neil Treble
ISBN: 978-1350384453

OCR Anthology for Latin AS and A Level Shorter Prose Authors with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by Katharine Radice and Stuart Thomson ISBN: 978-1350384491

OCR Virgil Aeneid IV: A Selection with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by John Storey ISBN: 978-1350383968

OCR Anthology for Latin AS and A Level Shorter Verse Authors with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by John Godwin ISBN: 978-1350384415