GCSE Latin OCR
Dates Available
- Week 1: 29 March – 2 April
- Week 2: 5 April – 9 April
- Week 3: 12 April – 16 April
Please note: Easter Revision classes WILL take place on Easter Monday (29 March).
Boards
OCR J282
Length of Course
20 hours
Times
9am to 1pm daily
The principal focus is on translation skills, supported by revision of vocabulary, grammar and sentence construction.
Study for the majority of the course is centred upon translating unseen passages of Latin. Students will be tested in detail each day on the passage they have studied the previous day to ensure that they have a full grasp of the syntax, accidence and grammatical structures. The remaining time is given to workshops in which students will be given help, with their set texts and looking at the literature and culture aspect of the course. Again, the emphasis is on translation of the original Latin, but within an overall understanding of these prescribed texts.
Prose B
Cambridge Latin Anthology
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 5.14 and Pliny Letters 9.33
OR
Apuleius, Metamorphoses Book V, 21-25 and 26-27
Verse
Oxford Classical Text
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4, 55–166
OR
Virgil, Aeneid, 2.1–56, 195–253
All texts in OCR Anthology for Latin GCSE 2027–2028, edited by Tim Chambers and Declan Lawell
ISBN: 9781350424487
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