Latin
The A2 course removes the framework of a defined vocabulary list but provides specified authors for study in verse and prose for the language elements. This allows students to gain familiarity with the style and vocabulary of each author.
A2 Verse paper (L3)
Critical analysis and evaluation of the verse set text, followed by a comprehension task using a passage from the specified verse author, including some translation from Latin to English and some basic scansion.
From June 2013 to June 2015, inclusive, the A2 verse set text will be Virgil, Aeneid IV. 1–299.
From June 2013 to June 2015, inclusive, the A2 unseen verse author will be Ovid (hexameters).
A2 Prose paper (L4)
Critical analysis and evaluation of the prose set text, followed either by a comprehension task using a passage from the specified verse author, including some translation from Latin to English or by a translation of a short continuous prose passage from English to Latin. For this task the AS vocabulary list acts as an English-Latin wordlist.
From June 2013 to June 2015, inclusive, the A2 prose set texts will be:
- either Tacitus, Annals XV. 20–23, 33–45
- or Sallust, Bellum Catilinae, 14–29
From June 2013 to June 2015, inclusive, the A2 unseen prose author will be Livy.
The A2 exams are taken together in the summer of the Upper Sixth.
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