July 1st marks the release of one of the major innovations in the new AP Latin syllabus: the inclusion of four annually rotating project passages. Each year AP will post four new project passages (2 prose, 2 poetry). This year’s passages include various genres: autobiography (Augustine’s Confessions), epigraphy and oration (Laudatio Turiae), myth (Ovid, Fasti), and even medieval courtly Romance (the anonymous Ruodlieb).
With these passages finally in my possession, I can finally start making some resources for them. My goal is to create a series of tiered readings for each passage (which I will make freely available right here on my blog), as well as (fingers crossed) video content to accompany the readings.
I am pleased to now present the first set of tiered readings for Passage 1, Augustine, Confessiones (Confessions) 1.14.23:
Comment below if this resource can be useful in your own classroom, or if you have questions about how to use this resource. I have plans for a future post (and maybe a video) detailing how I use tiered readings in my classroom.
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Thank you for this! I’ll definitely be using it with my students this fall. I have a combined class that will have some returning upper-intermediate students and some new lower-intermediate, and this will make it easy for us to start off on the same page, so to speak. Gratias tibi ago!
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Hi, Andrew, thank you for sharing this tiered reading of St. Augustine. I don’t have to deal with AP–Deo gratias!–but I appreciate tiered readings. They are one of the best bridges available for helping students progress to reading Latin in the original. I recently read tier 1 of the Mysterious Traveler with a high school class. It’s so generous of you to create these.
There has to be a lesson plan for those reading LLPSI where this observation by St. Augustine ties into why we use Oerberg!
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