One of the best improvements to the new AP exam is the inclusion of a vocabulary list based on the most frequently occurring vocabulary in the required Vergil and Pliny texts. The complete is located in Appendix B of the AP Latin CED (Curriculum and Exam Description). The reason I love this new list is …
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Announcing a new classroom resource for the revised 2025-26 AP Latin Exam! Contents include: Pliny’s love letters to his wife Calpurnia (Epistulae 6.4 and 6.7) The two letters to Tacitus detailing Pliny’s eyewitness account of the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the death of his uncle Pliny the Elder (Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20) Pliny’s …
by Andrew Olimpi How do you introduce new vocabulary to your students? Do you have them memorize a list? Discuss a word cloud? Gamify it with Kahoot or Gimkit? Co-create a story? Heading into the third quarter of my twentieth year teaching, I felt like I was running out of tricks. My old pre-reading activities …
I've been attending graduate school during the past few summers. Two summers ago, I had a conversation with a professor about the current "spoken Latin" movement among Latin teachers and enthusiasts. This professor was actually from Europe, and his question was simple: Why would anyone WANT to speak Latin. What was the point? We gleefully swapped anecdotes …
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