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Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Satires and epistles Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. The multiple choice questions mirror the Latin AP in their format four choices and their subject vocabulary, grammar, content, and figures of speech. There is a suggested time limit of 15 minutes to answer the questions for each passage.
There is a timed minutes translation exercise of a six to eight line passage drawn from the poem under study. Example: lines of Sat.
This is followed by a section of four to seven timed short analysis questions. The answers are expected to be only about two lines, as this is the space given. The questions are on figures of speech and content. Example: Where are the family members of the person talking to the speaker? There is also a short essay question on the ode under study with a suggested 20 minute time limit.
All of the essays expect specific references from throughout the text with Latin translated or closely paraphrased. Finally there is a scansion exercise. The lines to be scanned are written bold and double-spaced except for gobbet from Ode 2.
The workbook also contains an appendix of four passages one each of Cicero, Catullus, Vergil and Ovid accompanied by multiple choice questions with a suggested 15 minute time limit. Finally there is a page vocabulary with approximately 1, entries. This lexicon displays some eccentric choices. The verb sum is given, but the noun inuleus Ode 1.
My imagination is insufficient to picture a student who would be expected to know inuleus , but not sum , especially as the form hinnuleus is the one found in the standard dictionaries. This is something of a surprise in the workbook, considering that the it is produced as a one-time use text, with space provided for the students to write in their answers. Although the editor suggests that this book can be used at the college level, this is really exclusively an AP Latin Exam prep book and for this purpose, it is an excellent resource.
However this does result in a very narrowly constructed resource, since the AP Exam is always uppermost in the minds of the author and editor. Some of the ways that the workbook demonstrates its AP focus:. The workbook is expected to be used in conjunction with some other Horace textbook, presumably one that is AP oriented.
This could be compounded in the case of students who are confronted with the workbook during their preparation for the AP and then again in university.
Bolchazy-Carducci may have done themselves a bit of a disservice by focussing this workbook series on the Latin AP to such an extent. Having said that, I still feel this is a very good Latin teaching resource and offers some excellent methods.
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