Excelability in Advanced Latin
| By: | Marianthe Colakis; Gaylan DuBose |
| Publisher: | Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9780865165120 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781610411585 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This workbook for third and fourth year high school Latin students is designed to assist students in reading Latin. A broad selection of Latin authors and texts, only four of which are unadapted, provide practice in reading Latin for comprehension. In addition, the first ten chapters systematically review all of Latin grammar. Two chapters present rhetorical devices, scansion and meter, along with passages for reading comprehension. The passages are taken from a wide variety of genres and texts and offer practice for students preparing to take the SAT II, the National Latin Exam, and the Advanced Placement Latin Literature tests. Every chapter contains exercises for practice and the grammatical and syntactical explanations are keyed to an appendix which contains the forms of Latin words.
Special Features
- An introduction which explains how to read a previously unseen passage of Latin
- Grammatical explanations for concepts from the nominative case to the subjunctive of attraction
- Workbook does not presume previous command of Latin grammar and syntax and complements all first- and second year Latin texts
- Each chapter contains a variety of exercises, with an appropriate standardized-testing emphasis on the multiple choice format, applying the information presented
- Over 75 passages drawn a variety of Latin authors—Aulus Gellius, Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Eutropius, Horace, Livy, Lucan, Nepos, Ovid, Pliny, Quintilian, Seneca, Vergil—and from a variety of lesser- and better-known texts
- Four of the Latin passages are adapted
- Intermittent disputanda questions require critical thinking responses
- A Latin epilogue on the events of September 11, 2001
- Two chapters on rhetorical devices, scansion, and meter with exercises
- Two chapters provide short answer or “spot” questions, essay questions, and multiple choice questions based on the Advanced Placement exam models
- A full grammatical appendix of Latin forms and paradigms
- A Latin-to-English glossary
- 56 black-and-white illustrations