Advanced Placement Latin 2008Chief Reader's Homepage |
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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
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V1 Mary English (TL) Temple Eller |
V2 Dave Banta (TL)
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V3
Madeleine Henry (TL) Judy Arnette |
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V4 Teri Yamauchi (TL) James Crozier
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V5 Jim Updegraff (TL)
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LL1, 4-5-6 Linda Gillison (TL) Katherine Bradley
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LL2 Chris Francese (TL) James Astorga
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LL3 Keely Lake (TL) Jeffrey Gingras
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LL 7, 8, 9 Jim Finn (TL) Charles Muskiet
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LL 10 Mark Clark (TL) James Houlihan
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LL 11, 12 Victoria Jordan (TL) Francesca Behr
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T-shirts commemorating the Reading will be available. I’ll be taking orders through Monday, May 26. The shirts will be delivered at the Reading and your payment will be collected—as soon as I know the cost I’ll tell you. There will be some extra t-shirts available, but failure to order in advance may result in your not getting a shirt.
Front, left side
Lectiones Latinae
Kansanopolitanae
Primae
4EPB MMVIII
Back, centered
Unicus anser erat...
Met. 8.684
Religious Services
Readers who wish to attend religious services during the Reading should send me an e-mail stating the day and the faith tradition.Because it’s proving to be difficult to continue our tradition of celebrating a Latin Mass, John Klopacz has offered to conduct a non-denominational prayer service in Latin. Please contact him to indicate your interest, or to pose questions.
Baseball
The Kansas City Royals will be playing at home for part of our stay. Email Vicky Miklosky to discuss purchasing tickets.
A Guide for New Latin AP Readers
The Courses of Study
For 2008 and 2009, Latin teachers may choose one of two courses. Some schools are able to offer both courses simultaneously.
The courses are Vergil and Latin Literature. You can download the Course Description for both of them from this page: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/descriptions/index.html
The two are included in the same pdf booklet, so it doesn’t matter which you choose to click.
The Vergil course requires students to be responsible for some 1800 specified lines in Latin and the whole of the Aeneid in English, at least. The Latin Literature exam has no requirement for supplementary reading in English, and it offers teachers a degree of choice. All LL students prepare the same Catullus syllabus, and in addition the assigned passages from either Cicero, Horace, or Ovid.
The Exams
Students took the exams on Friday, May 16. They're now available online. http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/4557.html (Latin Lit) http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/4558.html (Vergil).
The exams have two parts: The first section of multiple-choice questions is not published annually as the free-response questions are. This section presents the student with passages of authentic Latin; one will be familiar (Vergil or Catullus) and the others will be unfamiliar. The questions require students to demonstrate their understanding of the Latin in each passage. The course book which you have downloaded has some sample questions.
The free-response questions are of a variety of types, although each one derives from one or more passages from the syllabus, printed in the test book.
Vergil has two questions asking the students to “translate as literally as possible” prepared passages, one longer and one shorter essay, and an essay that reflects their reading of the whole Aeneid.
Latin Lit students all answer a translation question for Catullus, and a long and a short essay, also on Catullus. In addition, each student will answer 3 more questions (translation, short essay, and short answer) for his or her chosen author.
Your Job
Before you leave home. Download the exams, and begin looking them over, especially your assigned question or questions.
While you’re doing that, your Table Leader will be developing preliminary standards for use in scoring the answers. They’ll resemble the standards for similar questions from previous years and on other parts of this year’s exams. This way comparable questions will be evaluated as consistently as possible for all students.
Before the Reading. Try to sketch out an answer to your question(s). Imagine what a good student could do, or what an average student could do.
Before you arrive, all the Table Leaders will meet to offer input into the standards, once again, to make sure that students answering Cicero questions, for example, will be assessed in the same way as Vergil or Horace or Ovid students.
At the Reading. You’ll read answers and assign a numerical score, using those standards. Readers and the Table Leader for a given question will spend much of the first day learning to apply the standards consistently from paper to paper and from Reader to Reader. There will be plenty of opportunities for questions and assistance, and you’ll have consistency checks throughout the Reading. Don’t worry; you’ll be working with capable and experienced folks, and you’ll do just fine.
In general: Each of our Reading rooms at the Convention Center is large and will hold Readers for two questions.
We’ll be fed three meals a day at the Convention Center in a large dining area; if the weather’s good, we can take our plates outside.
Our working day will also have two scheduled breaks with snacks. We have a lovely area for our breaks, with glass walls on three sides. That will make our rooms without windows a little more bearable.
Special events are scheduled for some evenings, and you’re always free to make your own plans. We’re in walking distance of shops, restaurants and theaters, and a city bus line stops in front of our hotel.
Dress for the reading is casual, and comfort should be a primary concern, as we will be working long and hard each day. Many readers wear shorts and T-shirts. None of our activities call for more formal clothes, although you may want them for the Museum or for other outings. Air-conditioning can be unpredictable, so a sweater or sweatshirt will be good to have.
The hotel has laundry and dry-cleaning services, but the charges are high. We won’t have access to washing machines as we did at TCNJ, so pack with that in mind.
Out of consideration for colleagues who may have allergies and in recognition of the close quarters in which the reading of questions takes place, it is asked that readers refrain from wearing strong colognes, perfumes or after-shave lotions during the day.
Remember to pack prescriptions, batteries, rechargers, and extra glasses if you have them.
Continue checking both the ETS reading site (http://www.ets.org/ap2008 --password required) and our own site at http://www.wfu.edu/classics/AP-Latin-2008.html, which will be rapidly growing.
Please let me knowif you have any questions.
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