Key topics: Course Project: four non-syllabus passages selected by College Board (diverse authors and periods — not publicly announced in advance; assigned to students during the course year), Two in-class checkpoint tasks completed during the course and submitted via AP Digital Portfolio — results contribute approximately 2% of the FRQ section score, FRQ 4 (exam): prose passage analysis essay — brief summary followed by a 7–8 sentence analytical argument using Latin evidence from the Course Project prose passage, FRQ 5 (exam): poetry passage analysis essay — brief summary followed by a 7–8 sentence analytical argument using Latin evidence from the Course Project poetry passage, Analytical essay writing in AP Latin: constructing a claim, integrating Latin citations with English translation/paraphrase, explaining the effect of stylistic devices in support of a thesis (not mere cataloguing), Sight-reading poetry: reading non-syllabus Latin verse with attention to meter, poetic diction, and meaning under timed conditions, Teacher's choice Latin poetry: non-syllabus verse selected by the teacher to build poetic reading fluency and broaden authors encountered beyond Vergil.
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