Latin III and III-Honors provide a complete review of Latin grammar and develop proficiency in translating authentic Latin texts. Students take responsibility for their own learning as they practice translating and analyzing texts on their own. The course covers a selection of texts from the late republic and early empire, which may include the works of Caesar, Cicero, Augustus, Pliny, Catullus, Ovid, or Sallust. Students will come to appreciate the esthetic and rhetorical features of these texts, and criticize them as historical sources. Advanced composition exercises reinforce and refine grammatical skills. By the end of this course, students will be able to read and understand authentic prose texts of moderate difficulty, and develop a sense of the history of classical Latin literature.

Latin III-Honors carries this further by covering a broader selection of material than Latin III, including more independent work, and preparing students to engage in basic literary analysis of Latin prose and poetry. By the end of Latin III-Honors students will be equipped to proceed directly to the Advanced Placement (AP) Latin program.

Currently our primary text is Cicero's First Catilinarian Oration.