Christmas joy to all you Latinists! Work is going on well with the third year of the new syllabus material for 2023-5. I hope to get it up and running soon in the New Year.
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I've now completed the first part of the new syllabus material for 2023-5. This is the second year of the 3 year course. I'll be starting work on the final year for the new syllabus as soon as possible. Please make sure you are following the correct syllabus. For exams in 2022 use this page for your second year of study. For exams in 2023-5 use this page.
I am planning to update the syllabus for the new set books which are required for the 2023-5 syllabus. This will involve changes for years 2 and 3 only. I will keep the current years 2 and 3 material available until the current syllabus expires. If you are planning to take the exam in 2023 or later do not start work on year 2-3 material without contacting me. The Cambridge International Exams IGCSE Latin syllabus is due to change in 2023 with new set books. This website will therefore become out of date after the 2022 exams. Uptake of the material does not seem to have been large. I am therefore proposing not to update the website. If anyone was planning to use the website for exams in 2023 they can get in touch with me and I will review the situation. Now that the Covid Emergency Homeschooling Website has come to an end I have been able to pick up speed with the remaining lessons for year 3. The second term, which begins looking at real questions from past papers as well as revising key concepts, is well under way. I plan to finish the revision material at about half term in term 3 of year 3 as the exams can be at any time from early May which does not really leave a full term. I hope to get this all done in time for any who are sitting the exam in the November session due to the lack of facilities in the summer. If you are wondering about the November session and want to use the Christian Education for Deeside Exam Centre you should get in touch with the Secretary as soon as possible to get the latest on their plans.
Due to the virus epidemic I have redirected some of my energy to https://covidemergencyhomeschoolinguk.weebly.com
which is being put together to help families here is Britain who are faced with what we might call non-voluntary home education. This is slowing down dramatically the work on the last two terms of Classics for Christians. If you were planning to take the exams this summer and live in the UK you probably will not be able to do so in any case. If you are planning to take the exam this summer and live in a part of the world where this is still possible please contact me and I'll make sure I do my best for you. God willing I will be on target for November 2020 exam sessions in the UK. I wish you all every blessing as you face this new situation. May you know the peace which passeth all understanding in these difficult days. Just a reminder that you can get the fascinating biography of the author of Latin Without Tears which forms the backbone of this course. I'm sure you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed doing the research. Her life was hard despite her wealth but she was tireless in the Lord's service and devoted to "her" little ones. A real inspiration to anyone teaching children at home.
Adeste fideles læti triumphantes,
Venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte Regem angelorum: Venite adoremus (3×) Dominum. Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine Gestant puellæ viscera Deum verum, genitum non factum. Venite adoremus (3×) Dominum. Cantet nunc io, chorus angelorum; Cantet nunc aula cælestium, Gloria, gloria in excelsis Deo, Venite adoremus (3×) Dominum. Ergo qui natus die hodierna. Jesu, tibi sit gloria, Patris æterni Verbum caro factum. Venite adoremus (3×) Dominum. Happy Christmas! When I started preparing the IGCSE literature materials for this course I thought I would just be able to download the Cicero text from the internet as we did with the Virgil and then guide you through translating it and comment on it as we went along. The syllabus says “other editions are available.” This is a bit misleading as you would have to see the specified edition Introducing Cicero Chapter 9, Denunciation of Catiline (Scottish Classics Group, 2013) to find out exactly which one of the Catiline Orations was set for the exam. It turns out to be even worse than that as the book selects In Catilinam II: 1-2, 6-8, 12-13, 24-25, 27-29. You could not possibly know this without seeing this text book – although it would have been easy enough to put the vital information in the syllabus. The book has very helpful notes and exercises which I obviously cannot duplicate on this website. You may therefore decide to buy the book. It is expensive – even second hand I could not find a copy much under £8 and most were twice that price. I am preparing the Cicero lessons for term 3 of this year now and will carry on trying to make the lessons stand alone as I did with Virgil. If it becomes impossible I will alert you to the need to buy the book (or borrow it from the library) in good time.
I have just started putting the Virgil lessons onto Quizlet flashcards which can be found here. Hope this is useful. Each flashcard has just a few lines of the passage from the Aeneid set for IGCSE on it with the translation on the reverse. Try it out!
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