The Latin A-level at KPS uses the OCR Latin A-level course.

Course Specification: 

Breakdown of the course:

Set texts

Year 12 set texts:

  1. Tacitus, Annals IV, 1–4 (… non adversus habebatur), 7–12, 39–4
  2. Catullus, poems 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 40, 70, 76, 85, 88, 89, 91, 10

Year 13 set texts: 

  1. Tacitus, Annals IV, 52–54, 57–60, 67–71, 74–75 
  2. Virgil, Aeneid, Book XII 728–952

In order to get a head start for the year, please do the following:

Make sure that you know all of the vocabulary from the GCSE course (if you took this). Here is the list for reference: 

Read the Year 12 set texts in English. You may wish to purchase your own copies of these, or you can find free online versions here:

Tacitus: Tacitus: Annals: Book 4 [1] (sacred-texts.com)

Catullus: Catullus (c.84 BC–54 BC) - Complete Poems (poetryintranslation.com)