Gcse latin 2017

I am doing Messalina and Ummidia Quadratilla, but I have the Aeneid book 1 instead of Ovid and Catullus

Our school offers Latin for GCSE and A-level, so we have a teacher for a class of 16 instead of a private tutor.
The teacher said that some of the most likely questions will be about characterisation, especially of Ummidia, Messalina, Claudius and Narcissus. Silius and Quadratus are possible but unlikely, as they are less important in the overall story so they cannot be part of 8 mark questions for sure.

Out of curiosity, Catullus and Ovid are love poets, aren't they? Our section of the Aeneid is about the Trojans' arrival in Libya, them going to Carthage, and Jupiter and Venus talking about Rome's future.

Thanks that's actually very useful! So for Section A of the poems I am studying:
Catullus: Rejection in Love, Jealousy Takes Over, Ever Changing Love
Catullus: Catullus Struggles with Love, Passion fades
Ovid: Advice for would-be-lovers
As you can see, just from the titles, yes they are all love poets! I'm not exactly too sure why we did Section A instead of Section B. Anyway, our Latin teacher (it's just me and my friend that get the lesson out of school time) taught us the WRONG set texts (cue alarm bells!!) throughout the year, so we only just finished translating Ovid (58 lines altogether) last week- only 30 ish days to learn it all!
At least some of the other poems are smaller. Basically, in Ovid, there are some unpleasant references to men taking advantage of women, and Catullus laments for 5 poems about love and his girlfriend and how they aren't in love any more (he gets really self-pitying sometimes!)

Hi, I'm doing Aeneid book 1 too. Are we supposed to study two texts then, one prose and one poetry? Because my Latin teachers only been doing the Aeneid with us.

It is possible that you are taking short course, or the Latin Sources unit instead, but for Full Course most people do one prose selection and one verse selection.

I suggest you ask your teachers about it though

You must learn both prose texts and both both poetry texts (or just the one long one). Ummidia Quadratilla is short and isn't too difficult then. I am doing Messalina and Ummidia Quadratilla and The Aeneid (but also have 4 greek texts to learn :/). Best way is just to cram them and learn them in full and revise grammar points and facts such as Messalina's mother not liking her etc. You don't know which section you will have to translate so it helps to learn it all with emphasis on significant literary areas (e.g the bees in Aeneid).

Nothing worse than not learning it and sitting in the exam looking at words you donnt know .

I was wondering how do they calculate like the grade boundaries for the latin OCR? Cause I thought you had to get 90% to get an A* but i looked on the grade boundaries and it has like the mark you need to get on each paper to get an A* for that paper. So do they see how many A* you got across all the papers? Or do they add up the marks from all the papers and then see if it is 90%?

Hi

Is anyone else taking the OCR GCSE Latin course for GCSE this year?
I am privately tutored outside of my normal school lessons, and my tutor is going on holiday for 3 weeks. The Latin exams are some of the first on my timetable, so I need to learn the vocab, grammar, and set texts as soon as possible.

I've downloaded all of the past language 1 and 2 papers to go through, however, all of the set texts for previous years are different to the ones I am doing, and my teacher is away, so I can't ask her for any.

The set texts I am doing are:
Prose:
Messalina
Ummidia Quadratilla
Verse:
Catullus
Ovid

Is anyone else doing these set texts and has any papers or questions they could possibly share with me? I struggle with answering some of the longer literature questions so I need as much practise as I can get, as my notes aren't very helpful.

Thanks to anyone, and even if you don't do the same set texts, feel free to comment about anything Latin. I could do with someone to talk to about the GCSE

Hi

Is anyone else taking the OCR GCSE Latin course for GCSE this year?
I am privately tutored outside of my normal school lessons, and my tutor is going on holiday for 3 weeks. The Latin exams are some of the first on my timetable, so I need to learn the vocab, grammar, and set texts as soon as possible.

I've downloaded all of the past language 1 and 2 papers to go through, however, all of the set texts for previous years are different to the ones I am doing, and my teacher is away, so I can't ask her for any.

The set texts I am doing are:
Prose:
Messalina
Ummidia Quadratilla
Verse:
Catullus
Ovid

Is anyone else doing these set texts and has any papers or questions they could possibly share with me? I struggle with answering some of the longer literature questions so I need as much practise as I can get, as my notes aren't very helpful.

Thanks to anyone, and even if you don't do the same set texts, feel free to comment about anything Latin. I could do with someone to talk to about the GCSE

I am doing Messalina and Ummidia Quadratilla, but I have the Aeneid book 1 instead of Ovid and Catullus

Our school offers Latin for GCSE and A-level, so we have a teacher for a class of 16 instead of a private tutor.
The teacher said that some of the most likely questions will be about characterisation, especially of Ummidia, Messalina, Claudius and Narcissus. Silius and Quadratus are possible but unlikely, as they are less important in the overall story so they cannot be part of 8 mark questions for sure.

Out of curiosity, Catullus and Ovid are love poets, aren't they? Our section of the Aeneid is about the Trojans' arrival in Libya, them going to Carthage, and Jupiter and Venus talking about Rome's future.

As of last night, I know Ummidia Quadratilla (I can look at the Latin and translate it all almost correctly.) Now onto learning Messalina (which I know small, random sentences from.) My biggest worry is that some of my translation for both Ummidia and Messalina is incorrect. Although I have sheets of analysis for my Prose set texts, my teacher hasn't given us any analysis at all for my Verse set texts (she's on holiday all this week!) I only have a few points I noted down whilst she was talking.

I also need to consolidate my vocab, and desperately learn some grammar (I couldn;'t tell you the fourth declension if it depended on my life!)[/QUO

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