Text: Third Year Latin, Jenney and Scudder, Allyn & Bacon, New Jersey and California, 1063; High School Course in Latin Composition, Baker and Inglis, Macmillan Co., New York, Chicago and California (the latter is department property and is loaned to the students for their use); The New College Latin and English Dictionary, AMSCO School Publicatons, Inc., John C. Traupman, ed.

Reading and discussion of background matterial--chiefly political, social and religious institutions of the republic. Readings, not necessarily in this order, present a variety of styles: selected letters of Pliny, introduction to dactylic hexameter and elements of verse with selected readings from the Metamorphoses of Ovid for at least six weeks. The major writer for the year is Cicero, including readings from the Catilinarian orations and letters to his family and friends. Elements of style, especially Cicero's, are an integral part of the course, with some analysis of the effects created through various rhetorical and literary devices.

By the time students have reached this level of study, they are expected to have acquired a facilty for reading and interpreting ideas expressed in the works studied. Weekly assignments in prose composition (Baker and Inglis) begun in Latin II are continued to reinforce familiarity with the idiom and various modes of expression.

The finale examination is a comprehensive test covering: translation from Latin to English primarily; reading comprehension, Latin composition and background material.

 Instructor: Dr. Karen L. Roberts: Period 2 Period 5 Period 7