Latin credit for high school

[Pam in MA]

My daughter is 8th grade this year and we've been doing Latin for three years. albeit at a somewhat leisurely pace: We did Prima Latin, Latina Christiana I, Latin Prep Book 1 and will finish most of Latin Prep Book 2 (Galore Park) this year. I would like her to have credit for four years of Latin for high school, but would sort of like to get credit for what we've already done. How do you handle this? I thought we might switch next year to a standard high school program (like Wheelock, or maybe Galore Park's "So You Really Want to Learn . . . ") with the beginning all being review. (I sort of like this plan because her course load will be heavier and free up a little time to get used to the bio lab course she'll be taking away from home)

Does anyone have any thoughts about handling Latin high school credit when you've been doing Latin for a while? I guess another option is just to carry on and then she can take the Latin AP when she's ready.

[Kareni]

I don't know how what she's done already would equate to a standard Latin 1 or 2 course; however, I can tell you of my daughter's experience.

She took an out of the home Latin 1 class in 8th grade. She took Latin 2 in 9th, Latin 3 in 10th, AP Latin last year and is now doing a Post-AP year. Her transcript is for 9th through 12th grades. In 9th grade, it shows that she took Latin 2. (The savvy reader will infer, one hopes, that she took Latin 1 previously!) Similarly, though she took Algebra 1 in 8th grade, that is not recorded on her transcript. It simply shows that she took Geometry in 9th grade and Algebra 2 in 10th. Could such a system work for you? I know others do it differently.

Regards,
Kareni

[Moni]

What do you want the transcript to look like when she is done?
I would start there and work backwards.
It's your school.
You can count whatever you want as whatever class.

If she is going to eventually take the AP Latin Test, I would list that last.

12th - Latin 4 (AP Test)
11th - Latin 3
10th - Latin 2
9th - Latin 1

Or if she takes the AP Latin Test in 11th and continues her Latin study

12th - Latin 4
11th - Latin 3 (AP Test)
10th - Latin 2
9th - Latin 1

That's just if you want her to have four units of Latin.
Maybe she needs credits; maybe she has too many.
If she has too many, I'd list

11th - Latin 3 (AP Test)
10th - Latin 2
9th - Latin 1

But as I said before, yeah, I'd start with the end in mind.
What do I want the transcript to "look like" at the end of the road, and then work backwards from there.

The course material and requirements are, frankly, arbitrary, just as they are in the PS. If it's your school, you can require as much or as little as you choose. A word about the AP designation. I think AP "course" is a legal descriptor and thus would have to be approved by the College Board. But the AP "test" itself can be taken without having taken and AP designated "course"

:seeya:

[Laura Corin]

Some clever person (I can't remember who, I'm afraid) checked LP 1, 2, 3 plus So You Really Want to Learn Latin 3 (which is partially review of LP3, but extends the material), and found that it added up to about two years of high school Latin, in US terms. Could you do LP3 and SY 3 in 9th grade, calling it Latin II, then move on from there, probably into studying classical texts in depth, for the following three years. That way, the transcript would read 'Latin II, III, IV, V' in the high school years.

Best wishes

Laura

[Jane in NC]

My son completed Oxford I and took the NLE Latin I test in 8th grade. In 9th, he completed Oxford II and took the NLE Latin II, so I labeled this course "Latin II" on his transcript. This year (11th grade) he will do what I am calling Latin IV, preparing to take the NLE Level IV exam on poetry. Next year he'll do Latin V. Starting a language in 8th grade does not seem unusual these days.

Jane

[Denise in NE]

I had a struggle with this one because my daughter had studied Latin since 4th grade with Latina Christiana I and II and Lingua Biblica. However, I really didn't think this constituted high school material - so we just counted her 2 units of Henle I in 8th grade as high school Latin I.

You're the teacher though.

Denise in NE