AP Latin Texts
NEW 2025 AP Latin Curriculum Changes: Pliny and Vergil
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Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts
Jacqueline M. Carlon
Student Text: (forthcoming, 2025) 6” x 9” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-885-5; Hardbound, ISBN 978-0-86516-883-1
Teacher’s Guide: (forthcoming, 2025) 6” x 9” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-886-2
Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required letters by Pliny the Younger. Ten additional epistles round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of “choice” selections from Latin prose that complement Pliny’s work, from inscriptions to the letters of Cicero to the history of Eutropius. Short excerpts from the eighteenth-century poetic work Rusticatio Mexicana further illuminate Pliny’s subject matter and themes.
Features • General introduction on Pliny’s life, works, and influence • Bibliography • Pliny’s Letters unadapted Latin passages: 1.6; 2.6; 6.4, 7, 16, 20; 7.5, 24, 27; 9.6; 10.5, 6, 7, 37, 90 with same-page vocabulary and notes • Introductory notes for each letter • Companion texts with introductory notes and same-page running commentary • Latin-English glossary
Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts
Barbara Weiden Boyd
Student Text: (forthcoming, 2025) 6” x 9” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-890-9; Hardbound, ISBN 978-0-86516-889-3
Teacher’s Guide: (forthcoming, 2025) 6” x 9” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-891-6
Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required passages from Vergil’s Aeneid. An additional 258 lines from the Aeneid round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of “choice” selections (602 lines) from Latin poetry that complement Vergil’s work, from the elegies of Catullus to the epic of Petrarch.
Features • General introduction on Vergil’s life, works, and influence • Timeline and bibliography • Aeneid unadapted Latin passages: Book 1.1–33, 88–107, 496–508; Book 2.40–56, 201–249; Book 4.74–89, 165–197, 305–361, 450–641; Book 6.450–476, 788–800, 847–853; Book 7.45–58, 756–846; Book 11.532–594; Book 12.791–796, 803–828, 919–952 with same-page vocabulary and notes • Introductory notes for each section • Companion texts with introductory notes and same-page running commentary • Latin-English glossary
A Pliny Workbook: Letters and Suggested Companion Texts
Jacqueline M. Carlon and Gregory Stringer
Student Workbook: (forthcoming, 2025) 8.5” x 11” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-887-9Teacher Workbook: (forthcoming, 2025) 8.5” x 11” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-888-6
A Vergil Workbook: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts
Katherine Bradley and Barbara Weiden Boyd
Student Workbook: (forthcoming, 2025) 8.5” x 11” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-892-3Teacher Workbook: (forthcoming, 2025) 8.5” x 11” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-893-0
Pliny and Vergil LUMINA
David Pellegrino
Online exercises, (forthcoming, 2025), ProdCode: PVLUMBolchazy-Carducci AP Content Webinars
Watch our website for upcoming webinars about the texts and authors on the new AP syllabus.Upcoming Webinars
“The Voices of Women in the New AP Curriculum.” presented by Barbara Weiden Boyd
Please plan to join us for a webinar by Barbara Weiden Boyd, who is authoring our new textbook for the new AP Latin curriculum, Boyd’s Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts.With the new AP Latin curriculum, students will encounter both Dido and Camilla in the Aeneid. The new set of suggested readings will also include the Latin poet Sulpicia, and will introduce other memorable female characters in Latin poetry: Ariadne, Ovid’s wife and daughter, and, from Petrarch’s Africa, Sophonisba. Professor Boyd will introduce webinar attendees to these figures and their place in Latin literature. Register for the Tuesday, January 28, 2025 webinar.
Past Webinars
“Here Comes Pliny! An Introduction to the Man and His Works” presented by Jacqueline Carlon
In order to help teachers prepare themselves and their students for the new AP Latin curriculum, we are happy to share a recording of the webinar “Here Comes Pliny! An Introduction to the Man and His Works” presented by world-renowned Pliny scholar Jacqueline Carlon, author of Bolchazy-Carducci’s forthcoming Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts.You can find the recorded Hear Comes Pliny! webinar here Webinar Recording and passcode: qb&D8^9b
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.
About Bolchazy-Carducci Authors for the New AP Latin Curriculum
Jaqueline Carlon is a Pliny scholar of international stature, who has written the forthcoming new textbook, Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts, designed to address the required and suggested Pliny selections for AP Latin. Carlon's work includes other suggested readings that pair nicely with the prescribed Pliny letters. She is also coauthoring A Pliny Workbook with Gregory Stringer for the new curriculum. Carlon is the author of Pliny’s Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Selected Letters from Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae,, Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries (Oxford University Press, 2016).Carlon is Professor Emerita from the University of Massachusetts Boston where she has served as department chair and director of graduate studies. She has worked extensively with Latin teacher candidates and is an expert in Latin pedagogy. Carlon’s experience as a high school teacher and language department chair at Academy of Notre Dame has served her well, especially with teacher preparation. Carlon earned the 2017 Society for Classical Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Collegiate Level. She is the 2008 recipient of the Classical Association of New England’s prestigious Barlow-Beach Award for Distinguished Service. She served as president of CANE in 2005. She is also the recipient of the Rallis Award from the Boston University Humanities Foundation. Carlon is an expert on the application of Second Language Acquisition Theory to the teaching of classical languages. She spearheaded establishing the Conventiculum Bostoniense in 2006.
Barbara Weiden Boyd is the Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College, where she teaches courses in Greek and Latin languages and literatures, classical mythology, the city of Rome, and the Roman family. Boyd earned her BA in Classics at Manhattanville College, and holds an MA and PhD in classical studies from the University of Michigan. She has also taught at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome as a visiting professor for Duke and Stanford Universities, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation near Genoa, Italy, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She is a former chair of the AP Latin Test Development Committee of the Educational Testing Service and AP Latin consultant for the College Board. She has served in various leadership roles, including as president for the Vergilian Society. Boyd specializes in Latin literature, especially the poetry of Vergil and Ovid. Boyd is the author of Ovid’s Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores (University of Michigan Press, 1997); Brill’s Companion to Ovid (Brill Academic Publisher, 2002), an edited collection of scholarly essays on the Ovidian corpus; and a textbook for intermediate Latin students, Vergil's Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, & 12 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2001) and its revised edition Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012). Boyd’s other publications include Vergil's Aeneid: Expanded Collection, Vergil's Aeneid: 8 & 11: Italy and Rome, Vergil's Aeneid: 10 & 12: Pallas & Turnus. She is the coauthor with Katherine Bradley of A Vergil Workbook, Second Edition (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012). For the new AP Latin Curriculum, Boyd has authored the forthcoming Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts and is coauthoring, with Katherine Bradley, the new A Vergil Workbook.
Gregory Stringer has taught Latin at Burlington High School, Burlington, MA, since 2012. He earned the school’s Aggarwal Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2021. Stringer was also named by his peers as the winner of the Classical Association of Massachusetts Excellence in the Teaching of Classics Award in 2022, and the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association's Elaine Batting Award for Outstanding Teacher of Latin in 2014. Stringer earned BAs in history and in classics at Boston University. He received the Wilcox Award for Best Graduate Research Paper when he was earning his masters in history with a concentration in medieval Europe at the University of New Hampshire. Stringer also has a masters in Latin and Classical Humanities from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He served as a teacher and program director for the Conventiculum Bostoniense for several years and taught the graduate course “Rome for Teachers of Latin” for UMass Boston. This past summer he co-led Scribendo Discimus, a Vergilian Society teacher prep program in Rome and Naples. Stringer is coauthor, with Jacqueline Carlon, of Bolchazy-Carducci’s forthcoming A Pliny Workbook and Teacher’s Manual designed for the new AP Latin curriculum.
Katherine Bradley has served as Head of School at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, MA, since 2016. She also teaches middle school Latin at Dana Hall. Previously she served as Assistant Head at the Groton School (Groton, MA), where she served as chair of classics and regularly taught all levels of Latin, including AP, as well as Greek. She received a BA and MA in Classics from the University of Michigan. She previously taught Latin at Greenhills School in Ann Arbor, MI. Bradley is the coauthor with Barbara Weiden Boyd of A Vergil Workbook, Second Edition (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012). Bradley and Boyd are coauthors of the forthcoming A Vergil Workbook for the new AP Latin curriculum
David R. Pellegrino recently retired after a successful career as a middle and high school Latin teacher and language department chair in the Pittsford Central School District. In 2011, the school district was honored with the June U. Stillwell Outstanding New York State Latin Program Award. Pellegrino received a BA in Latin and an MA in Latin Education from the State University of New York, Albany. He is past President of the Classical Association of the Empire State for which he has also served many years as treasurer. In 2015, he was honored as an American Classical League Meritus Award winner. Pellegrino is the author of Catullus Vocabulary Cards for AP Selections (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2006), Cicero and Horace Vocabulary Frequency Lists for AP Selections (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2008), and coauthor with Dennis De Young of Caesar and Vergil AP Vocabulary Cards (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012). Pellegrino served on the New York State Latin Review Committee that produced Latin for the 21st Century: Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. He has been a regular presenter on Latin for the New York State Department of Education. The College Board posted his AP Latin Course Planning and Pacing Guide (2012) on its website. He has presented regularly at the ACL Institute and the Classical Association of the Empire State Institute. In his retirement, Pellegrino has regularly contributed “short, doable Latin” passages on Facebook. Pellegrino is creator, of Bolchazy-Carducci’s forthcoming LUMINA: Pliny and Vergil Selections online content designed for the new AP Latin curriculum.
Additional Resources
A biography of the Younger Pliny, Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger by Roy Gibson (Oxford University Press, 2020)To keep current with AP Latin revisions and the new AP Latin curriculum, check the College Board website.
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