#ib latin

[tentacle-therapissed]

Everyone in my class when we’re reading Sappho describe how she physically can’t function when she sees a pretty girl: Icon. She’s an artist. Relatable queen. I trust her.

Everyone in my class when Catullus basically rewrites the same poem with the same concept: Uh, that’s not normal dude. What a creep. Get some help.

[s0phstudies]

2.2.2020

🎵: melophobia - cage the elephant

[fairly-nonchalant]

IB Latin Lit Revision Tips

o    Have the Latin and English version in front of you and split them into short sections, a few lines long (preferably until there is a natural stopping point), and create another document with the notes about the latin- things you write about in the figures of speech questions

o    Highlight the Latin words that match with the notes so you remember in the exam there is something special about them

o    Learn it so you can work it out from the Latin in the exam, not so you can recite it from nothing 

o    Look over the vocab you don’t know so you can work it out in the exam if you get stuck

o    Learn it section by section, but go over the previous sections before moving on to the next (i.e. learn section 1, then 2, then 1 and 2 then 3 then 1 and 2 and 3 etc)

o    Colour code the translation by how well you know it after revising but before the exam, if there are lines you know less well, or words you often miss out make them red so you focus on them instead of going over bits you know well- it will also make them stand out more so you’ll remember them better

o    Test yourself on each section after you’ve learnt it by covering the English and doing it from the Latin

o    Remember you will never be in an exam without the Latin, so why revise without the Latin?

o    Look over the notes a few times, but remember you can analyse it in the exam on the spot- look out for word order, repeated letters, repeated words, word length, use of religion, metaphors, enjambement, golden lines, exaggeration, other things which are easy to spot and write about

o    Little and often is INCREDIBLE, any revision you do at any point will help you in end of topic tests and your final exam

o    Only leave it to the night before a small test if you can dedicate the whole evening to it (don't do this if the test is on over 100 lines)

o    Revise for the little tests, as that revision will save so much time in your final revision for final exams, as even that little bit of revision makes such a difference with Latin and you’ll be revising it rather than learning it by the end

o    Familiarise yourself with the story 

o    Learn the plot of each section so you have a basis for remembering the translation

o    Learn the English translation for names and places, if you write them with the endings or in the Latin form you may lose marks

o    Try and remember two key facts about each person or place, as there can be questions on this which you can’t use your initiative for in the exam. This is the only bit that you absolutely need to know to get the marks, everything else you can at least put something down that might get a few marks even if it’s a guess 

o    If you learn well by listening, highlight the translation and make your laptop/phone read it out loud (right click, speak, start speaking). You can read as it talks, look at the Latin, try to talk along with it, listen to it while you’re doing other things

o    Move around as you learn, since you’re not writing this will be easy. Moving around helps you remember it better as you get less bored, you have more blood moving, it helps concentration and there’s some actual science but I can’t remember it 

o    Listening to music with lyrics or tv will throw you off, anything else is fine but things were there are words will make it a lot harder to learn the translation 

o    Speak it, read it out loud, speak the translation while looking at the Latin, teach it to your dog, perform it to your dog, sing it, anything that will get you to say the words (preferably from memory or the Latin, but reading it helps too)

o    Print off the Latin and annotate it with the notes 

o    Try at least once, to do the whole translation without looking at the English (looking at the Latin is fine)

o    Look out for names or unusual words or phrases which you can recognise to help you identify the passage in the exam, as it will be a random extract with no English to give you context (I think you do get line numbers though but I can’t remember)

o    Recite it to your friends who don’t take Latin, yeah maybe they learn actual useful things in their language, like how to actually speak to someone and ask where the loo is, but you can recite Ovid, and that’s all you’ve got going for you in Latin so make the most of it 

[chlenastudy-blog]

im working on those summer assignments (that i procrastinated on)

[studyingstudent]

IB STUDYBLR MASTERLIST

Click here to see a list of blogs organized by IB class (HL and SL) and see who is taking the same classes you are! 

All of these blogs post original content and are able to answer questions in regard to the course they are listed under. 

[studyingstudent]

Taking Latin next year?

Here’s a good place to start

[studyingstudent]

Sunday// Trying to catch up on the work I missed Friday! Lots of apush to do today, and then some math. I also have to memorize three latin poems by Tuesday so that should be interesting

[the--bell--jar]

IB1s/Summer Challenges

I'm feeling so chilled this weekend. But my week was, just... well, it was IB1 exam week. Or, as my coordinator has rebranded, 'IB Summer Challenge Week'. Monday - 2 hour HL English exam, 1.5 hour SL Maths Studies exam Tuesday - 1 hour HL Latin exam, 1 hour HL History exam, 1.5 hour HL History exam (I KNOW) Wednesday - 2 hour SL Chemistry exam Thursday - 2 hour HL Latin exam Friday 1.25 hour SL Global Politics exam, 1.5 hour SL Maths Studies exam FEEL THE PAIN OF THE IB But none of them was a complete disaster so I'm quite happy... roll on 'Results Week'.