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FTCE Latin K-12 Test

The FTCE Latin K-12 Exam tests knowledge in several core competencies. Each competency contains between two and six skill areas that content specialists have determined are representative of the knowledge required of beginning Latin teachers.

The core competency areas encompass the following:

• Knowledge of English words derived from Latin vocabulary
• Latin vocabulary in a given context
• Grammatical forms of Latin words
• Grammatical constructions in a given context
• Pedagogical methods, reference materials, and appropriate teaching aids for a Latin classroom
• Classical mythology
• Roman literary history
• Roman political history
• Roman social history
• Roman contributions to Western civilization

In addition to the above competency areas, you will demonstrate your ability to read and understand passages of connected Latin prose from straightforward narratives at a difficulty level equivalent to Caesar's Gallic Wars, Book 1 or the De Illustribus Viris by Cornelius Nepos. You will also read poetry at the level of difficulty of Virgil's Aeneid or Ovid's Metamorphoses. You will have to identify basic literary devices in Latin prose or poetry, as well as meter in Latin poetry.

You will receive a test booklet and a separate answer sheet. The FTCE Latin K-12 Exam includes approximately 100 multiple-choice questions in the following formats: direct questions, sentence completion, and commands. Each question has four possible response options (A, B, C, or D). Bubble in your response to each question using the provided answer sheet.

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