Curriculum Overview
The Paideia Institute is pleased to announce a new self-paced digital high school Latin curriculum designed to prepare students for the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP®) Latin Exam. The content of the course aligns with the recent revisions made to the AP® Latin curriculum (effective as of the 2025-2026 academic year), which include updates to the selections from Vergil's Aeneid and replacing Caesar with Pliny the Younger.
Vergil and Pliny: An AP® Latin Curriculum includes a rich and thorough commentary, additional material on topics in Roman history and culture relevant to the course texts, as well as a host of innovative learning tools that are unique to Paideia's online course platform: animated videos on Latin grammar, interactive glossaries and appendices, built-in assessments, and learning analytics for educators.
The self-paced digital format makes the course ideal for independent learners who do not have access to the AP® curriculum in a traditional classroom setting and are pursuing self-directed study.
Taking the AP® Latin Exam
Students who wish to take the AP® Latin Exam after completing Vergil and Pliny must coordinate with a local school willing to act as their testing site. In addition to the exam, AP® Latin requires two checkpoint tasks (worth 2% of the final exam score) that must be scored and submitted through the AP® Digital Portfolio.
Students can use the College Board's AP® Course Ledger to find an approved testing site in their area. Any AP®-approved testing site will do, but we recommend that, where possible, students reach out to schools that offer the AP® Latin course (add "Latin" to the ledger's subject search field) to simplify the exam order and checkpoint task grading process.
To complete the required checkpoint tasks, an AP® Course Audit–approved teacher from the student's testing site must review the student’s work and enter scores on the AP® Digital Portfolio. Ideally this would be a Latin teacher, but an AP®-approved teacher in different subject may grade the checkpoint tasks if the testing site does not have a Latin teacher (the checkpoint tasks are assessed by completion following a standardized rubric).
Please be advised that the deadline to order the 2026 AP® Latin exam is November 14th, 2025. Students who plan on taking the exam in the spring must be included in a school's AP® exam order by this date.
Classroom Instruction
A corresponding print edition is forthcoming in 2026. Both the digital and print editions of the curriculum are suitable for classroom use either independently, or together as complementary learning tools. We invite teachers who are interested in learning more to get in touch with Paideia's Curriculum Partnerships Manager, Chris Myers, at [email protected].
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