Praxis Latin case studies
Praxis Latin · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Praxis Latin (test code 5601) is a Praxis Subject Assessment from ETS, the same organization that publishes the Praxis Core and other Subject Assessments used for educator certification. ETS describes its Praxis Subject tests as assessing subject knowledge for educator licensing in the United States, and the Praxis program itself is listed under teacher certification. The Praxis Latin case studies are 5 cases and about 2,732 words.
1Ambiguous Cum-Clause and Relative Pronoun in a Harbor Passage
Nam nautae, quos mercator antea monuerat, sarcinas in scaphas iam ferebant. You have five minutes before the bell and want to correct the reasoning, not just supply answers.
563 words, about 3 min2Gerundive with Curavit versus Passive Periphrastic
In a Latin II diagnostic, 31 students translate "Dux militibus pontem faciendum curavit." Twenty-four write, "The general must build a bridge for the soldiers." Six write, "The general had a bridge built for the soldiers." One writes, "The general must have a bridge built by the soldiers." In a department meeting, two teachers disagree: one marks all 24 wrong, the other says "must" is an acceptable paraphrase because the gerundive carries obligation. Several students circled faciendum and labeled it a future passive participle, and no one commented on curavit.
546 words, about 3 min3Source Analysis of the Ara Pacis and Res Gestae
Its panels show only mythological scenes, so it tells us nothing about Augustan political ideology. The seminar has 18 students and 50 minutes; the instructor plans a 10-minute peer review before a whole-class discussion.
537 words, about 3 min4Assessment Design for a Mixed-Proficiency Latin I Class
You teach one section of Latin I with 27 students: 9 have IEPs specifying decoding and processing-speed accommodations; 3 have documented anxiety that worsens on timed translation; 2 are heritage speakers of Spanish with strong morphological awareness but no Latin; the rest are typical beginners. The unit covered third-declension nouns, present-tense sum and possum, and simple subject-object sentences.
549 words, about 3 min5Vocabulary Pre-Teaching and Text Coverage in a Latin I Passage
You are adapting a 120-word passage about a Roman school day for Latin I. A corpus check shows 32 running words outside the class's 1,000-word core list.
537 words, about 3 min