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Course 03 · Summer 2026

Latin Workout:
Get a Head Start on Next Year

Whether you’re preparing for AP Latin, recovering from a difficult semester, or simply keeping sharp — a PhD medievalist reads Latin closely with you.

What You Will Learn

Latin rewards consistent, attentive engagement — and summer is a good time to build the confidence and fluency that makes the school year manageable. Steven’s Latin tutoring is not a drill or a grammar factory. It is a genuine scholarly encounter with the language: you read, he corrects in real time, and together you interpret what the text means and what its authors were doing.

  • Grammar consolidation — Noun declensions, verb conjugations, and the syntactic patterns that unlock Latin sentences
  • Translation of original texts — Reading Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, Ovid, and others in the original Latin
  • AP Latin preparation — Caesar’s Gallic War and Vergil’s Aeneid; reading, sight translation, and essay strategies
  • Vocabulary in context — Building Latin vocabulary through reading, not flashcards
  • Syntax and word order — How Latin constructs meaning across a sentence and a paragraph
  • Author interpretation — What Caesar is doing rhetorically; what Vergil is doing poetically
  • Prose composition — For students who need to write as well as read in Latin
  • Medieval and ecclesiastical Latin — For students in religious studies, history, or advanced coursework

How Sessions Work

Steven often begins a session by asking you to teach him some Latin — a move that surfaces what you know, exposes what you don’t, and makes the material feel immediately more manageable. From there, you read aloud; he corrects in real time; and together you work out what the text means — not just the words, but what the author was doing and why.

One former student described the result: “Reading Latin has gone from being an unbearable torture to a tolerable, and even sometimes enjoyable, task. Steven adds his intellectual sense of humor to transform the subject into a more interesting and fun pursuit.”

This course is a good fit for: AP Latin students preparing for the exam or recovering from a difficult year; college students in Latin courses who need reinforcement or acceleration; beginning Latin students who want to build a strong foundation; graduate students reading medieval or patristic texts.

About Your Instructor

Steven B. Killion holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill, with a specialization in classical and medieval Latin. His doctoral dissertation traced the transmission of Bede’s scholarship through Irish Carolingian schools via Hiberno-Latin glosses — work requiring extensive original reading in Latin across a millennium of texts. He has tutored AP Latin students, college students, and graduate researchers for decades.

Choose Your Package

Both packages use the same flexible scheduling — book now and choose your dates at your convenience all summer.

5 Sessions — $500
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Focused half-course
  • Caesar’s Gallic War — prose, grammar, rhetoric
  • Grammar consolidation and vocabulary
  • Sight translation and close reading
  • AP prose essay preparation
Book 5 Sessions — $500
10 Sessions — $900
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Full summer course
  • Caesar’s Gallic War — prose, grammar, rhetoric
  • Vergil’s Aeneid — poetry, meter, epic tradition
  • Full AP curriculum coverage (prose + verse)
  • Sight translation strategies for both authors
  • AP essay preparation: prose and verse analysis
Book 10 Sessions — $900
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