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Year 7 to HSC Latin Tutor | USyd Law Student | Top Band Continuers and Extension
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About Thomas
Hi! My name is Tom, and I study law and math at the University of Sydney, having graduated from Barker College in 2025. I studied three units of Latin in the HSC and loved it, and I'd love to help you become confident in Latin too. As well as being really interesting, Latin is a powerhouse subject in the HSC in terms of scaling, and my Latin marks went a long way to helping me get the ATAR I wanted. I want to work with you to make the most out of this amazing course, so that you can get the satisfaction of feeling like you can understand in class, and perform in exams. The program I’ve outlined is a very generalized one so that we can have some structure when we work together, but ultimately I'll set our agenda off of your personal goals and what we decide will be most beneficial to you. Regardless of whether you're in the thick of the HSC and missed a section of translation and don't know how to catch up, wrapping up year ten with the realization that you don't actually know what a deponent is, or just starting out with a brand new language with strange new rules, it's easy to feel overwhelmed studying Latin. My goal is to hope you slow it all down in a safe space outside of class, where you can feel safe to take a second to breathe, ask the questions you're embarrassed to ask your teacher, and really make sure you understand before moving on to the next thing.
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I teach all years of high school (7-12) as these are ordinarily the years which study Latin, but if needed I can adjust my program to accommodate students in grades three to six as well. Whether or not you have homework will be at the discretion of the parent or the student (if applicable), as well as the quantity of the homework assigned. Lessons range from 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on what suits your schedule, although this can be extended if necessary. Depending on what suits you, lessons can be held online, in a quiet room in my house in Beecroft, or I can come to meet you at a public library or your home.
For younger students (typically years 7-9), we'll focus on establishing a fundamental understanding of Latin's grammar system, the foundation on which confident translation and understanding is built. I'll also work with you on the basic approaches to understanding and translating unseen passages, supplemented by memorising key vocabulary. If it's relevant (or just interesting) to you, we will also cover Roman historical context. Our lessons will tend to focus on sentence parsing exercises which I'll guide you through and explain, vocabulary introductions with links to English words to make them easier to memorise, and short practice translations. If applicable, homework will be assigned grammar and translation exercises. Ultimately, our lessons will be based on your goals. Whether your aim is to optimise marks, catch up if you feel behind, get ahead on content, or just to have fun and learn more, I'll adapt my planning to deliver whatever you want to get out of our time together.
For older students (years 10 and 11), we work on building up the skills of working with longer Latin texts, translating them, understanding their context, and analysing their literary features. If you are in this age group at the point that we start working together, we'll assess your grammar and vocabulary confidence, and work on fixing any gaps in your understanding or memory. Our lessons will focus on practicing the close reading of a text, working together to build up your confidence in grammatical, textual, and semantic analysis. We will also work on the fundamentals of analytical writing in the context of the Latin course, building up the habits of HSC-style short-answer and essay composition. Homework, if desired, will comprise of unseen translations, annotation of passages, memorising portions of assigned texts (if applicable), and writing analytical responses to set questions.
For year 12 (or accelerated) HSC students, our lessons will focus less on the development of skills, and more on their execution as it pertains to preparing for your 5+ HSC Latin exams over the course of the year. Primarily, our focus will be on developing your familiarity, knowledge, and understanding of your assigned text. By October, you’ll need to know your 2 (or 4) texts like the back of your hand, because they form the overwhelming majority of your HSC exam. In our lessons, this will take the form of a close reading of the text, working through the Latin and your translation together, so that you can develop an intuitive understanding of the structure and meaning of each line, and so that we can analyse together the literary and rhetorical techniques at play. In addition to the assigned text, we will focus on developing the strategies and the intuition for exam-condition unseen translations, with the development of a skill-set for each author and an understanding of their 'playbook' , so that you can go into your unseen translations, the most daunting part of a Latin exam, with confidence in your ability to untangle it. Finally, we will work on applying your understanding of the assigned texts and authors in the form of analytical writing, where I will teach you how to break apart questions, formulate theses, and pull context and analysis together into perceptive responses. Homework, if desired, will include memorising sections of your text, composing long and short responses, and completing unseen translations, depending on what will best benefit you. I personally studied Cicero's Pro Caelio, Horace's Satire 1.9, and Juvenal's Satire 3 for my own HSC, which will be the prescribed texts for 2026. I studied Book 4 of the Aeneid, whereas you will be studying Book 6, but I am familiar with the text, having studied it independently in preparation to teach it to you with reference to professional commentaries.
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Thomas is the most caring, adaptable, and capable Latin tutor I have ever met. I feel as though he truly engages with the student from the perspective of someone who has experienced the Latin language at it’s finest - the high school curriculum. Thomas took me from a basic boring pleb to basically Julius Caesar himself.
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