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Iphis loves caring for her family farm on Crete. She loves the smell of the ocean, olives, and grain carried by the wind, and she loves watching lambs race through their fields. Yet, she also feels the burden of her secret—a secret only her mom knows. Before she was born, her father said they could only afford to raise a boy, so her mother lied to protect her.
Iphis is stuck between two parents who don’t see her as she is. She isn’t the perfect son to her sick father because she’s a young woman, and she’s certainly not the perfect daughter because she’d rather be searching for lost lambs in the twilight than spinning wool with her mother.
If that pressure weren’t enough, her whole world is uprooted when another young woman joins her school, a young woman whose wit and passion for storytelling is rivaled only by Iphis’ burning desire to hear her tell such stories. Iphis finds herself aflame with love and trying to keep the woolen threads of her life from snarling, but all she can see is a hopeless tangle.
Virgo Ardens is intended for use in Latin IV depending on the vocabulary used in your own classroom and whether the novella is instructional or for use in Free Voluntary Reading. It’s 16,500 words long, making for some significant sustained reading, and it uses 433 total words to encompass that length. There are 21 glossed words, 21 are proper nouns, and 73 additional words are clear cognates that are also used infrequently.Readers, then, need to have a rich, deep understanding of 318 words to read this novella.
For more detailed information about the play, visit this link. If you’d like to read the preface, please visit this link. If you would like to review the vocabulary list used in the novella, that information is available here.
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