29/8/17
- We had a year meeting in the morning to talk about UAC applications and how to apply. We also had someone from Western Sydney uni to talk to us (it is the closest uni to my school). Although I don't want to go to Western Sydney uni, it looked like it had some good facilities and the talk brought up some new ideas. I also decided to research some scholarships that night and may apply for some soon (once I actually decide what courses to study) although I'm unsure of if I would actually get any.
- My English teacher has started doing classes for us doing sport (as we don't have to do sport anymore) and it was really good/productive. We broke down an essay question on Hamlet and worked on starting an intro for it. I'm going to try and get this essay done soonish.
30/8/17
This is my longest school days of the week (8:30-5:15) because of extension. Normally my school has 6 periods a day that are 53 minutes long and also has an A and a B week. Wednesday is probably my favourite day this week because I have double Ancient, extension, music and no English.
Legal (double period):We had a police prosecutor come to talk to us about domestic violence. This links with both the family and crime topics and was really interesting (although also some of the cases she described were sad). She also went through how the topic relates to the themes and challenges section of the course which was really good for our essay writing. People also were able to ask questions and I got to write about 4 pages of notes.
Ancient (double period):We’re studying Agrippina at the moment and are about halfway through the third main dot point (Career). We got through a lot of content today. We covered her marriage to Claudius, when she promoted Nero over Britannicus, honours/titles, image/status, removal of perceived threats and historians interpretations of her (including if she murdered Claudius). I’m almost sick of Powerpoints at the moment though (it’s all we’ve done in Ancient all year).
Lunch: I had a meeting with our principal today which went for around 15 minutes. He’s been doing meetings with everybody in my year throughout this year. I think that there’s not a lot of point now though-it was helpful but may have been better earlier on in the year (as one of the questions was how the school could help us which isn’t too useful now as we only have 3 weeks). I ended up answering ‘I don’t know’ to about three of his questions.
Music:Practice, practice,practice
I had to cut about a minute from two of my pieces (which was just less than a page). I still find the cuts a bit weird because I'm not used to them and I'm so annoyed that I had to cut so much because I had practiced it heaps.
Maths:We had a catch up lesson today, however I was pretty unproductive (and tired for some reason). We have almost finished our last topic (non-linear functions-mainly graphs) so we should have a lot of lessons to revise before the term ends.
Extension history: We studied the concept of Big History today, which looks at the history of the world from the Big Bang (and goes to the future). It's a newer concept but is supported by John Green and Bill Gates. It was really interesting but included a lot of science stuff (and I'm not really into science). We then did some exam skills and looked at finding the main ideas from sources. By the end of the class we were really tired and our conversations were getting off track.
Really excited to see some of you guys at the UNSW open day!!
Realised that this is actually really long-well, I guess I'll blame my procrastination, but it's fun to be able to write.
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