This week was undoubtedly much more organised than last! Every morning, I did Maths and Physics, and devoted the afternoons to History, English and Latin. I may have done my Latin GCSE, but I want to reach as high a standard as possible─my current aim is to be able to read the Aeneid in the original Latin! 😉
On Monday, I finished off the chapter on quadratic equations in my GCSE maths textbook. In Physics, I revised the entire Forces & Motion section of the GCSE, started the next topic on series and parallel circuits, and revised the subject of Moments.
Then we had a scrumptious egg and tuna salad for lunch─so scrumptious that I couldn’t resist both writing about it in my post and taking a very professional-style photograph.
After lunch, I spent the entire afternoon doing Art History. I finished the whole first topic on the Khan Academy AP course─creatively titled “Start Here”─which covered a broad overview of art across the world, and explored some common artists’ techniques like contrapposto, chiaroscuro and different ways of representing depth and perspective.
On Tuesday, I wrote an essay on the Early Events in the Reign of Ivan the Terrible. Sounds random, and it was, because I haven’t even started any of the history of Russia before, but there’s method behind the madness. I’ve been working through a book by Susan Wise Bauer, Writing With Skill, where you learn how to outline narratives and narrate outlines. In this particular exercise, I was given an outline of the reign of Ivan IV by S.W.B. and was asked to write an essay from the information I’d been given.
My notes for the evening read: “Physics session with Dave on different methods of note-taking. Blah de blah blah.” (You can read my post on my various Outreach courses here, if you don’t know what I’m talking about!)
On Wednesday, I found out that America has got rid of all SATs! That could mean an end to my Diploma, or it could not. Read my post about it here to find out what’s going to happen next!
For the umpteenth time, I forgot that Wednesdays are supposed to be different. No Maths or Physics on Wednesdays. I did Maths and Physics all morning.
Then I spent the afternoon doing History, Latin, Art History, and reading. Since I took my Latin exam, I’ve started from the beginning of the Cambridge Latin Course, reading out the stories as I move through to make sure that I have all the basics grounded. Then, hopefully, it won’t be too much of a shock when it starts introducing tenses and verb conjugations that I’ve never come across before!
Thursday I changed to a Wednesday, spending the morning doing more artsy subjects as well as the afternoon. I started writing an essay on William Blake’s poem London, which I’ve yet to finish. So far I’ve written 600 words on the first four lines, so brace yourselves for a pretty lengthy paper to read when it’s finished!
On Friday, I spent pretty much the whole day working on my essay and this blog. The essay is coming along nicely─currently on a word count of over 850! Look out for it over the weekend 🙂