It’s been quite hectic recently, what with my Latin GCSE taking up a lot of time with revision and exam-sitting and the rest of it, but hopefully next week will be slightly more organised than this one! With my first exam over and done with, I’ll be able to fall back into my timetable without having to lay aside whole mornings for past papers, or coming back in the afternoon after sitting a paper to watch television instead of get on with the rest of my work!
On Monday, I revised non-stop all morning for my first Latin exam. (You can read my separate post on the exam here.) Then I sat the paper in the afternoon. Everyone was very kind and welcoming and my nerves calmed down a lot when the paper turned out to be much easier than I had thought!
When I came back, I had an online maths lesson in which we continued our topic on quadratic equations. (I believe I did have one of these lessons last Monday too, but I forgot to write it in my bullet journal, and therefore it isn’t in my post about last week!) For this GCSE Masterclass course, we’ve been working through some old Victorian textbooks, which can be extremely amusing. Most recently we’ve been studying quadratics and factorisation.
On Tuesday, I finished Right Ho, Jeeves and was straight onto Joy In The Morning (once I’d finished my review, which you can read here). I absolutely love P.G. Wodehouse’s writing style and am steadily ploughing my way through Joy In The Morning─I can’t imagine it’s going to last me very long!
I also had another online lesson with the same organisation as Monday’s─that is, the Liverpool University Maths School─but this time it was on Physics, with a different teacher. We’ve been practising how to answer the trickiest exam questions, particularly the evil six-markers. In two weeks we’ll be moving onto individual topics to learn about “in more detail”, as the other participants in the course will already have learnt about them at school.
I’ve also made a note in my bullet journal as follows: “X-Files! Agent Reyes and Doggett are slowly climbing up my character esteem scale. It took them over a whole season to earn their places up there.”
On Wednesday, I studied Art History all morning, learning about different techniques in art such as contrapposto, chiaroscuro, scale and linear perspective with an extremely irritating but very engaging lady on Khan Academy. In the afternoon, I learnt how to play the beginning of Ludovico Einaudi’s Le Onde on the piano, and the entirety of Lontano. Yippee!
On Thursday, I sat the last part of my Latin exam. You can read about my full experience here.
On Friday morning, I solved some more quadratic equations from my maths textbook. Then, we did some more KA Art History, and in the afternoon I reached Chapter 18 of the Iliad. We also watched the first episode of Simon Schama’s History of Britain documentary.
At the weekend, I watched an awful lot of Masterchef, the X-Files and Derren Brown’s Trick of the Mind! I also made some (very) gooey brownies on Saturday afternoon. I can’t see them lasting past Monday.