How was your school day? (7 Viewers)

[sophiaaah]

I'm not Jachie but i'm doing frankenstein for ext. And yeah, lots of my friends are doing all three sciences and struggling already..ah i did try to warn them..

oh cool, i studied frankenstein last year and i enjoyed it.
it's a pretty easy read too.

mm i have a friend who's doing all sciences + business + eco + 3U maths.
she's insane.

 

[Jachie]

How is Eco btw? I might change courses soon, and Economic sounds like a good alternative.

ECO IS AMAZINGLY AMAZING PICK IT UP NOW. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Seriously, I'm loving it. Maybe it's just my teacher, but she's so...great. She makes learning easy. I love it. Do it!

jachie what ext. book are you studying?
i haven't had an extension class yet so im curious to know what everyone else is doing.

At the moment, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. We're the first year to do it at my school, normally we do Eucalyptus (which we will study later, just not in as much depth) but this year we did something different. It's a great book; it appeals to my Ancient History nerd because the author has twisted the story of the Greek myth The Odyssey and written from the perspective of Odysseus's wife, Penelope. It's amazing. And a fairly new book, I believe: first published in 2005.

I'm not Jachie

are you sure?????

 

[Kujah]

ECO IS AMAZINGLY AMAZING PICK IT UP NOW. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Seriously, I'm loving it. Maybe it's just my teacher, but she's so...great. She makes learning easy. I love it. Do it!

Sounds good to me But I'd have to do it through distance education

 

[Jachie]

....

Oooh.

Damn. That sucks. Do you think you'd be able to cope doing it through DE?

 

[Kujah]

Probably I saw my friend getting a whole stack of booklets today for Eco It's suppose to last for the year.

 

[pritnep]

*sigh* How can they be struggling when they would of only been their for 4 days max?

 

[Kujah]

Don't know I wouldn't define it as struggling, just shocked

 

[lilsnoopy76]

yeaaaaah school was so much fun, with all that work, no frees and creeping one day closer to exams! and actually dreading the weekends...w00t i LOVE THE HSC.....

 

[Jachie]

Probably I saw my friend getting a whole stack of booklets today for Eco It's suppose to last for the year.

Then I think you should go for it. What would you drop for it? Computer Applications?

 

[pritnep]

What is computer applications anyway? Is it a HSC course or VET course or?

 

[Jachie]

What is computer applications anyway? Is it a HSC course or VET course or?

I imagine it's a Board-Endorsed 1-unit course, like Philosophy is for me.

 

[Kujah]

Then I think you should go for it. What would you drop for it? Computer Applications?

Yeah. I don't find Computer Applications interesting anymore. But I might wait a few weeks though to clearly think about it.

 

[dr baby beanie]

Sounds good to me But I'd have to do it through distance education

:rofl: hahahe DE eco, those booklets have sooooo many mistakes. Watchout for the interchangability of 'six' and 'sex,' and every second title page you end up repeating at least one excerise you've done 4 title pages ago. Only half the things seem relvevant now. The good thing is you can complete a weeks worth of work in day except in those ones that require >6 long essays to complete. (it's not that bad and eco generally is a good course)

Good luck to anyone doing it

Oh and Jachie what did you accelerate in?

 

[SoulSearcher]

Oh and Jachie what did you accelerate in?

I think her Philosophy course is a school-developed Board-Endorsed course, not the distinction course

 

[dr baby beanie]

Sounds like top quality teaching to me.

haha oh it is :uhhuh: *sarcasm*

...it gets worst (esp since you have to teach yourself) but I can't remember most of it now.

I totally finished prelim eco in 2 terms.

Edit: lol SS, ok

 

[Jachie]

I think her Philosophy course is a school-developed Board-Endorsed course, not the distinction course

:uhhuh:

 

[slowjam10]

It's a great book; it appeals to my Ancient History nerd

Im also on the Ancient History nerd bandwagon. I am absoluting loving Ancient History the teacher is so enthusiatic she's been teaching since the 60's and wow she like she makes sound effetcs and moves around the room and demonstrates everything with movement...it's so entertaining to watch, she even calls her self "the entertainer" shame we have to have a substitute next week.

What are you doing in Ancient History Jachie?

We have juat discussed what we think history is and we have learnt about a bit about realiblity of sources and that basically not everything you read or hear is truthful. Ohh and we have touched on archaeology

So Economics is good. Shame Food Tech's on the same line teacher is excellent she has taught all around Aus and dosen't rely on textbook like every 7-10 Science and Humanities teacher at our school

I want to just steal their textbooks, like in that simpsons ep, what will they do then?:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[Cheap Thrills]

yeah i thought we would get bombarded with work to intsead the teachers just talk to us about what we are doing and how good they are (but yes they are good). Is anyone else like having fun (you're all going to say NERD) but yeah now that i do subjects that i like i no longer have to look at the clock every minute to see how long it will be before the torture ends.

Has everyones school given them the syllabus i have gotten it for Legal Studies and Food Tech. What about assessment schedules, we have ones that outline all the assessments for the whole year.

Modern History one looks fun in Term 2 we get to choose anything in History and develop a question we would like to have answered.


Anyone else doing both Histories?

im doin both histories. do you know what your case studies in class are gonna be? we're doin the revolutions for modern and boudicca and rome for ancient. ive decided to do human remains for my ancient investigation and che guavera for modern. they're both really cool. lovin it

 

[Jachie]

Im also on the Ancient History nerd bandwagon. I am absoluting loving Ancient History the teacher is so enthusiatic she's been teaching since the 60's and wow she like she makes sound effetcs and moves around the room and demonstrates everything with movement...it's so entertaining to watch, she even calls her self "the entertainer" shame we have to have a substitute next week.

What are you doing in Ancient History Jachie?

We have juat discussed what we think history is and we have learnt about a bit about realiblity of sources and that basically not everything you read or hear is truthful. Ohh and we have touched on archaeology

So Economics is good. Shame Food Tech's on the same line teacher is excellent she has taught all around Aus and dosen't rely on textbook like every 7-10 Science and Humanities teacher at our school

I want to just steal their textbooks, like in that simpsons ep, what will they do then?:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

We've done hardly anything in Ancient, to be honest. Our teacher sounds a lot like yours, though: really enthusiastic about what she does. We've talked about the differences between sources and evidence, primary and secondary sources, blah blah blah. You know, the stuff you do in junior years? We looked at various cases that have been documented, each with about five written sources relating to it, and had to investigate whether the sources were reliable, etc. It's some nice, easy revision, we haven't started the real stuff yet.

 

[slowjam10]

im doin both histories. do you know what your case studies in class are gonna be? we're doin the revolutions for modern and boudicca and rome for ancient. ive decided to do human remains for my ancient investigation and che guavera for modern. they're both really cool. lovin it

Yay another person who does both Histories.

For Modern History we are doing:
Term 1 - The World at the Start of the 20th Century - we had a double today and learnt about Imperialaism and stuff
Term 2 - 19th Century Russia
Term 3- China to 1954
and for Yr 12
World War 1 (Compulsory)
Russia 1917-1941 + Trotsky
Indo China 1954-1979

Modern is really good teacher is great, he knows everything, you can really see he hates America, he is like you drink American piss and you eat American shit, America is a tarty nation of biggots etc etc ......

Ancient History: Im not to sure about we have just been talking about stuff in general like we have been talking about alll the periods of History, ie, Pre-history (Paleolithic and Neo-lithic) and etc etc