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i like ancient but you have got to be prepared to READ lots of historians. the world load is hard(ish)- comparable to Modern history- but you dont do that! anyway... im a slow writer as well but this subject has 2 section in the HSC where the response lengths are strictly controlled with like...

Aung San Suu Kyi & Noel Pearson are contrasting in their methodology for a similar purpose... *being chosen to speak for who they are. have a very specific audience to which the speech would have to be tailored to *contemporary to our context *compare ending humble& uplifting- biting etc etc...

my word of the day is.... *drum-roll* paradigm- a worldview underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject : "the discovery of universal gravitation became the paradigm of successful science." gah so bored

hmm i have a similar q for an in class essay tomorrow i am going to talk about the legacy of the persian wars as only party of his legacy and the fact that it only really effected the greeks. the persians thought they won the war, only the greeks kicked up a who-har about how great they were. i...

i can see where everyone is coming from with this book being worse than the rest (actually maybe not New moon), nothing happening and it being written like a bad fanfic ( oh and the fact that bella can shield miraculously saving the day, that annoyed me). but i will admit that i wanted to...

Maestro... the year 11 text, dunno who its by i really hated the main character

24/25 pompeii 23/25 sparta 16/25 xerxes 7/25 (!!!!!!!!!) Delian League (i did a transformation essay not answering the q) really bummed, i was so hopeful for this exam

34/40..... i should have gotten someone else to edit it. that was the big thing that let me down :( oh well at least it is over!

i get mine back next wednesday.... handed it in last day of last term im a little apprehensive cos i also get my trial back the same day :(

sparta, greek world 500-440, xerxes, core over greece! have been doing greek topics since elective history and now ancient. how i would love some rome or egypt as balance too bad my teacher is some expert on the topic or something... doesn't mean she teaches any better

i got 3/4 sections back today P/H easiest thing ever.... i thought i had to think of something else for the volcano q. luckily i got over my blonde moment and answered the question sparta was good too. forgot one of the festivals, all i could remember was that it started with H and was in honour...

got my mark back for CSSA paper..... 87/100 :D this is WAY out of character for me... it was only cos i aced the German army question (only 2 people did it in my class, i guess the marker liked the change?) WTF with the second speer q. bombed vietnam though

ohhh ho ho! my 'library' is so embarrassing! most of my books were from my prolific reading stint of my early teens :read: a billion meg cabot books the whole Artemis fowl series- eion colfer HP Hitchhikers guide series (two copies of some because the old one has fallen to bits because...

agreed. i read it in yr 10 this year i have read... hmm i dunno not as many as i would have liked (of my own choosing that is .... HSC texts)

i read them all hated the ending liked them none the less since i was like 13

hehe, i was reluctant to read these books (i have only read 7 ancient wonders and 6 sacred stones oh and the book that came free with books alive... hells island?) my dad really liked them and thats usually a death knell to any book, but i read hells island because i was desperate for a book at...

there are about 12-15 in my class... it has stayed pretty constant although one dropped the other week (didnt hand in MW!) its been a bit of a challenge, the usual teacher who takes HistX moved to another school (dreaming of bigger and better things) so we now have a novice extension teacher...

Re: General Thoughts - Modern History i stuffed it up BIG TIME. too long spent on Speer (the second Q didnt really fit...) Indo was crap too because i havent finished either i dunno about Germany. i didnt really go in depth we did a total war Q in our half yearlies so that was good

after trials i have a modern assessment (and coursework), english assessment and coursework, 6 periods of gen math work (apparently), and maybe an ancient assignment.... and apperently in my last few weeks there are disruptions from graduations, open days and stuff

what like the americans using Indochina as a test case for how to fight off communism seeing as they had totally failed in Berlin and Korea. the Americans had proclaimed themselves 'protectors of the free world'. is that the sort of thing?