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katie,rinos:

--- Quote from: Potatohater on September 10, 2017, 07:16:17 pm ---We have the same English rank! Except I think mine is out of 80 somthing. I'm probably gonna need to rewrite my trial English essays too cause they're not the greatest... I don't know what it is about English that makes the exam so hard!

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You have heaps more people in Advanced English then my year! Most other subjects I can write essays ok, but English is just terrible.
I'm not great at English exams but I especially disliked paper 2 (Three essays in two hours is a lot!)
I need to do a lot more studying for English but it is my least favourite subject and I'm not a huge fan of writing English essays or most of my texts (especially The Art of Travel).

I started writing a Hamlet essay this morning and am only on the third paragraph after about an hour, and I was planning to finish it tonight. A lot of that time was spent procrastinating though.

Potatohater:

--- Quote from: katie,rinos on September 10, 2017, 08:05:00 pm ---You have heaps more people in Advanced English then my year! Most other subjects I can write essays ok, but English is just terrible.
I'm not great at English exams but I especially disliked paper 2 (Three essays in two hours is a lot!)
I need to do a lot more studying for English but it is my least favourite subject and I'm not a huge fan of writing English essays or most of my texts (especially The Art of Travel).
I started writing a Hamlet essay this morning and am only on the third paragraph after about an hour, and I was planning to finish it tonight. A lot of that time was spent procrastinating though.

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Yeah I feel the same, my drama and geo essays are pretty good but English is so terrible in comparison. Maybe it's because the only module I have ok notes for is mod A (I love Gatsby!) but Hamlet and Art Of Travel are a trek and a half. At least you got somthing done though, unlike me who is using my current headache as a reason to take the night off.

katie,rinos:
13/9/17
Another long school day (7:30-5:15)
Before school (canteen workplacement): To increase my workplacement hours for hospitality I have been working in the canteen some mornings before school (7:30-8:40). Today, I made and cooked the choc chip muffins, caesar salads and trayed the chicken tenders.

Legal (double period): We have almost finished our last topic (family law). Today we looked at surrogacy and birth control. It was interesting but I think we are moving really fast through the course at the moment so we can try to get it all finished which is annoying because we aren't going into as much detail at times.

Ancient (double period): Today we had a surprise birthday party for our Ancient teacher. We decorated the room during recess with purple (his favourite colour) decorations and baloons. To make sure that he wouldn’t come into the room, one of the girls in our class went to talk to him. She told him that because she was doing 13 units her mum wanted her to drop Ancient. We all felt a bit bad, because our teacher looked sad but he was fine once he knew it wasn’t true. His reaction once we surprised him was really nice as he so happy and didn’t really expect us to do it. We all had party hats, party poppers, and heaps of party food (cake, lollies, chocolate, chips, soft drink).

We all played an Ancient themed escape room. The story was that our teacher had been shot and we had to unlock a suitcase where there would be a vial of medicine to save him. We had to solve some Ancient themed puzzles on the Julio Claudians, Agrippina and Pompeii to unlock the box. There were also clues that our teacher had hidden around the room such as in invisible ink on a picture, behind a shield or in a history book. Once we finally unlocked the box, we realised there was still another box to unlock and puzzles to be done for Sparta. Once we did those, we found a key and unlocked the box to find a vial of medicine (caramel syrup) and a picture of the class. We also took a few more class pictures. It was a really fun class, and although it isn’t our last yet I’m going to be really sad when Ancient finishes.

Lunch: Today was the first of our staff vs students sport matches (we also have volleyball on Friday and soccer on Tuesday). It was netball today and the students won 4-3. I didn’t actually play (I don’t do sport), but it was really fun to watch. It was great to see some of the teachers getting involved, and watching them and our year play.

Music: As part of the graduation assembly, the music class traditionally plays a song or a mashup of songs. Our class is pretty unorganised and is mainly still trying to choose songs to play and find chords for them. I’m not sure if I will actually play in this because most of the songs they are thinking of are rock songs that don’t really work with a clarinet (majority of my class plays piano, guitar and drums). We’re pretty unproductive at the moment and i’m not too sure if the performance will actually work out well as we haven’t practised it a lot and the graduation is next Thursday.

Maths: We were all pretty tired, hot and not bothered today in maths. We were given the 2014 specimen HSC multiple choice to do in class, but I didn’t really even finish it.

Extension history: Today was our last ever lesson! We had a bit of a party (with lots of food!) and played a lot of fun revision activities. We played kahoot (I won a lot of these!), celebrity heads (with historians), quizlet live (for purposes of historians and the key terms) and Jeopardy (for JFK and What is history?-My team won!).

katie,rinos:
18/9/17
Today was my last ever full day of classes (& last Maths, English and Bible class)!

PC (Pastoral care/roll call): Today one of the year 7 girls PC class gave everyone in yr 12 a mini survival pack. Mine was in a brown paper bag and was decorated with my name in the middle and lots of different coloured circles. In the corner they wrote 'hang in there' and it looked like they had put effort into it and it was so cute. In it there was bubble wrap, bubbles, a lollipop, flake, balloon, bookmark (laminated with my name, it's meaning and a bible verse). It was something that the girls in my PC really appreciated and we were going to go to their room to say thanks but the bell went for class so we may go tomorrow. Also our last PC which is really sad because I love having mornings talking to the girls of my PC and my teacher is so amazingly friendly.

Legal: The only class today where we really did work. We looked through two of the exemplar essays for family law from last year and highlighted their use of evidence (cases/stats/laws/media) and their judgements.

English: We had a class party today and everybody brought in lollies, chocolates and drinks. Our teacher brought in a red velvet cake and we lit candles. We also gave our teacher her present, which was some flowers and a photo frame with a picture of our class acting like Maria from Metropolis. Although I don't love English it's still sad that this is our last lesson (besides one in the holidays).

Maths: Our teacher wasn't at school today as she was sick. We took a few class photos and selfies. We then had a combined maths party with around 3 other maths classes. We had heaps of food, were listening to music and the boys were dancing.

Hospitality: Today, me and one of the other girls in our class worked in the canteen. I made muffins, jelly, cut salad ingredients and trayed the chicken tenders.
I have now finished all of my work placement hours!

Tomorrow I have a year 12 staff/students breakfast in the morning, graduation practice, 3 more classes, the staff v students soccer match and a year 12 movie night. On Thursday morning we have our graduation and on Friday we have the formal.

katie,rinos:
21/9/17
Graduation 🎓🎓
We had to go to school at 9:45 and sat and talked and took photos until the graduation started at 10:30.
At 10:30, we all walked in a line into the hall in our PC groups to our chairs on the side of the hall while the music was playing. I was a mix of nerves and excitement.

We had addresses from our Principal, Year Advisors and Captains. While they were long and are usually really boring, we found them more interesting because they were about our year :).

Our music class played a mash up of four pieces today. We played hey ya, Africa, All Star and love story. It ended up really good despite how we didn't have heaps of practice. Our year was clapping to the beat and singing/dancing during it, which was great and I think they enjoyed it. :D

All the girls walked up on the stage after the performance in our PC classes. When they called my name (I was so surprised they pronounced it correctly-they always pronounce it wrong), they also announced that I had done Mates (a program where I was paired with a primary kid and met them once a week during lunchtimes), and that I got first in extension. The principal shook hands with me and gave me my portfolio and I also hugged my PC teacher and then lined up on the stage. We got graduation portfolios which had certificates, and a little booklet where some of my teachers (17!) had wrote warm fuzzies in. They wrote some really nice messages and bible passages that are great to read.

We had kindergarten and year six sing a song for us and they were so cute. The kindergartens one was based off the melodies from the musical and called ‘Super Dupa are our buddies!’ We also had a huge photo slideshow which showed photos from both primary and high school. I had a couple of pictures in it, one from year 7 and a some more of yr 11-12.

At the end of the graduation all the teachers did a guard of honour. We were able to hug/handshake all of our teachers and it was a really nice thing to be able to do. It’s a bittersweet feeling because while I’m so happy school is over I also really love my teachers and friends.

Afterwards we all took photos together and then we had a morning tea in the hall for all of year 12 and our parents. Year 9 food tech and year 11 hospitality catered which was something that I had done in yrs 9 & 11. We took a lot of photos and talked with my friends.

My Ancient teacher also emailed Mary Beard the other day and got two replies! Mary Beard is a historian that my class and teacher love! In one of her replies she congratulated us for graduating and wished us good luck which was cool.

This afternoon I got my nails done for formal (2nd time ever I have had my nails done-last time was yr 6). They are a light pink, kinda natural colour. I’m still not sure what to do with my hair and I’m getting it done tomorrow morning. I’m pretty excited for formal-we are meeting at the botanical gardens to take photos and then my groups organised a limo to take us to the formal. It should be fun!  ;D

I also brought a weekly planner whiteboard and whiteboard markers from K-mart. I’ve been wanting to buy a whiteboard for ages and haven’t really gotten around to it until today. Should be good for organising everything.

So excited to see some of you at the meetup on Monday! Can’t wait-4 days left!  ;D

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