On Sunday, I decided to go through my assignment for Cleopatra and Doctor Faustus. I was having a little trouble with both parts of the assignment for different reasons. With the Cleopatra part of my assignment, I had so much to say and so many ideas that I was finding it hard to condense this into less than 500 words without compromising on the quality of my argument. With Doctor Faustus, I was finding it hard to get above 400 words without waffling.
In the end, I managed to get the assignment completed in 475 and 455 words respectively. I sent it off this afternoon so that's it now, until I have to revisit again in a month's time for my second assignment (a reflective assignment and reworking of the first).
I've also finished working through Faraday (Chapter 4) and started on Stalin (Chapter 5) which puts me about three weeks in front on my studies...
Quite a productive day today! I did the online activity about the death of Christopher Marlowe and discovered that nobody is really 100% sure of how he DID actually die, although I did learn that if you are going to trust anybody's opinion about someone's biography, then Oxford University Press is a pretty good source.
Next was the 'Inside Art' activity. As you've probably gathered from previous posts, paintings are not my thing at all. This activity has helped with SOME aspects of evaluating paintings (perspective, light source, colour) but these are the few things I actually remember learning about at GCSE. I've still not got the foggiest when it comes to deciding WHY an artist painted the way he did.
It did mean that I could tick off these activities on the website. And as an added bonus I got 9 out of 9 on the Chapters 1-3 Quiz. I'm going to leave the TMA questions for a couple of week (until I've been to a tutorial) so tomorrow I might start on Chapter 4, although it is CSI Sunday on Five USA...
By the time I'd got myself sorted today, it was lunchtime. I sat down in the corner; turned on the laptop; clicked on Firefox; logged into my Student Homepage; clicked on the AA100 website... and then went to make a coffee.
After my coffee (and lunch... and CSI:New York on 5USA) I went back to the laptop and stared at the Study Planner. Even though I'd worked through the Study Companion and first three chapters, there was still a lot I hadn't done.
Now that I could see everything laid out in front of me, itemised week-by-week, it all seemed so much clearer... all I had left to do was to go back to the beginning and start again. Fortunately, I didn't need to do EVERYTHING again.
Just a few extra preparatory activities; an online activity about Christopher Marlowe; A few websites about Doctor Faustus; and an activity that might help me understand Cézanne's paintings. Well that's the next few days sorted. See you at the other side...
