My Thirty-Third Week as a Senior

June 1 – June 5

My thirty-third week as a high school senior was as average as it could be. I don’t have much to say to introduce it, so I’ll get right into what happened.

In Vectors, we finished the eighth chapter of the course. On Monday, we did 8.5, The Cartesian Equation of a Plane. Similar to the cartesian/scalar equation of a line in R2, a cartesian equation of a plane is Ax+By+Cz+D=0, where A, B and C are the components of the normal of the plane. There isn’t much else to say about this section because there were more examples given than definitions. If you do want some help with TDSB Math, Ms. Havrot on YouTube is a really good teacher. On Tuesday, we did 8.6, Sketching Planes in R3. Honestly, I didn’t get this section very well. There was a slight lack of explanation and I didn’t feel like looking for more resources to help me with this. I knew I wasn’t going to be tested on it, so I dropped it and moved on (oops). Thursday was review day and on Friday, we got our assignment.

In Writer’s Craft, there wasn’t much activity until Thursday because people were taking their time submitting assignments from the previous week. On Thursday, we got three poetry assignments: Bio Poem, Concrete Poem and Limerick. A limerick is a poem with five lines and a rhyme scheme of a, a, b, b, a. It’s supposed to be silly with a natural flow. I think I might post the limerick I wrote here someday. I haven’t forgotten about posting my ISU short story – I just haven’t had time to edit it and fix my mistakes. A bio poem is a collection of phrases and sentences representing the poet’s life, showing the reader a picture of said life. The assignment was to jot down 30-40 memories and then boil them down to 15-20 lines. I found this one quite tedious, so I didn’t do it. Note: none of the poems were going to be marked unless they were submitted in our final assignment. These submissions were purely for feedback. More on the final assignment later. A Concrete poem is one where the words form a relevant picture. For example, a poem about a plane taking off written to look like a plane taking off (nose up). I wrote a poem, that I ended up not submitting, called “A Nose of Nos/ A Picky Eater.” I wrote the word no, again and again, in the shape of a nose, and the words “She turns her nose up to everything. Everything!” in the shape of lips. I didn’t know how I would type it out to look like that, so I stuck to doing it with a pencil on a sheet of paper.

In English, we got our last assignment for Hamlet. It was to finish reading the play and write about a missing voice in it. We had to talk about an underrepresented character whose presence would have benefitted the story. The medium of presenting this information was up to us, so I decided to make a Google Slides about Hamlet needing more of Horatio. I used statistics and dialogues to support my argument and did much better than I expected. I do wish we had more instruction, more direction for the assignment; I wasn’t looking forward to doing an assignment with so many variables. But, at least now we’re done with Hamlet. I have a copy of Oedipus at home. I think I’m going to read that to pass time now.

This is all for my third last week as a senior. As I write this, my last week is over and I think I’m going to share how I feel about that in a future post. Till then, stay home and stay safe. – Aarushi