Unto the breach
Well, tomorrow morning, I will do what is likely to be my last ever English close reading, as I sit my first Higher exam. I can remember answering questions on mind-numbingly dull passages all the way back to Primary 3. And now I'll never do it again, in all likelihood, since I have never thought of a practical application for close reading skills, though I've been trying since the aforementioned Primary school days.
Yesterday was also the day I had my last Maths lesson with the Maths class I've had for five years. I've had some hugely fun times in that Maths class, laughing, joking, derailing conversations on topics ranging from life after death to songs about chihuahuas. Curiously little mathematics, but that probably just enhanced the experience.
I also rounded off my chemistry knowledge yesterday and I'll be done with that by the 29th. Choosing subjects for Sixth Year is the first time I've had to give up something that I've really enjoyed. When Standard Grade first rolled around, I relished in dropping Music and Art, Geography and Latin, the loss of French almost causing me to break out into song and dance. Highers pruned off German and History, which, while I wasn't too bad at them, were hardly my favourite subjects. Now, S6 has allowed me the chance to finally rid myself of English, but Chemistry has also had to be sacrificed in order to save my sanity and increase the time available for playing Mario Kart in the common room.
I've spent much of today reading and rereading quotations and old essays, checking I know themes and structures of some of the finest literature in the world and some of the most boring I've ever read. Fifteen minute snatches of Final Fantasy III and Elebits were all that kept me sane as I laboriously memorised Chris Guthrie's feelings when she loses her umpteenth family member to a falling rhinoceros... or something... I'm not really planning to write either of my essays on Sunset Song.
Still, as befits the mood, I shall round off with a quote from William Shakespeare which has been stuck in my head of late. Sadly, it's not one of the ones I'm supposed to get stuck in my head.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!"
-William Shakespeare, Henry V
Yesterday was also the day I had my last Maths lesson with the Maths class I've had for five years. I've had some hugely fun times in that Maths class, laughing, joking, derailing conversations on topics ranging from life after death to songs about chihuahuas. Curiously little mathematics, but that probably just enhanced the experience.
I also rounded off my chemistry knowledge yesterday and I'll be done with that by the 29th. Choosing subjects for Sixth Year is the first time I've had to give up something that I've really enjoyed. When Standard Grade first rolled around, I relished in dropping Music and Art, Geography and Latin, the loss of French almost causing me to break out into song and dance. Highers pruned off German and History, which, while I wasn't too bad at them, were hardly my favourite subjects. Now, S6 has allowed me the chance to finally rid myself of English, but Chemistry has also had to be sacrificed in order to save my sanity and increase the time available for playing Mario Kart in the common room.
I've spent much of today reading and rereading quotations and old essays, checking I know themes and structures of some of the finest literature in the world and some of the most boring I've ever read. Fifteen minute snatches of Final Fantasy III and Elebits were all that kept me sane as I laboriously memorised Chris Guthrie's feelings when she loses her umpteenth family member to a falling rhinoceros... or something... I'm not really planning to write either of my essays on Sunset Song.
Still, as befits the mood, I shall round off with a quote from William Shakespeare which has been stuck in my head of late. Sadly, it's not one of the ones I'm supposed to get stuck in my head.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!"
-William Shakespeare, Henry V
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
11:04 PM
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