4th year students: We will start on Chapter 1 of your thesis next week. Monday to Wednesday will be devoted to the research discussions and consultations. Thursday and Friday will be Literature days, as we will tackle the Nibelungenlied. The first draft of Chapter 1 is to be submitted on November 6, Friday next week. The second draft is due on Novermber 13. The third draft will be submitted on November 20, and the final draft will be submitted on November 27. I expect all of you to have your respective finalized topics next week. For those who will be using the correlation coefficient, make sure that your variables are both quantitative.

While browsing the internet, I came across this site that freely gives scales for researchers. The scales measure the following variables:

• Attitude towards women
• Authoritarianism/Rebellion
• Hassle
• Body Esteem
• Body Awareness
• Dieting Beliefs
• Loneliness
• Gender role identity
• Self-esteem
• Perceived Social Support
• Procrastination
• Satisfaction with Life
• Driving Anger
• Trust (in a relationship)
• Cognitive Failure
• Computer Anxiety

Also, this site freely distributes scales that measure personality, music preference, and personal space. I haven’t checked all of these scales but they might help you in finalizing your topics.

3rd year students: I was impressed with Australia’s performance in their preparation for the discussion of the reading selection. Kudos to all of you guys and please continue doing so. Don’t forget the activity that I assigned to all of you, due on Friday. For New Zealand, we will meet next week Monday for the discussion of the reading. Please prepare for an intensive discussion. Please remember your reports that will start next week, Tuesday.

Though there’s still an exam pending to be taken on Tuesday, I congratulate all of you for surviving all of the exams you’ve taken so far. I’m now checking your exams, hoping that no one will be getting a mark lower than 80% xD

For the meantime, please take note of the details written below.

4th year students: I’ll still discuss this on Wednesday. Anyway there are two things that I want all of you to remember this 3rd quarter.

• Monday to Wednesday of every week will be reserved for thesis lectures, so there’s no need to bring your books, unless otherwise stated. Thursday and Friday will be reserved for discussing World Literature and other pertinent stuff.
• For those who want to change their group membership, let me add rules to this, to avoid bad feelings and FO’s. One can only change his/her group membership if his/her parent group allows it, and if the group that he/she wishes to join also allows it. The member that will be transferring from one group to another should also be okay with it. There will be no forced eviction of group members, nor changing memberships without consent of BOTH groups.
• Your topics will be due next week, so please finalize your topics, as we will start discussing writing your introductions.
• I’ve arranged for all seniors to be allowed to use the Library for research purposes. I’ll announce when you’ll be allowed to use it.

3rd year students: You’ll have an activity where in you’ll have to report on the other writers of the Renaissance and their works. We will also have remedial grammar and composition lessons, probably every Monday for New Zealand and every Friday for Australia. Please start reading on the rest of the writers of the Renaissance.

I’ll post updates here as soon as I can. To those who were having hard time accessing this website, please bear with me for awhile, as I am currently in the process of buying my own domain, www.adobosoda.com, and hosting the website to a more reliable webhost.

NOTE: UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED, FOLLOW THE STUFF LISTED IN THE LATEST POST.

Note: People, when I ask if you have some questions, clarifications, reactions, suggestions etc, please do pay attention. So that you’ll be able to avoid embarrassing moments. Do not trust your own understanding. Ask people, ask. Otherwise, I’ll assume that you all got it. It seems both parties were at fault here. I automatically trusted you people that you’ve understood what I’m trying to say. And I’m sorry for that.

4th year students: The lecture which your quiz #4 will be based upon is already uploaded. Just go to the Downloads section located at the upper left of this website, or click here. Again, the assignment due on Tuesday is a brief analysis of the Thesis assigned to your group. Those theses are the ones that you’ve picked when you draw lots during the initial groupings. Please be reminded that because this is a group activity, you are going to rate your groupmates performance using the similar peer evaluation form I’ve given to all of you.

Quiz #4’s coverage is Aeneid’s book 1 and 2 summary, Interpretation of Horace’s To Licinius, some details concerning Martial’s epigrams, and Epictetus’ Enchiridion

3rd year students: For Australia, we won’t meet tomorrow. For New Zealand, we will have a special activity. Quiz #3 is scheduled Tuesday (yes, it’s not a home work, it’s a quiz). The lecture last Thursday will be posted tonight. Please check this website for updates. The lecture last Thursday has been posted. Please go to the Downloads Section, or click here. The quiz will be a word completion type of quiz. You’re going to supply the missing words in Shakespeare’s Sonnet CXVI. And for Pete’s sake, ask if you have questions in class, unless you’re all perfectly contented with the results of your exams last quarter. There’s no homework, I’ve cancelled it obviously.

4th year students: Lecture on Major Roman Writers uploaded. Please go to the Downloads Section. We’ll start on composition and research lectures tomorrow till Friday. Quiz on Roman Literature is on Friday. We’ll spend the first half of the period for the quiz. Reports due on Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Please submit a written report from your group so I can evaluate and assess your report content.

3rd year students: Lecture on Songs in Shakespearean Plays uploaded. Please go to the Downloads Section. We’ll watch a movie tomorrow in the AVR. Homework is also due tomorrow.

4th year students: Groupings in Thesis will be announced tomorrow, after our discussion. We will discuss research, and possibly techniques in choosing a topic. For those who doesn’t have a copy of the lecture, I uploaded an electronic version, which you can download in the Downloads section. On Monday we will begin with a new lesson on Roman Literature, so please read the pages that I assigned to be read. There will be a seatwork before we start.

3rd year students: I’ve assigned all of you a home work which requires you to search for two Shakespearean plays, to list down the major characters, to write in one paragraph its synopsis/summary/plot, to indicate if it’s a comedy, tragedy, or historical, and to write a short paragraph why you chose those plays. You will present them in class. I’ve also uploaded the lecture discussion on Renaissance and Shakespeare that we talked about hours ago, again to be found in the Downloads section.

Special: For 3rd year and 4th year varsity students who weren’t able to take the quiz, you all have to take a make-up quiz tomorrow at the library. 4th year students, please go there at around 12:30 pm, while 3rd year students will be given their make-up quiz at around 3:15 pm. Failure to appear at the said times will not be excused, and you will be given a failing mark for those missed quizzes.

Offtopic: Ad libitum is the long version of the familiar word ‘Ad lib’ which is a musical term to denote that the execution of the performance is left to the performer. I’ve already given all of you things that all of you needed. Your performance for these subjects will be left to you. A student must be responsible for his or her own learning.