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:
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.
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.