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| Les Miserables: Math for Thought |
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For my Honors English class this August I am required to read the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, find 10 quotes in each book (there are 5), and finish a 15-page study guide. I feel overwhelmed! Reading the book itself presents a problem I don't usually encounter as I love reading, but the book is incredibly slow-paced and boring compared to Macbeth, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and even Jane Eyre. So I did some simple math to make sure I finish everything I'm supposed to at least a week before school starts to ensure I have about a week of free-time to do just about nothing.
Each day I will read NO LESS than 30 pages. Today I've read 36. That means that I'm going above schedule already. In a week I should (if I read exactly 30 pages a day) have read 210 pages, near half the book. So finishing it shouldn't be a problem at all, even though it's incredibly boring. In two weeks I WILL have finished it, probably less.
Now, I've already started the study guide. There are 150 questions at least on it. I've finished 25. I will be finishing them as I go along as they are in order by chapter. I should finish these about the same time as I finish the book, but a little research within the novel will have to be done afterwards for questions more difficult to answer.
Also, as I need 10 SPOKEN quotes per book, I will be finishing those every 2-3 days, determining how long the book is and how supple the quotes are. I've already found five for the first book. I will look for over 10 just in case I need to oust some quotes that don't speak as strongly as others. This too will be finished by the time the book is.
So my summer homework should be finished in around 2 weeks, probably less, but that all depends on if I stick to my schedule and do what I say I will.
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Posted by Royal on 2009-07-02 21:26:40 | Rating: | Views: 35
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