Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Just one more thing about the Science Fiction Literature class before I go on to the first day of the fourth week of classes for the first trimester in the new school year. I’m extremely thankful that the school was able to purchase a copy of “Gattaca” to be shown on one of the Wednesdays of June. Not only is it a great portent of the possible new forms of discrimination that may result in society from advances in science, but it is also an aesthetically wonderful film.

In my Mathematical Methods One class during the next school day, I continued with the word problems in one variable and in one degree. I only discussed two more types, mixture problems and speed problems, but I gave several examples of each for their edification.

In the mixture problems, I remembered to use a guide table that I made for the last time I taught the subject two terms ago. It not only helped make it clear to the students that the mass or volume of the first solution and the second solution should be equal to the final combined mass or volume, but also the same with the percentages, that it should always total one hundred percent. In retrospect though, since I stuck to the problems in the textbook unlike what David and I did last September onwards, which was take up more categories of word problems than were in the listed main reference. Maybe next time I'll include evaporation problems in the wet mixture examples.

As for the speed problems, I reacquainted them with the formula, and concentrated on the two vehicle problems, with at least one of the quantities (speed, distance or time) equal for both.

For the SCIFILIT class in the afternoon, I first gave the students the concepts and places that I wanted them to be familiar with before they watched "Contact", which is exactly the same as what I used to give my astronomy classes (especially when the movie was being shown on local TV). My co-teacher Rae gave them guide questions for their second major paper (the first one was for the "Matrix" films viewed). She also returned the first papers, not only criticizing publicly the poor rush job a lot of them did (considering that Literary Forms is a prerequisite, and English One - which includes proper composition writing - is a prerequisite of that one) but also reproducing the top two graded papers, one of which was rated one hundred percent and the other written by David's brother Daniel.

I also helped some of the five groups come up with related films they had to show and provide analysis related to the short story from Rae's list that they decided to concentrate on, which was a bit brain wracking considering I had to categorize which are science fiction and which are not, and if it fit the concepts they wanted to depict, without duplicating the list of films Rae is already assigning them.

Session 622 ends here. For now, class dismissed.