Chapter 3.4 was much, much easier for people. Many people got 100% on their first tries, and those who didn’t usually got 100% on their second try. The things that people struggled with were usually the fact that the imperative can means something other than a command, and where to
Class Progress Report – 8th Week
3 students dropped out at this point. Chapter 3.3 was quite difficult for a lot of people! It’s to be expected though, and I’m not sure there is a way around it. A lot of technical vocabulary is introduced at this point, and the differences between the syntax for pronouns
Class Progress Report – 7th Week
Chapter 3.2 is much more difficult, much more technical. Most people took 2 to 3 tries to get a 100%. Conflating “of” and “to be” were the most common problems. To tell the difference, you have to pay careful attention to which words are mutated. I’m thinking of breaking this
Class Progress Report – 6th Week
This week, the Sindarin 101 students graduated to being Beginners! This lesson went very smoothly. There were only a handful of people who didn’t get a 100% on their first try, and those who didn’t usually got 100% on their second try. I am thinking of moving the article “The”
Class Progress Report – 5th Week
No one dropped out this week! Again, a few people opted out of the Classical Mode Tengwar lesson. By then, most people had a grip on the punctuation systems, so there were few errors in the punctuation. Instead, there was some confusion over how to do the vowels. Several people
Class Progress Report – 4th Week
No one dropped out this week! Though, several people opted out of taking the Angerthas lesson. I’m guessing because it isn’t the iconic Elven script like the tengwar-based systems are. There weren’t any problems with the PDFs this time around, since people were used to them. Punctuation in Angerthas is
Class Progress Report – 3rd Week
No one dropped out this week! Not everyone was able to take this lesson, but that was expected. I’ve found that it’s much easier to correct the Elvish-Script lessons when I turn them into PDFs, so that’s what I did. Only one person had a problem viewing the comments on
Class Progress Report – 2nd Week
This time we had a record low for number of people dropping out in the second week. It’s usually about 1/4th of the remaining students that drop out, but this time, it was only one person! And they dropped out by letting me know, instead of just not turning in
Class Progress Report – 1st Week
Hello everyone! I’m going to try my best to give a progress report on the class – mentioning no specific names, just broad observations that I noticed about the class. The primary purpose of this is to brainstorm ways to improve the course by finding where the weaknesses are in
First Day of Class
It’s the first day of class on this fancy new website! If you check the calendar widget in the navigation column on the left of the screen, you’ll see what assignments are due for whom. Good luck everyone!