Grades

I'm just so excited about the grade I got on my Orwell essay that I had to post about it :)

I had to take History of Western Civilization to complete the credit requirements for an Associates Degree. It felt like the work load from this class was equal to that of last semester (and I had 11 credit hours then...this was only 3!)

Last Monday I had a 5-8 page essay due on the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, with these requirements:

Each student is to read 1984 by George Orwell.
Each student is then to prepare a five to eight page essay explaining Orwell's vision. Do not simply restate the plot. Instead the paper should consist of three sections. In Part 1 explain how government works in Orwell's world. In Part 2 explain the historical antecedents that Orwell drew on to write his work. What did he draw from Nazi Germany? What about Soviet Russia? Then, in a conclusion, explain what the message of Orwell's work is and what we can learn about the early post-war period from reading Orwell.
When the paper is complete, in either Word or WordPerfect, submit it to the Course Dropbox.

And if there were more than 10 errors (spelling, capitilization, punctuation, etc.) then you could get no better than a "C" on the paper.

Well, I didn't start reading the book until after Aislinn's visit, and that is a hard book to read (at least for me). But I managed to finish and spent the entire week and weekend before the due date working on my essay - which came out to 6 full pages :)

So anyways....I ended up getting a 94 on the essay. Which totally excited me because I haven't gotten above a 78 on any of the unit exams :( I'm hoping to finish the class w/ a "B" average, but I'll have to wait to see my final grade until probably next Tuesday.