The Rest of the Unit

After getting over the initial shock of the first day of lecture, and doing the suggested homework, the rest of the unit made sense. Type 2 and 3 make so much more sense than type one, especially type 3. If all of Nomenclature was like type 3 it would very easy.

I was rather irritated with polyatomic ions, because their is no trick to learning them, they have to be remembered. And the day before the test it turns out I was studying the wrong things, so that was a huge pain to learn 21 chemical formulas and names in 24 hours.

Naming Binary Compounds

Theirs a reason that your supposed to read the textbook before you get to class. The first day in lecture, I didn't understand anything. My teacher started talking and it was in one ear, out the other. Anion, Cation, Ionic Compound didn't make a difference, I was clueless to what she was talking about. 

To be fair, by the look of a few of my classmates, I wasn't the only that was as lost as a fish out of water.Thankfully I had enough sense to go over the practice work that came out of the book, so I managed to do pretty well on the quiz.