Frustrating Chapter 9-Building Layered Compositions

So this is this worst chapter of the book....so far...if only he would tell us the goals before we started the assignments it would not be so bad...I have to say the chapter started off fine with the fruit lesson and football... (It was fun to play with the dimensions of the fruit hat )which were a little fun but alot of times I wished he would give us a little intro to want he wanted to accomplish...and he did with the first two lessons, but somehow after that with the mountain lesson the good directions got lost...and I found myself wanting to just quit and walk away...but I didn't I just skipped over some parts that instructions were lacking-at least in my book...wish he would sit with someone while they were doing the lessons in his book so that he would know when he needed to elaborate more or have more pictures to help explain some of his steps....I think that these processes have become so easy for him that he doesn't understand how difficult it can be for newbies like me...I wish he would give real life application of when we would use these tools...seems like we're just doing silly assignments....and maybe they have to be to illustrate the tools but the tools are quite amazing and it would be nice to learn about it more practically and maybe have this chapter less dense....I really liked this book up until now....maybe he will redeem himself before the end of the chapter....