Studio Art | January 10th - Period 7

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As each student enters the room they are directed to pick up a handout and take a seat.

( Lecture 1 - Class Overview and Introductions )

[ooc: OCD threads coming are up]

The Library - Jan. 11th

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Climbing down from his hammock early this morning, the Librarian opens the library for the morning and sits as best he can on a chair behind the circulation desk. He peeling a banana carefully with his feet while keeping a close, supicious eye on the library and, particularly, the books.

Shop Class: [1/11]

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( Upon entering the classroom... )

Biology (2nd Period) / Chemistry (4th Period)

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"Good morning, everyone. Please take your seats."

( Biology )

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( Chemistry )

School Announcements, 1/11/06

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The P.A. crackles to life.

"I hate all of you.

One, the Pool is closed for sanitary purposes. It shall be scrubbed, bleached, deloused, de-cootie-ified, and disinfected. In addition, all the tile shall be ripped up and replaced. This will take some time, so the pool will not be available for use until... Monday.

Two, on a note that follows similar to one. Han Solo, Maia Rutledge, James Ford, Lana Lang, and John Sheppard will all report to detention this weekend. You people disgust me with your filthy behavior and improper use of public school facilities. Mister Solo, you will now be serving another detention. Congratulations on becoming a regular customer.

Three, TAships and independant studies counting, ten is now the limit for school class involvement. Over-achievers disgust me as well. Efficiency is running at a capacity you can handle.

Four, I will be absent from my office today. I am going to buy myself a new tie on the mainland, and I am having a new desk installed. Complaints can go elsewhere today.

Don't get naked in public. Good day, students."

[ooc: Yes, 10 is now the upwards limit of classes, TAs and Independant Studies counting. 3 is the minimum, 10 is the maximum. And I disappear for today until approx 5 pm CST, sadly, so no Smith on campus today.

...he still sees all.]

Forensics (5th Period)

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"Forensics is defined in two ways:
1. The art or study of formal debate; argumentation.
2. The use of science and technology to investigate and establish facts in criminal or civil courts of law."

"Forensics is the application of science to law. Forensic science is used to investigate criminal cases involving a victim, such as assault, robbery, kidnapping, rape, murder and civil cases such as forgeries, fraud, or negligence. Forensics determines if laws or regulations were violated in marketing food and drinks, manufacturing of medicines, agricultural pesticide use, automobile emission compliance, and drinking water purity."

"This semester, we will be studying four major areas related to or directly concerning forensics: homicide, arson, DNA analysis, and software forensics. Read your books. I cannot emphasize that enough."

"We will have our first lecture on Friday. Bring plenty of paper."

History of Western Civilisation - Wednesday 5th Period: Discussion 1: Introduction and Sumeria

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All right, then. I bet you all thought that I wasn't going to make you do the stand-up-and-introduce-yourselves bit. Sorry.

Since this section of the class is all about discussion and sharing ideas, I think we first should share our names. I'm not going to ask why you're taking this class, since I imagine most of you are taking it because History 101 is something of a basic requirement. Instead, tell me what period of history has some meaning for you. A different time than your own, please, if you are historically displaced or from somewhere other than Earth. If you know nothing about another period in history... make something up. Please.

Then we're going to spend the hour talking.

Optional reading I totally gave you all yesterday:
Sumerian Language Page -- http://www.sumerian.org/
Wikipedia Entry on Sumer -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumeria
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature -- http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/

[[OCD Threads up. Comment away!]]

Magical Theory 101 (Wednesday, 01/11/2006, 4th Period)

[romanywitch]

{{Class is closed for grading.}}

Jenny stood at the front of the classroom. The door to the hallway was closed to minimize disturbances to the lecture. If anyone left the door open on their way in, Jenny asked them to please close the door behind them.

After the students signed in and took their seats, Jenny started today's lecture.

( Detention Policy I Forgot To Mention Last Time )

( Lecture - Sympathy, Contagion, & Antipathy )

{{OOC: OCD comment threads going up shortly are up. Comment away!}}

Useful Links:
Ms. Calendar's Voice Mail
Ms. Calendar's E-Mail

Classics 201, 1/11, 3rd period

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

"Hello.

"Today, I would like for you to work on your pronunciation of Greek through discussion groups. We should have one group of two and one of three; to break up the usual pairs, I would like for Janet Frasier to work with Murphy MacManus, and Connor MacManus to work with John Connor and Samuel Anders."

"Your prompt for discussion is simple -- discuss how you spent the winter break."

"I will be in my office after class."

Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

( 301--Interpersonal Communication 3rd period )

*** *** *** *** *** *** ***

( 401--Advanced Comm 5th period )

Lunch 'yo

[http://users.livejournal.com/swedish_chef_/]

Hellu my leettle-a luv rubuts! Tudey is Vednesdey, oor es Des Schneetzel leekes tu reffer tu it "Hump Dey". Bork Bork Bork! Durty cheeckee.

Tudey fur loonch ve-a hefe-a:

-Pesta Seled

-Hem und Cheese-a sundveeches (EBBA-free-a Marty)

-Tecus

-SURGE!

Bork Bork Bork!

US Government (Wednesday, January 11, 4th period)

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Josh looked up from the pile of electoral data he had been studying when students began arriving.

( Welcome to US Government... )

He handed around copies of the class syllabus. "As it says so clearly at the top of the page, today we discuss why you should care about government. Now I know why I care about the government, but explain to me why you care at all what bills the House of Representatives is debating, or who sits on the Supreme Court. Or who's elected President, or governor, or to the local school board." He waved his hand. "Or if you don't, explain that too."

He sat down at his desk and pointed at random to a student. "You. Name, class, why you care about government."

Advanced Journalism (Wednesday, January 11 - 3rd period)

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“Good morning, boys and girls. Please sign in as you enter.”

( Lecture and assignment )

[ooc: OCD threads going are up. Lecture is from here, with some alterations to keep it IC.]

Paleontology, Jan 11th (7th period)

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"Afternoon everyone!" Tommy smiles cheerfully at his students. "Please sign in, and then we'll get started."

"First, a little administrative note. On Wednesdays, you'll get a homework assignment, which I'd like you to bring to class on Monday. Depending on the kind of assignment, I may ask you to get up in front of the class and do a short presentation."

"So I'm sure you all have at least a vague idea of what paleontology is: the study of ancient plants and animals by looking at things called fossils. Paleontology can be divided into three major subdivisions: paleozoology (animals), paleobotany (plants), and micropaleontology (microfossils). Paleozoologists may specialize in invertebrate paleontology, which deals with animals without backbones, or in vertebrate paleontology, dealing with fossils of animals with backbones, including fossil hominids (paleoanthropology). I know, I know, that’s a lot of –ologies, so in this class we'll be focusing just on vertebrate paleontology."

"So, today's question for you is: what's a fossil? What makes a fossil?"

(ooc: threads up!)

Journalism 101/201 (Wednesday, January 11 - 5th period)

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“Good afternoon, children,” Rita said with a smile, watching the students file in. “I’m Professor Rita Skeeter. Please sign in as you enter, and take a handout."

( Lecture and assignment )

[ooc: OCD threads going are up]

Quantum Physics 225: Wednesday, Fifth Period

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The Doctor comes into the classroom late with a box from amazon.com. He drops one copy of the book onto each student's desk. They hit with a thump.

"Good afternoon." He sits back on his desk and chews his pen.
( A bit of a lecture. )

Drivers Ed, Jan 11th (8th period)

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"Hello... uh, is that everyone?" Tommy says, looking around at his very small class. "First things first, everyone please sign the roll sheet, because even though there's only a few of you, I don't know names yet."

"All right... you've all seen cars before, right?"

Office Hours

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She's fighting her computer.

The computer isn't winning.

Feel free to interrupt her internal gloating.

Journalistic Integrity (Wednesday, January 11 - 6th period)

[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

“Hello, duckies,” Rita smiled. “Sign in and take a handout as you enter.”

( Lecture and assignment )

[ooc: OCD threads going are up!]

US History (Wednesday, January 11, 7th period)

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Josh looked up from a map of Montana when his history class filed in.

"Good to see you all again. None of you have run away in terror yet which means I'm obviously not doing my job all that well." He grinned. "Kidding. Mostly."

( Christopher Columbus )

"Today's discussion. In your time at Fandom High, however short it might have been, you've met someone who isn't from your culture, your dimension, or your, um, planet. Since we've obviously not tried to kill each other or take each other hostage, we're a step ahead of Columbus. Pair up and talk about your initial 'first contact' with someone different than yourself and use what you did to come up with something that Columbus should've done better."

He pointed at the book. "And we're not going to overlook the natives who were here first. Your homework assignment is to pick a tribe--either from the North like one of the Inuit tribes, the Northwest like the Chinook, the Kwakiutl or the Spokane, the Southwest like the Apache, the Pueblo or the Hopi, the Plains like the Sioux, the Crow, or the Arapaho, the Midwestern moundbuilders like the ones who used to live in Cahokia, or the Eastern tribes like the Powhatan, the Delaware or the Iroquois League, which was made up of the Huron, Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Chickasaw peoples." He pointed at his inbox. That will be due in the homework thread my box before next class. A hundred words snagged from the almighty Wikipedia will be great.

"Next week we learn about what happened after Columbus opened his big mouth and the rest of the world decided they needed the gold that was in the Americas."

Mathematics: All Classes: Wednesday: 11.1.6: 1. Period

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"Welcome to math class!" Charlie beamed at his new class. "It is all small classes this year, so I'm hoping we'll get much work done. We're going to start easy though. All I want you to do for today is tell me your name, your grade and favorite number and why." He pointed towards the take-out chinese on the small table by the wall. There was also coffee, tea and juice on the table. "Please help yourself to some breakfast, if you want."

( ooc thingies )

ETA: 'cause I'm a dumbass
Rules:
Two missed classes in succession without valid excuse = detention.
Failure to attend detention = you're kicked out of the class.
Failure to attend class for four consecutive classes = you're kicked out.

Excuse can be ooc (mark the voicemail thus), but IC is prefered. If I have no excuse by Sunday, you're in detention or kicked out, depending)

Cultivation and Gardening [4th Period]

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"Welcome to Cultivation and Gardening, I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun this year even if it's a very small group once again. I suppose this will give me enough time with each of you, tending to any personal projects you want to work on or if you have any problems." Justin clears his throat.

"Now, Please sign-in and take a seat anywhere in the room. Before I had out the syllabus, please stand and tell me and the rest of the class why you signed up for Cultivation and Gardening. Get to know your fellow students." after the introductions he pulls out a stack of papers, which contains the Class Syllabus, "Take this and read it. Please follow everything on there and make sure you're ready on Friday for your first planting."

"That's all for today, nothing too hard. Enjoy your week, and I'll see you Friday!"

Sociology | January 11, 2006

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Sociology of Violence: 2nd Period

"Welcome class. I'd like to make a quick announcement. Veronica Mars will be my TA for this class. If you need anything from the lab and can not locate me, she will be able to assist you, and she will also be helping me with various class endeavors. Please treat her with the respect you have all shown me, so far. Thank you."

"I asked you Monday to find a definition of violence. I think in your research you may have found that it isn't as easy of an assignment as you may have first thought. It's something that can be easily debated, and legal definitions often do not match those of our personal beliefs.

Therefore, I'd like you to each share your definition. I'd also like you to comment on one other classmate's definition, and how you feel it is correct, or maybe incorrect, as the case may be.

Homework: Read this chapter titled Gender and Interpersonal Violence from Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 3: Social Influences. It's only 83 pages, you should have no problems finishing that by Monday.

---

Sociology of the Paranormal: 6th Period

"Welcome, class. I'd like to introduce your new TA for this course, Belthazor. Please give him the same level of respect I have come to expect from all of you, and he will be ruling with said iron fist assisting me, and you, as needed all semester long. Lyta will also be a general TA. Thank you both, for applying."

Grissom then launches into a long-ass lecture on Skepticism but the word Matrix is strangely subbed with Grid. Odd.

"Okay, after that torment, let's keep discussion light today. I'm sure all of you, in one form or another, have been exposed to groups of skeptics, and groups of believers.

So, which do you identify with more, and why? Because I blame it on brain chemistry."

Homework: Read Wonder and Skepticism by Carl Sagan for Monday.

Requests for Add/Drops still go in a different post. Thanks muchly.

Celtic Studies (01/11)

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[[*smacks forehead* With the right journal this time. Wow. That was a really long nap. Sorry. Still sleepy. Hence the shortness. And lack of real info.]]

"Madainn mhath, a chlas," Camulus begins. "Welcome back. We shall begin. Yesterday, I asked you to think about your families - biological, extended, adopted, or otherwise. The reason for this is that the understanding of clan and clan loyalties is behind just about everything. The Celtic code of chivalry doesn't quite exist as many others do. You'll find numerous accounts of infidelity, wifeswapping, cheating at fidchell, and any number of other activities not deemed appropriate by society today. But clan is always the most important." He continues lecturing on the lengthy clan wars that could erupt, the development and eventual outlawing of the clan system in Scotland under the reign of the English monarchs and the establishment of the system of clan tartans under the same.

"A further example is in the profusion of Mac-, Mc-, and O'- surnames found now around the world," he continues. "The word 'clan' itself comes from the Gaelic for 'children', 'clann' (klown). Therefore, the word 'clann' combined with the genitive form of the name of the father, say Donald or Domhnall (Do(n)wool), would become 'clann Dhomhnaill' (Ghow(n)wheel). The same thing applies when one takes the word for 'son' - 'mac'. The son of Donald is MacDhomhnaill. The female counterpart, 'nic', has rather falllen out use. 'Mc' developed from the same, and the 'O' prefix came from the Irish equivalent, 'ui'. The saga of the Ui Neills, or the O'Neills, forms a large part of the Kings Cycle of literature." He smiles. "We'll begin a cursory look at Gaelic next week, and we'll continue talking about families next day. I'll introduce you to the sloinneadh."

[[EDIT: Now with header! *falls asleep again*]]

P.A. Announcement

[bigdamnprincipal]

After finally finding the name she was looking for (among the students, which shouldn't have been a surprise, but still...), Zoe made an announcement over the P.A. system:

"Will Callisto please report to Dean Washburn's office as soon as possible? Thank you."

Self Defense

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Duncan waits at the front. He takes attendance again.

"Okay. Same as last time. Stretch out. Warm up. Pair off, but make sure you pair off with someone different this time."

Ted's office hours - Wednesday morning

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Ted was asleep in his office with his feet propped up on his desk. There was a little trail of drool about to roll off his chin. He might be able to be woken up if you prod him hard enough.


[OOC: For slow-play, due to being asleep soon. Mostly for add/drop slips and asking about Music 201: Music of the Multiverse]

Anthropology 101, 6th Period

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"Today, we're going to be talking about the four subdivisions of anthropology. As there are four of you, this works out nicely," Daniel smiled at the class.

"The four subdivisions are: cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology and linguistics. Each of you in turn, pick one and discuss what you think it means or entails. I'll be here to give you hints if need be. [[ooc: For a bit, then I'm to bed and I'll pick up dangling threads tomorrow morning]]