Speech Comm

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( 301--3rd period )

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( 401--5th period )

Shop Class

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Today the classroom looks like a regular shop class again. Various materials have been pulled out of the storage room and the shop equipment has been set up.

Given how excited the students were about eating the food in the cooler in the last class, Mac has supplied an assortment of baked goods from Jeff the God of Biscuits and coffee.

Whether or not the coffee was made by one of the students previous projects? Mac isn't telling.

"Today's assignment is to build something that will assist one of your fellow students in their day to day life here in fandom."

[OOC Examples: Hair Care product caddy for Angel or Lee; a cricket bat rack for Marty; a frog pen for Xander's pet, etc.]

Classics 1/25, Period 3

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

"Hello.

Today is the first of your four quizzes in this class, reviewing the work we have done so far. When you have completed the quiz, you may study or watch some filmed adaptations of Greek myths to prepare you for class next week.

I am in my office after class, should you have questions."

[OOC: Quiz is 15 multiple-choice questions and two short essays. Post that you took it and what grade you think you got.]

Biology (2nd Period) / Chemistry (4th Period) / Forensics (5th Period)

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( Biology - Second Period )

( Chemistry - Fourth Period )

( Forensics - Fifth Period )

(no subject)

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Eh yes Vednesdey...I reelly dun't hefe-a unytheeng tu sey ebuoot it. Boot it is indeed Vednesdey!

Tudey's Menoo Is:

-Noo Inglund Clem Chooder (red oor vheete-a yuoo esk? I'm nut sure-a)

-Meshed Putetues und grefy

-Toorkey

-Crunberry Sooce-a

-Greelled Cheeckee Ceeser Seled

[Dr. Carter's Office] [Office Hours] [9 a.m. to 11 a.m.]

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Eighth stands by her window and plots evil.

Library, 1/25

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Parker is in no kinda mood. Today is her day off. Feel free to ask for help but don't push it.

School Announcements, 1/25/06

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The P.A. pops into life. Tommorow it will snap to life, and having completed the trifecta, the P.A. system will then summon the Rice Krispie elves to do the bidding of their dark lord.

...Except not. Yet.

"Salaam and good morning to you worthy students. Unworthy students shall recieve no greetings. All students, however, shall recieve beatings announcements.

One, I believe in a thing called love. Love is all students behaving themselves and not getting into rampant mischief. Please believe in that same love, students. And not the type of love that Mister Turner gawked about randomly in my office yesterday. That is merely physical grotesqueness. I have but one word for that. Ew.

Two, Please be reminded that while the town may currently be lawless, campus is not. We have safeguards against the possible invasion of zombies or what-have-you. Please do not take your own pitiful measures. We have things in hand.

That is all. Go learn. Now."

Magical Theory (Wednesday, 01/25/2006, 4th Period)

[romanywitch]

"Okay, remember how I said we were going to go over divination more today? I lied. Mostly because I forgot I told you guys we were gonna be having monthly quizzes. Because I didn't give you time to prep, it'll be an easy one this time, and we'll have some time for you to review your notes or ask questions before you take the quiz."

( January Quiz )

( Useful Links )

( Useful Quiz Links )

OOC: OCD coming soon tendencies have been exhibited!

Sociology Courses | January 25, 2006

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Sociology of Violence

Grissom is rather abrupt, and launches into a lecture defining hate crime before the students can even sign in.


( Soc. of Violence, cont. )

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Sociology of the Paranormal

Grissom wheels in a TV unit, and addresses the class.

"While you are watching the film, I want you to think about why people perpetuate hoaxes. By the end of class, I want a proposal from each of you on my desk for a hoax of your own design. You'll receive extra credit if your proposal involves the paranormal, although that's not required at this time.

Also, those of you that have elected to finally pass in your last homework assignment would be advised to leave it on my desk as well."

He then screens most of the NOVA special The Boldest Hoax.

"Before you go, take this vocabulary sheet. Have all the terms, A-Z, memorized by Monday. You can go."

Advanced Journalism (Wednesday, January 25 - 3rd period)

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"Good morning, Mr. Crichton, Ms. Sullivan, and Ms. Gilmore."

( Lecture and assignment )

Journalism 101/201 (Friday, January 25 - 5th period)

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"Good afternoon, boys and girls."

Rita smiled at her class, sipping a cup of tea.

"Today I'd like you to share with the class what source you've brought in, and why. Sort of a show and tell, if you will. Who would like to go first?"

Journalistic Integrity (Wednesday, January 25 - 6th period)

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"Good afternoon, children. Mr. Barbossa - I heard the announcement yesterday. It's only libel if it's in print, dearie. You might want to ask the principal about slander, though I still rather think you'd have a case if we worked at it."

( Lecture and discussion prompt: First Amendment Rights )

US Government (Wednesday, January 25, 4th period)

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Josh looked up from his copy of the Washington Post when the students for his government class came in.

He reached for his notes. "Did everyone get a chance to read the Constitution? Great. Because we're not talking about that today." He smirked and walked over to the board. "Today we discuss the first attempt the US made at governing itself." He scrawled Articles of Confederation in big letters then turned back around.

( The Articles of Confederation: Wow, did that not work. )

He put his notes down. "That's it for today. Next class we tackle the Constitution, which tried to fix a lot of the problems of the Articles of Confederation."

Paleontology, Jan 25th (7th period)

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At the front of the classroom is a diagram
( Read more... )

US History (Wednesday, January 25, 7th period)

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Josh looked up from the paper airplanes he had absolutely not been making during his office hours when the history class began to arrive.

"Okay. On Monday we talked about the foundation of the thirteen colonies in the United States. Today I'm going to show you how the wheels started coming off of the whole 'yay, we love England' thing.

( 'Taxation without representation' and other catchy slogans )

Josh put down his notes. "Which we will get to next week. Today I want you to answer this question: if you were trying to make people really cranky, what would you put a tax on?"

Celtic Studies (01/25)

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[[Okay, here is the handout for the conversation, and here is the audio to go with it. I've tried to translate everything that isn't on the faclan vocab sheet. Any questions, ask Cammie. And sorry, no tapes for today's lesson. If you're really curious about pronunciations, I do have Skype. Email me and we'll tawk.]]

"Madainn mhath, a chlas. Today is our final class on Gaidhlig, and there are just two handouts today of some supplementary vocab. The first is a page of polite phrases - thank you, you're welcome, and so on. It also has the Gaidhlig version of a Christian prayer 'Our Father' - 'Urnaigh an Tighearna'." He goes over the phrases and how to say them, making the class repeat back at him. "I'd like to take special notice of 'Se do bheatha'. Lingual purists will argue that it should be enunciated - 'is E' rather than 'se'. The 'He' being referred to is, of course, God - in other words, 'don't thank me, thank God'. In colloquial Gaidhlig, however, one would never hear 'is E'. Also, the word 'leisgeul', meaning 'excuse', is actually the words for 'lazy' and 'story' stuck together.

"The second sheet is the colours, fairly straightforward. I will translate the passage at the bottom, as it makes use of vocabulary I haven't yet given you, as well as the furture of the verb 'to be'.

"Fall is here now. The leaves will be turning red, yellow, and russet. The weather will be growing cold. Winter will be coming. When winter has come - literally, 'after coming' - frosty days will be here - and snow! After that, we will be putting on us warm clothes. Gaidhlig makes a point of specificing who the clothes are being put on by use of the prepositional pronoun.

"The final item on that page is a 'rann beag' - a little rhyme. It's very simple, but useful in remembering a couple of the colours, as it describes the part of the egg - an t-ugh. I will translate. The Egg. Yellow. White. Little shirt - meaning the membrane of the egg - and shell. Silly, I know." He has the class repeat the rann beag, as well as the passage.

"And before I let you go, I want to know who is working with whom for your conversation - which is to be presented next class, if you will remember. And you may ask any questions that you have. Phoebe, plesae stay after so we can discuss your own assignment."

History of Art | January 24th - Period 3

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As the students file in they are given a handout and directed to their seats.

( Ancient Greek art… )

[ooc: Apologies for the lateness of the class.]

[ooc2: OCD threads coming are up]

Studio Art | January 24th - Period 7

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As the students file in they are given a handout and directed to their seats.

( There are five major principles of design )

[ooc: Apologies for the weirdness lateness of the class.]

[ooc2: OCD threads coming are up]

History of Western Civilisation - Wednesday 5th Period: Discussion 3: Greek Politics and War

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All right, class. I've received a few death threats for the way I treated the Peloponnesian War in the last class... which is to say, I didn't. If you care... good for you. I don't.

So, now we're going to talk about Greek Politics and War. That is only slightly an oxymoron.

Your homework, due next Tuesday but turned in to this post is to give me at least one hundred words craftily cut-and-pasted, possibly from here on some aspect of Greek political life. Go.

[[OCD threads are up! Go ahead.]]

Mathematics: All Classes: Wednesday. 25.1.6: 1. period

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Today Charlie is looking sort of feverishly happy, and what he's saying keeps getting interrupted by coughing fits. "Today we are going to have some fun!

Before you can have your breakfast today, the Beginners are going to figure out how much the breakfast they want will cost, while the Intermediates are going to calculate the sales cost. You all have to pick at least three things. Broots, you can help them out."

He thought for a moment, while blowing his nose. "And you don't have to actually pay for the food, just do the math."

( stock, prices and sales )

Driver's Ed, Jan 25th (7th period)

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The Danger Shop is once again set up to look like a standard classroom. Once it's time for class to start, Tommy begins the lecture:

"In order to fully understand the vehicle you're going to be driving, I think it's important to understand how it works." Tommy says, and then delivers a lecture on automobile combustion engines.

"Any questions?" He asks. "Next week, we'll be discussing rules of the road, and the week after that, we'll start doing *real* simulations. I trust that's the part everyone's been looking forward to?" he asks the class with a wink. "Your homework is to look over the Virginia Driver's Manual in preparation for next week."

Multidisciplinary Self Defense

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Duncan has the chest out, same staves. They have enough individual markings that students can pick out the ones they had the previous day. He stands near the front, his own staff in hand.

"Warm up so we can get to it." He grins widely.


"Okay, guys, more drills. Not always fun, but definitely necessary." He demonstrates, then corrects.

"Light sparring, one on one. Pick your partner, or I will." He keeps an eye on the sparring to correct form--or temper--as necessary for as long as they have left before he has to call cool down.

"As usual, if anyone wants to keep working, I'm here and willing to help and supervise."

Quantum Physics 225: Wednesday, Fifth Period

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The Doctor looks slightly more comfortable in his skin, and also a lot more ginger. This is a good thing, and he's slurping on another can of Coke. There's an empty one on his desk, and a 6 pack near the door for everyone else's taking.

"Feel free to have a Coke, guys.

"Kay. So. Your people. You'll maybe vaguely remember that in 123, we talked about paradoxes, and the two major kinds: predestination and grandfather. If you don't remember them at all--predestination is when one travels back in time and ends up causing an event he or she meant to stop. Grandfather is when one causes one's own existence to be forfeit because of travelling back in time. Okay? Cool.

"To that end, I asked you to consider two events in the lives of each of your selected historical figures. If yours is really hard to find information on, one is fine. Here in class, we're going to talk about and discuss what would happen if the predestination paradox was applied to one event, and the grandfather one to another. This last might be difficult--how could you end your own existence (because all of you were born after the dates of your events) by changing said event? I don't care how wild it is, just go for it, but it should make sense and reflect how human history works.

"For Monday, I want you to look at this book...to find out what actually happened. Then we're going to talk about how this differs from what you've decided today."


((General information about the 1970s is available here.))

Cultivation and Gardening [4th Period]

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"Today we're going to learn about the Ancient Egyptian Agriculture and the Origins of Horticulture." Justin smiles at his small class, handing out some lecture notes with the information that he'll talk about today on them.

Discussion: What is the most interesting thing about Egyptian Agriculture in your eyes?

Anthropology 101, 6th Period

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Daniel's actually at the front of the class today. He's sitting at his desk, head down, but still! He's in the room.

"Sorry for missing Monday's class. In light of this, I'm having to rethink the syllabus. It's also going to mean that you'll need to do a bit more work independantly, although I will be around in office hours if you need me.

Okay. First up... we've got fifteen minutes to discuss the work you did last week on Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection.

Next, primates."

Daniel got up, slightly unsteadily and pulled down the board. On it, was written:

Primates (general overview)

Location: live in tropical and semi-tropical environments, in forests
Body size: moderate size compared to other mammals (e.g., rodents - whales)
Locomotion: arboreal quadrupedalism / terrestrial quadrupedalism / vertical clinging and leaping (VCL) / forelimb suspension and brachiation / bipedalism
Diet: insects / fruit / leaves (some meat - chimps)
Social structure: mainly gregarious / social, but some are solitary (e.g., Aye Aye)
Activity timing: mostly diurnal and social, some nocturnal and solitary (e.g., some Malagasy lemurs)

"Now, I understand that there are a lot of odd words and things that you might not understand there, so now is the time to ask questions.

Homework... there was homework from the 16th, on major physical anthropologists, so if you could hand that in it would be great.

Today, I'd like you to look at the semi-orders of primates. Jack and Kiki, I want you to look at the characteristics of Strepsirhine and Blair and Han, the characteristics of Haplorhini. I want the basic characteristics like the ones listed on the board, but also, they both have other primitive or derived characterists, which help identify which semi-order they belong too. In for next lesson, please."