Cooking Club [Home Ec Classroom, Thursday]

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It was Thursday and Thursdays meant Ned was in the Home Ec classroom for the club meeting. He'd been up a little late last night so he was rubbing his eyes and yawning. He was totally ready for a nap, much like the tiny version of himself.

"Hey guys," he greeted. "Welcome back to being big. And, in honor of that, we're making pamcak--pancakes."

He was never going to get that right.

"Pancakes. Pan. Cakes. Anyway, yes, we're making pancakes because that's, apparently, what I was trying to serve everyone this weekend. And they sort of mask how those weekends go for us. One minute, we're tiny, the next we're big. So, feel free to add as many or as little pancakes to your stack as possible. And be creative. Put chocolate chips or strawberries or bananas in them, if you'd like. There are many different ways to make pancakes. There's moddable ingredients and syrups. If you make the tallest stack, well, I'll be really impressed."

He nodded and gestured to the table.

"Have fun!"

Journalism: Thursday, Period 4, Class 10

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"Okay, we've mucked around for a few weeks. Now it's time to get back to real journalistic issues," Jonah said. "Investigative journalism! You come up with a story, investigate it, and write about it. I don't know how to make this any simpler for you people."

"Investigative reports are often some of your splashier stuff since you're theoretically uncovering something with your investigation, otherwise it would just be regular journalism. It could be exposing corruption in local government - which I won't talk about more in class, but if you want to hear more about my thoughts on the local government, listen to me on WTFH radio, Saturday nights - or proving that people in business are criminals, which tends to be more surprising than you'd think, or that doctors are covering up malpractice... Basically, anything that people don't know, can't prove, or want to cover up, that's what an investigative reporter goes after."

"An investigative report often starts with one of two things: Sheer dumb luck or a tip, which is sometimes the same thing. One way, you just happen to be in the right place at the right time, overhear something that you need more information on, catch an interesting bit of information while researching something else, or just decide to start looking at something that's interested you for a while and it turns out there's more to it than you thought, something like that. The other way, somebody comes to you - you're their friend, you're somebody they know from your reporting, maybe you're just the first person they seen when they're trying to spread the word, who knows? Somebody comes to you, gives you some information, and you need to know more and bring it out to the world as a news report."

"Once you start down the road of investigative reporting, you usually find yourself staying in that area. It's fun, it's professionally rewarding, it's flashier and gets your name out there more often, and you find yourself with sources who are willing to give you more tips. It can also be dangerous, depending on what you're investigating, so it does require you to have some common sense. Several of the people in this room have enough common sense to make that work. Congratulations to them."

"This is going to be the first of two weeks spent on investigative journalism. This week, you're going to figure out what kind of subject you want to investigate. There should be no shortage of them here in Fandom, so have fun with that. Over the course of the next week, do your investigations. Spend time in the library, interview people, come up with the story that you're going to write next week when we'll talk about how to organize that information into an article."

Library [Thursday, March 19]

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Claudia opened the library this week in the right place, wtf self, grabbed a copy of People magazine and sat down with her sketchbook and colored pencils.

She was finishing her drawings from the last weekend.

The library was open!

Thaumaturgy 101 - First Period, Thursday 3/19

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She waited until they were all inside before stepping over and starting to hand out the sheets she'd prepared on the subject.

"Those of you who took my course on alchemy will no doubt be familiar with the information we're covering today, and with today's activity. We'll be covering metal lore... and we'll be making colloidal silver. At the end of class, I'll be happy to judge your product to see if it's viable as the substance is, in fact, quite useful as I'll continue on to explain.

( And on we go! )

[ocd up!]

Literature, Class 10: Period 3, Thursday, March 19

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Miss Bennet was seated upon the edge of her desk as always, but this week, she was holding a stick of chalk in her right hand. "First, allow me to offer my apologies on abandoning you last week," she said, bowing her head slightly. "I woke up feeling quite horrible indeed, and discovered I would be unable to be with you. I do hope you had interesting discussions in my absence."

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