Archeology: Tuesday

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"Today's class was supposed to be on ethics and archeology," Indiana said leaning on his desk. "However, that's not exactly what I'd call a fun thing to do during summer camp. So instead we're going to watch clips of a movie that supposedly features archeology an then nit pick the details. There's popcorn and sodas in the back if you want them."

Indy flipped the switch on the projecter and a movie starring Angelina Jolie began to play.

Flight & Flying [Tuesday, June 9, 4th period]

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Anakin was checking his chrono, then his comlink, as the students arrived. "Today we're flying capital ships," he said, flicking his hands toward the screen set up in the corner. "Specifically this or the first minute and a half anyway capital ship. It was called the Invisible Hand and when I was flying it, half of it had already broken up in the atmosphere, the rudder that steered the ship had been in that half, and the thrusters weren't firing enough to stop us. The equipment was also set up for a species other than human and I couldn't read the controls."

Anakin had landed anyway. He was just that good. There wasn't a pilot in a million that could replicate what he'd done.

"Since I was working under rather...strained...circumstances, we'll do something a little easier to live through," he said. "You'll have the entire ship, and the back half will be on fire. The controls will be set up for your species and you'll be able to read the controls."

Yes, he thought that was cutting them a break. Anakin was odd. "Begin!"

Beach Play - Tuesday - Period 5

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The sun was shining and it was a perfect day for what Marshall had wanted to teach.

"Some people say that tanning is bad for you. Okay, they're kind of right. There's the danger of skin cancer and sunburn and sometimes you get really sweaty and gross. But there's nothing like laying out in the sun and relaxing and getting a nice tan. The sun feels good on your skin and the vitamin D is good for you or something," Marshall said. He probably should have wiki'd that or something. "And, you know, people just look better when they are tan. Correction--when they have a nice tan. Some people take it too far and turn orange. Nobody likes that. Some people can't tan."

English people.

"They burn instead. Which is why I'm insisting that you all put on sunblock today. And, for the love of god, if you feel yourself start to burn lay under one of the umbrellas I've got set out today," Marshall said, pointing to them. "So, yeah. That's what we're doing today. Lay out on towels and tan. Fall asleep and tan, talk and tan, play in the sand and tan, go in the water and tan. Whatever."

This really was the easiest class ever.

"Oh, and I brought a cooler along with soda and juice and stuff in it," Marshall said, nudging his foot at the cooler beside him. "Feel free to help yourselves."

Sexual Anthropology, Tuesday, 6/9, Period 2

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There were signs posted in the classroom today asking the boys in class to sit on one side of the aisle, and the girls on the other.

"Today," Brennan said, as she passed out posterboard and markers to the two groups, "we're talking about gender roles, identity and stereotypes. Those are really big subjects; I can't do much more than glance at the stereotypes here in class today. If you're interested and want to keep reading, I can recommend some books after class."

"Gender roles are the set of perceived behavioral norms associated particularly with males or females, in a given social group or system. It can be a form of division of labor by gender, as in classic hunter/gatherer societies in which men go out to hunt and women watch children and gather fruits and grains, or in a modern single-income family in which the woman stays at home and the man acts as a breadwinner. Almost all societies, to a certain effect, have a gender/sex system, although the components and workings of this system vary markedly from society to society." She went on to briefly review current research into the establishment and reinforcement of gender roles in society.

"Gender identity, meanwhile, is how a person defines him or herself in terms of gender. While this usually matches physical gender, some people identify as transgendered -- a male brain in a female body, or the reverse -- or as neither male nor female. Someone who believes their mental gender does not match their physical gender may be said to have gender identity disorder."

"The last thing we want to talk about, and the basis of your exercise today, is gender stereotypes. Stereotypes are simplistic generalizations about the roles of individuals in groups that help to feed into traditional gender roles. A simple gender stereotype is 'boys don't cry' or 'women can't drive.'"

"What I would like for you to do today is, working in your gender-segregated groups, come up with lists of male and female stereotypes and what reinforces them. For example, if your stereotype is that women are bad drivers, you might write down that popular jokes give that message. At the end of class we'll probably handwavily compare the lists and see where they differ and where they overlap. I'm around if you have questions."

SAT Prep [Workshop #5]

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"Good morning, class," Veronica said. "Today we're going to do some practice math problems. I hope you all had your coffee."

( cut for questions )

Library [6.9]

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It had actually taken Anemone awhile to figure out that anything was different last week. After being starved for attention for the first sixteen years of your life or so, you got very very good at ignoring the need for affection, until you almost didn't notice it anymore.

Still, it had filled her with a need for sky, and she had spent most of her time outside, away from all the people that lacked self-control.

Her sense of humor, however, had not altered, especially after listening to downloads of the last week's radio.

Which was why Anemone was currently arranging a lovely display of books in the lobby on various topics.

Sometimes, Anemone really was a brat.

[Open library is open, but the OCD fled in fear of the pink-haired one.]

Logically Speaking, Period 6, 9 Jun '09

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"Good afternoon, everyone," Mohinder started, his French just a little rusty. "If everyone will take a seat we can start to talk about encryption."

Switching back into English he began passing round handouts. "Not that one language truely counts as an encryption of another. One language may have words that lack meaning or nuance in translation and changing one to another is not as simple as running through a set of fixed rules, as anyone who's used Babelfish or equivalents will have found out."

"Our most basic form of cryptogram is direct substitution, one letter always standing for another, with various methods for assigning the codes."

Mohinder went on to summarise the logic and processes of a few more cipher techniques before finishing - "You should all have enough information to code and decode your own messages, or the examples. Or if you're feeling ambitious taking a stab at the Voynich manuscript."

[OCD is up!]