Public Speaking [Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 1st period]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"Good morning," Josh said, sipping from his cup of coffee at the front of the Danger Room, which for the moment was set up as a normal classroom. "Last week was the televised address of the annual State of the Union speech. You get extra credit if you watched it. Come to me after class and mention at least one proposal Obama made to prove it."

He smiled. "My friend Sam's a little busy with his own president at the moment, or else I would have dragged him over here to talk about how a State of the Union is written. It takes months of work, with stakes about as high as you can imagine. There are suggestions from every department in the government, former presidents, notable citizens, White House staff, the president himself...because you can't just send the guy up in front of the entire government and the whole country that's wondering where their Tuesday night dramas went and have him go 'soo....how's everyone doing? Good?'" Josh laughed. "Well, you could, but you would be extremely fired that night."

He glanced back down at his notes. "Your speeches for next week don't have to be nearly as involved. Pick an issue you are particularly passionate about and make a five minute persuavive speech trying to convince the rest of us why we should agree with you. Today, though, we'll work our people skills." He walked over and shifted the Danger Room's climate to look like the insde of a sandwich shop and began counting off the students. "You half will be the workers," he said, handing them super-attractive hairnets. "The other half are the customers. Customers, your job is to make extremely obnoxious requests. Workers, your job is to not kill the customers. After we've done that, Miss Marin, Mr. Ryan, you're up for press secretary duties."

Industrial Arts, Tuesday

[not_a_whiner]

They were back in the automobile-themed Danger Shop today. Kaidan had an oil stain as well as a sunny smile on his face as the class started. "So today we're moving on to actual maintenance," he said. "Now there's a lot of things that are kind of universal when you're talking automated transportation, and some things that kind of... aren't. I'm going to try and keep the 21st century stuff to the end of the lecture. I mean, I know in my time cars don't have tires, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here."

He shot a wry look in Anakin's direction if he was there.

( On basic car maintenance... )