Pop Culture: Everything I Ever Needed To Know I Learnt From... [Thurs, 1st Period]

[thefearwasreal]

"Morning, kids," Oz greeted the class cheerfully. Perhaps too cheerfully. "It's time for your final."

"See, remakes and adaptations are a valuable and lately very noticeable part of pop culture, they take existing stories and redo them, and whether they choose to update the details of the original or do them as period pieces, they will always in some way reflect the times and culture that makes them. So, for your final, you're going to take a story, something you personally consider a classic of some sort, for good or bad reasons, and you're going to write a pitch for an adaptation or remake."

"Your pitch can take the story and details in any tack you like and translate it across any media you like, but you have to explain the impact your decisions will have on the story, how it changes it. Then if anyone is feeling particularly proud of their ideas, they can present a high concept pitch, that is distilling the idea to a paragraph or less, preferably less, to the class for extra credit."

"So start pitching."

Sex Ed, Friday, Period Two

[toteshammered.livejournal.com]

When the students arrived today, yet again there was only one teacher present. This time it was the one with the cape.

"My t- colleague and I debated the merits of providing you with some sort of final examination," Thor informed them. "In the end, it was decided that a written test would not truly assess whether you had taken to heart the matters we have discussed throughout the past few months. Providing the correct answer on a test does not mean you would make the wise choice when confronted with the situation in reality. Thus, your 'test' is life itself. You have been given the tools with which to make informed choices about your own sexual experiences, and I hope that you choose to make use of them."

That was it, that was the final.

Well, there was also a basket of condoms by the door because, well. Graduation was coming up. Certainly a cause for celebration, and these were teenagers after all.

Improving Your Skills [Friday, 3rd Period]

[so_hawkward]

When the students arrived in the Danger Shop today, they'd find the now-usual setup with targets, training dummies, and weapons, as well as a smiling Clint.

"Hey guys. It looks like we've reached the end of our class, and I just wanted to say it's been surprisingly fun teaching you," he said. "I don't really have a final for you, try not to be too disappointed. I'd like you all to write down one thing you think you learned in here, and then take however long you want to practice with the weapons. I have no doubt that you've improved at least a little since the beginning."

Fandom Invasions: A Survival Guide- Friday, Period One

[furnaceface]

"So," Jono said, sitting on top of his desk and casually looking at the students in his classroom while he clutched a mug of coffee, "you've all survived the semester. Even if you didn't make it through that mess in the maze unscathed, you're still here, and haven't run screaming back home, never to be seen or heard from again. So far as I'm concerned, you've all passed the class, not that I'd actually hand out grades based on your performance in a bloody dungeon, mind."

That would just be tacky.

"Still, I have to confess I'd like to know, since everybody's experiences were different down there, if any of you came out of that mess a little more savvy to what it takes in a crisis situation to get out alive. So, while I won't make any of you just out and talk about what went on down there in front of the class, I'd definitely appreciate it if you'd write down one thing you learned in that pit. If you weren't one of the people grabbed, feel free to talk about something you learned in some other life-threatening experience you've had since coming to the island. I won't be teaching over the course of the summer - I'll be off risking my life like an absolute idiot for the greater good and all - but perhaps if I choose to teach this class again someday, I'll be able to put what you tell me to good use for future groups of students."

A beat.

"And if you absolutely don't want to discuss your traumas, that's perfectly fine, too. Just tell me something you wish I'd covered here in class, and I'll be certain to keep that in mind in the future."

[Open!]