MORE QUESTING! Thursday, Period Four

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When the students entered the classroom, they'd find bags of popcorn on their desk and a TV at the front of the room. Yep. Movie time. "Good afternoon, students!" Thor greeted. "Unfortunately, the plans I had written to share with you today were snatched from my desk by a particularly swift gremlin creature, who then proceeded to make a snack out of them. I can only hope he found them satisfying!" Thor shook his head. "In their stead, I bring you a film about a group of diverse young adventurers."

Plus We Have a Motorcade [Thursday, January 23, 2014]

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"Good morning, everyone," Josh said, taking a big gulp from his coffee mug. "Among his many other Constitutional duties, a president must present a State of the Union address to Congress every year. George Washington and John Adams delivered speeches to Congress. Thomas Jefferson abolished that practice because he thought it was too reminiscent of the king's Speech From the Throne. The State of the Union then became a written report that was delivered and read by a clerk until 1913, when Woodrow Wilson reinstated the 'standing before Congress and talking to them' thing. Over the past century, the speech has evolved from the President talking to the Congress to the President talking to the people of the United States with Congress acting as ovation-having props."

Josh shrugged. "I don't really see a problem with that. The State of the Union is the single most important speech the President gives every year and his speechwriters begin working on it months and months in advance. Now I'm not gonna make yours be that in depth, but you will have to give a speech next week. In it you must touch on three domestic policy issues, one foreign policy issue and bring in two human props who you will use to make your points about your amazing fake policy initiatives, like this--"

He pointed to a random male. "Skippy over there was working at Moobyland for two dollars a week until the Josh Lyman is Amazing Minimum Wage Bill passed last year and now he has enough money to buy both food and drink. Cue the standing ovation from my political allies in the Congress and the Republicans looking vaguely constipated. There are two things absolutely guaranteed to get the entire chamber standing up: announcing that the State of the Union is 'good', even if that's not remotely true, and praising our military. Everything else is up for debate." He frowned. "Except maybe talking about the World War II generation. No one wants to piss off old people."

He clapped his hands together. "Okay. Get on the computers and start coming up with some policies your hypothetical government would like to promote in the next year and some classmates to bribe into being your plot points."

Sexual Health ; Thursday

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"So after last week, we know how people become pregnant," Mindy said. She was assuming that everyone had taken away what she hoped they would take away from her strange story. "What I didn't mention is that pregnancy only happens when you're having unprotected heterosexual sex. Obviously there are times when what's intended as safe sex turns out to lead to pregnancy, either because someone thought pulling out would work or the condom was expired or any number of other reasons. But fortunately, there are way more ways to have safe sex than just using condoms, so today we're going to go over some options. Take notes: there's a new one from Belgium that comes in the form of a lollipop."

On every desk in the room today there was a plastic bag filled with a variety of goodies. Inside, students would find examples of some of the more reasonably-priced examples that Mindy was about to list off.

( Cut for contraceptives talk. )

How to Cope with Being Suddenly Famous, Thursday Second Period

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"I'm afraid something came up that made it a bit tricky for me to get my lesson together for this week the way I'd planned, and I'm sorry for that," Herc said, by which he meant both that he was sorry for not getting their lesson together and sorry he'd spent most of his week on teleconference at odd hours with the UN. "So this week you get to watch

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