Beginning Gourmet Cooking Techniques | Friday, 3rd period

[sharp_as_knives]

This week, the class had received handwavy e-mail messages to meet at Portalocity. When they got there, Hannibal greeted them and handed out a list of fruits and vegetables. "Today, we will be covering selecting good produce. The first lesson to buying decent fruits and vegetables is, whenever possible, to buy things which are organic, grown locally, and currently in season. It's healthier and tastes much better. That said, I realize that you may not always have that option. There are some foods that buying organic is more important for than others, due to the amount of chemicals they retain or the types used."( Read more... )

Faculty Meeting (Friday after classes)

[bigdamnprincipal]

With the semester in full swing, Zoe thought there might be a need for the teachers and administration to talk to each other. Or maybe it was just Friday and Fridays deserved to be celebrated. Either way, a handwavy message had gone out to the staff to meet in the student council room for an informal faculty meeting. Zoe had set up coffee, cold drinks, donuts, and pastries; there was nothing alcoholic yet, but it was still early in the semester.

"Good afternoon," she said once it looked like everyone was there. "I wanted to give everyone a chance to get together now that we're past the introduction phase with the students. Feel free to take some food and talk to each other about whatever you need to." Whether they talked about students or things that actually interested them was up to them.

[Hey, look what RTM reminded me to do this week! Open to all staff and OCD free.]

How to Totally Be a Spy, For Real (We Mean It) [Friday, Period 1]

[notmysupervisor.livejournal.com]

On the classroom door this week, students would find a hastily scrawled note informing them to "go to that weird trippy mind-fuck place." Hopefully they could translate that successfully into the Danger Shop, because that's where Pam and Cheryl were.

One of them had apparently decided to dress up in costume this week -- unless Pam had secretly taken religious orders and not told any of you -- which, what religious group would take Pam, anyway? -- while the other ... was wearing exactly what she wore all the time.

"Numbnuts, I told you to wear black," Pam snapped.

Please note that the two of them lived together, and had walked to class together this morning, and that Pam was just now deciding to bring this up. Or possibly just now noticing.

( Because a nun's habit totally counts as 'wearing black,' anyway )

American History: Lies Your Other Teachers Told You [Friday, September 4, 2014, 2nd period]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

The teal deer were already gathering outside of Josh's classroom window in anticipation of his second class. So buckle up, kids. Josh likes to talk.

He turned to the wipeboard at the front of the classroom and scrawled, In fourteen hundred and ninety three, Columbus stole all that he could see, then smiled at the class. "A slightly updated version of one you might have heard as kids. There are two years that everyone remembers from US History: 1492 and 1776. You know the names of his ships: the Nina, the Pinta and the Heidy-Ho III."

( Wait. )

"My question to you guys: why do you think textbooks tell Columbus's story the way they do? Is it that they're simply being written by European descended white guys? What do you think would change if we dropped the story we've learned and told the truth instead?"