Comparative Culture, Tuesday, Period One

[doubleohblonde]

Bond did not have the projector screen up again his week, woe. The hot drinks and pastries were still there though.

"Good morning, clas. I hear that some of you had an interesting weekend courtesy of the island." His own had been fairly quiet, except for some of his trousers going missing. "While I doubt you particularly want to revisit it, it does provide an opportunity to touch on the idea of deep structures, which are those elements of our cultures that are so fundamental and ingrained that we don't so much learn as absorb them as we're exposed to expressions of them since before we can remember."

"Which of course raises the question of what happens to those deep structures when you're a newly blank slate, so today I'd like you to discuss any differences in behaviour that you observed in either yourself, or in others if you managed to avoid being affected by it, doubly so if they are things you'd never expect to see yourself doing, and if you believe these changes might have been attributed no longer know that people just do or don't do something."

[ooc: wait for ocd]

[Class Roster]

Keeping Your Advantage: Terrain and You [Weds, 3rd Period]

[atreideslioness]

The students had been handwavily instructed to meet at the Causeway today, where a portal awaited. "Good morning," Ghanima said as everyone arrived. "Today, we are going somewhere slightly warmer than last week."

( At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity - Chico Mendes )

"Today we're exploring. Each level of the rainforest is home to different types of life, so we're starting here and going up the trees to see animals and plants."

Heroic Tales, Wednesday, Period Two

[toteshammered.livejournal.com]

There was a television screen at the front of the classroom, and a bag of popcorn on each desk. Yes, indeed, it was a movie day. Of a sort.

"The Lady Rapunzel mentioned that she enjoyed tales of lady-heroes," Thor began. "So I thought today we could watch a film, and then read the tale that the film was based on."

The tale in question? Mulan not meta'ed since it is- however loosely- based on an actual legendary person.

Once the film concluded, Thor handed out a translation of the original ballad. "As you can see, the modern retelling embellished many of the details, and added many things not present in the original story. Why do you think they may have done so?"

How To Get By In A Hostile World, Wednesday

[suitably_heroic]

"All right," Atton said. He'd hopped up on his desk again, because who needed chairs anyway? "Today, introductions are over. Congratulations. None of you annoyed me so much that I wanted to boot you out of my class."

Though some of them came close. Evie.

"Now I'd like to think it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone that if you don't have the muscle - financial, physical, powers-wise, whatever - to push your way into a place of safety in life, well, your brain's going to have to do. The easiest way to use it is to look at the way other people see you and use that-- usually impressions are going to be your first line of defense."

He gestured at himself.

"Having taken a class from me twice and maybe heard about me on the radio, what's the impression I give you? What do you think I'm capable of? What do you think I'm not? What do you think my story is?"

He waited until everyone had taken their turn.

"Okay," he said, "So, that's what you think I am. Now pick another student. Tell them what your impression of them is, and vice-versa. Then talk about what that impression could do for you. Are there places you think you can enter more freely because you give off this vibe? Are there places that are harder to get into? People that are easier or harder to convince? Think about it."