Library, Sunday

[gavegoodface]

The books weren't trying to eat his head, and there were no guests this weekend, so Face could get back to working at his very important and busy library job.

With his eyes closed.

Drama, Monday, Period 4

[tequila_squared]

"Ah, the monologue," Lito said fondly. "Where would the villains of the world be without it? Lost. Boring. More effective, maybe. Anyway, as an actor, the monologue is important. You can't have an audition without it, most of the time. It shows you can learn a script and give a performance. So. That's what you're going to do. I've brought some options for monologues, and I want everyone to pick one, practice it, and deliver it. You don't have to memorize it, that seems a bit much for one hour, but try not to spend all your time looking at the script, no? Take some time to practice, and then we'll start.

"Oh, and Miss..." Lito looked down at his roster and picked a name seemingly at random, "Heller. You will be my teaching assistant for the semester."

Deception for Fun and Profit, Monday, Period 2

[doubleohblonde]

Today Bond had set up a lectern at the front of the classroom.

"Good morning," he greeted his students. "So far we've touched on some of the hows and whys, today we're going to be looking at the when, as there are some situations and careers where being able to tell a bald-faced lie with complete conviction will help you immensely. The one that most immediately springs to mind is politics."

"Now, the most obvious situation where lying and politics are linked is election time, where politicians will spend a great deal of time and money on convincing you that their party will bring about an age of kittens and sunshine, while the others eat babies. So for the first half of the class, I would ask you to work as a group to come up with the kind of election lies to help your fictional party's elected to office.

"For the second half of the class, you will be dealing with a leadership spill, which can occur in parliamentary systems wherein the government is formed by whichever party or coalition of parties have won a majority of seats, and the head of the party becomes the head of government rather than being voted in specifically by the electorate at large, though in practice who the head of party is will often affect voting choices. In a spill, what occurs is that a member of the party will bring a vote of no confidence in the current leadership, usually after garnering promises of support from other members of the party. In this exercise you will be the member causing the spill, and you'll all take turns to give a speech to and answer the questions of your fellow classmates to try and convince them that they should support you instead of the incumbent leadership.

"The difference between these two exercises will help show you ways in which you may need to tailor your lies to your audiences."