Shop Class; Tuesday, First Period [10/26].

[special_rabbit]

"Now," said Amaya, once the class had relocated itself to the Danger Shop that morning, "I know we don't usually do this, but, with this activity in the past, we've had to work with flinging things toward the Preserve or the ocean, which doesn't quite have the same...impact as if we had a nice big open field. Island like this, that sort of thing is in short supply, but, thankfully, we have the next best thing, and that's the danger shop."

And there was no lack of open space around them right now! They were in a large, open field, and surrounding Amaya was a collection of supplies, weights, the usual tools, and a whole lot of pumpkins. So many pumpkins. She seemed to have absolutely no problem obtaining a ridiculous amount of pumpkins. Where there was a will, there was a way, and the real curious part now would just be how she'd managed to get them all into the danger shop.

Because all the supplies and pumpkins, including some concrete ones from last class, were real; the only thing that wasn't was the space.

"It's Halloween here in a few days," she continued, "and what I've made into a new tradition is taking all these pumpkins that are everywhere, having you all build up a trebuchet, and see just how far we can get those pumpkins flying! That's right! It's time for pumpkin' chuckin'!"

Look, it involved trebuchets and projectiles, what more did you want?

"So I've got some instructions here on how to build the trebuchet, which we all know is the superior seige weapon, as well as all the materials and tools you'll need. Since there's just the two of you and it's a bigger project, I'd like you to work together. That'll make the job a lot quicker, too, which will give you more time to test it out, vary the weights, and see just how far we can chuck these pumpkins, and get to see how well they smash....especially those concrete ones we made last week! I'm here, of course, should you have any questions, but I think I'll just let you all get to work. Time's a wastin'! These pumpkins aren't going to chuck themselves."

Well, they might, because Fandom. But at the current moment, it looked like it was entirely up to the students.

Fear in Literature, Tuesday 4th period

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon still looked a bit rough today, but he had a class to teach, and he was going to put on his most professional appearance, damn it. So he had combed back his overlong hair (uselessly, as he'd kept running his fingers through it on the way over), pressed his shirt and slacks, and was doing his best to not look like he hadn't slept more than an hour or so on the couch in his office.

The board at the front read: The Flesh: the fear of being meat.

"Even satire can show the existence of fear," Jon noted. "So, in this essay, Swift starts with the apparent assumption that this particular fear is right and correct - that humans, particularly the poor and/or the Irish - are no more than animals in the eyes of his audience, and he uses that assumption to hopefully teach them it isn't the case. That it is something wrong, something to be feared. And he gets plenty of digs in at landlords and the capitalist system as he goes.

"So, do you think his actual arguments are more poignant for using this fear as a tool, or were there better ways to go about it? Do you think he employs it effectively?"



When they were done, he wrote on the board again. "For next week, please read 'The Most Dangerous Game'."

Fixin Stuff- Tuesday- 2nd period

[gotyoucookie]

Guess what, class! No Danger Shop for you today! Today, you got a field trip!

"Welcome to Home Depot!" Nick announced once they were there. "This place is great. Every tool you could ever want is here. It's like Disneyland for the fix-it set. And since we're about halfway through here, you should get familiar with the things you might need here.

"You're all getting lists," he went on. "You get to go and try to find them, like a scavenger hunt. Come back at the end of class with everything checked off and the winner gets... I dunno, a sense of pride and accomplishment."

Ethics, Tuesday, October 26, 2021

[sith_happened]

"This weekend is an Earth holiday called Halloween," Anakin said, "so if you've been wondering about the decorations and the skeletons, that's what it's for."

He then gave an explanation about Halloween that was about 60 percent accurate, if you accounted for how he'd graduated from high school with a vampire, had known werewolves, and some of the people he'd taught over the years had been dead.

And that wasn't even bringing in Force ghosts.

"Now that that's more clear--" sort of, "--let's get to crux of the matter, which is throughout the weekend, you may dress up in costumes and receive candy from strangers for free," Anakin said. "At no other time of year is it considered a safe or ethical practice to go up to someone's door and threaten them with mischief in exchange for snacks." He glanced around the room. "Is this a tradition you are familiar with? Is there a holiday in your home dimension that celebrates the veil between the living and the dead and symbolic bribes to keep the malevolent away? Does it work?"