U.S. History, Thursday, 4/16, Period 2

[tyler_gone]

"Hey," Tyler greeted from atop his desk once most of the students seemed to be there. "Wipe last week from your memories. If you ask us about it, congratulations, that's a detention. This is a research week for your final project. We have to cover from 1975 to the present day. I was going to talk about President Obama, but that means skipping over a couple of decades and we've already skipped a lot. So we decided to be kind and let you guys teach the last 35 years."

Generous, wasn't it?

He hopped off his desk and started roaming the classroom, handing out slips of paper listing assignments. "Most of you are paired up, but there's one group of three, and you've all been assigned five-year time periods from 1975 to now. Each team gets to research their assigned era and selecting a major historic event or trend from that time to discuss. The rest of this class period is yours to prepare. I warned Miss Kishi in the library that we might be coming, if you want to head down there and start on your research, or you could go to the computer lab. If you do that, remember, I know how to use Wikipedia too. Be prepared to give an original five-minute presentation next week."

A beat. "This is all pretty recent, so don't decide to focus on anything where huge numbers of innocent people died. It doesn't tend to go over very well. Questions?"

"Here's a hint," Algren tossed in, for good measure, "if you think somebody from the Civil War era who has been horribly misplaced might want to learn it in order to catch up with the times, do, please, tell him. But be sure to break it to the poor man gently. He's old and possibly senile, after all."

Algren was allowed to poke a little fun at himself, dammit. He'd spent far too much time in the past two weeks wearing women's clothing.

[OOC: Preplayed with shinoi_tiger.]

Comments

Sign In [4/16]

[tyler_gone]

With a weird plotty icon, just because.

Re: Sign In [4/16]

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katina Choovanski

Re: Sign In [4/16]

[endsthegame]

Andrew Wiggin

General Class Stuff [4/16]

[tyler_gone]

Listen, chat, and collect your assignments, which are:

Anemone + Cal: 1975-79
Katina + Sookie: 1980-84
Alice + Summer: 1985-89
Ino + Ender: 1990-94
Teddy, Buffy + Naomi: 1995-99
Gavin + Sam Witwicky: 2000-04
Harvey + Sam Winchester: 2005-09

Re: General Class Stuff [4/16]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

Gavin had no idea what had happened in most of those years but he figured recent years wouldn't be too difficult to find information on.

Re: General Class Stuff [4/16]

[intraspective]

Ino frowned slightly at the years--what, she didn't even know where to start--and then she was paired with Ender. Ender who was Ichigo's roommate, and was quiet and kinda creepy in the stare department!

Alrighty then!

Re: General Class Stuff [4/16]

[endsthegame]

Ender looked at his assignment once, and that was it. It wouldn't be hard: it wasn't a very uneventful period. He gave it a few hours in his mental ordering of time and then cast it aside for more important thoughts.

Re: General Class Stuff [4/16]

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katchoo looked over her assignment and rolled her eyes. Oh, joy.

Granted, no matter which time period she'd have gotten the reaction would have been the same.

Re: General Class Stuff [4/16]

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, that worked for Buffy. Seeing as from she was from 1999, technically. Woo.

Re: General Class Stuff [4/16]

[absolutesnark]

Summer didn't mind the assignment. After all, she was actually born in one of those years.

Re: General Class Stuff [4/16]

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

Well, this probably wouldn't be a hard assignment. Plenty of material to draw from.

Re: General Class Stuff [4/16]

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Any of those years were suitable, really. She knew equally little about them. Alice scribbled down her assignment.

Group Work [4/16]

[tyler_gone]

Find your partner and start taking about ideas. Or skedaddle to the library or the computer lab. Or just skedaddle. Whatever works.

Re: Group Work [4/16]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

Gavin took a seat and waited for Sam. He scribbled a few things down that he knew had happened during their time period.

Re: Group Work [4/16]

[carsexual]

"Well, we're in trouble," Sam said instead of, like, a greeting or something. "If we're not supposed to talk about people dying horribly, I mean. That sounded insensitive. God."

Re: Group Work [4/16]

[endsthegame]

Ender wasn't going anywhere, but his mind was on other things, having already sorted out his end of what he felt the assignment should be.

Re: Group Work [4/16]

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katchoo snuck out for a quick smoke break, then came back to the classroom (she had a class next period anyway, so why bother going too far?) and started drawing on the back of her assignment sheet.

Possibly, this involved the MTV logo being disfigured in horrible ways.

Re: Group Work [4/16]

[absolutesnark]

Summer sat down and already started thinking about the assignment. She may have written down a few notes.

Re: Group Work [4/16]

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice pulled her seat near to Summer's and offered a quick smile. "I should apologize," she said. "I bypassed the twentieth century entirely, so I've little idea what happened in the 1980s."

Re: Group Work [4/16]

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

Harvey took a seat and started writing down some stuff that's happened in the last four years.

Re: Group Work [4/16]

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone had no idea what a seventies was, so she started looking around for Cal.

Talk to the Teachers [4/16]

[tyler_gone]

They aren't kidding with the "asking about last week is a detention" thing. Or, at least, Tyler isn't.

Talk to the TA [4/16]

[tyler_gone]

Once she tags in!

Re: Talk to the TA [4/16]

[intraspective]

Ino was here, and trying not to snicker too much about last week while studiously avoiding any glances that either teacher might take horrible offense to.

OOC [4/16]

[tyler_gone]

The assignments come from ye olde RNG, hooray. And how is it almost end of term?