Journalism Class - Thursday October 13

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Spider is sitting at his desk, watching the cat with morbid fascination as it brings him another frog. There are four of them on the desk already and judging by the noises created as it dives beneath one of the student desks, there will shortly be five. Distracted by the advent of his students, he waves a hand at them.

"As you know, Parent's Weekend is coming up. I've been informed that it's customary to have something to show your parents when they show up so that they're under the continued, mistaken impression that the money they're paying for your enrollment is actually being put to good use. Today I want to hear suggestions as to what sort of project the Journalism students could do in order to impress their collective parents, guardians, parole officers or 'other' when they arrive." Spider smiled maliciously at his students.

Rising to his feet, he went to the back of the classroom and leaned over the velvet rope separating the Newspaper section from the rest of the room and filled a cup with coffee. "Now, along those same lines, later today I'll be posting next week's homework assignment. As previously stated, this will be group projects and will require photographs. I'm thinking of groups of no more than four, unless we end up with an odd number, and I will," his eyes glinted as he looked over the top of his glasses, "fail anyone who does not contribute to the efforts of the group. Start working on your cooperation skills, kids. Your grade may depend on it."

Comments

[chasingangela]

Angela tilts her head to one side.

"In this class, or in general?"

"Of course, it would help if I had taken any notes..."

[deadlikegeorge.livejournal.com]

George shrugs. "Maybe it wasn't such a good idea. I barely come to class, anyway."

[chasingangela]

Angela shakes her head. "It's not a bad idea at all, just... work."

She glances over to where Rory is glaring at Logan. "Maybe Rory could help, she's good at school."

"Or maybe we could limit it to, like, what we learned week before last, with the "beauty" and "truth" stuff. That was interesting."

[deadlikegeorge.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that was pretty interesting." George says thoughtfully. She sits up a little straighter. "What if we don't talk about what we learned in school, but what we learned as a direct result of coming here? Like, if you never came to Fandom High, you wouldn't have met Marty... What has being with Marty taught you about yourself?"

[chasingangela]

Angela blushes deeply as she tries to think of an answer that wouldn't let the entire school into Marty's bedroom even though it was such fun to have it there last night.

"Um," she says, scarlet. "I guess ... that I can forgive more than I thought I could?"

"What has Jayne taught you?"

[deadlikegeorge.livejournal.com]

George glances at Jayne. "That you can't judge a book by its dust jacket?"

[chasingangela]

Angela looks over to Jayne. "Good thing to learn," she says.

"But ... I don't know, do we really want to do it on our boyfriends? I'm not sure my mom will go for that."

[deadlikegeorge.livejournal.com]

George grins. "That was just an example, I guess. Damn. I really have no idea what to do. Hopefully Rory can come up with something good."

[chasingangela]

"Hope so," Angela says. She twirls a pencil thoughtfully. "I did like the idea of doing it on what we've learned, I'm just wondering how we can narrow it down somehow."