fandomhigh | Hero Management- Monday- Period 3- Class #2

The students were meeting in the Danger Shop today, which looked quite a bit like the school library, but with enough computer terminals for about half the class. "If you haven't had to do research yet in the course of helping your friend or coworker or whoever it is you have in mind, I can almost guarantee you will at some point or another," Hermione began. "In fact, should there be any sort of invasion or islandwide problem while you're here, there will probably be an opportunity for you to use this skill. Information is very important. You want to be as prepared as possible for any situation in which you might find yourself, because that will give you the start to solving the problem. Personally, I'm used to using books for this sort of thing. I know now you're more used to computers, which is something I'm still getting used to. I know that doesn't mean it's not a useful tool. Just know that whatever's out there can be put up by anyone, and it might not always be the most accurate information.

"Now, for class today, I'm going to give you things to research. Since we're in Egypt, I changed my original plan at the last minute and found some ancient Egyptian artifacts for you to learn about." Hermione maybe sounded really excited about that, even picking up speed when she talked. "You're going to pick an item to research and find out everything you can by the end of the class period. What it is, when it's from, what it's used for... You can use the computers or look things up in the stacks here, but please note that there are only so many computers and either you'll have to take turns, or some of you will only be looking in books. I'm also not going to assign something specific to any of you, so you can pick whatever you're most comfortable with, and you can ask others for help. Sharing information is another very good way of getting information. Just don't spend the whole class gossipping, please."

Just as she was about to let them get to work, she stopped and said, "Oh, and keep in mind that not everything in ancient Egypt was exactly... pleasant to research, so if you're looking at anything about mummification, try to keep the 'ew's to a minimum."

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Researchy-like!

From someone who knows waaaay too much about research.

Pick anything from this list to research. (Everything should be easy enough to Google):
Statue of Nedjemu
False Door of Nikaure
Model Granary
Block Statue of Nedjem
Aegis Depicting the Goddess Hathor
Funerary Mask of Thuya
Offering Tablet of Teti Ankh Kem
Coffin and Mummy of Paankhenamun

You can use the books, the computers, or share information with each other and Hermione won't even yell at you for talking!

She might be a little excited to research herself some Egypt, too.

Make the Mondays stop.

Dana Scully

Spock

If Spock looked a little antsy today (for a Vulcan; his antsiness level was so low for a Human that it was possible no one would notice), it was because he'd figured out where they were. Granted, it was the early days of the city, much of it was probably still under construction and the Library would be at nothing like its later splendor, but still. If it had indeed been founded under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter and not Ptolemy II, it was right there. Existing.

Spock selected the False Door of Nikaure, curious as to how a door could be 'false.'

By the end of class he had compiled quite a bit of information on the door, which he noted came from the tomb of a priest of Ra in the Fifth Dynasty, and which the Egyptians believed allowed the soul to enter and depart the Land of the Dead, and had begun researching the hieroglyphics on it. Linguistics was not really his area of interest, but he saw no need to not be thorough.

Spock's definition of thorough was rather more, well, thorough than a lot of people's.

Luke Castellan

Luke was waaaaaaaaaay too excited about getting to visit Alexandria after class so he was finding it hard to concentrate and sit still. He tried to focus but the fact he kept checking the time and couldn't stop jiggling his leg was a pretty good indicator he wanted to get out of there.

Look, he was Greek, he wanted to go see the Greek things when they weren't ruins.

Luke picked the Aegis depicting Hathor thing. Seemed like something he could do.

Oh it was a weird art thingy.

Percy Jackson

Like Luke, Percy was actually pretty stoked about where they'd ended up. It wasn't cold and it wasn't surrounded by Vikings. They'd actually ended up somewhere that was bound to keep his attention even despite his tendency to wander off and daydream.

He managed to keep still even if his focus was slipping away to other things already.

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

Oh, this was awesome. Hermione was quickly becoming Wesley's favorite professor, and not just because she reminded him a bit of the Watcher's Academy. Researching was one of his favorite things, anyway, and yes, that made him a nerd. By the end of the lecture, he was ready to bolt over to the books and start going through them.

Honestly, he'd been planning on doing this today anyway.

Wesley picked himself out a nice stack of about six books and settled down to research the offering tablet. This was going to be a fun class.

Percy chose the Block Statue of Nedjem. For awhile, Percy just stared at those four words while his mind wandered before he forced it back on topic. He managed to find out that the Block Statue of Nedjem was named so because the guy, Nedjem, looked like a block in the pose he'd been carved in. Percy learned that people put the statue in the Temple of Ptah to represent Nedjem for eternity.

Somehow, Americans got a hold of the statue during the Civil War and it was used as a ballast before it ended up in an American museum for awhile. It was finally sold back to Egypt and Percy guessed that meant Nedjem had gone home.

At the end of class, when he was just bursting with new knowledge about not just one Egyptian artifact but several (he'd worked ahead), Wesley made his way over to Hermione and said, "You know, this class was a bit like leisure time for me. The researching and all that."

And wasn't that a little sad?

Raven

Someone who'd brought her copy of Hogwarts, A History to Fandom could never call that sad.

"You're the first other person I've ever heard say anything like that," Hermione admitted with a smile. "But I don't think people really look at research the right way. It really can be relaxing when there's not some sort of time crunch or deadline you're working against."

See?

Raven was becoming more accustomed to using her laptop (for things other than Rumor Gal, even), but she still preferred books, and she gathered a stack to research the False Door of Nikaure.

The fact that it acted as a door to the land of the dead had her very intrigued.

Jack Carter

Surreal

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