Creature Languages, 1/26, Period 3

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

"Hello.

We have our first quiz in class today, covering what you have learned about Spider, Dragon and general creature communications.

After you finish the quiz, you may watch a DVD showing a woman who claims to psychically communicate with animals.

I cannot speak to her psychic gifts, but it is worth noting the extent to which she uses relatively obvious Cat, Horse and Dog in speaking with the animals on the DVD. This may even be unconscious on her part. In any event, watching this communication should help you prepare for Monday, when we will launch our unit on mammals."

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Creature sign in, 1/26

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Sign in here, under the person before you so the thread is all pretty and collapsed.

Re: Creature sign in, 1/26

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair signs in

Re: Creature sign in, 1/26

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter signs in.

Re: Creature sign in, 1/26

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi signs in.

Mr Neilson leaves a paw print.

Creature Quiz, 1/26

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Take the quiz. It's 15 multiple choice questions and two short passages to translate; respond by saying you took it and what grade you think you got.

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair took the test and although he struggled a bit on the first translation, he flew the second. A

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Multiple choice? Walter breezed through it.

The translations? Not too bad, although he was desperately wishing for the Dragon/English dictionary he'd returned to the library on part of it.

A

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

Lisa flies through the multiple choice, although she makes a few technical errors in her efforts to over-achieve, so she gets an A- -ish.

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige gets all the multiple choice questions right, it might be through sheer luck.

She also does reasonably well with the translations, she's better with it written down than spoken. A

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[anole-x.livejournal.com]

Victor had some trouble with a couple of the questions, and probably messed up some of the Dragon translation. If he was lucky he got a B or B+.

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander actually did pretty well with Dragon in class, but he was a little distracted by thoughts of buying a hat, for some reason this morning. Plus he never did really manage to figure out the dipthongs in Spider. Or what a dipthong is. B-.

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake takes the quiz. He doodles on the question sheet and answers the multiple choices more or less randomly. He does well on the translations, however, even if his grammar isn't perfect. B+/A- grade-y.

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[swerval_zero]

Zero took the quiz. She did fine on the multiple choice, then got a bit confused on the first translation but managed to sort out the basic meaning. Her second translation is bang-on, though. A-ish.

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[stykera]

Stark takes the quiz. He does fine on the translations, but misses a few of the multiple choice questions. It's probably somewhere between a B+ and an A-.

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly guessed well on the multiple choice, but didn't do so hot on the translations. C

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordy does quite well on the multiple choice, but is a little spotty on the translations. B+/A-.

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi does very well on the multiple choice questions but not so good on the translations... She'd probably be better if there was an actual creature talking to her, rather then decifering a written passage.

B-?

Re: Creature Quiz, 1/26

[sakuracchyan.livejournal.com]

Sakura struggles to remember the vocabulary sheet given on Dragon. Other than that, she does fairly well. B-ish.

Creature video, 1/26

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Snark at the video or talk in class (shhh) here.

Re: Creature video, 1/26

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair bounces happily as he watches the video and takes notes.

Re: Creature video, 1/26

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"People pay this woman to come and talk to their animals?"

Re: Creature video, 1/26

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige watches the video, wondering if this woman is for real, however given the fact she learnt Cat last semester she's inclinded to believe it to some extent.

"Maybe you should release a DVD sir?" she suggests to Dream

Re: Creature video, 1/26

[swerval_zero]

"She's not bad, but most people could sort this stuff out for themselves if they spent enough effort on it."

Re: Creature video, 1/26

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander watched it with an eyebrow half-raised, but that was sort of his default icon expression, after all. "That's...eh. Not saying nobody can talk to animals, or read past lives or whatever, because dude, I've seen it. But I tend to get suspicious of anybody who tries to sell that stuff on the open market - like people who can actually do it wouldn't need to be pimping dvds on late-night cable stations."

Dream Office Hours, 1/26

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

If you need to see him.