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Literature- Wednesday- 2nd period

Jess didn't have the first day nerves that she had the first time she taught a class here. This time she was all too happy to watch everyone show up in the classroom and hope that they had signed up on purpose.

"Good morning, everybody," she greeted them. "I'm Miss Day, and this is Literature 102. It's not the first time in my class for all of you, and for those of you who are new, you will be reading, you will be writing book reports, and I will try to make it as bearable as possible for you." Sometimes it might involve costumes! "So today we're going to take it kind of easy. We're going to do introductions, and hopefully you're not all completely sick of them yet, where you tell everyone your name and what you like to read. And then when we're through with that, I want you to find someone else in class to talk to and tell them why you like to read it.

"And then on your way out, grab a copy of ~~the meta for~~ Emma! Read it for next week, we're going to talk about it."

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Studiously.

Liara T'Soni

Jim Kirk

Jessica Drew

Gertrude Yorkes

Cosette Fauchelevent ~~who really needs more icons but ha ha what is spare time~~

Scott McCall

Rilla Blythe

You're gonna have to do work. Sorry.

If Jessica was being honest, she kind of appreciated having a real, actual high schooly class.

She wasn't aware of the costumes, of course.

Even if Gert didn't like school, she did like reading. She was fine with this.

Did you have any idea what kinds of books were available in a convent in the 1820s? Did you? Because there wasn't much variety. In the rare occasion that a non-religious book was somehow allowed in and made accessible to the students, it had any and all references to love censored. (It was the 19th-century equivalent of dubbing a movie for broadcast TV and replacing all the profanity with words that sounded ridiculous.)

Besides, Cosette loved to read. Papa had promised her all the books she wanted when they left the convent, but there hadn't been time for that before something had given him the idea to move here.

She wouldn't complain at all about having to write book reports if it meant she got to read new things; she looked incredibly excited about the whole prospect.

Scott was doing his best not to make a face as Miss Day described the class. Seriously, how the heck had he ended up here?

Name and what you like to read!

"My name is Liara T'Soni," Liara offered, sounding perhaps way too solemn for a student in a high school literature class. "I enjoy non-fiction, especially with regards to archaeological advancements."

Wrong kind of books, hun.

"Jim Kirk." Present and slightly hungover. Stupid moodiness. "And as long as the book's entertaining and not mind numbingly boring, I'll read it. Not too picky when it comes to books."

"I'm Jessica Drew, hi," Jessica said. "I really like more sciencey things, whether its sci fi/fantasy or science non-fiction. But I'll read just about anything."

"I'm Gert Yorkes. Lately I've been reading less fiction and more random nonfiction books on subjects I don't know anything about, but I like fiction too."

"Cosette," she said, once again forgetting to add the surname. "I haven't much idea what I like to read yet. That is, I've read quite a bit of history --" no, she hadn't, because history by the convent school's standards was not history by most people's standards -- "and the like, but we only had a few books with stories in them. But I'd like to find out."

"Scott McCall, and... I really like the Y-People?" he said with a shrug. What, comic books totally counted as reading. There were words! And stories!

"I'm Rilla Blythe," Rilla said with a slightly shy smile, "and I like novels with happy endings, and poetry."

Make friends! Talk about why you like reading those things!

Jim didn't really want to talk about reading but he was there and ready to tough it out since the teacher was cute and all.

Okay, that wasn't the only reason but she was cute.

Seriously next week there might be a costume.

New semester: when I can't remember when to sign in to my classes OR when I teach, apparently.

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