Literature- Wednesday- 2nd period

[puppyinacup.livejournal.com]

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."

Comments

Listen to the lecture

[puppyinacup.livejournal.com]

You're gonna have to do work. Sorry.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[arsenicmauls]

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

Re: Listen to the lecture

[wildandbrave]

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.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[nobodysbatman.livejournal.com]

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?