These United States [Wednesday, May 7, 2014]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Some people might view taking kids from a school in Maryland to the National Mall on the first day of a class about the United States a giant cop-out.

Josh prefered to think of it as "playing to his strengths."

"Hey guys," he said, adjusting his sunglasses. "Welcome to Washington, DC. This is the capital--with an 'a'--of the United States of America. The Capital--capital C, spelled with an 'o'--is that big domey thing down at the end of this, the National Mall. If you were expecting a shopping center, well, tough. We could easily spend seven weeks just exploring the buildings along this stretch of grass, but that would be super dull, even on Segways."

Which he'd totally provided from them. They were going to cover a lot of ground in the next class period.

"We're going to start here at the Lincoln Memorial," he said, "and do a ride by of everything. I encourage you to come back some time this summer to go into some of the museums: they could take an entire day by themselves and I just want to give you a flavor of the city."

Comments

Re: Lincoln Memorial

[bearmaidenfair]

Vider shrugged at him and muttered, softly enough it shouldn't carry to the teacher, "I was hoping this would be more explanatory about these United States." As opposed to theirs, which made sense.

Re: Lincoln Memorial

[bjornstjarna.livejournal.com]

"Like explaining why Washington is on the wrong side of the continent?" Soren whispered back because I'm assuming a world where the Capitol is in Philadelphia would not have a Washington DC.

Re: Lincoln Memorial

[bearmaidenfair]

"And which war is he talking about?" Most of their wars involved trolls, and could not be described as civil.