Sociology Courses | March 13, 2006

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

Sociology of Violence

Grissom hands out the midterm. It has two sections, multiple choice, and an essay portion.

The essay question reads as follows: Now that you've had the chance to speak to Mr. Fraser, the school's head of security, and using what you have learned in this class, what recommendations would you make to him when it comes to this school's safety? Please provide at least one method of security in your answer, whether is be a rule or restriction, a defense mechanism, etc. and justify your reponse.

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Sociology of the Paranormal

Grissom hands out the midterm. It has two sections, multiple choice, and an essay portion.

The essay question reads as follows: A close friend comes to you, and tells you that they have experienced a paranormal event, one that you find difficult to believe actually happened even in Fandom. What is your reaction? And how would that reaction affect both you, and the person in question?



OOC:

So, there are two parts.

#1) Please give me a letter grade, or some approximation thereof, of how your character did on the multiple choice. Let's say there are 30 questions, of varying difficulty, if you want to get that detailed. Otherwise, I make the grade up, and it will be bad, because I am mean and out of soda today.

#2) You can actually write the essay, briefly describe the contents of the essay (Bob writes an essay on installing a death ray laser on the roof of the building, as a safety precaution for the next attack of not-quite-living.) or even handwave it, but Grissom or maybe his TAs in chat tonight if they're around, mwa ha ha! is going to grade it. The grades will be averaged, 50/50, and Wednesday the students will get their grades.

Just to shake things up a little. Oh, and any of the characters that had crazy-ass Spring Breaks, and didn't get their studying in even though they are an A type of student, feel free to have them do poorly, there will be an creepy lab type in-class extra-credit thing next Monday. (Mwa ha ha)

Comments

Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

Please take your exam, and no talking.

Re: Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe takes her time on the test and carefully answers each question. Afterwards, she's pretty sure she got a B.



B

Re: Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13 (Essay)

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe writes an essay on how there are several everyday things one can do to provide defense and safety for the school... including having some witches on hand for protective purposes.

Re: Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13

[demonbelthazor]

Believe it or not, Bel pays attention in a class about violence.

Multiple choice: A-

Essay:

Blah blah blah Mr. Fraser should have a magical consultant on call to deal with new situations like zombie attacks and animated snowmen, as well as students with supernatural powers. Blah blah blah.

Re: Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

Grissom finds the opening and closing sections of this essay to be particularly riveting.

Re: Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter guessed his way through the multiple choice since he didn't have much chance to study the past couple days. He had retained enough information from previous studying to allow himself to get into the B- range, fortunately.

The essay was a bit tougher. He wondered if writing "Don't let anyone get beat up like me" would work, but decided that it didn't. So he just wrote down whatever the first thing that came to mind was, not that he recalled what that was afterwards.

Re: Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13

[absolutesnark]

Multiple Choice: B

Piper writes an essay about how the use of magic can be used to provide safety. She adds that having an explosion power might be a good way to help protect the school.

Re: Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

Draco sort of rushes through his test and ends up getting a C.

He writes an essay about students with magical powers and how any school security should be knowlegable in this in order to defend itself.

Re: Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13

[can_be_more]

Multiple choice: B+

Aeryn considers the essay question for a long time before starting to write.

I haven't had an opportunity to speak with Mr. Fraser yet, but I am planning on speaking with him. There have been two attacks on the student body now, up to full-scale invasions, and it seems that many of the students aren't prepared to deal with that. Self-defense classes are a benefit, but it might be a good idea to institute some sort of procedure for getting things together in case of another attack, whether it be weapons collection or whatever.

Re: Violence : 2nd Period : 3/13

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica probably got a B on the multiple choice section. It would have been a C if Angela hadn't reminded her about the midterm. But, hey, she was kind of busy over break.

Her essay reads something like this:

There are so many paranormal events that occur at this school, that a series of information sessions to educate the students on how to protect themselves would be beneficial.

Her essay, of course, is longer and more eloquent.