Civics, Friday, September 15, 2017

[heroic_jawline]

Today, the teachers were phoning it in! Well, kind of. They were there, but so was the television and a DVD player. "Today, in an effort to make government systems more fun," Steve began, "we're going to watch it in singing cartoon form."

As you do!

"Edutainment," Tony said, raising his eyebrows like clearly everyone was into it. "Its a Friday. Just enjoy the break."

And maybe hope whatever weirdness happening would skip over the room.

...or not, as the less technically adept of the pair of them went to press play on the DVD and hit the "fire" button lying in wait for him on top of the machine. Glitter, everyone?

Tony sneezed, sending out a little puff of glitter. "What. The hell."

"Language," he corrected immediately before adding an, "I'm sorry. I have no idea what happened." His hair was entirely coated in glitter, as was his shirt. It was a Look.

"A glitter bomb," Tony suggested. "Maybe we should all avoid pushing buttons in the class?"

"Good idea," Steve said with a sour look at the DVD player. "Write notes as you watch the videos and we'll have a discussion if there was anything unclear about the presentations after, okay?"

Tony hesitantly pressed play , breathing a sigh of relief when it played as expected. This time.

Comments

Sign in 9/15

[heroic_jawline]

Glittery.

Re: Sign in 9/15

[revengenotebook]

Paris Geller

Re: Sign in 9/15

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot

Re: Sign in 9/15

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer Smith

Watch the movies!

[heroic_jawline]

Because these are the best ways to learn about the US government.

Everyone together now, "I'm just a bill, yeah, I'm only a bill--"

Or ignore the movies sand ogle your copiously beglittered teachers. Or do both!

Re: Watch the movies!

[revengenotebook]

Paris was taking notes, all right. She'd watched these when she was a kid and there was a lot of the process they weren't covering.

Where were the lobbyists in how a bill becomes a law, for instance? Or the Supreme Court?

Re: Watch the movies!

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot was kind of in awe of the thing playing on the screen. Television was one of the greatest inventions of humanity, if you asked her.

Nobody was probably asking her.

Re: Watch the movies!

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer spent half of her time watching the cartoons, half of her time shaking her head to see just how much glitter actually got stuck in her ponytail and watching it fly out around her, and absolutely none of her time taking notes. What was she, some kind of nerd? Like, whatever.

Talk about the movies

[heroic_jawline]

You saw one on the divisions of government, how a bill becomes a law, the Preamble to the Constitution, and how women won the vote.

Questions, comments? Mysterious boxes that you feel compelled to press fire on?

Talk to Steve and Tony

[heroic_jawline]

Who are currently so, so glittery.

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[imafuturist]

Yeeeeah, Tony's coffee was ruined. Which was clearly the worst part of this.

Which was why he was very sadly trying to get glitter out of his beard.

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[heroic_jawline]

He looked adorable.

Cough.

Silly. Very silly.

"Did it ruin the coffee too?" Steve asked, wincing.

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[imafuturist]

Super silly!

"Unless this stuff is edible..."

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[heroic_jawline]

"They make edible glitter?"

Oh, Steve, you sweet summer child.

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[imafuturist]

Tony snorted, reaching up to brush some out of Steve's hair. "You're new here, aren't you," he teased.

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[heroic_jawline]

Steve laughed. "Not that new."

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[imafuturist]

"We can get you some to try," he suggested. "Or maybe edible gold."

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[heroic_jawline]

Steve wrinkled his nose up. "I'm game to try anything, but edible gold?"

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[imafuturist]

"Welcome to the lifestyles of the rich and famous," he replied in a little sing-song.

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[heroic_jawline]

"You rich people are very odd sometimes, Tony," Steve said, laughing.

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[imafuturist]

"You won't get any argument from me there," Tony replied. "There's a place that sells a sundae for a thousand dollars. Has gold leaf on it."

Of course Tony had had one.

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[heroic_jawline]

"At the risk of sounding like a rube, why?" Steve asked.

Re: Talk to Steve and Tony

[imafuturist]

"To show off?" It was the only reason he could come up with. "I wouldn't be shocked if there wasn't a place with glitter sundaes too."

OOC

[heroic_jawline]

Baby is fiiiinally down for a nap. It's 5:15PM here. Ugh, my day.

Re: OOC

[notamascot]

I'm teaching my students to sing this on Monday as part of Constitution Day.