Badass Women You Should Know- Monday- 2nd period

[gobrookeyourself]

"Good morning, everybody," Brooke greeted the students once class had started. "My name's Brooke Davis, and this is Badass Women You Should Know. History is filled with women who did awesome things or created some of the stuff that makes up the way life is today, and we don't hear enough about them. We'll be focusing on history from around the world here, by the way. Like Earth, current day 2018. I'm kind of new to teaching and I'm going to be learning as I go with this, I don't know if I can find out about a ruler from another world on Wikipedia. But if there's someone from your neck of the woods who should be covered, talk to me and maybe we can work out an extra credit thing.

"So!" she went on. "We're starting easy today, with introductions before you're sick of them. I want your name and where you're from, and someone who inspires you, even if it's like your mom. And if you have a woman that you definitely want to see covered in this class, name her. Let's start with you."

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[gobrookeyourself]

Brooke sorta knows what she's doing this time! Ish!

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[chirpchirpchirp]

Oh, this class looked like it was going to be right up Vette's alley. She grinned as she listened to the lecture, and then got to wondering who she'd even use as a role model, here.

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[white_oleander]

Astrid was pretty sure she was going to like a lot of the topics of this class, but she was trying not to feel too worried about the fact that the teacher straight up acknowledged the whole 'let's everyone pretend its apparently 2018' thing that she had pretty effectively been avoiding since she started noticing it on all the calendars.

Whatever. She could keep ignoring it and focus on the good stuff, and that was hopefully learning about some new and interesting people and their history.

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[revengenotebook]

Paris was all in on this class. She'd even brought books of women that she felt Brooke should know about, you know, just in case.

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[wiredweird]

Jughead couldn't help eyeing the books. Okay, maybe side-eyeing them.

He wasn't really surprised, though.

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[revengenotebook]

"Would you like to borrow a few?" Paris asked.

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[wiredweird]

"What are they, anyway?"

Jughead was kind of a nerd, sure, but even he wouldn't actually bring his own books to class.

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[revengenotebook]

"I've got Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, volumes 1 and 2, which is a good primer for biographies of interesting women," Paris said. "It's only a one-page story but it covers a lot of women from various time periods and parts of the world. I also have Women in Science, which has some overlap, but not entirely. I also have Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Katherine Graham's autobiographies and I am Malala, but really who doesn't, right?"

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[wiredweird]

"Uh, right," said Jughead, who definitely didn't. "You don't think Ms. Davis probably has books of her own, though?"

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[refused2berescued]

Uma had been idly thinking about asking about the reign of Ursula the Sea-Witch, just because she wanted to know more about her own heritage. But then Brooke had mentioned mothers under the heading of 'people who inspired you' and - no. Just no.