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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Re: Introductions

[white_oleander]

Ugh, the first week of classes was the worst. Something about introductions just reminded Astrid how much she hated talking about herself or really talking much in front of anyone. Sometimes, she forgot that she hated it, but introductions just brought it front page and center.

"My name's Astrid," she offered, once her turn came around, once she decided on who exactly to say as her inspiration, "and I'm from California. Los Angeles." For the, like, three people who might actually know what that is, which was still wild to her that it was practically a foreign land to most people around here. "I'd say one of my biggest inspirations is Caravaggio, he's an Italian master, and he basically revolutionized chiaroscuro, the way you use light and darkness in art."

She bit her lip slightly; what kind of fourteen year old just started spitting about Caravaggio and chiaroscuro like it was something out of a Seventeen magazine? But she wasn't going to let herself get awkward about it.

"I mean, but that's not a woman," Ms. Davis didn't say it had to be a woman, "but for inspirational artists who are women, I'd have to go with Frida Kahlo, she's brilliant and I love her, even if her style really isn't mine. There's so many stories in there, and Georgia O'Keeffe is amazing as well, especially if you want to get into the importance of the emergence of the feminine voice in American modernism."

Astrid. Stop.

Re: Introductions

[gobrookeyourself]

Brooke's eyebrows kept going farther up until Astrid finished talking.

"You're smarter than me. Good for you," she said appreciatively.

Since Brooke herself didn't feel smart most of the time, it was cool when someone could just go with the stuff they did know like that.

...were teachers not supposed to tell the kids they were smarter?

Re: Introductions

[white_oleander]

"Not really," Astrid shrugged the comment off dismissively, though that Magnussen pompousness was definitely thinking that yes, yes she was. "I've just been to a lot of museums."