Foreign Lit/Classics, May 2, Period 2

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream is not in the classroom, but a sleek black raven bobs about the desk importantly, and there's a bin for final papers.

The writing in the blackboard reads,

NO CLASS -- HAND IN OR WORK ON FINAL PAPERS. I'LL BE IN MY OFFICE TOMORROW. - DREAM

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Sign in, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

You can write down your name, if you want. The raven won't peck you.

Re: Sign in, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia signed in, giving the raven a hesitant wave.

Re: Sign in, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Matthew cawed a greeting at Nadia.

Re: Sign in, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders signs in for Classics, looking more than a little cranky because he's barefoot and in his last clean pair of sweats, and the only clean t-shirt he had left is an Aerelon Archers shirt that he got for a present one year. It's getting to be a touch too tight on him, and seriously, it's an Aerelon Archers shirt. He'd almost rather die than be seen in public wearing it.

Re: Sign in, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth signed in, glancing up at the raven.

Re: Sign in, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[janet_fraiser]

Janet signed in for Classics. Late, but only because LJ was being evil yesterday.

Re: Sign in, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

JOhn signs in, late.

Papers, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

In case any of you overachievers have them ready ahead of time.

Re: Papers, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders wouldn't consider himself an overachiever by any stretch of the imagination (except maybe when it comes to physical fitness, in some respects) but he did finish his final project on the role of prophecy in Roman religion.

It's fairly obvious that he did the bulk of the work in one frantic day; his Latin isn't good enough to let him hide the fact that a good portion of the text is filler material where he's been repeating himself just to take up lines on the page, and his references are shaky.

It's probably worth a C+, or perhaps a very, very, very generous B- . . . barely.

Re: Papers, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth is the classic overachiever. She hands in her paper on Petrarch, fairly happy with the way it turned out and her knowledge of Italian. She split the paper equally between his Italian and Latin works, swapping languages where it was appropriate. She references both Giovanni Boccaccio and Dante as fellow Renaissance writers.

Re: Papers, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[janet_fraiser]

Janet was an overachiever, and turned in a final paper covering the Greek gods mentioned in the Iliad, how they affected the mortals and in what ways their intervention was primarily detrimental or helpful (Dream might notice a slight bias towards the detrimental, to be honest), and a comparison with the Roman deities of the Aeneid, how they evolved from the depictions of the Greek gods, and in what ways they affected and aided the mortals of the Aeneid. In all, it was a very thorough paper, with references, and primarily written in Greek and Latin as appropriate (though with the occasional foray into English if Janet couldn't determine the proper word in Greek or Latin).

Re: Papers, Classics/Foreign Lit, 5/2

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John has not his paper ready.