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fandomhigh2024-04-09 05:09 am
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Shop Class; Tuesday, Fourth Period [04/09].
"Last week," said Amaya at the start of class, with her usual nod to the students and a pound of her fist into her palm to show that she was ready to get to business, "we worked with simple machines. This week, we're working with much, much more complicated ones. And a whole lot bigger, too!"
Which would explain why they were in the Danger Shop instead of the usual shop classroom, just to make better use of the space that mostly consisted of a wide, open field overlooking an ocean on one side and a very tall stone wall on the other. Around them was mostly a collection of lumber and tools and other various bits and pieces that easily held the suggestion that they were going to be constructing quite the machine indeed. And if you know Amaya only a little, and considered that there were things like heavy rocks and pumpkins also scattered around, you could probably guess where this was going.
And if you didn't? Well, she was going to take care of that in the next breath.
"Trebuchets!" she said brightly. "Putting some of those simple machines into good use in a big way. Now, usually, I teach this class in the fall, which makes this particular lesson perfect for flinging pumpkins around Halloween time, but there's no reason flinging pumpkins with a large siege weapon can't be an all-year-round sort of thing. So, today, we're going to learn how to make a trebuchet and then enjoy how to use a trebuchet for the rest of class. Sounds pretty good, right? So let's get right into it!"
Which would explain why they were in the Danger Shop instead of the usual shop classroom, just to make better use of the space that mostly consisted of a wide, open field overlooking an ocean on one side and a very tall stone wall on the other. Around them was mostly a collection of lumber and tools and other various bits and pieces that easily held the suggestion that they were going to be constructing quite the machine indeed. And if you know Amaya only a little, and considered that there were things like heavy rocks and pumpkins also scattered around, you could probably guess where this was going.
And if you didn't? Well, she was going to take care of that in the next breath.
"Trebuchets!" she said brightly. "Putting some of those simple machines into good use in a big way. Now, usually, I teach this class in the fall, which makes this particular lesson perfect for flinging pumpkins around Halloween time, but there's no reason flinging pumpkins with a large siege weapon can't be an all-year-round sort of thing. So, today, we're going to learn how to make a trebuchet and then enjoy how to use a trebuchet for the rest of class. Sounds pretty good, right? So let's get right into it!"