Professor Taylor
December 06, 2007 5:43 PM
Intermediate Charms, Class II [Years 3, 4, and 5] by Professor Taylor
As with her Beginning Charms class, Lorraine was not so much teaching today as encouraging thought. As with her Beginning Charms class, the Intermediate class would also be working in groups. Unlike her Beginning class, the Intermediate class would still be receiving homework. After all, the fifth years would be taking some very important exams in a few short months and she wouldn’t like them to fall behind. There were a few minds she would simply love to see in her Advanced with Sciences class, although she was uncertain as to whether some of them would be interested or not. But no matter—that was something to be dealt with after the test scores came back.“Good morning,” she said, nudging the door shut with one brown shoe as the class began. “I trust you had a good Midterm.” this class was more crowded than her Beginning Charms class; well, that was as it should be. There was an extra year of students in the classroom now. Nevertheless, there were enough desks to fit them all, Lorraine had made sure of that. “Now, as we begin a new calendar year, we also begin a new emphasis in Charms. Our lessons will now be more theory-based and we will explore uses of these charms more completely. Some of you will be taking exams and deciding where you wish to place your career emphasis this year; others will be doing so next year and some the year after, but it is an important step for everyone. Hopefully, this will help you see that you will need to have a great knowledge of Charms in your future lives—or not.” this last was added with an especially icy tone to Lorraine’s voice. She simply could not stand those who completely disregarded Charms. There were so many different aspects of the subject!
“You will work in groups of two, no more, no fewer. Each pair will write an essay on one of the following.” flick. “This essay will be due at the end of class. You may use any of the books in the back or, if you wish, you may take your research to the library. If I hear of any misconduct, in or out of my classroom during this period, suffice to say that the student in question will not be a very happy person.” A pointed glare at some of the more well-known troublemakers in the room. “You may begin.”
On the board, in neat, white handwriting, read:
a. Under what circumstances will summoning and banishing charms work and why?
b. When is it ethical to use a Cheering Charm, or other mood-altering spells?
c. What are the problems intrinsic to using cleaning charms and how can these be avoided?
Students may choose to argue the assumptions of any of these questions.
OOC: Minimum of ten sentences as usual, correct grammar and spelling is a must. You need not actually write the essays, although if you do, ten extra points will be awarded to each participant’s House, fifteen if it is especially interesting. Please post completed essays under the ‘Homework’ thread. Enjoy!
Subthreads: Essays, blargh by Paul Tarwater with Echo Elms, Paul
uhhh....partners? hopefully my friends are here! by Guenther Heindrich
There are worse things by Elly Eriksson with Allie St. Martin, Elly
Oh no, essays by Saul Pierce
Boring essays? by Earl and Eavan Valentine with Meredith Lail, Eavan
Are partners really necessary? by Adam Brockert
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Earl and Eavan Valentine
December 22, 2007 4:41 AM
Boring essays? by Earl and Eavan Valentine
Earl stared at the spinning wand, following its motion with a slight twist in in his head. When the wand began to slow down, Earl twisted it again, continuing to follow the wand with his head, When the wand began to slow down a second time, Earl went to twist it again, but it was snatched from his desk."Hey!" Earl lifted his head and his eyes slid momentarily out of focus from the dizziness. "Eavan, give it back." Earl held out his hand to his sister, but she just grinned and held his wand out of reach.
"Eavan!" Earl said, just a bit louder, so that the person sitting in front of him turned to look for a second. But before Eavan could respond, Professor Taylor began the class and Eavan shut her mouth and tossed Earl's wand back with a roll of her eyes. Earl gave her the evil eye, but she didn't see as Eavan had begun pulling her book, quill and ink from her bag. Earl saw the butterfly he had given her flapping happily on the front. He smiled and then followed her lead.
Both siblings groaned at the announcement that they were going to be learning theory. Earl more than Eavan because he knew it was going to be on the CATs and so he actually had to pay attention and learn it. Both he and Eavan scrawled down the main points of what Professor Taylor had said.
At least they could work in pairs on the stupid essays. When they were dismissed to find their partners, Eavan turned to her brother in the hopes they they could work together, but Earl had already turned to the person on the opposite side of him and was tapping them on the shoulder.
"Hey. You got a partner?" he asked, while trying to avoid Eavan's eyes staring at him. Eavan finally sighed and turned to the person in front of her who hadn't seemed to have found a partner yet. She repeated her brother's action of tapping the person on the shoulder, but she asked much more politely.
"Hi! Do you need a partner?"
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Meredith Lail
January 15, 2008 9:02 PM
Sounds about right. by Meredith Lail
Class was one of the few things Meredith wouldn’t bend over backwards for. While she wouldn’t mope from room to room, as was completely against her nature in any situation, she certainly wasn’t going to hurry. Unless she was having a race perhaps. She entered the crowded Charms classroom just on time for class to begin. She had gotten distracted on her way there by a daydream of her, Elly, and Echo skulking down a hidden hallway and finding something absolutely incredible. She ended up going down a wrong hallway and only finding a few snooty paintings clicking their tongues at her.Mere grabbed an available seat and waited for Professor Taylor to start the lesson. At least when it came to classes like Charms or Transfiguration, interesting things could come from poorly done spells and there was always someone who didn’t quite catch on right away, namely herself. It was something to look forward to.
Or maybe not. It was a theory day. Actually, it was a theory semester according to the professor. They were being made to write an essay. At least she wouldn’t have to write it on her own. Maybe Meredith ought to say that Academics in general wasn’t something she would bend over backwards for. The students were told to begin and started partnering up. Mere didn’t know who would be good for helping her write her essay. She did know that Elly, Echo, Matt or any of her friends would definitely make it more entertaining. She looked at the topics to choose from. Entertaining couldn’t hurt.
Before she could pick someone, someone else picked her. She turned around to look inquiringly at the girl who tapped her shoulder. Eaven, she was pretty sure her name was, only because she was a fellow third year.
“Sure do.” Mere answered with a grin, turning around to sit backwards in her seat so she could see her partner better. She opened her bag to start getting her usual class items out. “I hope theory doesn’t mean essays for the rest of the year,” she started as she took out her parchment and a quill and inkwell. “Imagine a class like that. All writing, all the time.” She stuck out her tongue distastefully, but laughed. “So, any topics catch your interest?” Because none of them caught hers.
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Eavan
January 19, 2008 10:42 PM
Not just sounds right...it IS right! by Eavan
Once the person she tapped turned around, Eavan recognized her right away. Meredith was a Pecari in her year; one of the large group of Pecaris that Eavan never managed to be friends with. They seemed like an exclusive club and Eavan could never find the secret entrance to their hide-out. Luckily she had met Danae, who had felt the same and Eavan quickly stopped caring that she never really became good friends with anyone.Staring at Meredith's face and hearing the affirmation to her question made Eavan wonder if there was still the possibility of her becoming friends with the other people in her year.
Eavan made a face when Meredith mentioned writing all year long. She was never any good at writing and hated being forced to do so. "Don't say that. A whole year of just essays...scary. And I used to like this class."
When Meredith mentioned the questions, Eavan glanced at the board and read everything over. She turned back to Meredith and raised an eyebrow.
"They all look awful to me. Uh....let's try this: Eenie meenie mynee mo..." Eavan continued the rhyme until her finger landed on one of the questions.
"Summoning and banishing charms? Well, I guess that's easy enough if it's in the book. It's more of a fact question than the others." Eavan flipped open her charms book searching for said charms.
"If we have to write any more of these essays this year, I'm quitting am becoming a muggle," Eavan said with a wry smile.
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