U.S. History, Thursday, 4/16, Period 2
"Hey," Tyler greeted from atop his desk once most of the students seemed to be there. "Wipe last week from your memories. If you ask us about it, congratulations, that's a detention. This is a research week for your final project. We have to cover from 1975 to the present day. I was going to talk about President Obama, but that means skipping over a couple of decades and we've already skipped a lot. So we decided to be kind and let you guys teach the last 35 years."
Generous, wasn't it?
He hopped off his desk and started roaming the classroom, handing out slips of paper listing assignments. "Most of you are paired up, but there's one group of three, and you've all been assigned five-year time periods from 1975 to now. Each team gets to research their assigned era and selecting a major historic event or trend from that time to discuss. The rest of this class period is yours to prepare. I warned Miss Kishi in the library that we might be coming, if you want to head down there and start on your research, or you could go to the computer lab. If you do that, remember, I know how to use Wikipedia too. Be prepared to give an original five-minute presentation next week."
A beat. "This is all pretty recent, so don't decide to focus on anything where huge numbers of innocent people died. It doesn't tend to go over very well. Questions?"
"Here's a hint," Algren tossed in, for good measure, "if you think somebody from the Civil War era who has been horribly misplaced might want to learn it in order to catch up with the times, do, please, tell him. But be sure to break it to the poor man gently. He's old and possibly senile, after all."
Algren was allowed to poke a little fun at himself, dammit. He'd spent far too much time in the past two weeks wearing women's clothing.
[OOC: Preplayed with shinoi_tiger.]
Generous, wasn't it?
He hopped off his desk and started roaming the classroom, handing out slips of paper listing assignments. "Most of you are paired up, but there's one group of three, and you've all been assigned five-year time periods from 1975 to now. Each team gets to research their assigned era and selecting a major historic event or trend from that time to discuss. The rest of this class period is yours to prepare. I warned Miss Kishi in the library that we might be coming, if you want to head down there and start on your research, or you could go to the computer lab. If you do that, remember, I know how to use Wikipedia too. Be prepared to give an original five-minute presentation next week."
A beat. "This is all pretty recent, so don't decide to focus on anything where huge numbers of innocent people died. It doesn't tend to go over very well. Questions?"
"Here's a hint," Algren tossed in, for good measure, "if you think somebody from the Civil War era who has been horribly misplaced might want to learn it in order to catch up with the times, do, please, tell him. But be sure to break it to the poor man gently. He's old and possibly senile, after all."
Algren was allowed to poke a little fun at himself, dammit. He'd spent far too much time in the past two weeks wearing women's clothing.
[OOC: Preplayed with shinoi_tiger.]