"This is it," Tyler announced once everybody was in the classroom and sitting in their assigned pairs. "At the end of this class, history is over ( Read more... )

"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 ( Read more... )

"Jinkies guys!" Tony Velma said, adjusting what looked like a pair of glasses he found on his way over to the classroom. "We've got a mystery on our hands!"

"Oh, gee," Nathan Daphne added, throwing in something that may or may not have been a swoon as he weaved closer to ... Tyler. "What should we investigate first? The old, haunted mansion? Maybe ( Read more... )

Algren was more than just a little distracted today as the students filed into the classroom. Tyler seemed to be MIA today, and he didn't know the subject matter from atom ( Read more... )

"Today is guest lecture day," Tyler announced after the students were more or less in their seats. If the class had eyes, they would have already noticed there was a third man with their teachers this morning, so, really, he was just confirming the obvious. But he wasn't feeling great; it was a good day for stating the obvious and reading from his ( Read more... )

Tyler was feeling lazy this week. Lazy, lazy, lazy. "The Great Depression," he began, without preamble. "A lot like what we have now, except people couldn't write blogs about how much being laid off sucked and there were more soup lines. Lasted from the stock market crash of 1929 until World War II. Here's a handout about the whole thing, and we're ( Read more... )

"World War I started for Europe in June, 1914," Tyler said, once the class seemed to be assembled and relatively quiet. They were meeting in the danger shop today, with a row of chairs at long tables arranged in front of flight simulators. "Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by a Serbian anarchist." There was the trace of ( Read more... )

The teachers were back from their vacation, and, if they looked slightly less well-rested than the students, that was to be expected ( Read more... )

The Danger Shop was back to its normal classroom configuration today, and the teachers were at the front, arms folded, possibly looking smug ( Read more... )

Students might have noticed that, instead of that stuffy old classroom, their History class was being held in the Danger Shop today, where there was a table with a selection of peanuts, Cracker Jack, and soft drinks for the students to help themselves to at their leisure. Beyond the table, there was a simple wooden bench, and then a field, with a ( Read more... )