lucetilogs | Back to school!

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Back to school!

Who: Teachers, students, anyone dropping in for the open classes, gatecrashers, etc.
What: First week of school, post-winter break
When: January 7th-10th
Where: The school
Summary: The new year has begun, so school must follow! Raine gets back to teaching, the school gains another professor, and students learn things. ~~Or else.~~
Rating: A+

[It's the week of January 7th, and that means winter break is over and school is back in session! Students will notice a couple of staff-related changes upon their return: first, that Raine is back to teaching after being absent and bedridden since late November; and second, that there's a new teacher in class who wears a top hat and introduces himself as Hershel Layton.

In addition, the end of winter break means three articles of schoolwork are due in their respective classes:

1) a take-home math test;
2) an essay on what students learned about cultural winter traditions over the break;
3) a short scientific paper on the formation of snow crystals.

Otherwise, school life goes on according to the usual schedule with the usual roster. Students can chat as they come into class or use the playground during lunch. Passing notes, sleeping, and eating in class are all prohibited, of course, but when has that ever stopped students from trying?

Classes this week will start off relaxed as they ease back into the school rhythm, and Raine steps back for the first few days to let Layton settle into teaching. His calm but well-paced lecture style isn't a huge departure from Raine's, but the smile common on his face throughout lessons might lend him a different air.]

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[It's time for a little anonymous peer review! Students are instructed to pass their essays on cultural winter traditions to the classmates around them for some unadulterated commentary, corrections, and even letter grades. In addition, they'll get grading rubrics to help them make fair evaluations... hopefully.

It's a mystery how much weight the peer-given grades will actually have, but do you really want to risk failing your classmate's paper with a joke F...?]

(( P.S.: You might want to briefly summarize your character's paper to give graders something to work with! ))

[The holidays and/or the new year got you sentimental? What better place to reminisce about home than in world sharing class! But if that's too depressing, they'll just go with the itinerary and talk about normal things. Myths, legends, heroes, and so on: the topic of the week is "larger than life".]

[A variety of mirrors are laid out around the room on art days. That's because students are doing self-portraits! Since this class is largely recreational, they're being given free rein in terms of medium and style. It's up to them how much effort they want to put into it, but why wouldn't they want themselves to look their best?]

[Teaching in Luceti is rather different from teaching in a university for a variety of reasons, but he adapts quickly enough. Before and after class each day, he tries to speak to at least one new student, tutor, or substitute in an effort to get to know them better. But of course, he'll give familiar faces a hello as well.]

[The class will begin with it's usual discussions, and question and answer periods before moving on to interesting topics. One of them being enchantments! What do they mean to people, and should they be used? Not all worlds have magic that can be used for such a thing, so it's a chance for an open discussion between those who do and those who don't, and what may or may not be considered questionable. A loaded topic, to be sure.

Later in the week, when the weather is nicer, magic class will have some demonstrations done outdoors, for both students to show off what they've learned from the spirits, or for them to demonstrate some magic they have from home.

Discussion will then take place on what makes the abilities unique between worlds. Not everyone has to participate (she'll take volunteers only for demonstrations, but there will only be about five or six per class so as not to use up all the class time.) ]

[While Professor Layton may be getting most of the face time in the lessons, Raine will still be available in the classrooms to help make sure everything runs smoothly (like walking past a desk and gently waking up a sleeping student or two if necessary), or to answer questions, or marking tests or homework that were left over from before the break.

She'll be free for nice casual chats in between classes or during lunch, and have her journal in case anyone happens to want her attention. With more help around it gives her the time to do so, and it's not like anyone wants to risk her working too hard.

All of the students would have received brownies from her over the break if she knew where they lived and was able to have them delivered; if she didn't, there will be some more for them to collect during the lunch period! Those familiar with her usual treats during the year might notice that the food is lacking it's usual 'creative' spins of how Raine might have made them. Whether that's improvement or not, only the tastebuds can tell. But at the very least, they'll be relatively normal brownies.

If there are any new students who happen to wander in, she'll help get them set up with their entrance tests in another classroom before letting them join the others.]

[So, it's lunchtime. Most people probably weren't planning to go outside, seeing as it's January and it's cold outside in January! Sure, it's been a little warmer than usual these past few days, but even a warm January is still pretty cold.]

[Which is why it's pretty weird that Ion has apparently decided today would be a lovely day to be laying out in the middle of the playground without a coat on!]

[Of course, anyone who's asked why he hasn't been in class so far this week probably knows by now that he's been kidnapped since last Saturday. So laying outside like this probably wasn't his idea.]

[ It's a busy first week back and Helios is getting back into the swing of things as well. He'll be in all of his usual classrooms and available after class if anyone wants to discuss things in greater detail about what was taught that afternoon. Otherwise you can just find him tidying up the classrooms after school. ]

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