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dressrobes2013-04-09 09:28 pm
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Entry tags:
IC Prospective | Transfiguration Teacher
Character: Valeria [Knife (Female)]
Mun: Kana
Plot specific: N
Good morning, students and faculty. I do hope your day is off to a lovely start or that it will in an hour or thereabouts.
[ As 'day' does apparently include ungodly pre-light hours of the morning during which most every student should be in the dorms. At least, it does to this particular professor given how early this little message is going out. Huh. ]
I have kept my word with regards to there being no homework on the first day of class. It is now the second. If you are taking Transfiguration with me, you should refer to your syllabus for your next assignment. Consider this a friendly reminder that you are to complete the next three days' assignments without the use of your textbook. No exceptions.
[ Why yes, she is looking forward to gaping mouths and indignant questions about why she spent more than half of class yesterday stressing the importance of the textbooks she bought out of pocket and gave to each student taking her class her first day in. She's also decidedly looking forward to more than that.
Any early bird who looked at the syllabus and was in the process of doing his or her transfiguration homework early or churning out some sort of essay to impress their new teacher? Your book just came to life if it was open or in the process of being opened and it most assuredly will come to life if it is opened henceforth. It just grew hard paper teeth with needle-like fangs that somehow feel like needles and carry the unfortunate side effect of that pesky, unpleasant prickly feeling associated with numbness that will last for, oh, a grand total of three to five minutes. You know what else? It's going to go for your hands and, if you give it the opportunity, it'll go for your arms. If you were unlucky enough to get one with a particularly terrible 'personality,' it may very well go for your leg if you try to run away or your nose if you were reading. Whatever's closer, but really, your hands are the primary targets once it's opened and it'll settle down like a child once you've put about ten feet between you and it. Funny thing is it'll only react this way when you handle it, not that she's going to mention that. Your friend's textbook? Well. ]
I expect your first assignment on my desk by eleven o'clock this evening sharp. Try not to overwork yourselves and have a wonderful day.
[TEACHER FILTER]
Each of you should have received a note regarding this matter, but things do happen at the most unexpected times in the most unexpected ways. As such, consider this a supplement for those who may have missed it.
I've prepared a... let's call it an exercise, for my students. I discussed it with Professor Dumbledore in advance and I can very well assure you it is perfectly harmless. About the only thing that truly stands to be injured is my students' pride in some cases. Nonetheless, if anyone is in need of a detailed run-down, please don't hesitate to ask me. I would also greatly appreciate it you informed me as to whether or not a student approached you regarding this exercise. It's for his or her own good, I assure you, and it's vital that I know for future reference in my teaching.
[ Which, to a brand new teacher, is rather important. ]
Thank you for your time.
[ Should anyone be looking to catch Professor Myles before or after class, she can be found in her office with a quill at rest in her hand, gloved fingers tapping idly away across the surface of her desk. Really, she's expecting a host of different reactions and responses to her unorthodox teaching methods from students, fellow teachers, and, naturally, concerned parents who haven't the mind to give their child's professor the benefit of the doubt when their child writes home with potentially exaggerated tales of how their textbook tried to gum them to death when they went to do homework she explicitly told them would need doing without the use of their particular textbook. The 'to death' part is hardly true, after all, and -- well, she expects that's what students these days do, with regards to writing their families. She may not have had a family of her own to write to growing up, but she had friends enough that did during her time as a student at Hogwarts. She doesn't expect that's changed.
Young though she may be compared to other members of the faculty, she would like to think she's prepared to handle the pending host of reactions and responses. She may not always be the most tactful of persons, but she's mindful of the need in these situations and it isn't like she didn't deal with worse during her time with the Ministry.
Care to shake the lady from her musing? ]
Mun: Kana
Plot specific: N
Good morning, students and faculty. I do hope your day is off to a lovely start or that it will in an hour or thereabouts.
[ As 'day' does apparently include ungodly pre-light hours of the morning during which most every student should be in the dorms. At least, it does to this particular professor given how early this little message is going out. Huh. ]
I have kept my word with regards to there being no homework on the first day of class. It is now the second. If you are taking Transfiguration with me, you should refer to your syllabus for your next assignment. Consider this a friendly reminder that you are to complete the next three days' assignments without the use of your textbook. No exceptions.
[ Why yes, she is looking forward to gaping mouths and indignant questions about why she spent more than half of class yesterday stressing the importance of the textbooks she bought out of pocket and gave to each student taking her class her first day in. She's also decidedly looking forward to more than that.
Any early bird who looked at the syllabus and was in the process of doing his or her transfiguration homework early or churning out some sort of essay to impress their new teacher? Your book just came to life if it was open or in the process of being opened and it most assuredly will come to life if it is opened henceforth. It just grew hard paper teeth with needle-like fangs that somehow feel like needles and carry the unfortunate side effect of that pesky, unpleasant prickly feeling associated with numbness that will last for, oh, a grand total of three to five minutes. You know what else? It's going to go for your hands and, if you give it the opportunity, it'll go for your arms. If you were unlucky enough to get one with a particularly terrible 'personality,' it may very well go for your leg if you try to run away or your nose if you were reading. Whatever's closer, but really, your hands are the primary targets once it's opened and it'll settle down like a child once you've put about ten feet between you and it. Funny thing is it'll only react this way when you handle it, not that she's going to mention that. Your friend's textbook? Well. ]
I expect your first assignment on my desk by eleven o'clock this evening sharp. Try not to overwork yourselves and have a wonderful day.
[TEACHER FILTER]
Each of you should have received a note regarding this matter, but things do happen at the most unexpected times in the most unexpected ways. As such, consider this a supplement for those who may have missed it.
I've prepared a... let's call it an exercise, for my students. I discussed it with Professor Dumbledore in advance and I can very well assure you it is perfectly harmless. About the only thing that truly stands to be injured is my students' pride in some cases. Nonetheless, if anyone is in need of a detailed run-down, please don't hesitate to ask me. I would also greatly appreciate it you informed me as to whether or not a student approached you regarding this exercise. It's for his or her own good, I assure you, and it's vital that I know for future reference in my teaching.
[ Which, to a brand new teacher, is rather important. ]
Thank you for your time.
[ Should anyone be looking to catch Professor Myles before or after class, she can be found in her office with a quill at rest in her hand, gloved fingers tapping idly away across the surface of her desk. Really, she's expecting a host of different reactions and responses to her unorthodox teaching methods from students, fellow teachers, and, naturally, concerned parents who haven't the mind to give their child's professor the benefit of the doubt when their child writes home with potentially exaggerated tales of how their textbook tried to gum them to death when they went to do homework she explicitly told them would need doing without the use of their particular textbook. The 'to death' part is hardly true, after all, and -- well, she expects that's what students these days do, with regards to writing their families. She may not have had a family of her own to write to growing up, but she had friends enough that did during her time as a student at Hogwarts. She doesn't expect that's changed.
Young though she may be compared to other members of the faculty, she would like to think she's prepared to handle the pending host of reactions and responses. She may not always be the most tactful of persons, but she's mindful of the need in these situations and it isn't like she didn't deal with worse during her time with the Ministry.
Care to shake the lady from her musing? ]