Max Nutter's scribe notes 10/24

            Once upon a time, in a magical land called Manchester, there was a tiny school where extremely talented and attractive students learned how to be successful. Their professors were intelligent, experienced and brave. These professors were well-respected by the students lucky enough to be in their presence. Out of all the classes gathered at the tiny school, the third-year students were the very best. They demonstrated their wide range of abilities by winning the school-wide dodgeball competition two years in a row. In particular, the second advanced English class, taught by Professor Gill, amazed the rest of the school with talents to which no other students’ could be compared.

            Their class began like any other with prayer. Professor Gill, dedicated to improving the already-incredible writing skills of her students, told them to journal about their personal beliefs on fate and free will to the musical genius of the Good Life by Three Days Grace. At the same time as the class was writing, Mrs. Gill explained that the journal for the following day would focus upon a synthesis paper which the students had worked on the previous week. When the song had ended, Mrs. Gill called on various students to talk about what they had written; Kristen believed that some things were meant to happen, Kate claimed that people’s fates were already decided, Chris said that the fate of a person depended on their use of free will, Kayla thought to look at a person’s mistakes and how they interact with one’s fate, and Marc stated that fate was something which people should work to take into their own hands.

            After wrapping up their discussion on the journal, Professor Gill proceeded to explain the workload involved in reading the class’s new novel, the Scarlet Letter. She intended to have the class include note-taking and annotations in their reading. In reading the “dense, yet potentially rewarding text,” Professor Gill wanted students to mark any passages which stood out or caught their attention. She presented notes which the students took down onto a document transmitted to their computers about the Scarlet Letter unit. At the end of the class, Professor Gill elaborated upon the importance of reading the Scarlet Letter’s first chapter—called its Custom House chapter—and the deadlines for various forms of homework. Before students left the class, Professor Gill gave them a pledge which they were to sign, promising their own effort in working with what would most definitely be a challenging novel. Class ended and the students left to continue another morning at the tiny but wonderful school in the magical land of Manchester.