REMINDER: Please reply to the activity check if you haven't already! It is closing tonight. (If you intend to drop a character, it is preferable you use the drop page, as AC idles are not cleared until Saturday.)

Classes will have an end of year break from December 23rd - January 5th, with Week XII starting on January 7th 2013; Garden will not be leaving Balamb continent for it. (There will still be the usual end of quarter break and trip following finals.) Staff will be informed, and it will be announced in homerooms.

At some point during this period the GFC will be running a three day festival (which can, if desired, include other characters' worlds celebrations). Which consecutive three days would be the best for everyone? We thought we'd put it to the playerbase so more people could participate without being forced to backdate! Alternately, which days during this period are you away? Please comment here.

With the new year will come the field exam, the final test for becoming a SeeD. If your character will participate in this, please comment here! As a reminder, only those who have been in Garden for at least four quarters and have completed all prerequisites (some double majors may require an additional quarter) qualify for the exam. (The exam won't be until after the end of the quarter; we're just looking for an idea of numbers at this stage.)

But before the break and the field exam...

December Event: HEY YOU, AU!

Time Compression is a strange and mysterious thing, capable of plucking people from different spaces, different times, and even different universes. As it turns out, it is also capable of replacing the innocent inhabitants of Balamb Garden with alternate versions of themselves...

From December 10th through December 24th, characters may be replaced with AU versions of themselves. This can be any level of AU -- a small change to a world-shattering one. Maybe all their coin flips are reversed, so they got the shiny golden finish and chose to date Fry instead of making an excuse. Maybe that one moment that turned them into a hero made them into a villain instead. Little or big, make whatever replacement you want and see how people react to this horrific new you!

A few ground rules:

The event is not mandatory. You don't have to AU your character if you don't wish to.
AU characters retain their game memories and CR to the best of the ability of their AU to accommodate it. If you want to sit down with your fellow players and dissect just how your CR would have changed, that's fine! (Here is a good place to do so.) But applying the MST3K Mantra is also perfectly acceptable too.
Your characters do not have to be affected at the event start, nor do they need to be affected for the entire duration of the event. This way, your regular characters can interact with AUs, your AU can interact with regular characters, and your AUs can interact with AUs.
You may use more than one AU per character if you wish.
Characters will have their full memory from the AU experience at the end of the event. If their AU ends before the event ends, they can remember it or not as you choose up until the event ends.

Finally, here is a basic course outline for every class offered in Garden. It will address the class material for the week and give players a general idea of what their characters will be studying in class for the day.

Academic classes will almost always provide homework related to the lesson plan for the day, so feel free to use that in logs as well. More specific homework assignments will be included in the syllabus, but otherwise the standard homework for classes will be assigned reading from the textbook related to the topics discussed in class.

(ESL 097) Basic Principles of English: an Introduction (full week course)
Monday - The complete predicate / Tuesday - The simple predicate / Wednesday Changes in sentence patterns / Thursday - Changes in sentence patterns cont, the clause / Friday The clause, cont.

(ESL 098) Basic Principles of English: an Introduction
Monday - The complete predicate, The simple predicate / Wednesday Changes in sentence patterns / Friday - The clause
Tuesday - The complete predicate, The simple predicate / Thursday - Changes in sentence patterns, The clause

(ESL 099) Understanding, Speaking and Writing English
Monday - Writing exercise: "If I were an animal, I would be..." / Wednesday - Recitation of writing exercise. / Friday - Respond to classmates' work.
Tuesday - Writing exercise: "If I were an animal, I would be..." / Thursday - Recitation of writing exercise, and classmate responses.

(MAT 099) Mathematics
Monday - Trigonometry: Triangles and Angles/ Wednesday - Word problems/ Friday - Wednesday, cont.
Tuesday - Trigonometry: Triangles and Angles/ Thursday - Word problems

(MKP 099) Make-up Courses
Monday - Week VI classes debrief / Wednesday - Week VI classes cont. / Friday - Wednesday, cont.
Tuesday - Week VI classes debrief / Thursday - Week VI classes cont.

(BIO 101) Biology
Monday - Cell Cycle / Wednesday -Meiosis / Friday - Genes
Tuesday - Cell Cycle and Meiosis / Thursday - Genes

(COD 101) Garden Code
Monday - Study Part II, Chapter 47, Subchapter V, sections 949p-1, 949p-2, 949p-3, 949p-4, 949p-5, 949p-6, 949p-7: "Classified Infirmation Procedures: Protection of classified information, Pretrial conference, Protective orders, Discover of and access to classified information by the accused, Notice by accusted of intention to disclose classified information, Procedure for cases involving classified information, Introduction of classified information into evidence" respectively / Wednesday -Study Part II, Chapter 47, Subchapter VI, sections 949s, 949t, 949u: "Sentences: Cruel of unusual punishments prohibited, Maximum limits, Execution of confinement" respectively / Friday - Study Part II, Chapter 47, Subchapter VIII, sections 950p, 950q, 950r, 950s, 950t: "Punitive matters: Definitions; construction of certain offenses and common circumstances, Principals, Accessory after the fact, Conviction of lesser offenses, Crimes triable by military commission" respectively
Tuesday -Study Part II, Chapter 47, Subchapter V, sections 949p-1, 949p-2, 949p-3, 949p-4, 949p-5, 949p-6, 949p-7: "Classified Infirmation Procedures: Protection of classified information, Pretrial conference, Protective orders, Discover of and access to classified information by the accused, Notice by accusted of intention to disclose classified information, Procedure for cases involving classified information, Introduction of classified information into evidence" respectively / Thursday - Study Part II, Chapter 47, Subchapter VI, sections 949s, 949t, 949u & Subchapter VIII, sections 950p, 950q, 950r, 950s, 950t: "Sentences: Cruel of unusual punishments prohibited, Maximum limits, Execution of confinement" &"Punitive matters: Definitions; construction of certain offenses and common circumstances, Principals, Accessory after the fact, Conviction of lesser offenses, Crimes triable by military commission" respectively

(CBT 101) Cadet Basic Training
All week - Team building exercises

(CFT 101) Cadet Field Training
All week - Record Obstacle Course

(CHM 101) Chemistry
Monday - The change of concentration with time / Wednesday - Temperature and Rates / Friday - Reaction Mechanisms, Catalysts
Tuesday - The change of concentration with time, Temperature and rates / Thursday - Reaction mechanisms, Catalysts

(CRIM 101) Criminal Justice
All Week - Juvenile Justice

(DAN 101) Ballroom Dancing
Monday - Partner change, Introduction to Salsa / Wednesday - Salsa practice / Friday - Salsa practice
Tuesday - Partner change, Introduction to Salsa / Thursday - Salsa practice

(DEF 101) Self Defense
Monday - Eye strike, Smack and hack / Wednesday - Headbutts, Knees and Elbows / Friday - Pull and attack
Tuesday - Eye strike, Smack and hack / Thursday - Headbutts, knees and elbows, Pull and attack

(DRI 101) Defensive Driving
All Week - Driving: Sharp turns, quick thinking maneuvers

(GEO 101) World Geography
Monday -Culture:Civilization, Language family / Wednesday - Population: Standard of living, Literacy rate, Population density / Friday - Developed country, developing country, demographer
Tuesday - Culture:Civilization, Language family & Population: Standard of living, Literacy rate, Population density / Thursday - Developed country, developing country, demographer

(HIS 101) World History
Monday - The First Sorceress War: Fall of Adel, Aftermath / Wednesday - Monday, cont. / Friday - Wednesday, cont.
Tuesday -The First Sorceress War: Fall of Adel, Aftermath / Thursday - Tuesday, cont.

(IWB 101) Intro to World Bestiary
All week - Monsters inhabiting Island Closest to Hell and Island Closest to Heaven

(LAN 101) Foreign Language * Offering this Quarter is Old Estharian (Russian equivalent)
Monday - Describing yourself and Others / Wednesday - Monday, cont. / Friday - Flashcards
Tuesday - Describing yourself and Others/ Thursday - Flashcards

(LEA 101) Leadership Development
Monday - Meeting Follower Needs / Wednesday - Transformational Leadership / Friday - Wednesday, cont.
Tuesday - Meeting Follower Needs / Thursday - Transformational Leadership

(LBT 101) Limit Break Theory
All Week - Cadets will begin to research their own Limit Breaks according to their fighting style and other factors (Para-magic abilities, weapons, etc.); Instructor will offer help to those who require it

(MAG 101) Intro to Attack, Recovery and Indirect Magic
Monday - Drawing Protect, Shell and Scan magic / Wednesday - Junctioning Protect, Shell and Scan magic / Friday - Live exercise: Casting Protect, Shell and Scan magic on training dummies under instructor supervision
Tuesday - Drawing Protect, Shell and Scan magic / Thursday - Junctioning Protect, Shell and Scan magic, Live exercise: Casting Protect, Shell and Scan magic on training dummies under instructor supervision

(MAT 101) Mathematics
All week - Algebra I : Properties of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

(MOV 101) Military Movement (Applied Gymnastics)
Monday - Tumbling: The round-off, Horizontal rope: Headfirst Sideswing / Wednesday -Tumbling: Handspring, Horizontal Rope: Commando crawl / Friday - Trampoline safety & Trampoline
Tuesday - Tumbling: The round-off, Handspring; Horizontal Rope: Headfirst sideswing, Commando crawl / Thursday - Trampoline safety & Trampoline

(PMGF 101) Intro to Para-Magic & Guardian Forces
Monday - Guardian Force analysis: Quezacotl / Wednesday - Benefits and disadvantages to junctioning Quezacotl / Friday - Card Modification ability
Tuesday - Guardian Force analysis: Quezacotl / Thursday - Benefits and disadvantages to junctioning Quezacotl, Card Modification ability

(PHY 101) Physics
Monday - Fluids / Wednesday - Fluid flow / Friday - Simple Harmonic Oscillation
Tuesday - Fluids & Fluid flow / Thursday - Simple Harmonic Oscillation

(REC 101) First Aid
Monday - Bleeding control / Wednesday - Fractures / Friday - Sprains
Tuesday - Bleeding control / Thursday - Fractures & Sprains

(SPC 101) Speech & Conduct
All week - Introductions, Conclusions and Language

(SUV 101) Survival Skills
All week - Field trip preparation; Introduction to the Field Trip, groups assigned

(WTR 101) Intro to Weapons Training
Monday - How to handle projectile weapons: Cadets will be assigned a standard projectile weapon in which they will learn to handle / Wednesday - Basic shooting techniques / Friday - Basic target practice
Tuesday - How to handle projectile weapons: Cadets will be assigned a standard projectile weapon in which they will learn how to properly handle / Thursday - Basic shooting techniques, basic target practice

(WTR 201) Intermediate Weapons Training: Bladed Weapons
All week - Weapon upgrading; where to find parts, which monsters contain tools to build weapons.

(WTR 301) Intermediate Weapons Training: Firearm and Projectiles
All week - Weapon upgrading; where to find parts, which monsters contain tools to build weapons.

(WTR 401) Intermediate Weapons Training: Blunt weapons
All week - Weapon upgrading; where to find parts, which monsters contain tools to build weapons.

(WTR 501) Intermediate Weapons Training: Martial Arts
All week - Introduction to Wushu; Basic techniques

(WTR 202) Advanced Weapons Training: Bladed Weapons
All week - Junctioning Attack para-magic to weapon; Advantages and disadvantages, Demonstration and Practice

(WTR 302) Advanced Weapons Training: Firearms and Projectiles
All week - Junctioning Attack para-magic to weapon; Advantages and disadvantages, Demonstration and Practice

(WTR 402) Advanced Weapons Training: Blunt weapons
All week - Junctioning Attack para-magic to weapon; Advantages and disadvantages, Demonstration and Practice

(WTR 502) Advanced Weapons Training: Martial Arts
All week -Junctioning Attack para-magic to weapon; Advantages and disadvantages, Demonstration and Practice

(MAG 201) Intermediate Recovery Magic
All week - Cadets will practice casting Cura, Esuna and Regen on themselves

(MAG 301) Intermediate Attack Magic
All week - Practice junctioning Fira, Blizzara, Thundara and Water to attributes

(MAG 401) Intermediate Indirect Magic
All week - Practice junctioning Haste and Double to attributes

(MAG 202) Advanced Recovery Magic
All week - Practice casting Full-Life and Full-Cure on fellow Cadets

(MAG 302) Advanced Attack Magic
All week - Practice junctioning Firaga, Blizzaga, and Thundaga to attributes

(MAG 402) Advanced Indirect Magic
All week - Practice Junctioning Meltdown to attributes

(COV 101) Covert Operations
Monday – Assassination Theory / Wednesday – Types of Assassination / Friday – Instruments of Assassination
Tuesday – Assassination Theory & Types of Assassination / Thursday –Instruments of Assassination

(CUL 101) Cultural Studies
All week - Trabian traditions and customs

(ECO 101) Economics
All week - Opportunity Cost and Marginal Analysis

(HEC 101) Home Economics
All Week - Introduction to Chicobo Raising project; Cadets will need to select a partner (Or group of three in a case of odd number) to complete the project with. An incubator with Chicobo eggs has been brought in from a Chocobo Farm inTrabia and the eggs are bound to hatch anytime this week; Cadets will need to check on the eggs every day until their designated Chicobo hatches. Then, the pair must care for the Chicobo for the duration of the quarter. Progress reports must be submitted to the Instructor every class detailing troubles faced while trying to raise the Chicobo, as well as solutions to such troubles.

(INT 101) International Relations
Monday -Ethnic Conflict and Peacekeeping / Wednesday - Monday, cont. / Friday - Group discussion re: Wednesday.
Tuesday - Ethnic Conflict and Peacekeeping / Thursday - Group discussion re: Tuesday.

(INTL 101) International Law
Monday - Capacity & Consent / Wednesday - Written contracts / Friday - Third parties
Tuesday - Capacity & Consent / Thursday - Written contracts & Third parties

(ISL 101) Independent Study: Languages
Consult with Teaching Assistant.

(ITM 101) Item Crafting
Monday - Refining greens for effective use / Wednesday - Gysahl Greens / Friday - Amnesia Greens
Tuesday - Refining greens for effective use, starting Gysahl Greens / Thursday Finishing Gysahl Greens, Amnesia Greens

(PET 101) Pet Pals
All week - Drug and explosive sniffing

(PHI 101) Philosophy
Monday - Computing Machinery and Intelligence / Wednesday - Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program? / Friday - Applied philosophy: debate.
Tuesday - Computing Machinery and Intelligence / Thursday - Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program? & Applied philosphy: debate.

(PSI 101) Political Science
All week - The Executive Branch

(PSY 101) Psychology
Monday - Personality: Contemporary approaches / Wednesday - Health Psychology: Managing Stress / Friday - Health Psychology: Promoting health and wellness
Tuesday - Personality: Contemporary approaches / Thursday - Health Psychology: Managing Stress & Promoting health and wellness

(SOC 101) Sociology
All Week - Wealth and Poverty

(TAC 101) Tactical Strategy
All Week: - Reconnaissance Principle

(ACCT 101) Accounting
All Week: - Owners Equity

(AERO 101) Aerodynamics
All Week - Twisted Wing & Numerical Methods for wings

(AERO 201) Aerospace
All Week: - Torsion of thin-walled beams

(ANAT 101) Anatomy
All Week - Endocrine System, Blood, Heart

(ENG 101) Engineering
All week - Software engineering

(EXPL 101) Explosives
Monday – How to Make Tripwire Traps / Wednesday – Making Tripwire Traps Practical / Friday – Making Tripwire Traps Practicum
Tuesday – How to Make Tripwire Traps & Making Tripwire Traps Practical / Thursday – Making Tripwire Traps Practicum

(INF 101) Information Technology
Monday - Communication Networks / Wednesday -Introduction to Algorithms / Friday -Programming Languages
Tuesday - Communication Networks & Introduction to Algorithms / Thursday - Programming Languages

(CS 101) Programming Fundamentals
All Week - GUI Applicaitons

(CS 102) Advanced Programming
All Week: - Java Collections Framework: Maps

(SED 101) Status Effects and Disease
All week - Discussion of the events of the last two weeks in regard to the sudden bout of Status Effects

(STAT 101) Statistics
All week - Two-Sample problems

(INTN 101) Intern: Battlefield Medicine
Consult with Dr. Kadowaki

(INTN 102) Intern: Piloting
Consult with Nida

(TAIL 101) Tailoring
All Week - Working with muslins, fitting

(ART 101) Art & Music Appreciation
Monday - Classical music and art of Modern Era (Early Balamb styles) / Wednesday - Monday, cont. / Friday - Wednesday, cont.
Tuesday - Classical music and art of Modern Era (Early Balamb styles) / Thursday - Tuesday, cont.

(ART 102) Studio Art
All week - Introduction to painting; Acrylic underpaintings

(ART 103) Photography
Monday - Experimenting with different lenses / Wednesday - Shooting day / Friday - Shooting day
Tues - Experimenting with different lesnes / Thurs - Shooting day

(CLI 101) Composition and Literature
Monday - Epic poems - / Wednesday - Composition exercise, re: Monday's lesson. / Friday - Analysis of chapters 17&18 of The Legend of Vascaroon.
Tuesday -Epic poems & comp. exercise / Thursday - Analysis of chapters 17&18 of The Legend of Vascaroon.

(DRA 101) Drama
Monday - Directing / Wednesday - Monday, cont. / Friday - Playwriting
Tuesday - Directing / Thursday - Playwriting

(FLM 101) Theater & Film Appreciation
All week - Movie analysis

(SWM 101) Swimming
Monday - Medley Swimming (Individual) / Wednesday - Medley Swimming (Individual) / Friday - Free swim
Tuesday - Medley Swimming (Individual) / Thursday - Medley Swimming (Individual)

(BOX 101) Boxing
Monday - Footwork / Wednesday - Control in the Ring / Friday - Upper body weight training
Tuesday - Footwork, Control in the Ring / Thursday - Upper body weight training

(AER 101) Aerobic Fitness
Monday - Basketball / Wednesday - Basketball / Friday - Free spinning.
Tuesday - Basketball / Thursday - Basketball

(ROC 101) Rock Climbing

All week - Field trip preparation; Friday: All classes will board the Ragnarok at 0700 hours to be flown to the Vienne Mountains.

This post will also act as a plot with me post for the week for both classes and missions, as well as the December event. If you haven't already, please add your character's schedule to the master class schedule for ease of seeing who all's in each class.

Players are welcomed and encourage to make threads for a class or mission they wish to plan out and discuss what their characters may be doing during the class or mission to promote character interaction; there is a thread for mission discussion here. Players may choose to handwave these interactions or play it out in a new log or action post if they so desire. Also, for the sake of organization, please label which week/class/day & time period your post is set in (EX: Week I, DAN 101, M0900) within the subject line.

Past lesson plans can be found on the Classes information page.

Again, should players have any questions/comments/concerns/suggestions about anything in this post, feel free to bring them up here (or via PM/AIM) and we'll do our best to address them in a timely manner.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

The festival will be a three day event between December 23rd - January 5th. Which consecutive three days are best for you, and/or which dates are you definitely away?

I am out most of what works out to be the 24th and the 26th behind the date line, but I will be prewriting the posts and threads anyway.

I should be good for any of those days. Except maybe the 25th because of Christmas, but even then I should have some RP time available.

I'm probably okay with any of those dates as well, but I sort of want to suggest the 30th-1st for the real world coincidence factor! Or the 23rd-25th, but I'm guessing people are more likely to be busy IRL around then.

At the moment I can't think of anything I have in particular that might affect my availablility then, since I think I will get a bit of a break after Christmas, besides the obvious of Christmas Day itself.

I think that should be okay?

What should?

...oh this was a larger question than I thought. ~~sorry I was eating~~ UM...I don't have a preference. That time frame works for me. any three days >.>;;;

I don't have a preference, but I'd say avoid christmas just in case.

More towards the fifth is better for me o7

I am open for all the days - RL is kind of a non-entity.

Syllabi: Year 2, Quarter IV, Week IX + LOTS OF THINGS

December Event: HEY YOU, AU!

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wrong journals all over the show but I'm writing this event so bite me

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