Summer School - drama and English

[Tir - the teacher]

Drama&English

I'm glad you're enjoying learning - one more, and then I'll let you go home.

The god of knowledge and arts looks around class with mild interest - of course, they're only his temporary subjects, but perhaps if they learned something, this whole ordeal has been valuable. His eyes linger on the bay horse that has kept on trying to cause trouble, none of which seems to actually affect the other students. Good. Tir suspects that Zain might learn the most from these classes. If only that messing with teachers is a bad idea. Let's see how he does in the last one.

When he's looked each horse in the eye, he presents their results first. "Pond, special congratulations on finding the disease's other name, dryland distemper. It might interest you to know that Strangles is also commonly known as equine distemper."

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   <th class="tg-us36">Zain</th>
   <th class="tg-us36">Pond</th>
   <th class="tg-us36">Breckin</th>
   <th class="tg-us36">Lucrezia</th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Grammar, typo's, punctuation (10%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">9%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">8%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Word count (10%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">5%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Style (report, paper) (10%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Cause (10%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Incubation period (10%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">0%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Ways of contracting disease (10%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">6%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Course (10%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Cure (10%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">5%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">8%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Disease name (5%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">3%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">5%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">3%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">3%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Readability/creativity (10%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">8%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">8%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">8%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">10%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Bonus question (5%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">5%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">5%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">5%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">5%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="tg-us36">Total (100%)</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">71%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">98%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">94%</td>
   <td class="tg-us36">96%</td>
 </tr>
</table>

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Without any other warning, everybody is transported. One instant they're in their classrooms, the next they find themselves in a confined patch of grass, where other horses are grazing. All classmates wear a leather-made contraption around their heads, but it doesn't prevent them from talking or grazing. If they were to look around, they'd see the other horses in the meadow also wear those things. Suddenly they understand what they see: a stable, a meadow, a paddock not too far away, and humans. As if they've known all their lives.

"Welcome to drama class' stage. Please, blend in. Report back to me in proper English when I transport you again. @[Zain] and @[Breckin], for you that would be in the past perfect progressive tense. @[Pond] and @[Lucrezia], in the future perfect progressive tense please."
With that, Tir vanishes, and each classmate finds themselves separated from the other Beqannians.

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Assignment rules

-600 word max, total.
-Mind your grammar! All sentences must be in your assigned tense.
-For the time being, you're a stable horse! What do you do - sports, riding, or are you a broodmare/stud? A mixture of those? Do you like your life?
-Interact with one of the other horses in the meadow in some way (but do not interact with your classmates).

This assignment will be due Wednesday, August 8th, 23:59 PM.