The path of a Hero

[Richard Stone]

Richard Stone walked into his classroom and placed his briefcase on his desk. Opening the case, he pulled out a stack of papers and began to place one group of stabled papers on each of the desks in the room and then headed back to the front of the room where he opened the cupboard at the bottom of the bookshelf that the students were welcome to borrow books from and made sure that the box of books he needed was indeed still in there. Happy that the box was where he had left it, he closed the doors and left the box.

As the students started entering the room, he greeted them warmly and returned to his desk as he waited for the room to fill up and the bell to sound announcing the start of class - as Richard always made a habit of starting class as soon as the tardi-bell sounded.

As the bell sounded, the man rose to his feet, turned on the laptop on the desk as well as the projector and a picture appeared on the whiteboard with a quote under it:

When Perseus grew up, Polydectes gave him a series of challenging tasks to complete. Armed with a sword made by the god Hermes, winged sandals, and a shiny bronze shield given to him by the goddess Athena, Perseus slew the dreaded monster Medusa. This hideous creature had writhing snakes for hair, elephant-like tusks for teeth, and blood-red eyes. Whoever looked at her was instantly turned to stone.

On the other side of the board from he picture he wrote: 1. Where do you think this quote came from? Why do you think this? And 2. How is this picture of a sculpture connected to the quote? What details made you think this?

"Welcome, everyone." He finally addressed the class with a bright smile. "On your desk, you will have a copy of Shrouded in Myth, but for now I want you to ignore it and have a look at what's on the board. When you are ready, I want you to write down the questions I have put on the board and your answers to them. There are no right or wrong answers." He gave a half smile. "Well, within reason anyway. This is by no means silent work, so feel free to discuss your thoughts with the person sitting next to you."

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Students
Present:
Jayne Doe

@kate
Serenity Oliver
Thomas Oliver

Absent:
Adonya van Rutherford
Ben Hall
@brookem
@running5
@olivia

[Jayne Doe]

Jayne walked into the English classroom, her head still buzzing from Algebra, and quickly found her seat before taking the folder she needed from her bag, along with her pencil case and pulled out the pens that she needed, still preferring to use her glittery one rather than plan pens - which she did use for tests. She then placed her bag on the seat beside her to make sure that at least one of the seats either side of her was saved for Olivia.

She began reading through the paper that was on her desk when Mr Stone's voice drew her attention and she lifted her eyes from the sheet to look at what was now on the bard. She arched an eyebrow at the rather gruesome looking picture of a statue and wrote down the questions on the board, one question per page. She nodded her head as she really looked at the picture and read the quote under it.

She glanced at Olivia and scrunched he nose. "Gross." She said quietly. "But I'm guessing he wants a bit more than that. Want to put any money on the quote coming from the paper he told us to ignore? I wonder if I could set Medusa on a couple of my previous foster families?"

She picked up her pen as she began to think about her answers to the questions they were given.

[Serenity Oliver]

Serenity floated into her English classroom. She wouldn't admit it to anyone else, but English had to be one of her favourite classes. She liked the fact that the atmosphere in the classroom changed from day to day, especially at times like this, when they were in between topics.

Gliding over to her normal table, she slid into the chair and took her English folder out of her bag. Her eyebrows rose at there being nothing on the board, but after removing her pencil case from the messenger bag, and picking up the folder, she remembered that she had seen something on her desk. She ran her eyes over the paper and her eyebrows shot up when the names of Greek Gods seemed to jump out at her and she read through the top paper.

She looked up, almost guiltily, when Mr Stone started speaking, and she paid attention to what was now on the board. She listened to the man and nodded as he spoke. She then turned her attention back to the board. The first answer was easy as she had already read the paper that that man said they were going to ignore, thus knowing the quote came from there, so she decided to answer the second question first:

2. How is this picture of a sculpture connected to the quote? What details made you think this? The sculpture is of Perseus after he had beheaded Medusa. Possibly the fact that Perseus is standing there holding the head of Medusa?

She knew that she could have written more, and possibly would later on, but for now she set her pen down.

[Thomas Oliver]

Tommy slipped into the classroom just as the tardi-bell sounded and very quickly slid into the closest seat, shooting an apologetic look at Mr Stone. He knew that he had been pushing time, but had wanted to clarify some things from the teacher of his previous class, a teacher who had offered him a note, but the boy had turned it down.

His attention was grabbed as the picture and quote appeared on the board and he quickly read through the quote, a grin curling his lips up as a couple of names stuck out the most. He felt that he was going to enjoy this topic. As Hollywood went with movies based on Greek Gods, he had found that Percy Jackson wasn't too bad, didn’t get anywhere near as good as Clash of the Titans, but it was alright.

Rummaging through his bag, he pulled out the notebook he had for the class and scrawled down the questions; one at the top of the page and the second halfway down. He then looked at the picture again.

1. Where do you think this quote came from? Why do you think this? I’m guessing it came from a piece of writing, because it’s nothing I’ve learned from my studies of the Greek Gods, even if Perseus is only a demigod.
2. How is this picture of a sculpture connected to the quote? What details made you think this? Because the picture is a statue of the demigod holding Medusa’s head after he beheaded her, though it’s probably a little more gruesome than it should be, because if you use a sword to slice someone's head off, there would be nothing hanging from the neck.

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OOC: Just because Tommy slipped in almost late, doesn't mean that everyone posting after him has to, I just like posting all my characters together and Tommy's not the kind to hurry from one class to the next.

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Slipping inside the classroom before the bell, Tori glanced around before taking a seat at the closest desk to the door. He took several minutes to quietly put away his books from his previous class and pull out a notebook for the class he was currently in. He did like english and language arts, they just didn't always like him. 

Looking at the picture projected on the whiteboard and reading the quote, Tori took the next few minutes to copy down the questions on the board, not answering them just yet, as he had to think. Taking another look at the rather gruesome picture, he studied it with interest, then went back to reread what he'd written in his notebook. He played with his pencil for several minutes before putting it to the paper again and writing down his answers.

1. Where do you think this quote came from? Why do you think this?
        Someone had to say it for it to be a quote. Probably someone who later became famous.

2. How is this picture of a sculpture connected to the quote? What details made you think this?
        The quote mentions Medusa's beheading, and the sculpture is holding a head in its hand, so I'd assume to to be Medusa's head. There also looks to be wings at the head area of the sculpture, sort of like how Hermes is usually captured in cartoons...

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    Kate pranced into her English class and quickly found a desk among the other students. She much preferred this and her history class to her maths and sciences, so she wasn't entirely displeased to be here, though she would much rather be outside. The new spring warmth was ever-temping, and she couldn't wait for her academic classes to be over so she could go traipse through the mud to see her horses. Tapping her pen impatiently on her desk as she waited for the class to begin, Kate idly began to skim over the paper before her.

    She looked up as the teacher began to speak, and regretted her beginning to read the paper a bit, but it couldn't be helped, and they'd end up reading it soon enough. After being given instructions, Kate set to work answering the questions about the quote that was projected onto the board.

1. Where do you think this quote comes from? Why do you think this?
-I believe that this quote comes from Greek myth, as the multiple names that are featured are all figures in Greek Mythology.

2. How is this picture of a sculpture connected to the quote? What details made you think this?
-The sculpture appears to feature Perseus, holding the head of the slain Medusa. One should come to this conclusion after reading the quote that explains the task of killing of Medusa. The head appears to have snakes for hair, which enforces this conclusion.

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Valentine entered the classroom, feeling some satisfaction in the knowledge he did not qualify as late, and was even a little bit early. Whenever the tardy bell sounded, he deflated slightly. Okay, maybe not quite that early. But close enough. As long as he was not late, it was not something to be too worried about.

The consistent, pleasant smile that was nearly always on his face in some manner was still there, having disguised itself as nothing more than a gentle curve of the lips. He was buzzing today, the beautiful weather today having energized him. It would give him a good chance to have a day out with Teardrop, and whenever the weekend would be spectacular if things kept up like this. He loved going out on trails sometimes, just to relax and take a breather. He listened to the teacher, but whenever he was in a mood such as this a lot of the words tended to go in one ear and out the other. But, he always managed. Getting the gist of what needed to be done, he pulled out a notebook and pencil and wrote down in his formal handwriting:

1) I find that there is a good chance the quote is from some form of Greek literature, or a document describing what is said to have happened.
2) The fact that it depicts someone holding up a severed hear is apparently designed to depicting Perseus reigning triumphant after defeating Medusa, and holding up the prize. In other words, her head.

Apparently he did not think to write down the questions, but it was too late now.

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Jackson made his way from class to class. The next one he was dreading going to was Language Arts. Although he liked school in a sense, he was more into the science and math part of school. Reading and writing weren’t his favorite subject, but it was a required class and so he needed to attend the class. Before meeting Phillip he was the type to skip classes and not care about his grades, but as of right now he had people to impress.

He shrugged his book bag back onto his shoulder as he walked down the hallway. Jackson turned into the class to see that six other students were already there. He picked a seat and waited for class to start. Once it did he pulled out his notebook and pencil. The projector went on and the projection showed a man hold a decapitated head and below it a quote. He read the three questions that the teacher had written on the board and then listened to him as he spoke.

Although the teacher told the class that it was not a silent activity, but that was how Jackson thought, independently. He read the questions and then looked back at the picture, then at the first question. He wrote it down in his notebook, he did this with the second and third question. For the first question he simply wrote, Greek Mythology, Medusa is a Greek monster and Perseus is a Greek hero.. He knew that Medusa and Perseus were from Greek Mythology. For the second question he thought more on this.