do kangaroos prefer carrots or figs, generally speaking

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Elizabeth Toman
Gavriila Shahar
Fionn Paquet
@maeve
Serenity Oliver
Thomas Oliver

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After her 'A' students scurried out of the classroom Vi sat at her desk and took a sip of her coffee. She loved her travel mug because for the most part it keep hot drinks hot and cold beverages cold. Standing from her chair she grabbed marker and wrote on the board once again. Though what she was writing had the same general idea, but different words. Do Kangaroos Prefer Carrots or Figs, Generally Speaking, she caped the marker and moved back to her desk to collect more note papers.

Once students started showing up at the door she handed them each a paper, "You may sit anywhere, but please try and sit towards the front." She told the students as they looked around for seats. Once the bell rang for classes to start, Vi made her way to the front of the room. "Welcome to Biology B, I'm Ms. Woods. Alright so we aren't going to waste much time in starting to learn the information that I would like you all to know."

"First we are going to start with talking about taxonomy." She scanned the class looking for anyone who didn't look like they had no idea what she was talking about. "Anyone want to take a guess what taxonomy is and what this sentence has to do with it?"

[Elizabeth Toman]

Libby left one class and made her way to the biology lab, once again asking herself what had made her chose to do this class above all other science classes, but it was too late to worry about that as she walked into the lab and arched an imperious eyebrow as a woman stood at the door holding a piece of note paper out to her. "Thanks." She said with a slight turn of her lips that could be a smile as she took the paper between thumb and fore-finger and walked to a table, front centre, and began to pull her folder and pencil case out of her bag - her body language made it clear that she was sitting here because this is where she wanted to sit, not because of what the woman said.

When the woman started the class, she pretended to examine her nails, and actually noticed that she needed to do some serious work on her manicure, and looked up at the question. "Taxonomy is the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics." She shrugged, she may act like an air-head at times, but she wasn't always going to sit back if she knew the answer, and she only knew the answer because it had come up in one of her home-school assignments and she had confused it with taxidermy - a simple and honest mistake that any thirteen year old would make. She looked at the board and lifted both eyebrows. "If it's a question, should there not be a question mark after figs?" And now she was just being a brat.

[Fionn Paquet]

Between one class and the next, Finn scuffed his feet as he walked down the hallway, keeping out of the way of the other students as much as possible, he was tired and hurt a lot more than he probably should, but he needed to forget about that for now, he could just blame it on the gym coach for being in a complete grump and taking it out on the gymnasts.

Walking into the bio lab, he took the note paper from the woman at the door with a tight smile and glanced around the room, not able to stop the groan that escaped him when his eyes landed on the Queen of the Beam herself. Making sure to follow the teacher's instruction, keeping toward the front of the room, he sat as far as he could away from Libby and pulled the notebook he had for this class out of his bag.

When the woman, Ms Woods as it appeared to be, began the lesson, he could do nothing but shrug at her question, and resisting the urge to roll his eyes at the aforementioned student as she answered it and then gave a snipy answer, which he was secretly impressed by. He quickly wrote down Taxonomy - classification of science stuff.

[Serenity Oliver]

As she walked down the hallway, Serenity pulled her blonde hair back and using the band around her wrist, she pulled it back into a quick and messy ponytail, she figured that this would be the one class where it would be best if it were tied back - though she wasn't stupid enough to think they would be cutting anything up in their first lesson. It was that part of biology alone that made her want to not do the class, but if she wanted to follow her dream of being a natural vet, she would need to just suck it in and handle things - and light a candle for the poor creature at a later time.

Walking into the lab, she gave the woman at the door a gracious smile as she was handed a note paper, though her eyebrows did rise as she wondered what it was for, as she had her own notebook for the class. She didn't ask this though as she glanced around the room. Looking from one seated gymnast to the other, she walked forward and joined Libby at the table where she was sitting. It wasn't that they were friends, but the small blonde didn't feel like sitting by herself. She knew Tommy was in this class, but she didn't want him to think he had to sit with her either.

She took her book out as Ms Woods started the class, she shot Libby a sidelong glance as the girl spoke up confidently and then rudely. While she wanted to write down what the girl had said, she would wait to hear the teacher's reply before she wrote it down.

[Thomas Oliver]

Tommy moved from one class to another, he was looking forward to the science class, and it wasn't for the thrill of cutting some poor creature up wither, if that's what you were thinking. He just liked the idea of learning about what made things tick. Unlike his sister, he had no intention on using this class to go on to med, or vet, school, it was just a fascination he'd always had. The idea of cutting something up? That though just grossed him out!

As he entered the lab, he gave the woman at the door a bright smile. "Thank you, my kind lady." He said with a sweeping bow as he accepted the paper. Straightening up with a wolfish grin, he looked around the room and shuddered. He walked forward and joined Finn at his desk, being the brother of a gymnast, he knew who all the others were by proxy, and he pulled his folder out of his bag. "No offense, dude, but I feel like I've entered an gymnast only zone." He whispered to the boy next to him - little did he know that the two of them were the only males in this class.

He listened as the teacher started the class and he shook his head at her question, either question really, and followed Finn's lead when Libby spoke out the answer.

[Gavriila Shahar]

Gavriila entered the biology room, giving a hello to the teacher, before scanning her surroundings. She took a piece of note paper, unsure as to what is was for... She had loose leaf note paper. Most of the girls she recognized from gymnastics, though she didn't actually know them, and one boy looked familiar...maybe he did gymnastics as well. The other boy she didn't recognize at all. She mentally sighed, she knew no one but she didn't want to sit by herself either. She did recognize Reni, they had ridden together before but Reni and Gavriila were more of acquaintances than friends, to Gavriila at least. 

Gavriila sat in second row at the front of the room. Once class started, Ms. Woods asked what taxonomy was and what the sentence on the board had to do with it. Gavriila raised an eyebrow as she read over the sentence, wondering why a kangaroo would like carrots or figs. Focusing her attention back on the matter at hand, another student answered the question along with making a good point as to the sentence written on the board. Gavriila wrote the girl's answer in the paper small enough, that if the definition was wrong, she could cross it out and write the correct definition next to it. 

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Her eyes scanned the room to try and catch any eye contact. She was not the type of teacher to publicly humiliate her students, in turn she would just make them work harder to show her what they knew and what they did not know. A voice popped up from the front center of the class to the student who entered the classroom first. Vi already had the impression that this one would be a handful and with the tone of her answer her suspicions were confirmed. "Thank you Elizabeth. Taxonomy is the science of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups." She reworded the sentence as it came up on the board from her powerpoint. Her clicker assisted her and allow her to focus more on teaching than sitting behind a computer and clicking through the slideshow.

With the question asked by the same student who answered Vi's question, she sighed. "Seeing as this is not an English class, does it really matter much?" Before clicking to the next slide she turned again to the class, "Now that we know what taxonomy is, does anyone know what the categories of taxonomy are?" She looked at the sentence, "And if you know them, but can't remember the order, look at this sentence carefully." Violet drug her index finger along the board, letting it linger a little longer on the first letter of each word, seeing if the students would catch on.

[Elizabeth Toman]

Libby gave a smile in reply to the teacher's thanks, though the smile didn't get close to touching her eyes. She raised a challenging eyebrow to the woman's reply on her grammatical question. "But I can guarantee if one of us handed in a paper that was grammatically incorrect, we would get marked down for it, generally speaking, of course."

Getting the idea that if she opened her mouth again, she was likely to get herself in trouble, Libby decided to allow someone else answer the question, while she wrote the answer down in her note book.

D - domain
K - kingdon
P - phylum
C - class
O - order
F - family
G - genus
S - species

She put her pen down as she finished writing and knew that she would need to send her tutor a card, thanking her for all her years of dedication, as Libby wasn't stupid and she knew that she had been anything but and easy student to deal with and she guessed that this is why the woman had allowed the girl to pick so many of her own topics to work on, while they weren't doing the things that had to be done for Libby to get the pass-marks she needed to remain training.

[Fionn Paquet]

Finn grinned as Tommy sat down beside him laughed at his comment. "Yeah, welcome to the gymnast's Twilight Zone, bro." He replied.

He smirked at the verbal sparring that seemed to be happening between teacher and the Queen of the Beam and he nodded when it was confirmed that his fellow gymnast's words had been correct.

He turned his attention to the sentence on the board and frowned. He was sure that with mnemonics, the letters should all be capitalized to show that they all stand for a different word. However, unlike Libby, he liked his academic standing too be brash with a teacher who could easily fail him for speaking when he should remain silent.

He wrote each of the first letter of each word down the left margin of his page and wrote the word he was sure went beside the letter, though he wasn't brave enough to speak up. After all, if he didn't have them right, he'd have the chance of proving the fact that he was nothing more than a jock and there wasn't room in his head for anything else other than his ego.

He tapped his pen against the page by the letter P as this was the letter he was having trouble with - his other reason for not wanting to speak up. He shook his head as the word came to him and he quickly wrote it down.

[Serenity Oliver]

Serenity shook her head at how rude Libby was being, which really didn't at all surprise her, especially with how quick she was to reply to their gym coach with snarky comebacks, though they were never as disrespectful as she was being now, and at least in the gym the girl at least tried to look abashed when she said them.

She shot a glare toward her brother as he chuckled when the teacher spoke, and there was no doubt in her mind that it was the word organisms organisms that had set her brother off. She shook her head as she held her hands under the table and rubbed them together until she felt the heat of friction. Pulling her hands apart slowly, she had a ball of energy between them and without having to turn in her seat, she flicked the ball at Tommy.

Turning back to her book, she picked up her pen and began to write down the first letter of each word and the word that they actually stood for. She'd do the work, but she'd allow someone else in the class to speak up, and drew little pictures beside each word, letting her arty side come out.

[Thomas Oliver]

As soon as the teacher confirmed what the gymnast had said, everything seemed to fall into place for Tommy and even though he gave a slightly amused snicker at one of the words the teacher used, trying to look as innocent as possible while doing so.

He began to write down the letters and the words that went with them when he drew in a sharp breath and touched the side of his neck as he narrowed his eyes at his sister, knowing exactly what the smaller girl had done. Rather than retaliating though he did nothing at all. He'd let her sit and anticipate his reaction. These were the times when he wished they could converse with their minds, it would make sitting in class a little more entertaining.

When it seemed that no one else was going to speak up, he lifted a hand into the air and when he was called upon, he spoke up. "The categories are; Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species." He shrugged as he finished speaking and fell silent again, after all, that was all she had asked for and nothing else. If there was one thing Tommy wasn't, it was an over-acheiver and only ever gave as much as he had to.

[Gavriila Shahar]

Gaavriila was silent, as she heard the teacher reply to the girl who had answered the taxonomy question. She frowned as the girl gave a reply to the teacher.  Now that, would be a good reason to get sent to the office or get a bad grade in the class. She couldn't believe someone would do that; they were all here either for the equestrian aspect, the schooling, the sports, or everything that the Academy offered. Regardless, Gavriila thought that someone should always be respectful...especially to someone who was their teacher and of higher authority than anyone in the classroom.

Focusing her attention on the sentence, she focused on the first letters of each word. D would be domain. K would be kingdom. However, other than those two she was totally lost. Writing down the two that she knew to be true in her notebook, she waited for someone to say the rest of the words that she didn't know.

Gavriila wrote down the rest of the words that represented each letter skipping a line in case she needed to add something or or get rid of the word and write in a new word entirely. Setting her pen down on her note book, she hoped that girl who had asked the grammar question wouldn't further continue the topic during their class as it would, most likely, take away time from their notes.