Color and Light

[Mycroft Hollins]

@anna
Cara-Jean Kitchi
@running9
Danielle A. St George
Gretchen Holmes
@running5
@neighneigh
Martijn van der Berg

Mycroft always wanted a change of pace when it came to his classes. Even though the year hadn't even started, he was already bored with the subject matter. However luckily for him European History was broad, and the cultural differences between the various European countries even broader. For the first class of the year he decided to change pace and delve into that a little bit. Besides, understanding the similarities and differences between the countries would help his students understand the events of their history better, at least that was the plan. 

Taping several prints to the whiteboard, he wrote letters besides each of them before writing a list of countries nearby the pictures. He was very curious as to what his students would write for the answers. At least he was giving them a key of sorts to work from, he could hardly imagine what the answers would be without one. 

Patiently he waiting for each of his students to come in, greeting them politely as they greeted him. Once the bell rang he stood up, walking around to the front of his desk and leaning against it. "Greetings, my name is Mr. Hollins and this year we will be talking about various pieces of European History. However history can be rather dry sometimes, so we're going to begin the class without something different. There are nine paintings of various styles on the board here. I would like you all to take a guess using the word bank of countries, where each painting originated from. Then we'll go over each painting together. Sound fair?" 

Once he's gotten a decent affirmation he allowed them five minutes to write their responses before continuing, "All right, let's start with painting A. Would anyone like to take a guess which country it originates from?" 


Germany, England, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, and Switzerland.

Painting A

Painting B

Painting C

Painting D

Painting E

Painting F

Painting G

Painting H

Painting I

[Cara-Jean Kitchi]

Cara let one class and made her way toward her history class, doing her best to keep out of the way of the other students.

Walking through the door of the classroom, she bowed her head toward Mr Hollins and then made her way over to the desk at the side of the room under the window. Sitting down, she began to set her desk up and once everything was in place, she slipped her glasses on and turned her attention to the board. She frowned in thought as she looked at each of the paintings.

Opening the folder, she dated the top of the page and then put A through to I down the left margin of the paper and wrote the countries on the line above the first letter, which she would cross out as she went. The last painting was the easiest to work out which of the nine countries it went with.

When the man began to speak, she put her pen down and listened to the instructions - which was pretty self-explanatory - and with a nod of her head, she began to move her concentration between the board and her folder as she worked out where each of the paintings came from, and she guessed spending over a decade of her life in Europe actually came in handy for something.

When the teacher drew the attention back to him, she kept her eyes on her paper and hoped that someone else would call the answer out.

[Martijn van der Berg]

Tijn rose out of his seat and stretched as the bell rang before he started gathering his things and throwing them into his bag. Only then did he start making his way out of his previous classroom, ready to head to European History. He made his way to the classroom easily, greeting Mr. Hollins with a smile and then heading to the seat closest to the door, not even paying attention to his surroundings as he dropped his backpack next to his chair and started looking at the things on the board.

As Mr. Hollins started speaking, Tijn put his pencil down, deciding that this activity wouldn't do much good if they didn't know the titles of the pictures, so he would just focus on recognizing each. The first one was actually easy, as his mother had taught him about that... Yes, sometimes she forced him to learn art pieces. He raised his hand, "France. Painted by Seurat, specifically." He turned his attention to the next few paintings... Which he did not know that well, if at all, except for then the last one. But that one everyone had seen. Other people could guess for the next few, let them take a turn.

[Danielle A. St George]

Dani was lucky enough to have had a free period before her European History class, and she had spent it in the library working on a project. As soon as the bell rang, she gathered her things, and made her way to Mr. Hollins' class, greeting the teacher with a smile, and sitting down in her usual seat. She got out her notebook and her pencil case, looking at the paintings on the board with some curiosity. It felt as if she had walked into an art class again, except she hadn't.

Listening to Mr. Hollins' explain what they were doing for that class, she quickly jotted down the following:

Painting A: France
Painting B: Germany
Painting C: Belgium ?
Painting D: Spain
Painting E: Portugal
Painting F: England
Painting G: Sweden
Painting H: Switzerland
Painting I: Italy


The last painting is one that everyone should know, and she raised her hand to answer the question, but Tijn beat her to it. Not that it mattered, but she felt a little peeved at herself. She checked off France next to her notes, and smiled slightly. The old masters definitely knew how to paint, that was for certain. Very few works of art lately, measured up to the art in history, and now, splashes of paint on a canvas was considered art, even though it has become modernised.

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