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Fourth Years; *Archived* Lesson Two
Topic Started: Feb 3 2010, 02:18 AM (352 Views)
Prodan Zhefarovich
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Prodan gathered a few muggle devices in front of him, and he made sure they were facing up, and soon, the students would know what they were. As the class entered, Prodan wasted no time at all, "Welcome back, students. Today, we are going to begin our study on muggle communications. I think today we are going to start by voice communications. Muggles use what is called a telephone to communicate from one house to another. They call them phones for short."

Prodan continued, "Alexander Graham Bell was the man who invented the phone. Each person that has a phone is assigned a number that allows another phone owner to contact them by pushing the number in the keypad like so." Prodan picked up the cordless phone from his desk and showed the numbers. "The numbers are zero through nine, and they have to be pushed in a specific order to dial the person." Prodan set the phone down. He nodded at the students that were smart enough to take notes.

"There are a number of different styles of phones available. When you are in a muggle home, you may see any number of kinds around. I have a few here, and you may feel free to check them out and play with them after a bit." Prodan held up another type of phone, "This is what you would call a cellular phone, or cellphone for short. They can travel with the person who owns one. The number when dialed will make the phone with the person ring." Prodan wrapped it up and he set the phone to the desk once more.

Prodan grinned at his students, "You can come to the front and experiment with them. Not to worry, they do not work right now, cause of the magic all around us. Once you are finished, you are free to leave, after you copy your homework down from the board." With his index finger, he pointed to the board, revealing the homework.


Homework: RP the lesson and write a paragraph about Alexander Graham Bell. Include a source! Remember: Homework is definitely worth extra credit. ;)

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Eden headed to her Muggle Studies class. She was looking foreword to it out of all her classes this term this was by far the easiest one. Eden walked into the classroom and took a seat. Looking around the room Eden wondered who was going to show up and also what was going on with all the phones that where in the room. Pulling out a piece of parchment and a quill Eden got ready to take notes.

notes
 
-Telephones are used to talk from house to house
-There are many different kinda to pick from.



Eden finished taking notes and thought her own cellphone that was at her moms house because there was no reason to have it at school when it would not work. Not moving from her seat as most of the class went to the front to play with the phones. Eden had seen many of them and they where of no interest to her anymore. Watching the students playing with the phones. Eden smirked she could think of the silly things they could do with the phone not like they would know. Eden thought back to all the times that she had called the pizza company and ordered pizzas and gave them a fake address. It was really funny and she had never been caught. Once the ball had rung Eden gathered her things and headed for the door she wanted to get outside and enjoy the fresh air for a while before she started on her homework.


Homework
 
Eden Koshiba
Slytherin Fourth Year
Muggle Studies Lesson Two

Alexander Graham Bell

Born March 3rd 1847 Alexander Bell was a scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator. His life's work was greatly influenced by his wife and mother who where both deaf. In 1876 he was granted the first U.S. patent for the telephone. In retrospect, Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study. Bell died of diabetes on August 2, 1922, at his private estate. While tending to her husband after a long illness, Mabel whispered, "Don't leave me." By way of reply, Bell traced the sign for no—and then he expired. Upon Bell's death, during his funeral, "every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in honor of the man who had given to mankind the means for direct communication at a distance".


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O-9 "Good work!"
Edited by Professor Prodan Zhefarovich, Feb 10 2010, 07:28 PM.
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Libby was quite excited for her second muggle studies lesson. She was dressed in her Hufflepuff robes and made her way down to the first floor. When she was there she took a seat in her classroom. There was just one other person there at the time, and although Libby didn't know her, she took a seat beside the girl. "Hey" she gave the girl a small nod and a smile before taking a look around the room.

Where they phones? Libby thought to herself. She knew a bit about muggle equipment as her father was a muggle, and remembering that last night she'd left her own mobile phone on the Hufflepuff windowsill, a recent gift from her father that he wanted her to have for when she was traveling between places.

She listening to the professor and took down her notes.

Notes about the telephone
 

-Alexander Bell invented the telephone
-The telephone is a muggle device which allows one person to get in contact with another person.
-They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.
-Some are plugged into houses, so one building can call another, as well as individual phones, which can be carried with a user.


Libby got up and walked over to a black home phone. This one looked very much like the one she'd had at her own house. She'd only used it a few times. Her mother had always tried to get her as far away from muggle things, after thinking they would be a bad influence in her wizarding education.

Leaving the lessons, Libby made a mental note to do the homework before next week. When she had the time she made a trip to the library, and hunted for a book on Alexander Bell. She wrote down a paragraph about him to show the professor next lesson.

Work
 

Liberty Barnett
Fourth Year Hufflepuff
Muggle Studies Lesson Two

Alexander Bell

He was born in 1847, and he was a scientist. In 1876 he invented the telephone and a year later, he made the bell telephone cmpany. He was driven into wanting to learn by a genuine and rare intellectual curiousity. He explored all kinds of communicated, and also investigated kites, airplanes, sheep-breeding, artificial respiration and water distillation. In 1877 he also got married to Mabel Hubbard. In August 1922 he died, but a few months before he said "There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things."


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O-10 "Great work!"

Edited by Professor Prodan Zhefarovich, Feb 10 2010, 07:29 PM.

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