MY SCIENCE PROJECT (1985) Dennis Hopper, a sympathetic science teacher (once a 1960s radical) encourages his auto shop majoring student to make a good science project, so he sneaks into a graveyard with his new nerdy girlfriend and does FULL FILM: ok.ru/video/1102728530470

from a student story: "Pallid branches sprouted from the crazed man’s chest as his mad cackles filled the air, the abomination was Bob no more. William swiftly fled the area in fear, and as he... 1/2

from a student story: "The chimera attacked Jack with a camera. Certainly, the chimera killed Jack and unfortunately, he died. "

Hugo de Groot aka Grotius philosopher of tolerance "Prison escapee, high-stakes politician, shipwreck survivor, Grotius was a remarkable man who led a remarkable life." University student age 11 “the miracle of Holland” escaped from a castle "hidden in a chest of books"

students have questions, you should have answers: Student: "why?" [X 1000] Jesse: 'Because it's like rock paper scissors - new move creates new countermove' Student: "Then why..." Jesse: [draws picture]

had a student ask me a homework question: *why was Tsar Nicholas II unfit?* this struck me as a deeply interesting question - my quick right/wrong answer: "hmmm, probably for the same reason his identical cousin, George V was unfit" i told her not to write that down

BREAKING BAD is about a badly broken school system, the chemistry teacher who finds his dropout student, and then successfully tutors him.

a student story: SEXUAL HARRASSMENT IN THE MIDDLE AGEST by Raphael The two moons orbited the Earth, like satellites, overlooking the two armoured warriors fighting in the candle-lit castle.

student asked me yesterday if Joan of Arc was fictional (despite the student's knowledge of her being a part of history)... i told her it was a good question - i told my student that her ashes were thrown in the Seine, so she doesn't have a grave where we can go dig her up...

student sentence is full of awesome hilarity: "Without a movement Jack stood still."

sentence from a student story: "Robert too was quite scared, the sky was covered with gray clouds and black ravens soared, not knowing what was happening, he said, 'Hello.'"

my student started a sentence: "Firstable, Economic side, Canada has much more freedom and gender respect than..."😂 imma put "firstable" into my rotation immediatelon

the opening sentence of a student story: "In the past, far from the present, humans and many species lived."

HIGH AND LOW (1963) Tishiro Mifune is a wealthy industrialist whose family is targeted for kidnapping adapted from King's Ransom, an 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain directed by Akira Kurosawa FULL FILM: archive.org/details/high-and…

while ppl oft talk abt where STAR WARS (1977) was coming from, pointing to movies like THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958) for characters and DAMBUSTERS (1955) for the *trench run* - id also like to point to something that doesn't come from a particular movie, but a convention in em