Mr. Stanfield Assigns Time Travel to Ancient Greece for a Four on Weekly Assignment

When Mr. Stanfield taught his mini lesson on Ancient Greece, his top students thought that getting a four would be the same it always has. In an interview with a local teacher’s pet, a student said “I thought this week would be the same as others, maybe just rewriting the entirety of the federalist papers, or maybe annotating and summarizing Plato's republic. I didn’t think time travel was even on the table.”

In past assignments, Stanfield has assigned softball homework for a 3, such as translating and memorizing the entirety of Hammurabi's code, reconstructing the atom bomb to understand cold war tensions, or serving 20 years inside Guantanamo bay to gain a deeper insight into post-9/11 events.

However, this week, as students covered events of ancient Greece, they found a surprise in their weekly assignment. It was just a list of coordinates. Students figured out that in order to get a 4, they would have to reach a drop point in the Mojave Desert, where they were stripped of their belongings and sent back to Ancient Greece. To maximize the learning experience, students were required to participate in the siege of Troy, then become one of the 300 in the defense of Sparta, while simultaneously debating philosophy with Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato.

Our previously mentioned teacher’s pet, Cameron Kierkegaard, still found it a breeze, “I finished it during class time. It’s really easy to get a 4 without homework if you focus. I even had time to do the extra credit for the next 10 years.”

The Shallot reached out to Mr. Stanfield for comment, “4s are meant for above average effort. They shouldn’t be a walk in the park.”