Danica Kiernan;;Muggle Studies-Denied.

[Danica Kiernan]

Name: Danica Kiernan

Age: 23

Position Applied for: Muggle Studies

Why: Danica has an intricate knowledge of Muggle life, being raised in a Muggle househould until the age of 11, and then after leaving Hogwarts working and living among Muggles as a would-be fashion designer.

What you would bring to this position that is unique:

Danica fully believes in a hands on method of teaching and has much access to Muggle techonology, literature, fashion, history and trends. She is a history buff when it comes to the Muggle world, mostly because of her time spent in Muggle schools as well as her own fascination with reading. She would be able to cover from past to present, even possibly to future things that may come to pass. She keeps up with their moves and what's going on now through Owl Mail, from letters from home from her Muggle mother, as well as the latest fashion and gossip magazines. She often receives packages of books on Muggle history, art, and other popular works of fiction literature. She is continually learning about the Muggle world to better understand her experiences and to prepare for future experiences in their world.

She will be able to give students an inside look as to what their money system is like, to how a telephone or cellular phone works, as well as why keeping the magical world a secret is for the best for all parties involved, except for in dire circumstances.

[Courtney Larkin]

Dear Miss Danica Kiernan-

Thank you for your interest in teaching Muggle Studies at Hogwarts Schoool of Witchcraft and Wizardy. Unfortunately, other people have applied for the same position. We request that you post an application for an alternative position, but in order to best determine who should have this position, we ask that you reply to this thread with a lesson preview. This preview must be roleplay style, at least a paragraph [more than 5 complete sentences], and while you don't really have to "teach," per se, we ask that you do have some sort of "teaching" in your post.

Provided is an excellent example of a teaching post.

Happy Posting!
Courtney

[Danica Kiernan]

Danica surveyed the room around her. It was a good sized, normal looking classroom. She ran a hand down her desk, smoothing over the worn maple. It needed things though. Life for one she thought. Sliding the oversized Prada bag she had purchased the year before off her shoulder and onto her desk, she began pulling out things she had grabbed from her room earlier before coming to inspect the classroom. She pulled out a pale golden tablecloth and smoothed it over her desk, the fabric rippling and almost sighing as it settled onto its new home. Danica smiled and then pulled out a few other items, a photograph of her parents, and one of her two owls on their perch.

Pausing for a moment, she slapped her forehead, realizing she had forgotten to grab the extra perch from her room. Sighing, she shrugged, and glanced around, wondering if there was anything inside that they could perch on until she had a minute to go back and grab the important item. There was little in the way of furniture she noticed. She sighs softly and shakes her head, her brown hair shading her lovely face. She brushes it out of the way, suddenly wishing she hadn’t decided to chop her hair off before the semester began. But, she had and now her hair would be near her face.

Turning her attention back to the room, she slid her lovely spiral wand out of the bang and felt it tingle in the palm of her hand. Approaching the windows, she shut her eyes and imagined swags of the same golden colored fabric covering them. Opening her eyes, she thought of the necessary spell and spoke it quietly, swishing her wand in bold smooth movements. The fabric seemed to spring from nowhere, but she knew it was really coming from her own stock in her room, from a large bolt leaning against the windows there. It quickly fashioned drapes for each window, the sunlight filtering threw them, casting a golden hue over the room. Smiling, Danica tapped her lips and looked around the rest of the room. A small bookcase hovered in the back, the top of it open with sort of cubbyholes.

Approaching it, her black heels clicking quietly on the ground around her, she looked up into them. They hadn’t been used it seemed in years. And yet, she had a feeling they could easily store of a few Muggle items she knew would interest her class immensely. Going back to her bag, she pulled out a large stack of magazines, some of them from the 1950’s she had collected before coming to school, and others from recent years, including the spread of Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s wedding. She fanned them out in one of the cubbies and nodded approving of this.

She made several trips back and forth to the cubbies, pulling out an old fashioned telephone, with the faces that you would dial around instead of punching in numbers, several different clocks and timepieces, as well as a few other knick knacks, such as a few toy cars and books like Pride and Prejudice and The Count of Monte Cristo. All of these items she arranged in a way that was not only visually pleasing, but very interesting to anyone who had never seen these sorts of things before.

Finally, there was nothing left in her bag, and Danica felt that maybe, for the first time, she knew exactly what she was doing. She wanted to teach these children what it was like to grow up without the presence of magic, much like she had before being accepted at Hogwarts. She had big plans, she thought, crossing to her desk one last time to slip her bag over her shoulders.

She crossed to the old fashioned chalkboard her father had gone with her to chose and helped purchase for her classroom. She picked up a piece of light green chalk and in big swooping letters, she wrote her name, Professor Danica Kiernan, Muggle Studies. Smiling at the words, she left the room, hoping to grab a quick breakfast before her first class showed up.

And then the real fun would begin.

[Courtney Larkin]

Dear Miss Danica Kiernan,

We regret to inform you that your application for the Professor of Muggle Studies has been denied, because you did not follow the clearly set out instructions. Please see an admin if you wish to discuss this further. As for your second application, we will review that now. Please be sure to read and re-read all instructions for posting.

Happy Posting,
Courtney