So, what is this based on? What country is this school and curriculum does this schedule reflect? It looks really neat!
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So, what is this based on? What country is this school and curriculum does this schedule reflect? It looks really neat!
This is a TL I'm working on where Scotland and Ireland end up in a PU not long after the Norman conquest of England; England deteriorates into a bit of a backwater while the United Kingdom of Scotland, Ireland and the Isles (UKSII) ascends to a similar role to that of the OTL British Empire.
This particular school is called "St Margaret's High School" (after St Margaret of Scotland) so is most likely to be in Scotland, although given she was the wife of Malcolm Canmore who is seen as the "founding father" of the Union (despite some brief de facto intermissions early on in its history), it's not unheard of for things in other parts of the country to be named after her either.
The curriculum - I assume you're asking mainly about history and geography given where we are here! - is definitely somewhat navel-gazy in the first three years, not unlike the OTL English National Curriculum, focussing exclusively on UKSII and its current and former colonies.
But in the final two years, high school department heads in these subjects get a wide selection of possible "thematic modules" to choose from. The compulsory "non-thematic" modules are historiography, archaeology, and palaeography for history, and geology, hydrology, and meteorology for geography. Thematic modules, of which you do four in a year, look at a particular place/period. There are plenty of non-UKSII ones, although in practice a split of 75% "domestic" and 25% "foreign" is the norm, and more than 50%-50% is basically completely unheard of outside of specialised private schools or homeschooling.
To briefly mention natural philosophy, since this is what diverges most from OTL: because it isn't split into physics, chemistry, and biology, these are taught linearly.
Students do physics in the first three years. Year 1: classical mechanics and materials science, year 2: fluid dynamics, electricity and magnetism, year 3: particle physics and radiation). It's worth noting that basic equation curves with rudimentary differentiation and integration are taught in 1st year geometry, complementing the teaching of classical mechanics; likewise, trigonometry is taught in 3rd year geometry to help with particle physics and radiation - so the order is basically flipped compared to most OTL maths curricula which tend to cover trig before basic calculus.
Then chemistry is taught in 4th year: periodic table and properties of elements, types of chemical bond/structure, types of chemical reaction, acids, bases, salts, and finally a brief examination of types of organic compounds, polymers, and isomers. In their final year, they do biology: micro-organisms and plants in autumn term, animals in winter term, and human biology in summer term; each of these looking at taxonomy, features, cell biology, each of the vital processes (MRS GREN), and reproduction. Until the mid-20th century, the human biology component included "taxonomy" in the form of UKSII's approach to "racial science", but this has since been excised.
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I just want to say this isn't just worldbuilding: this is WORLD-ENGINEERING!
The little details of the butterflies and how they might everything from educational curriculums to cuisine interest me as much as the major events.
NICE WORK!
So there's a second St Margaret of Scotland? How is this one distinguished from the first St Margaret (the wife of Malcolm Canmore and sister of Edgar the Ætheling of England)? Or is she (the first one) butterflied by your PoD?
Very impressive details of the curriculum, etc, by the way.
Sorry, that was my sleep deprivation talking - I meant Malcolm Canmore. Fixed!
And thank you!
I can only speak for myself but I would like to see more of this world.
For something that's set, I assume, in an ATL 2020, it feels a bit too 90s early computer graphics to me. Not very precise, I know, but that's the best phrase that springs to mind so far. I think it might benefit from being less cluttered but more striking at the same time.
I think I'd like it more if the eagle and the outline of Germany were aligned, the borders outline is too far to the right for me (somewhat ironically).
Also, the German isn't quite correct. It should say the equivalent of "75 years of our German Democratic Republic", i.e. "75 Jahre unserer Deutschen Demokratischen Republik". (Bold and underlining not needed in the text itself, of course.)
I wonder if it would feel better with the tricolour as a border around the page? Or just a header and footer band? Or with several flags on poles crossed in the background, like on the 1848 Deutscher Bund CoA (from here)?
Beyond that I'm stuck for suggestions, sorry not to be more helpful.
How in God's name I failed at my own native language is beyond me.For something that's set, I assume, in an ATL 2020, it feels a bit too 90s early computer graphics to me. Not very precise, I know, but that's the best phrase that springs to mind so far. I think it might benefit from being less cluttered but more striking at the same time.
I think I'd like it more if the eagle and the outline of Germany were aligned, the borders outline is too far to the right for me (somewhat ironically).
Also, the German isn't quite correct. It should say the equivalent of "75 years of our German Democratic Republic", i.e. "75 Jahre unserer Deutschen Demokratischen Republik". (Bold and underlining not needed in the text itself, of course.)
I wonder if it would feel better with the tricolour as a border around the page? Or just a header and footer band? Or with several flags on poles crossed in the background, like on the 1848 Deutscher Bund CoA (from here)?
Beyond that I'm stuck for suggestions, sorry not to be more helpful.
Anyway, any idea perhaps on how to integrate the eagle together with the map and the flag?
I got the recommendation of having the borders be the flag. Although that could also be a bit too much for the eyes.
I know the feeling, I recently spent 5 years living in Köln and I now sometimes fail at English and end up with an inverse Denglisch.
I'll have a think about integrating the eagle and flag and map. It might take me a while, I've got a cold and my head feels like it's full of sand.
made some numismatic graphics for the timeline being prepared (still outlined in thoughts) (specifically here is a coin of 1 Aspis: a currency initially working similarly to ECU and transferable rouble, but in the future it should become ‘Euro of democratic nations’, and also interstate securities of OECD are denominated in it), I hope not failed in this))))):
Two memes from a personal worldbuilding project I'm working on more than a full-fledged timeline, set around a universe where Nazi Germany won WW2 but collapsed into a Japan-style one-party democracy sometime in the 90s.
A pro-PDE (Party of German Unity) meme, making fun of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) and DDE (German Democratic Party) by portraying them as overreacting and calling the conservative PDE Nazis.
A satirical meme about the presidency of Bob Dole (1985 -- 1989), making fun about his lackluster political agenda and failure to pass meaningful legislation due to a Democratic-dominated Congress.
A pro-PDE (Party of German Unity) meme, making fun of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) and DDE (German Democratic Party) by portraying them as overreacting and calling the conservative PDE Nazis.
"Run! It's the National Socialist era!"
"It looks like the era of National Socialism, but due to international copyright laws it is different!"
"Regardless, we should run like it is the National Socialist era!"
"Even though it isn't."
"It looks like the era of National Socialism, but due to international copyright laws it is different!"
"Regardless, we should run like it is the National Socialist era!"
"Even though it isn't."
A satirical meme about the presidency of Bob Dole (1985 -- 1989), making fun about his lackluster political agenda and failure to pass meaningful legislation due to a Democratic-dominated Congress.
that looks sick! here's some random thing I worked up while testing my skills in Inkscape
Not sure if you ever finished this, but I'd say this is amazing work. The only issue is the lack of heels. A human foot isn't shaped like that unless he's standing on some incline maybe, so he looks odd and unstable. Either make the toes higher up and "flatten" the base or make his heels stick out a little bit.
Anyone know good, versatile, free tools for parliament charts?
I know of Flourish studio but anything else?
I'm hoping to make something that has the usual arc but also a few seats off to the side like Wikipedia's depiction of the Croatian Sabor (below) and as far as I know Flourish doesn't allow that.
I know of Flourish studio but anything else?
I'm hoping to make something that has the usual arc but also a few seats off to the side like Wikipedia's depiction of the Croatian Sabor (below) and as far as I know Flourish doesn't allow that.
Thank you, I don't think I ended up finishing this and I don't have the same computer from 2016 unfortunately don't have the original file left. I can try something similar perhaps as an addition to a map soon