Lesson Plan The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket

Sunny's work suffers because she runs out of staples. Then Vice Principal Nero tells the children that if they keep failing their tests, they are going to be tutored by Coach Genghis, and that Sunny will be fired.

He says that they will have extra-hard comprehensive exams the next morning. He also demands that they give him nine bags of candy each which he mistakenly counts as 29 bags of candy, instead of 27 , as punishment for missing his concerts, and give Carmelita Spats earrings for each time she brought them a message. The Baudelaires go see the Quagmires and tell them what happened. Then the Quagmires plot a plan. The Quagmires disguise themselves as Klaus and Violet, get a sack of flour to represent Sunny, and do the exercises at night so that the Baudelaire orphans can study and make staples Coach Genghis doesn't know that it's the Quagmires that are running because it is night time and he can't see them.

The Quagmires leave their notebooks with Violet and Klaus so that they can study. Violet invents a staple-making device using a small crab, a potato, metal rods, creamed spinach, and a fork and makes staples while Klaus reads the notebooks out loud. The next morning, Vice Principal Nero and the two teachers, Mr. Bass, come to the Orphans Shack. They test Violet and Klaus, and give Sunny a stack of papers to staple. Then Coach Genghis arrives. He has discovered, by trying to kick Sunny, that Sunny had been substituted with a sack of flour.

Genghis uncovers the Quagmires' disguises as a result, and gives them canteen duty. The orphans, unable to stand it any longer, attempt to reveal that Coach Genghis is Count Olaf.

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About that time, Mr. Poe comes to deliver the candy and earrings. Vice Principal Nero tells him that the orphans have been caught "cheating", and announces that the Baudelaire orphans are going to be expelled, despite Mrs. Remora's attempts to defend them. The Baudelaire orphans tell Mr. Poe that Coach Genghis is Count Olaf. Coach Genghis runs out of the shack, and after the orphans manage to remove his disguise, he succeeds in kidnapping the Quagmires.

The two lunch ladies remove their metal masks and reveal themselves as Count Olaf's assistants, the white-faced women.

The orphans see Olaf's assistants shoving the Quagmires into an old car. Before they close the door, Duncan yells to the Baudelaire orphans "Look in the notebooks! Unfortunately, Olaf steals the notebooks before he and his henchmen drive away. The orphans weep in the lawn by Mr. Poe because they miss their friends.

The Austere Academy; or, Kidnapping! The book was set to include approximately seven new illustrations, and the fifth part of a serial supplement entitled The Cornucopian Cavalcade , which was to include a part comic by Michael Kupperman entitled The Spoily Brats , and an advice column written by Lemony Snicket, along with other additions.

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Eight Week Quiz E. Eight Week Quiz F. Eight Week Quiz G. Mid-Book Test - Easy. Final Test - Easy. Mid-Book Test - Medium. Final Test - Medium. Mid-Book Test - Hard. Final Test - Hard. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. Truth be told, within the chapters that make up this dreadful story, the children will face snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, violin recitals, S. It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night's sleep, in this case, you should probably choose some other book.

Carmelita Spats, the self-proclaimed "nicest" and "prettiest" girl in the school. Violet , Klaus , and Sunny are sent to a depressing and stressful boarding school called Prufrock Preparatory School. The buildings and classrooms resemble gravestones and their motto is "Memento Mori", a Latin phrase which means "remember you will die". He also reveals that without a letter from their parents giving them permission to live in the dormitories, they are forced to live in "The Orphan Shack". The shack is small and disgusting, painted green and decorated with pink hearts to humiliate them, has vicious crabs, and an odd tan fungus dripping from the ceiling.

Nero refuses to make an exception for the Baudelaires to live in the dormitory, where each student has a bowl of fresh fruit every Wednesday.

The Baudelaires are forced to deal with several bad situations, such as their horrible living space, Nero's mandatory six-hour violin recitals and condescending behavior, and nasty children. Most notably, Carmelita Spats bullies the Baudelaires for being orphans and having to live in a shack. Sunny is too young to attend the school so she is forced to serve as the school's secretary.

Violet's teacher is Mr. Remora who tells long and boring stories, while Klaus' teacher is Mrs. Bass , a woman who loves measuring things too much. The Baudelaires meet and befriend two other orphans, Isadora and Duncan Quagmire , after being defended by them from Carmelita Spats. Isadora and Duncan are actually two members of a set of triplets.

Their brother Quigley died in the same fire that killed their parents. The Quagmire children keep notebooks on hand, as aspiring journalist Duncan likes to write down facts and aspiring poet Isadora likes to write in couplets.

When the Baudelaires share their misfortunes with the triplets, the two reveal that they, too, stand to inherit a fortune, through the Quagmire Sapphires. Count Olaf , disguised as " Coach Genghis ," shows up and fills a role as the new gym coach. The Baudelaires wish for Genghis to take off his turban to reveal his unibrow, but Nero allows him to keep it on due to "religious reasons" and does not wish for Nero to violate his religious beliefs.

To hide his eye tattoo, Genghis also refuses to remove his shoes because he claims his feet smell. He forces the Baudelaires to run laps almost every night for S. Special Orphan Running Exercises and is extremely nasty.

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