Smart phones. That was name was really appropriate because they WERE pretty smart, and Sophie's smile echoed the professor's enthusiasm toward the topic. Cell phones were AWESOME and she wished she'd been introduced to them sooner. She missed being able to send pictures of herself to Tobes, making funny faces and communicating purely through facial expressions like that. Two-way mirrors were cool, but there was something about just sending a still photograph that was EXTRA cool.

Maybe it was just that it was a Muggle thing. Muggle things were always extra cool to Sophie Brown.

As Moxley went on to explain how cell phones actually worked, Sophie took notes. She'd given this plenty of thought and research, but hearing the professor give the exact logistics and details of it was enlightening even MORE to just how cool it was. SO COOL, MOXLEY. SO COOL.

What negatives were there, though? Well... a few came to mind. They were obvious for a pureblood who didn't grow up around Muggles - she was always quick to notice the drawbacks of things that didn't involve magic, so her hand went up. "With landlines, y'can pretty much always make a call... but cell phones can be tricky 'cause y'might be out in the middle of nowhere and lose service and not be able to use your phone at ALL. Like you said, the further you are from a cell phone tower, the worse it is to make the phone work. But I know landlines can always work, unless the power in the whole place is out or something, right? But at least they're more reliable to make a call and have, like... a connection or whatever than cell phones are. So you could be stranded somewhere in an emergency with your cell phone and need to phone for help, but because of getting no service, you'd be outta luck." That's why being magical was safer and better all-around - she never had to worry about running out of magic.

She considered herself very, very fortunate.

Angel was lost and confused, ever since the lesson started she was lost, she felt ill for some reason. She raised her hand and quietly said "Cells can lose signal right?" Angel wasn't sure herself.

Janelle wrote notes as her classmates gave their responses. She really never stopped to think how many amazing things you could do with a cell phone. She knew that they were something every muggle teenager wanted and now she understood why.

As Professor Moxley began to explain how cell phones worked, Janelle continued to take notes. The next question addressed the negative side of cell phones. Was there one? She took a moment to give it some thought. Of course there was a bad side. There was a bad side to everything. Janelle raised her hand to chime in on the topic.

"If you depend on a cell phone too much, your whole world revolves around it. Then if you lose it or it breaks, you feel like you can't function. It's like your world has come to an end."

As her classmates responed to the question, Lux made sure to make note of everything. Even though she knew about cellphones she was not an expert and it was good to be thorough. As professor Moxley began talking again, she wondered what they would be doing for the activity. Hopefully something super fun.

This time she remained silent when a question was asked. Her classmates had already said anything she would. Besides, she was still working on her notes.

Kate raised her hand...then put it back down.

Kate raised her hand again...then put it back down.

Kate raised her hand a third time...

Her classmates kept stealing her ideas!!! Well, it was technically not stealing, because they had no idea she was thinking the same thing. Kate couldn't help but get frustrated, though. Next time, she had to be faster. When a fourth idea came to mind, Kate quickly raised her hand. "Cell phones use data for some of the features. You have to pay for the data, and if you accidentally use too much data, you have to pay even more money," she said, pointing out how much some of the features can cost.

POP!

The little elf appeared suddenly in the back of the arithmancy classroom, shaking her head and flapping her ears. "Tinka brought, Missus Professor Tanner." But look, the Muggle Studies woman was here and talking. Tinka must be veeeery quiiiiet.

Silently she made her way through the rows of desks and found the girl she sought. "Psssst, special delivery for miss," she whispered to AJ Valentine, setting the plate on the desk. "Enjoy, miss!"

And before the girl could say anything, the little elf disappeared with another POP!

Cutty was looking down upon his parchment taking notes on how Toby had gotten something right but his answer was way better. Also, there was something in there about how cell phones work on muggle incantations and voice power. That was really sort of fascinating.

Then the question was happening. "Using only a sell phone as yer main source of communication would be severely limiting. And if there were a time where yer couldn't answer yer phone all yer friends and family might be worried because they'd know that as yer only means of communication yew ought have the phone on yer and answer it regularly." The social repercussions included, but also extended beyond what Caleb had said. Also, if you'd have to come up with a story to tell one girl whilst you were with the other. No good. Cutty would take owls, two-way mirrors, protean charms and fire chats anyday.



"I wouldn't eat those if I were yew, AJ. Might be jinxed or poisoned." He said turning toward his class mate. It was just suspicious. Suspicious tacos turning up in the middle of classtime. "Don't let her eat them, Adi." Cutty gripped the hilt of his wand and turned it on the soft shelled intruders. "SpeRevelio." He casted at them as the room began to smell like a delicious food truck.

Norah nodded at Professor Moxley's response and grinned again before leaning over to add the information to her notes, complete with illustration. It was kind of funny to think about why the little phones worked. Usually it just seemed like all this muggle stuff worked like magic, and there wasn't anything going on behind it except there WAS. Lots and lots of things. She wasn't entirely sure if that was a good thing or not, but it was fun to think about all the same. Adding a mane of curly hair to her stick figure drawing just for fun, the fourth year looked up from her notes just as the first few students began answering Moxley's new question.

She put a hand up immediately, 'cause her gramps had talked about this before. The only problem was that she never really knew when he was joking or not, so she was just going to roll with it because she hadn't used the things enough to really get all the bad stuff. It was much easier to find the good stuff. "My gramps says that if you keep a cellular phone by your head for too long the wave-y things will fry your brains into jello." It all sounded a whole lot more ridiculous when SHE said it, but at least it was an answer. Now she'd really see if gramps knew anything.

Zhenya listened to all of the other responses, and Professor Moxley's responses. She was glad her answer wasn't just silly, it somewhat fit in with the cellular phones. Zhenya didn't really understand what Professor Moxley was saying about what cells actually were in relation to the phones, so she wrote down a dot point so that she knew to come back later to study it. And was that Adi's laugh she heard? Zhenya turned to look at him, wondering who he was laughing at. Was it her? Why was he laughing at her? She pretended to give him evil eyes, but the smile gave away her seriousness.

Once Professor Moxley had finished responding to everyone, she explained how the voice travels through the cell phones. Zhenya was mighty impressed by the way the muggles created new bits and pieces to communicate. Zhenya knew there must have been loads of negative impacts from using the cellular phones, especially if it converted your voice, travelled through cell towers, and off to its destination. She listened to other responses.

And suddenly there was a pop; Tinka. What was Tinka doing here? Something to do with AJ? But the house elf disappeared again moments later. Right.

Zhenya raised her hand, "Professor, you said that your voice gets converted to something," she looked down at her notes, "An RF wave, and it travels to the tower, then on to the person. It doesn't sound very secure. Could people's communication get intercepted and recorded my the muggle Ministry?" She knew that sometimes the Ministry intercepted Owls and the Floo network, so surely it was similar? Only you wouldn't know if someone was just listening to your conversation. How creepy...

Well, see, this part of the lesson, Eden could deal with better, because she was more...accustomed, y'know? She was taking notes like it was her LIFE though, and copying down that picture that Moxley had drawn on the board. Eden's skills were so not up to par. Whatever, though.

Phones!

"Well--" she began as she raised her hand. "If the phone isn't charged--it doesn't WORK. You need to have BATTERY life and whatnot--so if your phone goes dead, and you have a to depend on in your phone, it kinda'...well, it majorly blows." She said with a shrug.

Woe is the person with 5% battery left. There was nothing worse than seeing the little red empty battery on your dude, nope. Eden could attest to that.

.....

......

........DID EDEN SMELL TACOS? She wanted taco. She did. Her nose knew EXACTLY where those tacos were, too--her head turned sharply to look at Aj ..."You should shaaaare your tacos--" she hissed at her. "It would only be NICE--remember that one time I totally saved your life?" Because Eden was totally using that as taco leverage right now, no shame.

None.

She may have been able to quickly pick up how to 'use' muggle technology, but how it 'worked' was another thing entirely. She had just accepted a long time ago that it was a strange non-magical magic that wasn't to be questioned. She certainly didn't know anything about cell towers; she'd heard her dad grumbling about the unreliability of muggle inventions, could he simply have lost service? And what was this about turning her voice into electricity? or waves? electric waves? Still sounded rather magical to her..

Speaking of, a house elf with a plate of tacos definitely just strolled past her desk, set the plate down in front of the wrong person (Desiree was hungry and those looked delicious, if slightly suspicious), and disappeared. She'd seen stranger things.

Regaining her focus she noted her classmates had most of the obvious answers covered. Zhenya made an especially interesting point, muggle surveillance... she'd never really thought about that. This was more of a personal opinion but, "Well, since it is so convenient a lot of people don't make the effort to write to each other anymore, which is a little sad. Getting a text from your friend just isn't the same, it doesn't make you quite as.. happy." Because they put effort into the letter, it's more meaningful, you know? and you can hold the parchment in your hands- Desiree was just a big fan of letters. Of course texting was nice, but the professor wanted negatives.

Phones were okay, but it was hardly interesting enough to stop him from becoming distracted. And FOOD was the most powerful distraction of them all.

WHY WERE THERE TACOS IN THE CLASS?

And WHYYYY did AJ get them all?

Zeke was staring, wishing the plate was meant for him. It never even occurred to him that something might be off about it until that Cutty dude mentioned poison and stuff. Still, he didn't think that would be the case. Why would an elf poison a student? And of all the students that would benefit from a poisoning, why then pick AJ?

She was good peeps. SO good in fact, that she should share with him. Mmhhmm.


"I can help you with those if you want," he whispered in her (AJ's) direction.

Cellphones are cellphones.

Should there be any negative things to be said about the invention? Well, as long as it is doing its job, then...okay, let’s just say that his brain suddenly decided to stop working, because he just saw Tinka delivering tacos to AJ.

N’aww. Why just her? Ethan was sure everyone else was starving inside the room.

And...heh. Since when did Cutty become so...kind to his fellows? The Slytherin eyed the back of his cousin’s head, as well as the plate bearing tacos.

...Why were there tacos in the classroom? And why were they just for AJ? That wasn't fair; Lux wanted tacos too. So did a lot of people. "I think we should all get tacos!" Yep, that would be the right thing to do.

Watching as Cutty cast the spell on them, she wondered who would poison delicious food...and who would use said poisoned food on AJ of all people. Mostly she just wondered if she could get a plate of tacos too because she had been craving them for half the lesson.

Moxley found herself leaning against Tiara’s desk, listening intently to the students. She was less surprised that this lot would be familiar with cell phones as muggles seemed glued to them these days, given all they could be used for. Made for a discussion lots of students could take part in, which she loved.


While the benefits of cell phones were clear, at least in Meredith’s eyes, she did think it was important to note that they weren’t always the best choice and the first reasons she’d thought up were ones being shared right now.

”Very good, you lot! Cell phones aren’t indestructible. They can break quite easily and if you’re relying on them for communication, this can pose a huge problem. Not to mention that if you cannot get to a power source to charge your cell phone, a requirement if you want it to work, you’re also left without a means of staying in contact with people. Good.”

Zhenya raised an interesting point as well, one which caused Moxley to tap her chin thoughtfully. ”With the way cellular phones work, I do believe that someone with the right technology, perhaps the government, could intercept your call, yes.” Where did that come from, hm? Was this kiddo paranoid about something? Moxley gave her a raised eyebrow, I’m keeping my eyes on you-type look and then move on.



”I can tell you from firsthand experience that lack of reception in an area outside a city is the worst!” Moxley nodded solemnly before continuing on. ”Ms. Brown did a good job explaining why landline phones might be more reliable, given that cell towers are important to a cell phone’s ability to make a call. If you’re out in the woods somewhere and something happens, you’re not guaranteed that you’ll be able to get in contact with someone for help. All depends on how close the towers are to your area, good.” Sophie got a smile and a nod. Angel, too, since she’d had the same idea.

”Mr. Mordaunt’s answer goes nicely with this as he mentioned that sometimes not answering your phone puts the people around you into a sort of panic. With landline phones, people understand that you could be out of the house or in the shower, unable to answer the call. Since cell phones are portable, people have more cause to be concerned if you don’t answer, even if you’re unable to because of reception or other reasons.”


Money, yes. Moxley knew a little about spending too much on things. AHEM. MUGGLE ARTIFACTS. AHEM. So she could see where this might become a problem for some people. ”Very good, you two! When you get a cell phone, you not only pay for the phone, but for the service to run the phone, as well. It can get pricey, depending on how much you’re doing on your phone, and you have to be careful not to go overboard.” NOT that she was one to go overboard or anything. PSH. Couldn’t relate to that… MOVING ON!



These were the answers Moxley had anticipated and she nodded her head, a small smile gracing her lips. ”You can become addicted to your cell phone, yes, or actually, the services that your cell phone offers. It’s like having all forms of entertainment that you can get at home, the games and music and even television, but with you always.” And if that wasn’t a distraction from the things going on outside of the screen on your phone, Moxley didn’t know what was. ”Having all that available to you wherever you go makes it much easier to disregard the people and the things happening around you. In some cases, it gives people a way to hide from responsibilities, from having to tell people things face-to-face, and from knowing how to communicate wat they feel in person.” Which was a shame, really. ”This leaves some people feeling terribly out of sorts when their phones lose power or service, forcing them into the world without them. It’s interesting to think about, also concerning. Definitely something to keep in mind.”

Oh, and Ms. Kittredge's point! Moxley had nearly forgotten. "Norah's gramps brings up an interesting point about our health in relation to these phones. While I haven't read any studies that indicate your brain would indeed turn to jello-lovely stuff, very delicious!-prolonged use could certainly have some kind of negative impact on us. That is still being looked into, actually." Mhm!



Well, she’d had class attention until tacos happened and truth be told, now Moxley was distracted as well. TACOS. They smelled lovely, they looked lovely, and they made Moxley wish she had a plate for herself. The brunette found that she was suddenly making her way over to Ms. Valentine, her stomach rumbling as she did. She was just…going to investigate, okay? Especially after what Mr. Mordaunt had said.

”CLASS, ATTENION!” That meant to be quiet, FYI. ”I’m just going to…keep watch over these tacos for the rest of the lesson, and if Ms. Valentine feels like sharing once class has ended, she’s certainly free to do so.” The Muggle Studies Professor then picked up the plate and took a sniff, her nostrils filling with taco-y goodness. Mm. The smile was immediate. AHEM. ”Don’t worry, Ms. Valentine. I’ll be sure they stay warm.” There were charms for that, y’know. And so Moxley made her way back to the front, setting the plate of Tacos on Tiara’s desk for safe keeping.

Once that was done, Moxley tapped the picture she’d placed on the board and then addressed the group. ”I’d like for everyone to copy down what the cell phone looks like, please. A rough sketch will do. Just something you should have so that you can compare it to the drawing of the landline phone I trust you all still have in your notes. Once you’ve finished that, we’ll get into the activity!” Moxley smiled at Tiara excitedly and then checked to see that the kiddos were getting to work.

OOC: One post will do for drawing the cell phone! We'll be starting with the main activity next time I post!

Professor Moxley was stepping in to keep the tacos safe until the end of class. That was a good idea. If Lux had been left in charge they might have ended up being eaten even if AJ was her friend. They just looked and smelled so delicious that she wouldn't have been able to help herself.

The conversation about cellphones resumed, but Lux was still thinking about tacos. Could she just have one? Maybe she would ask AJ later because they looked SO GOOD.

Looking at the board, Lux slowly and carefully worked on her drawing of a cellphone. She was no artist, but it looked pretty decent in her opinion. Even though she already knew what they looked like, it was always a good idea to have a picture. She hoped that she would be able to use one in the lesson though she supposed they wouldn't be making their own like they had with the tin cans. That was a shame because arts and crafts were always nice.

One minute he was making notes and sending an apologetic look in Zhenya's direction then the next there was that LOUD popping noise that made him look around. But Adi could smell fooooooood even before his brain had fully registered the house- elf and the tacos. And they were for AJ. Whaaaa? Who was sending things for his girlfriend? He eyed the tacos suspiciously as the elf departed so fast that it was almost like she hadn't been there in the first place.

"Oh, no you don't, AJ,'' the Hufflepuff whispered just as Cutty spoke. His eyes flicked to his favourite Snake and nodded. The two were thinking along the same lines. "Cutty's right. We don't know what's up with them.'' Cue more suspicious looks at the VERY tempting tacos before looking at Zeke and Eden and shaking his head at them. Nuh uh. Adi didn't think so, guys, though he agreed with Lux. The should all get tacos. After all, it had been a joint Muggle Studies and Arithmancy class that he and AJ had made tacos their thing.

Buuuuut since Moxley was going to take charge, Adi didn't say anything else about the taco matter. All he knew was that if they were safe to eat, then AJ was sharing one with him. Yep.
.......................

And onto the drawing! Adi began his drawing using a pencil to free handedly draw the rectangular, curved shaped of the phone. He didn't even have to look on the board to draw for he sketched from the memory of his own phone. He added little squiggly things on the 'screen' that represented the apps and then there was the time, the battery, signal bars and other things.

Adi put down his pencil to look at his work. Not bad. The sketch actually resembled a phone though his apps looked totally crazy and messed up. Hehe. Was that supposed to be an outline for a person that represented 'contacts'? LOL It looked more like a blob with a big head.

Did someone just get... tacos delivered? Toby blinked in that direction, supremely confused. Hogwarts could be weird sometimes, but it was a certain class of weird. One that didn't usually include mid-lesson food deliveries.

Well... first time for everything.

Toby watched the taco situation unfold across the room for a moment, until Professor Moxley called everyone's attention back to her. At once, the Hufflepuff refocused, not really wanting to upset another professor he liked any time soon (or... y'know... ever again).

Right, okay, sketching the phone. Toby could do that. He got to work at once, finding a fresh piece of parchment especially and soon getting the picture mostly down from memory, seeing as he had one at home just like the one Moxley was showing them. He even labeled it too and made it a proper diagram, just because.

After a few moments, that was all done, and Toby set down his quill again and looked up at Moxley.

OH NO PROFESSOR MOXLEY WAS TAKING THE TACOS AWAY. And also, Cutty was trying to persuade Adi to not LET Aj have the tacos? Pffft. AJ, you eat those tacos if you want to! HMPH.

This should be a crime. Leaving tacos uneaten like that. Eden wanted to stare lovingly at the tacos all day....ugh.

UGH.

Well fine...they had to draw a TELEPHONE. But now Eden's stomach was rumbling and she wanted food so badly. She was literally going to starve to death in this very classroom, and it was all Moxley's fault for hoarding the tacos in the front of the room.

Yep.

So Eden flipped back to her picture of the old phone and decided to draw this diagram right next to it. It would make for a good comparison if she ever needed to write an essay on it or something.

Tiara had thought AJ would rather enjoy those tacos she had sent for.. until Professor Moxley stole them. But it was during her section of the lesson, so Tiara supposed there wasn't much she could do about it. Catching AJ's eye, she mouthed SORRY in her direction. Hopefully they wouldn't all be gone by the end of class. Meredith looked a bit hungry up there.

Well, Tiara may be a muggleborn, but she saw no reason not to join in on the sketching activity. Making her way up front to her desk where the stolen tacos resided, she grabbed a piece of parchment, inkwell, and quill. Scribble, scratch, sccraaaaaape. After a minute or so, she had a reasonable likeness of what Meredith had shown the students. Not bad!

Sketch time? Alright, not too bad. Cell phones were easy to draw at least. Or that iPhone thingy was. That was the one Caleb was going with...one big block, lots of little squares for the apps, and boom, you're done! As he sketched, he drew little pics inside the squares to represent the apps. One for phone calls, one for texting, one for that...Book thing that everyone was using to post things on. How did Muggles keep TRACK of all this stuff? Seriously? So many THINGS to check at all times...it was exhausting!

And...viola! He was done!

Kate watched as a tasty plate of tacos was delivered and then taken away. Bad luck, AJ. But were the house elves delivering to the classrooms now?! If so, Kate kind of wanted to raise her hand and place an order. She was pretty hungry come to think about it. it was kind of hard to focus on cell phones when there were tacos just sitting up there waiting to be eaten. She had questions, but she'd save them for now.

So what were they supposed to be doing? Oh, right. A rough sketch. Kate straightened up her parchment, dipped her quill in ink, then got started. She drew a rectangle then drew a smaller rectangle inside of it to represent the screen. Underneath the second rectangle, Kate drew a small circle to represent the 'home' button. She then set to work drawing rows of small squares inside the smaller rectangle. The squares represented the apps on the smart phone. With that, Kate thought she'd done enough to consider this a finished rough sketch.

That plate of delish tacos up front was super distracting. Ethan wished Professor Moxley placed it somewhere at the back of the classroom where the students can't see it. Besides, copying the drawing up front became a tedious task because...hello tacos!

Letting out an almost inaudible grunt, Ethan got his muggle pencil and began to draw the cellphone thing. As he did so, the Slytherin wondered what it's like to be addicted to those things. Was it...really possible? Hmm.

The unmistakable pop that announced the arrival of a house elf immediately caught her attention. They were so cute and AJ really wanted one even if Professor Thompson insisted it would be practically impossible.

Why would an elf suddenly appear? They didn't usually just do that in the middle of the lesson without some sort of agenda...

Sniff. Sniff.

That was tacos. She would know that smell anywhere. A plate of hot, juicy and mouth watering inducing tacos were set before her. "For me?" But the elf was gone before she could get the words out.

Tacos, tacos, tacos.

AJ rubbed her hands together and contemplated on which one looked the meatiest. With a lick of her lips, she went in two handed but...



Good thing he wasn't her because she was going to inhale them. Who would go around poisoning tacos? Why waste delicious food? Better yet who would want to poison AJ? She was a super fun girl.

Brushing off his worries, she was attempting to once again grab a taco. Then something he said made her eye twitch. "Let me? Let me?" she spluttered. Was he dropped on his head as a child? AJ did not need permission from Adi to do anything.

If she hadn't of been so consumed with his little comment insinuating that she would let someone dictate what went in her mouth, she would have noticed that he was just concerned about her well being. As it was she just saw him as trying to come between her and a tasty treat.

No tacos for Cutty.



AJ just stared at the boyfriend. She was trying to figure out when he and Cutty became her keepers. They were not going to stop her from eating the tacos... no matter what they said.

"Try and stop me..." They were just a meat filled present. Stop raining on her taco parade. He too was just looking out for her well being, but she couldn't see that at the moment. She was looking through taco colored glasses.

No tacos for Adi either.



At least Eden wasn't trying to tell her how to live her life. AJ nodded in agreement. The Ravenclaw had a point. That kind of logic was how she probably got put in the house known for their smarts.

"You DID save my life." She would never forget and AJ would always have her back. "I'll totally share with you. I'll even let you have second pick." After her of course. Let's not get crazy here.



Umm... did AJ need help with her tacos? Nope. She was good. In fact, she would have no problem shoveling them all into her mouth. That was really nice of him to offer though. A second hand COULD come in handy though. Taco meat was tricky business.

Oh wait. He wanted a taco. Duh! It was hard to concentrate when the beefy goodness was wafting about and clouding her brain. "You can have one too, buddy." It wasn't every day someone was so open to farting with you in class. How could she not do him a solid?



All right. Let's simmer down over there, Lux. AJ suddenly was feeling all mama bear over her tacos, and here Lux was trying to get her to share with the whole class.

"I'll give you one, too." she whispered to her Hufflepuff friend. Now, stop being a share bear with my tacos. It was funny that when it came down to tacos she all of a sudden became a mathematician. AJ was very friendly and she loved to share, buuuut these were her absolute favorite.



All of the taco defending and math calculations had only led to her getting ZERO tacos because before she had a chance to nom them Moxley was making her way over.

Oh no. The look on her face spelled trouble for her tacos. Instinctively AJ tried to shield the beauties with her body, but it was no use. Moxley had snatched them up.

She figured that the Muggle Studies professor would have understood and let her eat them right then and there. Disappointment was written all over her face. "Just one little nibble?" Apparently not. At the very least, she had promised to keep them warm. "Thanks..." for nothing.



In mid sulk, AJ looked over to where her tacos waited for her. Just as she counted the last taco (we don't fully trust Moxley) her eyes made contact with her Arithmancy professor.

Sorry?

Ohhh... the floating parchment. It all made sense now. Tanner had given her the tacos. AJ absolutely beamed up at her new favorite professor. 'Thank you' she mouthed back. Professor Tanner could have as many tacos as she wanted. This was the greatest gift ever. The only thing that would make this any better would be if Moxley had some manners. HMPF!

Now she needed to draw a phone, but she was still majorly distracted. She wanted her tacos, and she wanted them now. Picking up her quill she began her sketch.

Pretty much she just made a huge rectangle and made little squares inside that would be her apps. She drew a picture of a phone for the icon that represented the call button. On the side of her paper she drew tacos and sad faces.

Penelope watched as a house elf appeared to deliver tacos for AJ. Having tacos delivered to you in class had to be against the rules. The house elves and whoever had the tacos delivered to AJ should know that. The tacos were soon taken away by Professor Moxley, and it was back to the lesson. Penelope looked at the diagram of how cell phones work. Penelope got out a new piece of parchment to copy down the diagram. After a few minutes she had a labeled diagram that looked more or less like Professor Moxley's diagram. She looked over her work, comparing it to the original. Her diagram looked good. She was ready for the next activity.