Ah, cutting class. A time-honored high school tradition that unites us all, ditching has been practiced by pretty much every high school student. "Where Were You Fifth Period" takes a look at the reasons why students cut class, from the ordinary ("I woke up late!" and "The class was boring" have been student excuses since the Stone Age") to the exceptional - one girl didn't go to school for three days in order to attend a concert.
The best part of this piece, though, was the way it exposed a little of the school system's hypocrisy through the casual student responses. Two girls admit that they cut class in order to finish a class project, and another says that since the school wouldn't let her father pick her up (he wasn't on the "emergency contact" list) she had to just leave instead. These responses lent a very interesting light to the piece, making it more than just another humorous montage of teens doing funny things.
The piece would work well in a larger magazine-style show about high school; it might be a little short to stand well on its own.

This vox-pop/collage of "excuses" for cutting school is fun to listen to, and it's the right length for what it is-- any longer, and it would have had to dig a bit deeper into the subject. My favorite excuse: I didn't need to cut school because "the school got set on fire". Introduced as a youth-produced piece, this would be a fun break in a magazine show.

This piece is about ditching and the excuses told by the students. A good technique of this review is that the answers are told in a collage format with music in the background. This makes the story more interesting and it really makes you want to hear more. The answers were funny One weak point in the story is that there should have been narration in the beginning about what the story is about and maybe even telling the listeners what inspired her to create this story and how a teacher got the answers out of her students, especially the one who ditched her class.