MONTH 1: Class instruction involving your dragon. This includes, but is not limited to, feeding, bathing, oiling, first aid, and dragon emotions. There will be a quick review of the history of the weyr, addressing people of status, and making the weyrling knots.

*Sevenday 1: Weyrling etiquette: Includes curfew, explanation of no- relationships ban, emotional control, behavior towards each other, full riders, and non-riders. Basic care: What and what not to feed them, bathing and oiling dragonhide, and how to spot and care for imperfect hide, constipation and diarrhea. Dragon first aid. Included are: treatment for scratches, bruises, pulled muscles, constipation, diarrhea. Weyrlings must spend time bonding with their dragons, focusing on using mind-speech.

*Sevenday 2: Dragon emotions: How to tell dragon and human emotions apart, how to recognise dragons' emotions, (eye colour) how to deal with and dampen your dragon's emotions. More bonding time. (specifics on eye colour is available)

*Sevenday 3: Basic First Aid: How to recognise and treat common health problems and illnesses, both for dragons and humans. The infirmary is toured, and healers are brought in to teach classes.

*Sevenday 4: Review: Reviewing both what was learned in the past three sevendays, as well as what was taught to the Candidates. Make weyrling knots. Dragon-sight and dragon-speech exercises begin. Spot inspections of weyrling knots ongoing from this time up until graduation.

MONTH 2: The politics and history of Pern are taught for the first two sevendays of this month, and physical exercises are started, to promote strength and endurance. In the second half of the month, weyrlings are taught the geography of Pern.

*Sevenday 5:
Morning: Physical exercises.
Afternoon: History of Pern, including the founding of The Weyr. Politics between Northern and Southern continent.

*Sevenday 6:
Morning: Physical exercises.
Afternoon: A Harper comes in to teach the weyrlings some of the advanced ballads and teaching songs.

*Sevenday 7:
Morning: Physical exercises.
Afternoon: Geography.

*Sevenday 8:
Morning: Physical exercises.
Afternoon: Geography.

MONTH 3: This month, weyrlings learn how to bag and sort firestone, and practice the firestone toss. Then ground drills (formations on the ground) start. Weyrlings wake up early, and march in formation all day.

*Sevenday 9: Weyrlings are taught how to select and bag firestone.. At first it is overseen and checked by the instructor, but as they become proficient at it, it gradually becomes more of a chore than a lesson.

*Sevenday 10: Dragon toss. A relay of tossing loaded bags of firestone to one another. This starts with short distances and half-loaded bags, but the weight and distance increase until the weyrlings can throw full bags to one another a full dragon-length apart.

*Sevenday 11: Small groups, with 5 pairs to a group, learning simple drills. Each group is led by a "wingleader" a pair who has shown themselves to be capable, and is switched every week. They must help any slower pairs and encourage the group. Any group who does not complete the drill to the weyrlingmaster' (yes, the weyrlingmaster, not instructor, teaches the drills this month) satisfaction has to repeat it, often staying after class, until it is perfected.

*Sevenday 12: Larger groups, 10 pairs to a group. Again, all drills must be perfect before they are allowed to go back to the barracks. Old drills are reviewed, and new ones taught.

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