A group of angry young people stood before their teacher. With them in their midst, and the focus of their ire, was a young girl with long straight hair, a pointed hat, and a carrot for a nose.The angry crowd said they wanted the carrot-nosed woman to be burned at the stake because she is a witch.“How do you know she’s a witch?” the teacher asked.“Because she looks like one!” came the loud answer from the group.The dialogue went on with insightful responses from the teacher.This is just one of the many scenes dramatized at the annual Nile Garden Medieval Faire with the seventh graders as the main feature characters, and some eighth graders as supporting cast members and helpers. The teacher, aka King Lewis the Wise, is Nile Garden School’s Timothy Lewis who teaches junior-high grades.The long-running Medieval Faire held in the school’s quadrangle is a regular class for the seventh graders with delightful exceptions: they wear period costumes portraying the clothes of the day, they pick names of manors to which they belong as well as their medieval names befitting their social rank, they take part in an outdoor feast complete with long tables and food that come closest to the medieval feast fare, and learn dances and tournament games played out to entertain the “guests.”