In the News

Local news station KNWA stopped by today to film our head shaving spectacle today in class and featured it on their afternoon news broadcast. To check out the full story and the video that was aired today on TV, click here. Mr. McClung

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Lessons Learned

Lesson One – Day of The Shave Five weeks of fundraising has finally brought us to our finale…the day of the shave. Today my second period and sixth period students will be shaving my head as a reward for their efforts in raising money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Second period will get…

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All Good Things Must Come to an End…

With The Race for The Cure being Saturday, I felt like it was important to write a finale blog post giving proper thanks to all those that have helped us reach the total of $3,290 that has been donated to Susan G. Komen for The Cure. First of all, this is an unbelievable number…to put…

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Playing w/ Graphic Organizers

Rock around View more documents from Joe McClung Today in class we used a graphic organizer strategy called “rock around the clock” to take notes for our new section over reconstruction in Arkansas. This organizer can be seen above and features several boxes in which students record information. They are asked to identify the main…

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Final Push

With only two days left until we close out our fundraiser for Susan G. Komen, it looks like we will be ending with a full head of steam. At this point in our fundraiser we are already $100 within striking distance of the amount that was raised by my students last year and there is…

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Voting Smarts

On Friday we took at look at a literacy test that was given to voters in Alabama in 1965. Each week in my class we do a formative assessment called the Weekly Ten, but this week instead of our normal Weekly Ten I surprised the students by giving them a literacy test to see exactly…

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Blood Pressures

The Kills is a rock band formed by American singer Alison Mosshart and British guitarist Jamie Hince. Their first three albums, Keep On Your Mean Side, No Wow, and Midnight Boom have gathered much critical praise. Blood Pressures, their fourth and most recent studio album, was released on April 4, 2011 worldwide and April 5,…

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