…well kinda As I was sitting at my computer today watching my blog traffic, big nerd I know, I started to notice these strange trends appear on my Feedjit. I was receiving referral hits from CNN, and every time I would try to follow the referring link it would lead me to some obscure location…
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As we continue to move forward with our create your own country projects, students have started to become more and more creative with how they are putting their projects together. In the video above you will see Ortiz and Coleman explain the two components that make up their project. First of which is Google Docs…
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Your band of the week is one of my all time favorites…ladies and gentlemen, The Hold Steady. The Hold Steady is a Brooklyn-based rock band comprising Craig Finn (vocals, guitar), Tad Kubler, Galen Polivka and Bobby Drake. The band’s style has been described as a “riff-heavy mixture of classic rock,” notable for its “lyrically dense…
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The Chile Pepper, which was held in Fayetteville, featured a total of 4,800 collegiate, jr. high, and sr. high runners. Over a dozen different states were represented this weekend and needless to say this was our biggest race of the year by far…let’s get straight to it and talk about some reasons to celebrate: Boys…
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Lesson One – Chevy Does Not Ride Dragons Pictured above is a young man named Char’Von…better known as Chevy for short. Chevy is a student that was in my world history class, but earlier this week I was informed by him that he was transferring schools. While Chevy will admit himself that he can be…
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On Wednesday I started a three day long professional development session (over a few months) that features Lin Kuzmich who is a senior consultant for secondary schools. While our general overall focus for these sessions is literacy, there were some really great underlining strategies and information that can prove to be useful for classroom teachers….
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Somewhere in there Chevy pwns noobs and Ortiz rides dragons…I think. Yesterday I gave my students the task of creating their own country and incorporating their knowledge of economy and civics to describe how their countries government will operate. Keep in mind this assignment is not all serious…students have several portions of their project that…
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We have taken the past few days in my class to focus on political parties and movements. My students have been studying the difference in communist, socialist, and fascist movements and the basic ideals behind all of these. We have been able to take a critical look at all of the above and make a…
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Radiohead is your band of the week. Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway. Radiohead released their first single, “Creep”, in 1992. The song was initially unsuccessful, but it became a worldwide hit…
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Lección Uno – FHS Homecoming This evening Fayetteville High School have their annual homecoming game vs. Forth Smith Northside. For us here at Woodland that means we will be showing our support for the high school team by decking the school out in purple. Students and teachers today have dawned their purple gear to show…
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