Somewhere among my terrible penmanship and poorly drawn characters is the reason our housing market crash in America…I promise. Today in class we will wrap up our week long conversations about economy and the recent economic recession we have experienced recently here in America. We have been focusing on the raise and fall of the…
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Tuesday we competed at the Rogers Invitational in Rogers, AR. A total 24 schools were represented at this meet which made it by far the largest cross country meet we have participated in this school year…here’s how we did. Boys (click here for complete results) In the boys division we finished in 5th place out…
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This year I have started using a new learning tool in my class, this tool is a formative assessment tool called “learning checks”…or in our classroom we refer to them as The Weekly Ten. Here is how it works… Knowledge Maps At the beginning of the year I gave all of my students something called…
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Last night our volleyball team held their annual Dig Pink game here at Woodland. Dig Pink is an effort to raise awareness of breast cancer and with proceeds going to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. All day yesterday our school was covered in pink…all day at school students showed up in pink outfits to…
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One major cause that the great depression started was that people pulled their money out of banks all at one time. another cause was that the stock market crashed on black tuesday and every one also pulled their money out of it. another cause could be farmers did not rotate their crops and therefore the dust bowl…
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Your band of the week is Miike Snow. Miike Snow is a Swedish band that formed in 2007. Band members Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg were childhood friends who spent time playing in bands and working on various projects in studios throughout Gothenburg. Karlsson used to be a member of Swedish hip-hop band “Goldmine” who…
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Some of the reasons for the Great Depression were: stock market crashed– meaning people got greedy and pulled out all at the same time; banks failed –they overextended themselves, they were not insured by the government; reduction of buying– their was overproduction, no need for workers; Smoot-Hawley Tariff– was high tax on import goods; drought–…
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Greetings People of the World, My name is Walker Powell but I am known as Dr. Pow. Today I will be telling you about the Great Depression and what happened in that period of time. There are 3 main points that stood out to me when I was doing my research in the POW-WOW Lab. …
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Today our teacher, Mr. McClung told us to write about the causes and effects of the Great Depression. We also have to tell if there is anything that could be done differently. There are many causes of the Great Depression, one of them is the stock market crashing because of risky investments and people were…
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Today Mr. McClung asked us to write a blog post about the Great Depression. There were six main reasons the Great Depression started: the Stock Market crashed, Bank failures, Reduction of buying, Drought, Roaring Twenties,and Over production. The Stock Market crashed because of riskey investments and the…
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