Stereotypes and The Natural State

This blog post was originally published two years ago, in the spring of 2009…enjoy. Having lived in Arkansas for nearly 25 years now, I realize that while there are some really great things about our state there some things not so great…like stereotypes. The video above is one such example of a stereotype. This poor guy…

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Thank You Letters

Today in AVID my students focused on writing thank you letters to everyone that recently helped out with our teacher appreciation project in which we served coffee and brownies to our teachers here at Woodland. Mr. McClung

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Rapping Up The Reformation

Today we put our last reformation project to rest with the conclusion of our reformation song project. Students were asked to create a song that was historically accurate about the formation using people, places and events from that time period. Students worked in pairs and really turned out some awesome songs…such as the rap that…

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Progress

As we begin to wrap up our lyric project, in which the kids were asked to create a song about the reformation period, we check in with Mason and Chase to see how their song is progressing. Mr. McClung

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Three Things Thursday

Yes y’all! It’s that time again to do some things on three things Thursday. Today we will be watching CNN News with a special interest towards the occupy Wall Street movement that is currently taking place. We will not only discuss what is going on in New York, but we will also talk about small…

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Create a Country

Blake, Jacob, and Jack (kinda) explain their roles on their create a country project. Students are using Google Docs to create a presentation for their project and Google Sketch-Up to create a map of their country. Mr. McClung

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Calling the Hogs

On Friday we were lucky enough to be visited by the vice president of AVID, Mr. Granger Ward. With it being Granger’s first visit to Arkansas, we had no choice but to subject him to calling the hogs. Mr. McClung

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The Ism’s

Today in class we will be discussing political theory and ideology. In our conversations we will be discussing political movements/governments and historically significant ideas…such as expansionism and imperialism. Mr. McClung

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Thank You

So…funny story. As it turns out I left my backpack (with all my school stuff) in Wyoming this past weekend. Luckily though I have a great friend that was kind enough to fax me my lesson plans. I thought it would be appropriate to send him a thank you video. Mr. McClung

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