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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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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