Most of what I do in my classes is based on feedback from students over the years. I truly appreciate student's opinions, both positive and negative, and actually use them to make myself a better teacher and my classroom a better place to learn.
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Read more…The Sewol ferry sank (I'm not sure where). The captain was among the first to be rescued along with some other crew members. The passengers however were told to stay put which led to many deaths. There is no international law or rule saying that the
Read more…A man climbed a crane that is 150 feet tall in Beijing about a week ago. The police do not know much about him, and they have been unsuccessful in convincing him to come down. He has made no threats or demands, and the police do not want to try to fo
Read more…In 2011 Julie Schenecker was arrested for shooting both of her teenage kids. "Schenecker, a 53-year-old former military intelligence officer and interrogator, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. She faces life in prison if convicted."
Read more…A man in Ukraine, formerly known as Aleksey Shechenko, has changed his name to Darth Vader. His reasoning behind the change is that 3 percent of the Ukraine population voted for Darth Vader as a protest vote in the previous presidential election. Alt
Read more…On Tuesday April 29th a private company declared that it has found what it thinks to be the wreckage of a plane in the ocean, but the leaders of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are dismissing the claim.The reasons for
Read more…Two Programs Provide Experience in Leadership, Policymaking
The State of Iowa Youth Advisory Council (SIYAC) and the Iowa Youth Congress (IYC) are currently accepting applications for their 2014-2015 ter
Read more…Multiple tornadoes have torn across the midwest leaving 18 dead and over a hundred million damages. It tore through the midwest and such towns such as mayflower, the Arkansas state capital.
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Read more…At least 17 people were killed as a massive storm system ripped through the central and southern US yesterday,creating deadly tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Tornadoes also touched down in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, reports t
Read more…A new private school in Chicago is to be named after Barack Obama. The school will be named Barack Obama College Preparatory High School and will be open in 2017. Barack Obama College Preparatory High School is expected to have a little under 300 stu
Read more…Obama says the US will impose more economic sanctions on Russia and Vladimir Putin. These sanctions target individuals and corporations in russia and are in response to what is being called the Ukraine crisis, and Russia's failure to uphold agreement
Read more…In Nashville, Tennessee a Police Officer was fired after a newspaper showed pictures of him choking a 21 year old hand cuffed college student. The Officer, Frank Phillips, was caught choking a college student until he lost consciousness. A British N
Read more…The prime minister of South Korea, Chung Hong-won, resigned after the ferry that sunk. The ferry left over 300 people missing or dead, mostly teenagers. The government was accused of not doing enough work to rescue the people of the sunken ship but t
Read more…31 year old murder suspect Jeffrey Chapman is hoping to get his neck tattoo removed before his trial. Why? Its the word 'murder' but mirrored. County officials denied his request to meet with a tattoo artist to get it removed. The solution? He'll wea
Read more…On Saturday, April 19th, the Sheridan family put a toy duck on their deceased 14 month old child's grave. 4 hours later, it was gone. Police had previously installed a security camera since this wasn't the first time this had happened. The tape showe
Read more…John XXIII and John Paul II were canonized (officially declare a dead person to be a saint) Sunday by Pope Francis in an unprecedented ceremony witnessed by huge crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
Millions more around the world wat
Read more…"I did not really realize I was getting life until the date of sentencing. When my attorney told me, I told him that I wanted to take back my guilty plea... they denied me."
Timothy Tyler says his life ended when he was 23 years old. That was two deca
Read more…Recently flight 370 went down. The people still missing could still be in the plane in the ocean. They probably all had cell phones. Researchers did an experiment by taking a cell phone and putting it in salt water, like the ocean, and recovered the
Read more…Garrett and Andrew were conjoined twins born on April 10th. Their mother says that they were born together, they can stay together. The twins are conjoined from the breastbone down to the waist meaning they have separate heads. They share a heart and
Read more…On Friday morning, 16 year-old Maren Sanchez was stabbed her school stairwell. Her family said she had "a bright life full of hopes and dreams". The police believe the motive is that Maren declined when a boy asked her to go to prom. The boy was n
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