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Mr. Wood’s Teaching Philosophy and Classroom Guidelines for 2014/15

Please go here to access Mr. Wood’s Teaching Philosophy and Classroom Guidelines for the 2014/15 school year.

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The death of Kajieme Powell

Cell phone video death of Kajieme Powell.

We are going to take an in-depth  look at a multi-faceted and lethal problem in United States society today.   I’m hesitant to give it a title, for fear of tainting your view of what plays out  – you could call it “police brutality” or “suicide by cop.”  Some see it as legalized murder; for others self defense.   However it is labeled,  it involves a similar repeating scenario with the same individuals and issues involved; police, males (often black), mental illness, crime, poverty and almost always guns. Continue reading

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Welcome to Senior Current Issues

In order to successfully to layout guidelines of where we want to go in this course, it is essential that we first gage where you are at, where you’ve been, what you know, and what you hope to learn. So please fill out the following survey.

Be candid with your answers. The results are fully anonymous to me and to everybody else on the planet.

Thank you.

Mr Wood

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Getting to know you – Senior Current Issues

The following survey is for me to get to know you better.  While most of our surveys in this course will remain anonymous, because the point of this one is for me to better understand you – please post your name.  The results will not be shared with the class.

And please go into depth.

Thank you.

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MCC – Fall 2014 Model UN Course – We have Sierra Leone

Muskegon Community College will represent the West African nation of Sierra Leone at the 2014 Model UN Conference in Chicago at the Sheraton Inn Hotel and Towers November 22 to 25, 2014.  I am the professor, or more accurately the coach of Team Sierra Leone.

The course and trip to Chicago in November will be fun! And on the way we are going to learn a whole lot about the world.  Model UN has been around for awhile.  What it does is mimic the actions of the United Nations with college students from all over the United States.  Teams of approximately ten students each from various colleges represent each of the nation states at the U.N at the Chicago Conference.  Currently, 121 colleges are signed up to participate.  Take a look – these are the students who you will meet, live with, and debate for three days next November.   Minnesota and Maine, Texas and Arizona – and little ole Muskegon Community College – we’ll all be working together to awaken to issues of the world.

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