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March 4, 2014 · 8:20 pm

Close Up Fundraisers – Spaghetti and Cookies and Chicken Wings

OK guys time to get to work – if we are going to make these fundraisers work – then you all who are headed to D.C. better get your rear ends in gear. We’ve got a WHOLE LOT OF WORK to do!

March 17 to March 21 – Weeklong – St Paddy’s Day Cookie Sales
Friday March 21 – Oakridge Musical Spaghetti Dinner in the cafeteria
March 21 & 22 – Silent Auction of local businesses
Monday April 21 – Buffalo Wild Wings 20% night
as well as an endless supply of Gordon’s fabulous chocolate bars

We will meet afterschool on Thursday this week – March 6 – or before school at 7:00 AM – Friday March 7 – my room to organize for all four of these events. If you want to earn any money off of these fundraisers you must make it to one of these two meetings! The meetings will not last more than 35 minutes. You guys are going to have to organize and plan and provide third world labor to each these events or they will not take place. Mr. Wood is not going to be a girl scout leader selling cookies in the parking lot, while you all lolly gag and sing campfire songs while you sit around the pot of money.

Please contact me and let me know which meeting you will be attending. We need to hit the ground running on all of these fundraisers this week!

or we cancel em.

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February 26, 2014 · 5:44 am

Gay Marriage, Adoption, Science, and the Law

Things are happening fast on the struggle for Marriage Equality in the United States. Michigan is currently in the nation spotlight, as its own marriage laws are being challenged by two lesbian Michigan citizens in Federal Court. Concurrently, many reflections of the Civil Rights Movement can be found in the Marriage Equality Movement. Each finds its Constitutional grounding in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Each is caught in a struggle between the Federal Government and States Rights.

For this assignment – for three days – I want to you read, write, inform yourself on the legal arguments surrounding the Marriage Equality Movement in the United States. Particularly, I’d like you to look at the current court case playing out in Detroit as well as Arizona’s SB 1062, which allows private businesses to refuse service to homosexuals, based on personal religious views.

I have created a Blendspace below that deals with these issues, and adoption and science in regard to homosexuality.

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February 20, 2014 · 6:13 pm

Protected: Bob Wood – 2014 PGP, Curriculum Map, IDP, and Year End Evaluation

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February 10, 2014 · 6:45 am

Michael Sam to be first openly gay NFL Player…

Go here for New York Times story on the coming out of Michael Sam SEC Defensive player of the year from the University of Missouri. And here for the Federal Government’s announcement to provide same sex benefits for all federal employees.

The country is changing – your generation will soon see full marriage rights for homosexuals and equal access to Amendment 14 of the United States Constitution for all gay persons within the jurisdiction of the United States.

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February 9, 2014 · 9:44 am

Civil Rights – Student Event Presentations

Please go here to access Mr. Wood’s podcasts on the Civil Rights Movement.

I have used the website Blendspace to organize media access to the following events of the American Civil Rights movement. I will split the class into groups of three and four. Each group will have one day to organize themselves on an assigned events below. Begin with the Blendspace video and continue online to educate yourself and your partners further. I will cover each of these in class in the next two weeks. Your group will be together at the front of the room, clarifying the event. Your group will earn a fifty point homework grade based the following: