March 11, 2014 · 2:40 pm

CLOSE UP Participant Fundraiser Guidelines…

Go here for Individual Assignment Guidelines.  Go here for the Spaghetti Dinner flyer.  Go here for the Silent Auction Flyer.  Go here for contact information for all travelers.

Guys this is a big two weeks. We are going to have to be organized and diligent in making these things work.   Make sure to read my guidelines page lady-and-the-trampfor each of you. Do not forget I need to you send me a google docs Economics Action Plan outlining your involvement in the fundraisers by Thursday night 11:59 PM.  Also, we need more donations for our silent auction…get out there and talk with local businesses.  Pick up flyers in my room and drop off items as soon as you get them.  Finally, spaghetti guys we need food donations for our spaghetti dinner.  Get moving!

We can do this if we communicate and work hard.  So…keep in touch and work hard and we can make it happen.

  • Silent Auction / March 17 thru 24 (Hunter & Shannin)
  • Cookie Sales / March 17 thru 21 (Kelly, Xavier, Skylar)
  • Spaghetti Dinner / March 21 (Melinda, Shannon, Dominique)
  • Buffalo Wild Wings / April 21 (Davis & Breanna)

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March 8, 2014 · 9:39 am

CLOSE UP – Fundraiser Updates

OK guys…we got a lot of work to do in the next two weeks.  I expect you to be communicating regularly, spaghetti_chefanswering emails, checking remind 101, organizing your groups, and to make sure that you know what your responsibilities are.  Everybody is involved in organization of one of four groups.  And I expect that all of us have Friday, April 21 open for work on the Spaghetti Dinner.  Due Dates and organizational charts below. Continue reading →

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March 6, 2014 · 7:02 pm

CLOSE UP – A silent auction March 19 to 22

Silent Auction

 

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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 spaghetti_chefin 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 · 10:25 am

Civil Rights – Two and Two / Blendspace Survey

Assignment due posted to Google docs by 11:59 PM Wednesday February 26.  One posting per group.  Bring a hard copy to class (one per student) on Thursday.   Fifty point assignment.

 ‘Civil Rights – Two & Two / Blendspace survey’ on Audioboo

We’ve spent the Marking Period looking closely at US Citizens rights protected under the Constitution; we’ve concentrated on Amendment 14 and the rights (or lack there of) for Southern black citizens.  We’ve also looked closely at how the Supreme Court dealt with these rights in the issuance of two landmark decisions – Plessy vs Fergusen (1896) and Brown vs Board of Education (1954).

The Brown decision launches the Civil Rights Movement.  Without it, there’s no legal basis for the non-violent movement to reach success in the courts.  For it to change American society success in the courts was essential.  What I want you to do now – is survey pieces of the movement that I’ve linked in the Blendspace below.  Each of the links – represents a significant event.  With a partner choose two (thirty minutes on each) of those posted below and do the following:

  1. Watch it and talk about it
  2. Make notations on everything that you learned
  3. Evaluate the event thru Amendment 14 (what was its effect?)
  4. Evaluate the event thru Brown v Board (what was its effect?)
  5. Turn in your posted notes to Mr. Wood on Google Docs
  6. Bring a hard copy to class on Thursday.  Be ready to talk.

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