Wouter “Wally” De Backer (born 21 May 1980), also known professionally by his stage name Gotye, is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter. He has released three studio albums independently and one remix album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums. De Backer is also one-third of Melbourne indie-pop band The Basics, who [...]

On Friday we had a little bit of spare time on our hands, since we recently finished up our study of the trail of tears, so we had some fun with poetry and history. I gave my students the assignment of coming up with Haiku’s about the Trail of Tears. Each period had some great [...]

Lesson One – LMS Monday was a tough day at school. Not necessarily because anything bad happened, but mainly due to what was going on outside…snow. Several school districts around us had closed due to road conditions, however we did not and that did not set well with the kids. We had many absences that [...]

Students, here are your three discussion questions for today’s Three Things Thursday… Why do you think that the international community is concerned about Iran’s nuclear program? What’s one reason for tension between China and the U.S.? How could diplomatic missions impact trade between the two countries? According to the program, under what conditions do students [...]

.prezi-player { width: 480px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } 8.1 Review on Prezi Students, today we will continue our conversations about early politics in Arkansas, Indian removal, and the road to statehood. Mr. McClung

Today in class we continued our conversations about the early territorial period in Arkansas and we took a few notes…shocker. In an effort to switch up our normal routine of taking notes we changed up our style just a bit. Today we used a Kagan learning strategy called expert groups. Their guided reading notes were [...]

In my AVID class we have been discussing the recent debates about the Alabama immigration law. In class we took some time to listen to a podcast from This American Life about these laws and I thought I would share the story on our blog. Mr. McClung

As we continue to move forward with our study of Arkansas history, we now begin to enter the portion of history that deals with Arkansas becoming a territory. For the past two days we have discussed the boundaries that were established by the Missouri Compromise in regards to slavery in the US. The Missouri compromise [...]

Yesterday in class we took some time to discuss the New Madrid Fault Line that is located in northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri. This fault line is still active and it is thought that back in the early 1800′s the line produced an earthquake of an 8.0 magnitude. In order to show my students the [...]

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1986), better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer/songwriter. Grant was born in New York City and grew up in Lake Placid, New York. When she was 15, she attended Kent School, a boarding school in Connecticut. She is the daughter of domain investor [...]

Today we will be discussing the art of writing a strongly worded letter. Today the topic of your letter will be in response to the journal entry of Schoolcraft and his response to Arkansans. For the sake of this activity, we will say that his journal entry was published in a local newspaper (1820ish) and [...]

Lesson One – Spirit Week, pt. Duex As the basketball season starts to draw to a close, this next week with be our last spirit week of the year. We will play our cross-town rivals, Ramay, next Thursday…and to get ready we will have themed days each day next week. Monday will be blue and [...]

Today we will be going back to the early days of the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase and we will be talking about explorers that visited Arkansas during that time period…more specifically, we will be discussing the journey of Henry Schoolcraft. Schoolcraft was a New Yorker who toured Arkansas in 1819 and wrote about his [...]

Here we go, today we will be discussing the Republican nomination, honoring veterans, and old people in arcades…get pumped. Mr. McClung

Try-out dates for the 2012 Woodland Cross Country Team have been announced. Try-outs will be held May 1-3 from 3:45 to 4:30. These try-outs are for incoming 7th, 8th, or 9th graders who have not ran for Woodland before. Students that are currently on the XC roster need not attend the try-out dates. If you [...]

Today in class we took some time to debrief about our test from the previous day and analysis the data just a little bit. The image above is of a screen shot of the test data that I shared with my students today. We looked at the concept of a bell curve and how we [...]

Students, today you will take your unit 1 test in Arkansas History. Don’t forget about your essay questions…one of them being how a bill is created. Mr. McClung

Recently we finished our city projects using the Glogster website. Students were asked to pick a city in Arkansas and do a research project over that city and record it on an online poster board. Although this project gave us plenty of fits, overall I was very pleased with the final product…here are a couple [...]

Your Super Bowl inspired band of the week is The Darkness. The Darkness are a British glam rock band from Lowestoft, Suffolk, formed in 2000. The band consists of Justin Hawkins (lead vocals, guitar), his brother Dan Hawkins (guitar, backing vocals), Frankie Poullain (bass, backing vocals) and Ed Graham (drums) and are characterised by their [...]

It’s here…embedded above is the study guide for our first unit test in Arkansas History. Mr. McClung