On Friday my 4th period class was officially crowned the champions of this year’s class competition for our fundraiser benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Their class raised $700 and won the right to shave my head during class on Friday…here’s how it went down. In phase one you can see that I started with [...]

Jack White, often credited as Jack White III, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. He was best known as the guitarist, pianist and lead vocalist of The White Stripes until they split in February 2011, as well as a member of The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. He is [...]

I felt like it was important to write a finale blog post giving proper thanks to all those that have helped us reach the total of $1,645 that has been donated to Susan G. Komen for The Cure. Although we did not meet our goal of $2,500 but it is still an incredible amount of [...]

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Lesson One – Ridiculously Photogenic Guy A few weeks back I ran my 2nd half marathon ever…while I am not fast at all, I was proud of my performance that day. Right about that time I had a student telling me that I looked like this photogenic guy that has been on the news lately. [...]

As we continue our conversations about prohibition and the current day configuration we have with wet and dry counties in Arkansas, we will discuss a study that was conducted by the University of Arkansas over the economic value liquor sales would have in Benton County. Mr. McClung

Today in class we will be reading a article about Benton County, Arkansas and the recent movement to make retail sales of alcohol legal. We will read the article embedded above and discuss the possible implications of this becoming a law. Mr. McClung

Watch Roots of PROHIBITION A Nation of Drunkards on PBS. See more from Ken Burns. Today in class we will be discussing the prohibition and temperance movement that took place in the US in the early 1900′s. To guide our conversations we will be using a PBS program about prohibition to help lead our discussions. [...]

In class yesterday we took a look at an article that was produced by PBS that spoke and race relations in Harrison, Arkansas. In this article a wide variety of issues were covered from the presence of the KKK in Harrison to the pride and history that many people invest into the confederate flag…the entire [...]

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is an American indie-pop band from Detroit consisting of Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein. Zott and Epstein met each other while playing in other Detroit music projects and began recording in Zott’s basement in Royal Oak, MI. The group is known for high energy live performances and for placing harmonic vocals [...]

Lesson One – The McClungs are Coming… Consider yourself notified, the McClungs will be here on May 18th. If you do not know what they are, ask around and act like you know. Lesson Two – One Man Relay Team This is Blake. He has been recognized several times this year as being an excellent [...]

Today in class we will be using an interactive map that is produced by PBS that discusses the banishment of African Americans starting in the post-civil war era and the effect that it has had on our current population today. To visit the website click here. Mr. McClung

Today we will be discussing North Korea and an athletic partiicpation rule in Michigan for this week’s edition of Three Two Things Thursday. Mr. McClung

…for t-shirt orders. The proof of the shirt design can be seen above, if you would like to order one make sure to do so by the end of the day today. Loading… Mr. McClung

Today in AVID we will be using a website put on the College Board called Big Future. This website helps students find information about a college’s admission standards and basic information. We will be using this website as we conduct research on perspective colleges. Mr. McClung

Esperanza Spalding (born October 18, 1984) is an American multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist and singer, who draws upon many genres in her own compositions. In 2011, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 53rd Grammy Awards, making her the first jazz artist to win the award. You can [...]

Lesson One – Three Cheers for Testing It’s over, thank God it’s finally over. This week in the state of Arkansas schools across the state took part in the madness that is benchmark testing. For four days we subjected our students to mind numbing testing in the hopes that when the scores come back that [...]

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After a long week of testing, I think it’s appropriate to sail into the weekend with a Friday edition of Three Things Thursday. Mr. McClung

1965 Literacy Test View more presentations from Joe McClung In class today my students took the 1965 Alabama literacy test for voting. At the time of taking the test my students were not aware that what they were taking was a literacy test for voting but after they found out they were very surprised to [...]