Are you guys interested in having an "Occasion of Food" on Friday? We typically have one cookoff per semester in this course - in celebration of all of the ways that food is relevant to world goings-on, and also just because eating is awesome :) - and I am happy to have it be this Friday if you g...
US unveils plan for West Africa visitorsBY KELLY GILBLOM, OCTOBER 24 2014, 07:20 http://www.bdlive.co.za/world/americas/2014/10/24/us-unveils-plan-for-west-africa-visitors On Thursday, the CDC announced its new plan to monitor travellers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.Di...
Did anything great happen over the weekend that totally rocked your world? Feel free to share a highlight or lowlight! :) I had fun seeing Mrs. Switzer honored at the OC Teacher of the Year banquet on Friday night (along with Mrs. Halliday from Tuffree and Mrs. McDonald from Golden) watching the MiniC...
UK science teacher admits to helping isis. The teacher travailed to Syria. He was helping fund isis fighters. how do you think we can prevent people from helping isis?
In the past few weeks, large protests have slowly diminished in Hong Kong over voting rights. Protesters still remain, however, peaceful actions by the government have begun to take place. Most recently, televised debates between student protesters and government officials were aired live. Do...
Barry Spurr is a professor in the University of Sydney in Australia. This man who helped write the Australian school curriculum was caught using highly derogatory terms to describe Aboriginal people, Muslims, women and Nelson Mandela. He was suspended for his sexist and racist language after h...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff won a hotly contested runoff election on Sunday. With more than 99% of votes counted, the incumbent Rousseff had 51.59% of the vote, according to official results. Opposition candidate Aecio Neves garnered 48.41%. Before becoming the country's first femal...
U.S. airplanes are dropping medical supplies and weapons into Kobani to help protect the Syrian town from ISIS. Twenty-eight packages were dropped in and around Kobani on Monday but it is believed that one of them drifted away from its targeted zone and landed into the hands of an ISIS fighter. The U....
The order in which you will choose your presentation date is listed below (it is the reverse of the order in which you chose your books).Please follow the below directions precisely. If you do not, you will forfeit your turn.1. Do not choose your date until the person/group ahead of you "in line...
The PTSA is hosting their annual Reflections contest. This year, the theme is "The World Would be a Better Place If..." Which dovetails rather nicely with our purposes in this class. SOOO, I encourage you to enter AND will give you extra credit if you do (just take a picture/video of you...
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