SO Who Won The Presidential Elections For 2012?
Up top are some red and blue states. The red states are Republican, and the blue states are Democratic. Even without Florida President Obama would've won. Only with ohio and California, President Obama got a boost to win, So Governer Romney had to kind of give up. Events and Homework for Mr. Solarz' Class
Monday, November 5 Print Week Month Agenda Showing events after 11/5. Look for earlier eventsMonday, November 5 Bring in candy for the east coast (last day) Lit Circle Role Sheet due Math: MB 4.7 & 4.8 due Orbit Skate Night3:00pm Cook at the Soup Kitchen3:35pm No afternoon HW Club on Mondays (Soup Kitchen)Tuesday, November 6 SIP Day (I lead the 5th grade group with Byron) Election Day3:45pm 403b Meeting (TBD)Wednesday, November 7 WEX Final Draft due (both stories combined into one)4:00pm BowlingThursday, November 8 Spelling Homework due (& study for Test)8:00am No morning HW Club on Thursday mornings (Meetings)Friday, November 91:05pm No Lunch HW Club on Fridays (I'm out of the building)Sunday, November 11 Veterans DayMonday, November 123:00pm Cook at the Soup Kitchen3:35pm No afternoon HW Club on Mondays (Soup Kitchen)Tuesday, November 133:45pm Money Island Meeting in Room 138Wednesday, November 142:35pm Everybody Counts!Thursday, November 15 Spelling Homework due (& study for Test)8:00am No morning HW Club on Thursday mornings (Meetings)Friday, November 161:05pm No Lunch HW Club on Fridays (I'm out of the building)Sunday, November 184:30pm Roller Skating PartyMonday, November 193:00pm Cook at the Soup Kitchen3:35pm No afternoon HW Club on Mondays (Soup Kitchen)Thursday, November 22 Spelling Homework due (& study for Test) Thanksgiving8:00am No morning HW Club on Thursday mornings (Meetings)Friday, November 231:05pm No Lunch HW Club on Fridays (I'm out of the building)Monday, November 263:00pm Cook at the Soup Kitchen3:35pm No afternoon HW Club on Mondays (Soup Kitchen)Wednesday, November 284:00pm BowlingThursday, November 29 Spelling Homework due (& study for Test)8:00am No morning HW Club on Thursday mornings (Meetings)Friday, November 301:05pm No Lunch HW Club on Fridays (I'm out of the building)Monday, December 33:00pm Cook at the Soup Kitchen3:35pm No afternoon HW Club on Mondays (Soup Kitchen)Tuesday, December 44:00pm PD Sub-Committee for 1/22 SIP DayThursday, December 6 Spelling Homework due (& study for Test)8:00am No morning HW Club on Thursday mornings (Meetings)Friday, December 71:05pm No Lunch HW Club on Fridays (I'm out of the building)2:35pm Art Appreciation with Mrs. Stinnett and Mrs. HallMonday, December 103:00pm Cook at the Soup Kitchen3:35pm No afternoon HW Club on Mondays (Soup Kitchen)Wednesday, December 124:00pm BowlingShowing events until 12/13. Look for moreEvents shown in time zone: Central Time News & Notes from Mr. Badynee The new date for the roller skating party:
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Name * First Last Email * Comment * Please support those who support us... Online Image Map Tool - Upload your image, map it, get your code! I signed up to donate bone marrow in the case that someone would need my type. Please consider this if you are in good health. Our class uses Today's Meet to have discussions online while researching questions and ideas. It allows for collaboration, while students work independently. Check out examples throughout this website! We use SpellingCity.com to practice our spelling words each week. Thanks to the reasonable yearly fee, I am also able to have my children take their tests her as well! This saves me so much time. :) I will be trying to use Diigo more effectively with my class this year. I already use it daily for my own social bookmarking! I can't say enough about Weebly! I use it daily to create this website. It has a wonderful FREE option (which I started with), but paying $50 each year allows you to do amazing things with your students. Just check out the pages to see for yourself! :) ABC/25 is the one organization that I can point to as helping me the most in my quest to create a 21st Century Classroom. They have provided me with $500-$1500 each school year over the past 10 or so years. This money has gone towards purchasing technology equipment, simulations, instructional materials, etc. for my students and the other 5th graders at Westgate! Please click on the link below to load a form in order to make a donation! Click here to load the ABC/25 Donation form. Thank you for your support! This website was kind enough to donate a $500 virtual news set for our classroom to use while creating our News Broadcasts. If you know anyone who can use their services, please recommend them!!! We sure do!!! A sample News Broadcast using their Virtual News Studio can be seen here. See the commercial we made for their website here! Glogster was kind enough to give our classroom a discount for the 2012-2013 school year. Please support them by using either Glogster or Glogster EDU. We enjoy making interactive posters and you can see some examples on our website! See an explanation video for Glogster here. TCI, (a.k.a. History Alive) has given us a free subscription this year to its online component! We will be doing all lessons online and discovering the many benefits of this delivery model! Thanks TCI! Click here to go to the Online Tutorial to study for quizzes. This year, I will be trying out a few lessons from Pearson's new math program called enVision Math. It's ahead of the game by integrating the Common Core standards into its lessons. It also differentiates lessons nicely for all levels and abilities! :) Click here to learn more about this amazing math program! Creately is an amazing website that allows you to create and collaborate on graphic organizers of all kinds. They have provided our classroom with a Creately Scholarship so we can all work together online for free! Thank you so much Creately!! Abraham Lincoln's son Tad once fired on the Cabinet after receiving a pretend military commission.
Illustration by Bob Brugger Illustration by Bob Brugger Did you know that Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, was a tailor before he was President? Or that one of George Washington's favorite foods was ice cream? These are just two of the interesting facts about past U.S. Presidents National Geographic Kids has collected. Many Presidents had unusual careers before entering the White House. Jimmy Carter, the 39th President, was a peanut farmer. Ronald Reagan, the 40th President, was a movie actor. And Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President, once worked chopping rails for fences. According to John Riley of the White House Historical Association, Harry Truman was a haberdasher. A haberdasher (HAB-er-dash-er) is someone who deals in men's clothing and accessories, particularly hats. Once in the White House, each President made his mark in different ways. In fact, before Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President, came to office, the White House wasn't even called the White House! People called the building the President's Palace, President's House, and the Executive Mansion. Roosevelt officially named it the White House in 1901. Theodore Roosevelt wasn't the only President to invent a new expression. Martin Van Buren, the eighth President, is sometimes credited with creating the word "OK." Van Buren was from Kinderhook, New York. During his campaign, Old Kinderhook (O.K.) clubs formed to support the President. Later, "OK" or "okay," came to mean "all right." There have been many other interesting presidential firsts. James Polk, the 11th President, was the first President to have his photograph taken. Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to ride in a car while in office. His fifth cousin and the 32nd President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was the first to ride in an airplane. What will be the next big presidential first? First to ride in a spaceship? Fast Facts:
A couple of days ago, we proved how great Solar energy can be with a poster. This was fun because we could get really creative with it. This is a 21st century skill, that I think is important.This organizer will prove to you how great Solar energy can be to the world. If you read this, you will want to vote for Solar. What mean by "vote" is that we are doing an enregy debate. The road to 50 states was littered with wannabes who couldn’t wait to declare themselves—but never quite got to full statehood. Here are 12 states that could have been.
1. Franklin Wikimedia Commons After the Revolutionary War, it became common for states to gift their westernmost lands to the newly-founded (but broke) American government to repackage and sell to westbound pioneers. A conspiracy in North Carolina led to its western lands being sold to high-ranking members of the state government instead, then ceded to the U.S. Government under an agreement that ensured that those officials got a portion of the profits. After the plan was discovered, a new government was elected and the deal was nullified, but the damage was already done. As a result of the shady land deals, counties in what’s now eastern Tennessee proposed the State of Franklin, distancing themselves from North Carolina. Unfortunately, Franklin was a mere two votes shy of the 2/3 majority vote needed to become the 14th state. Franklin’s government collapsed shortly after and returned to North Carolina’s ownership. 2. Jefferson Wikimedia Commons Four regions have been proposed as the State of Jefferson. The first was west of Kansas Territory in 1859. Mining communities in the Rocky Mountains came together and requested the formation of their own potential state, called Jefferson. The Kansas government agreed, setting its proposed borders east of Jefferson’s. Citizens of Jefferson could not agree on a constitution, however, so it became Jefferson Territory (later Colorado Territory) instead. The second and third were both located in Texas. As part of its admittance into the United States, Texas could agree to split itself into as many as four states. In 1870, southeastern Texas, from the San Antonio River onward, was proposed as Jefferson, with other region-states to follow. The idea was never taken very seriously. Later, in 1915, Jefferson plans re-emerged, but in western Texas instead. Only six state senators approved of the idea, and it, too, failed. The fourth, a mix of counties from northern California and southern Oregon, was proposed in 1941. Supporters in the area marched with guns, passing out flyers proclaiming secession. Their movement was overshadowed by the attacks on Pearl Harbor and mostly faded away. Some, however, still propose an expanded Jefferson even today. 3. Superior Wikimedia Commons As one of the only non-island U.S. states with two distinct landmasses, it makes sense that citizens of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (frequently referred to as “yoopers”) would consider splitting off from the “glove” “mitten” part of the state. It has been proposed on a number of occasions, usually with the proposed state being called “Superior” (for Lake Superior), though other names such as Sylvania (preferred by Thomas Jefferson) and Ontonagon have also been mentioned. In fact, the idea has been brought forth as recently as this year. In April, murmurs of upper peninsula secession bubbled up once again after debates over Michigan tax laws. 4. Delmarva Wikimedia Commons Similar to the Michigan Upper Peninsula statehood efforts, Delmarva’s attempts at self-government are persistent. Delmarva is the small peninsula off the east coast of Maryland that is split between three states: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Hence, Delmarva. The entirety of Delaware is located on the peninsula, but only portions belong to Maryland and Virginia. Most proposals call for Maryland and Virginia to cede their lands, Delaware to absorb them, and for the new state to be dubbed Delmarva (though some alternate plans call for the name to remain Delaware). Some others want Delaware to remain an independent state and cede only a few counties to Delmarva, and others still insist that Maryland’s eastern shore also be included. No formal attempts have ever been made, but considering the odd borders currently present on the peninsula, a single government does sort of make sense. 5. Absaroka Wikimedia Commons In 1939, portions of Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota attempted to secede and form their own state called Absaroka, named after the Absaroka Range of the Rocky Mountains. While they never actually came to Congress to propose statehood, they did make Absaroka license plates and even held a 1939 Miss Absaroka beauty pageant. Sheridan, Wyoming street commissioner A. R. Swickard was the leading force behind the movement. He declared himself governor of Absaroka and began hearing grievances from the local populace. With the start of World War II, however, the populace lost interest in the idea and it eventually disappeared altogether. 6. Scott You may be surprised to discover that there was a lost state as recently as 1986. In fact, it existed for 125 years, but you wouldn’t have found it on any U.S. maps. The Free and Independent State of Scott was founded during the Civil War when Scott County, Tennessee opted to secede from its parent state after Tennessee joined the Confederate States of America. Citizens of Scott, who weren’t plantation holders or slave owners, had no interest in joining the CSA and so remained a Union state. Tennessee ignored the proclamation and did nothing to stop them, so the tiny State of Scott was mostly forgotten about until its 125th anniversary, when it finally formally requested re-admittance to Tennessee. The state even held a celebration welcoming Scott back, although it had never officially recognized it in the first place. 7. Transylvania Wikimedia Commons Everyone knows about the 13 colonies, but few know that there was an unofficial 14th. Dubbed Transylvania (over 100 years before Bram Stoker made that name scary), the land was made up of modern-day western and southeastern Kentucky and northern Tennessee. Purchased from Cherokee Indians by the Transylvania Company, the hope was that the British would recognize the land and allow the Transylvania Company’s owner, Richard Henderson, to rule it as an autonomous territory, like William Penn and Pennsylvania. Unfortunately for them, the plan unraveled when it was discovered that the purchase was illegal under British law and that the lands had already been claimed by Virginia and North Carolina. For less than a year, the land existed as an extralegal colony. Shortly before the formation of the U.S., Virginia declared the Transylvania Purchase void and officially re-claimed the lands. 8. Deseret Named after a Book of Mormon word meaning “honeybee,” Deseret was a region in the southwestern United States claimed by Mormons who sought to govern themselves. Their proposed state took all of modern day Utah and parts of several other states. Their statehood request was denied by Congress in 1849 and they were given the much smaller Utah Territory instead. The laws and regulations drafted by Deseret were quickly re-enacted under Utah Territory’s government. However, a shadow government of Mormon elders were hopeful to one day resurrect the Deseret idea. They secretly met after each legislative session for the next twenty years and rewrote the day’s new laws under the “State of Deseret” name. 9. Westsylvania Wikimedia Commons Franklin wasn’t the only region with a bid to become the 14th state. In 1776, the failed colony of Vandalia (modern day West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and eastern Kentucky) tried to reform itself the State of Westsylvania. Unlike Franklin, however, Westsylvania’s bid never even went up for a vote. Congress ignored the petition and when the lands were taken up by the surrounding states, former Westsylvanians bristled and threatened to secede anyway. Shortly afterward, Pennsylvania (which then owned most of the former Westsylvania lands) passed a law declaring talk of secession and the Westsylvania movement to be treasonous and punishable by execution. As a result, the dream of Westsylvania quickly died. 10. Nickajack Much like the Free and Independent State of Scott, many in the South during the Civil War, namely those who weren’t rich enough to own large tracts of land or slaves, were unhappy with the idea of seceding. One such region where this sentiment was widely held was the mountainous lands found in eastern Tennessee and northern Alabama, which attempted to merge together and form the state of Nickajack. Instead of simply declaring themselves a new state like Scott, however, non-secessionist politicians attempted to break apart legally. While Tennessee struggled with its decision on joining the Confederacy, northern Alabama lawmakers were left attempting to block secession in their state, if not actively seceding themselves. Unfortunately, the rules of the secession convention stated that delegates and their votes were determined by total population of their jurisdiction. Since slaves counted toward the total population, the southern and central regional delegates far outnumbered those of the north. Therefore, the slave owners were allowed to vote on behalf of their own slaves and the secession passed. A short time later, Tennesseans voted in favor of the Confederacy as well. Leaving the CSA was considered too dangerous for Nickajack, and the idea was dropped. 11. Sequoyah Wikimedia Commons Not unlike the Mormon Church’s idea for its own state, Native Americans also sought to create a part of the U.S. that had their interests in mind. So it was that in 1905, the State of Sequoyah (named after the same Sequoyah who invented the Cherokee written language) was conceptualized. Based out of Indian Territory (present day eastern Oklahoma), a tract of land where Native Americans had been relocated by the U.S. Government, the state design would have counties for all of the major tribes and allow their system of tribal government to continue unabated. When presented with their constitution and plans for statehood, Congress was hesitant due to a desire to keep the number of states between the eastern and western U.S. balanced. In the end, President Teddy Roosevelt decided that Sequoyah should be merged with the existing Oklahoma statehood proposal, creating the state as we know it today. 12. Lincoln Wikimedia Commons There have been multiple attempts to create a State of Lincoln. The first has an origin similar to one of the many Jeffersons. As mentioned before, a clause in Texas’s admission to the U.S. allowed it to be split into multiple entities. One of these proposed spinoffs, the State of Lincoln, would have taken up anything south and west of the Colorado River. Just like the state of Jefferson that would have been found in East Texas, the idea never came to fruition. The second Lincoln would have been found far from Texas. After the crafting of the Washington, Idaho, and Montana Territories in 1864, it was briefly unclear if what is now known as the Idaho Panhandle would become a part of Idaho or Montana. In the meantime, the Panhandle led a petition to become a state called Lincoln. When this failed, the idea was re-proposed in the early 1900s and included Eastern Washington, thus splitting the existing state in two. Again, the idea failed, but it has perpetually recurred since that time. The most recent proposition for the idea was made in 2005. More from mental_floss… How All 50 States Got Their Names * The Proposed U.S. Map With Only 38 States * What’s the Difference Between A State and A Commonwealth? * 8 Countries and States That Moved Their Capitals See All Our Great Lists >> 60 comments Email This Post Share on Twitter Share on Facebook « Previous Post - Next Post » Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/143276#ixzz2B0axnTj8 --brought to you by mental_floss! Despite their astonishing record of losses when dealing with lumberjacks and beavers, trees are pretty tough customers. Their trunks, branches, roots and twigs are all more than capable of enduring a winter’s worth of freezing temperatures, snow, sleet and hail. Their leaves, though? Eh, not so tough. The broad, thin leaves of a broadleaf tree (like a maple, an oak, a birch, or a poplar) are an Achilles’ heel when winter comes, and are vulnerable to freezing and damage from the elements. In order to survive, the trees either have to somehow protect the delicate leaves or shed them.
Evergreen trees—your pines, spruces, firs, etc.— went the protection route. Their leaves, or needles, are covered in a waxy coating to resist freezing, allowing them to live for years or even decades before falling off and being replaced. The leaves of deciduous trees, on the other hand, are cast off with the arrival of winter. The chemical processes that prepare them for their send-off also treat us to the season’s vibrant colors. Color Coding Green: The green color of leaves throughout spring and summer comes from chlorophyll, a pigment vital to photosynthesis. As we get closer to autumn and some parts of the planet get fewer hours of sunlight, trees respond by stopping the food-making photosynthesis process and slowing the production of chlorophyll until, eventually, they stop producing it altogether and the green color of the leaf fades Yellow and Orange: Along with chlorophyll, there are yellow and orange pigments, carotene and xanthophyll, inside some trees’ leaves. For most of the year, these pigments are masked by chlorophyll, but as the chlorophyll breaks down and the green color dissipates, the yellow to orange colors become visible. Red: Another class of pigment that occurs in leaves is the anthocyanins. Anthocyanins, unlike carotene and xanthophyll, are not present in leaves year-round. It isn’t until the chlorophyll begins breaking down that the plant begins to synthesize anthocyanin. Why do trees begin producing a different pigment in leaves they’re getting ready to lose? The prevailing theory is that anthocyanins protect leaves from sun damage, lower their freezing point, allow them to remain on the tree longer, and buy the tree more time to recover nutrients from its leaves. The colors that anthocyanins produce are dependent on the pH of the leaves’ cell sap. Very acidic sap results in a bright red color, while less acidic sap leads to a purplish red. Brown: The humdrum color is the result of waste products trapped in the leaves. Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/34223#ixzz2B0ZzM57a --brought to you by mental_floss! Storm-related news aside, here’s an interesting question about next week’s US election: What happens if there’s a tie? Within the Electoral College, there are 538 electors. It is possible (indeed, it has happened) that this even number of electors could split their votes. When that happens, you might be tempted to think that some simple fix would go down (like, say, falling back to the popular vote). But no, we have ways to make this way more complicated.
In this three-minute video, the inimitable C. G. P. Grey drops some knowledge. Get your learning hat on, and prepare a huge tub of popcorn in the (slim) chance that a tie occurs this year. Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/148929#ixzz2B0YzHP4m --brought to you by mental_floss! |
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