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Laws of War
May 2013
After World War Two, the Jewish people were given the land between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. In May of 1948, the United Nations granted Israel statehood, resulting in attacks from all of the surrounding Arab nations. The exact day that Israel became a nation was May 14, 1948. On that day, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, and Syria combined their armies against the new Jewish state. This was when Israel first got it’s army. The Haganah was a terrorist organization defending the rights of Jews in the Middle East until they changed to become Israel’s official army. This became that battle that marked Jewish Independence from their Islamic neighbors and prevented other attacks...
Dream Team Name Campaign
September 2012
We needed a name for our team, which is two classes of 26 kids. We decided to make a huge deal out of naming our team by learning about marketing as we went along. Our name that my group came up with was Kali and Acker's Munchkins. We chose this name as an afterthought and went with it, but that was not where we started...
Dream School
September 2012
This week in Humanities, we have been thinking about our dream school. What kind of school would we go to if there were absolutely no limits? We were looking at what would make our school a place we would love coming to. This project seemed wild at first but I loved how we could use our creativity, Every student has an idea of what their dream school would be. In this project we were encouraged to bring our dreams to reality, and take what seemed impossible and make it a part of our classroom...