Rick Winter - Teacher at JA Back Door, Author, School Board, and Life Long Student
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Mr. Winter's Whiteboard - Last Updated 04/07/2007

This will count as your white/chalk board. Check this everyday for assignments, prizes, news, etc.

You are required to check this Whiteboard every day. Assignments are not optional unless they say they are, all emails must have a subject and your name at the bottom. If you are absent, read the whiteboard for that day and do the assignment, if not optional. If you do not do a required assignment, you get 20 points deducted from your minutes grade.

Adding and Subtracting Polynomials

Step 2 Final.

Finish your chapters (this is 50% of the final) and must be done before step 3. Continue on to step 3 only if you finish the chapters. Print out our assignment sheet again and circle the items you did for your final. Write final on the top and  your name and put it in the inbox.

Step 3 Final.

Click on the class below to download the final for your class and follow the instructions. Print this out and mark it as you complete each step. Put this in the inbox for your class when done.

PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE: THE POLITICS OF PATRIOTISM IN AMERICA'S SCHOOLS Patriotism is highly contested territory, especially when it comes to the daily activities of the nation’s schoolchildren. Complex notions of patriotism reflect and shape various ideas about patriotism and its importance to national unity. Some citizens seek to advance particular notions of patriotism over others. Nowhere are the debates around these various visions of patriotic attachment more consequential than in our nation’s schools. In Madison, Wisc., the parent community erupted in fierce debate over a new law requiring schools to post American flags in each classroom and to lead students in either pledging allegiance each day or playing the national anthem. In Detroit, Mich., a student was repeatedly suspended, first for wearing a T-shirt with an upside-down American flag, and then for wearing a sweatshirt with an anti-war quotation by Albert Einstein. A new book edited by Joel Westheimer, and filled with essays by education luminaries, explores the relationship between patriotism and education, and it does so from a variety of perspectives. There are plenty of sources from which to find arguments for the kind of patriotic allegiance to government that borders on what Westheimer calls "authoritarian patriotism." This position is well represented in our daily exposure to news, television, advertising, and other manifestations of popular culture. This book predominantly and unapologetically emphasizes the other side -- a kind of patriotism that goes by many names: cosmopolitan patriotism, real patriotism, progressive patriotism, and democratic patriotism. This volume is a detailed articulation of the inherent complexity in forging a critical kind of patriotism that allows -- indeed encourages -- healthy democratic dissent, especially as it relates to schools.
http://www.pledgingallegiance.org

Multi-tasking http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/25/AR2007022501600.html

Merry Christmas

Email: Best/worst thing

1. What is the best thing that ever happened to you?
2. What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?

8/22/06 - Welcome Students. I'm so glad you're finally here. Each day you're required to read the whiteboard page. Here's today's.

Today's whiteboard assignment: Subject: Daily Quote, Tip, or Picture

Send me an email. My email address is always at the top of the whiteboard page (use the @ sign instead of the word at). Tell me why you think I chose the quote above, why I had the first tip as Ctrl+S, or what the picture is and one fact about it. You receive credit each day for doing the whiteboard assignment unless it says it is optional. See the yellow highlighted words above. You always should include a subject for your email and your name at the bottom (this is good e-mail etiquette as well). In addition to your credit, I'll give a piece of candy to whoever adds the phrase -- "please may I have candy" to the bottom of the email.

After you do the whiteboard each day, work on your assignments. So today, click on the Class Page page link above (top left of this page) and then after the word Common, click on Assignments (these are due by or before Friday). When you are finished with the common assignments, go on to the assignments for your specific class. Tip - click here to open, then print out the Parent Syllabus Form and bring back by Friday. This is one of your assignments but this is a reminder.

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