Week of February 24-28, 2014

Congratulations Falcons! One of the most challenging weeks this six weeks has come to an end. Your science projects were out of this world!  Now we have to come back down and apply ourselves with more commitment.  You need to get serious about the benchmarks you will be taking next week. You all need to make sure that you go to bed early and have a healthy breakfast the days before the benchmarks.
On another note students we will start a new Six Weeks next week and we will be reading another novel. The novel is "The Slave Dancer" by Paula Fox.  I am asking you all to start bringing in the money to purchase the novel.  The money needs to be turned in no later than March 7, 2014.

Tues--Math District Benchmark #2
Wed--Reading District Benchmark #2
Thurs--Go over Benchmark
Fri--Math Carnival

February 23, Santa Ana Began Siege of the Alamo 1836
February 25, First African American Elected to U. S. Senate 1870

In 1845, Hiram Revels became a pastor in Baltimore, MD, and principal of a school for blacks. He helped organize black volunteers for service in the Union Army (1861). Then he joined federal forces and was stationed in Mississippi to serve as chaplain to a black regiment (1863). After the war, Revels preached in Mississippi. He was appointed alderman by the military governor (1868) and was later elected to the state senate (1869). As a state senator, he sought to restore voting rights and the right to hold office of former confederates. In 1870, he was the first African American elected to the U.S. senate to fill the term of Jefferson Davis. As a U.S. senator, he advocated for desegregation in education and on the railroads. After being a senator, he became president of – and retired as president of – Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in Mississippi.