inclusion

These are my favorite students in my favorite class and we are doing our favorite thing-COOKING. I love this group and they will all be gone this year because they are seniors- my heart will be broken.

jessica my sunshine

This is my 7th period class. One student has a learning disablility and she is my favorite. I never let any know and I never show favortism but she is my sunshine. She was raised in the worst economic conditions and this has strengthened her common sense skill and creativity skills. This student cannot read and write well, but can lead a craft project in my class, show the students how to find resources, create pictures with ease and control the kitchen without question. This student is amazing in my life skills classes because life skills is what she knows best. My sweet Jessica will be the student that may not ever go to college, but she will be a great wife, friend, and employee there can be. She will shine in the areas alot of my students will fail at. What she has learned from survival, an abusive lifestyle and a dysfunctional family actually made her a well rounded individual. I am proud of my Jessica!!!!!!

Book Review- Isaac's storm

I read the best book right before starting school and the memories and passages keep creeping back as these hurricanes come at us like a bowling alley. Isaac's storm was a true story about a hired united state government weather bureau worker that documented details about the hurricane of 1908 in galveston, texas. This hurricane was a category 3 that hit head on to this booming town. The morning before Isaac saved 6,000 people against the governments advise by telling them he thought this was a bad storm headed to texas. The other 10,000 stayed and 6,000 of those lost their lives. The details of how the bodies were disposed of, the flooding, the destruction, the last words, the missing children and the hopes of this amazing town.
I have been to galveston and the book certainly describes a different town. This town in the early 1900's was the las vegas of the united states. The industry, the cattle and the gambling brought the wealthy to this town. The lack of technology that Isaac had and the way he weighed heavily on what he did have and put this huge hurricane together is a great story.