I spend my days at OJHS...

My second home is Orem Junior High. Here are a couple updates from OJHS

1. Be very very afraid of the slave ship simulation. I wanted to do something memorable for my students when we talked about the triangular trade route and the middle passage. My co-worker and I came up with a plan to bring in someone to who spoke a different language and yell at the students and order them around and make them lay on the ground as if they were slave ship. Once they were on the ground I read to them slave narratives. They then had to create their own slave narrative. My slave drivers were Matthew Peterson who spoke Tagalog. Matt Earl who spoke Norwegian and Allen came in for one period. Allen tried to be mean, but he doesn't really have a mean bone in his body. They all did great, but I was only able to film Matt Earl and he really got into it wearing his leather pants. Take a look... would you be scared?

2. A student at our school has brain tumors. They held a race for her so she could have a "make a wish" experience. She gets to go to Disney World with her family in February. Although we don't get to go to Disney World, we had a great time running for her (even though I am really out of shape and I blame OJHS for getting me out of shape)Isn't Ashley the cutest teacher you have ever seen?

Down below are the amazing teachers at OJHS that came out for the event

3. LASTLY... WWCD... A couple of my students created these buttons that look like this...

It stands for What Would Cameo Do? Although there are students that don't like me, I look at the button they gave me and remember there are some students that do like me.