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March 02, 2006
Bart Simpson v/s 1st Amendment
Today we spent a little time and took two quizzes from Channel One. The first was to test the kid’s knowledge of the popular television show The Simpson’s. The second quiz evaluated how much they knew about the First Amendment to the Constitution. If I asked you each to vote on which you thought the students knew more about I hazard to guess that a large majority would say The Simpson’s. Truth be known – more of the students scored higher on the First Amendment quiz. Over 80% of the students scored over 80% on the First Amendment Quiz. Mrs. Kosuda came through as we were finishing up and decided to ask her own quiz questions. Before joining Norwayne she was selected as Wayne County’s High School Teacher of the Year. I was nervous but the kids passed with flying colors. 
Channel One is a short morning news show that informs the kids of current events educating them really without their knowledge. Channel One conducted the same kind of poll on young adults.
We are completing our Writing Test Preparation and it has been a grueling journey. I am proud of the efforts of many of the kids and am confident they will make themselves proud next Tuesday. Keep good thoughts for us as we test on Tuesday.
March is here and it really is my favorite time of year. The weather is changing and the kids are maturing (most for the better).
Posted by hlperson at March 2, 2006 03:52 PM
Comments
My dad and my little brother watch The Simpsons every single night that it is on. Anyway I was surprized at how much I knew about the First Ammendment.
Posted by: Brianna E. at March 2, 2006 06:06 PM
Wow! I've never watched the Simpsons before, I can not beleive more people know about it but not social studies, well actualy I can beleive it because people are to lazy to bother to want to learn now. Oh well I did better on the Amendment one anyway.
Posted by: Courtney D. at March 2, 2006 06:54 PM
That Channel One quiz was lots of fun. I knew more about the 1st Amendment than the Simpsons. I hope you are ready for the game Saturday. Go Duke!!!
Posted by: Travis M. at March 2, 2006 07:24 PM
That quiz was a lot of fun! I knew more about the First Amendment than Bart Simpson. I learn more about The First Amendment,beacause at first I didn't know what it was but now I do.
Posted by: Lashada W. at March 2, 2006 08:57 PM
Yea that quiz was really fun but I did better on the 1st Amendment anyways!!!
Posted by: Rachel B. at March 9, 2006 08:21 PM
March is my favorite time of year also (next to summer!) I guess that great minds really do think alike!
We were really pushing it those last few weeks before the Writing Test but, overall, I think everyone did pretty well!
WOW! I was surprised at how hard that the writing prompt was! I am really bad for getting off topic and I think that I showed that on my test!
Posted by: Brianna E. at March 10, 2006 10:35 PM
Yeah, some of us are maturing.....I do not even watch the Simpsons and I knew a lot about it. Well,to balance it out, I knew a lot about the First Amendment too!
Posted by: CoraBeth H. at March 15, 2006 07:52 PM
The quiz was thrilling!! (I realy like to do stuff on the over head projector) I learned what the 1st Amendment is now, freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly.
Posted by: Jeremy T. at March 16, 2006 06:55 AM
I had a lot of fun with the Channel One quiz. I knew more about the 1st Amendment than I did about the Simpsons because I truly think that show is just stupid. But that is just my opinion.
Posted by: Britney R. at March 16, 2006 02:32 PM
Miss reading your articles... please post!
Posted by: Tracie Wilson at March 17, 2006 09:55 AM
Wow! I scored higher on the first ammendment test! That really is cool :P
Posted by: Stacey Willington at December 2, 2006 11:02 AM