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Welcome to our class!
First let me introduce myself. My name is Jamie L. Brannon, and this is my third year teaching at Truman Middle
School. I am married with two children. My oldest daughter's name is Brittany and she is a freshman in college.
My youngest daughter's name is Megan and she is a freshman at West Mesa High School.
I graduated from UNM with a bachelors degree in history and education in 2002, and with my masters degree in special
education in 2004. Before I began teaching I was a burn specialist for UNMH for 12 years. I love teaching!
I want this website to be a way to communicate to both student and parent. I plan to post homework assignments
and due dates, as well as have a bulletin board for comments and questions.
I have an open door policy and hope that if you have problems and concerns you e-mail me at brannon_j@aps.edu. This tends to be the fastest way to get a hold of me. Of course, you can always call the school, 836-3030 and
leave a message.
Sincerely,
Jamie Brannon
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I will be teaching a self-contained multi-grade class this year so I have come up with a plan that I hope will fit the
needs of all students. I think we are going to have a great school year. So, let's get planning.
Here are examples of the content I might include.
- Social studies is going to be divided into one four week unit on geography and map reading.
After all, we can't get to where we are going unless we know how to read a map. The additional units will be approximately
10-11 weeks long.
- Unit 1 Geography
- Unit 2 Ancient History
- Unit 3 New Mexico History
- Unit 4 American History
- Each Unit will end with a project such as making your own geography game, creating a computer project on a state of your
choice, making an ancient newspaper, researching a famous New Mexican, and researching a famous American time period such
as the Great Depression, or the Civil Rights movement and presenting it
- Language Arts For the first nine weeks we will focus on an autobiography as well as doing assignments
in basic grammar.
- The Autobiography is a PowerPoint presentation, which is a computer program which I have found that all of the kids loved
using
- The second nine weeks, we will be making our own iMovie on the computer. I teach this every year.
- I also teach word processing and many other computer projects in order to teach the children computer technology that
has real life application. This year we will also be making our own website just as I have done here.
- Math will be done on an individual basis, based on test findings
- Reading We will be reading approximately four to five novels this year. I will be giving a pre-reading survey
to determine what books everybody has read.
- Study skills I will be teaching students how to study, remember dates and facts, and become better students
in an organized study skills class.
Of course, this is only a framework. As with all things, this plan is subject to change based on the needs
of the class and of the school
Events and Announcements
It is now possible to view your students grades on line at www.mygradebook.com use your students ID number to access grades.
Assignment and Due Dates:
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On September 21, the class will be taking the A2L test that has been mandated by the state. This test will give me a baseline
to begin working with the children. Have the kids eat a good breakfast and rest up the night before.
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You can now check your child's grades on line at www.mygradebook.com log in under student and parent. The class names are Brannonsped1, Brannonsped2, Brannonsped3 and so on
for each subject. The password is your child's ID number, which can be located on the schedule card and on the ID card
in your child's planner. If you have questions please feel free to email me at brannon_j@aps.edu.
Also, I could really use any old magazines that you might have. I like to use the pictures to do art
work. Thanks
Riddle:
How many letters are in the alphebet?
Answer:
11 are in "The Alphebet?"
"Yuk, Yuk, Yuk"
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Meet the Challenge!
Here, I might put a weekly brain teaser, for example:
Three less than 4 times a number is greater than 4 times the
sum of the number and 1. Find all such numbers.
Last week's answer: 4
Last week's winner: Brad
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Please get in touch with any questions or comments on my site.
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