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Note Card Template

Apr 18

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Do you want to print off your note cards for your senior presentation? Try this file:Notecard Template

**When you go to print, change the setting to “4 Pages per Sheet” and “No Scaling”–this will allow you to print your cards more effectively.

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Famous Speeches

Apr 6

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Head over to YouTube and search for some of these speeches… if you have other speakers you’d like to check out, check with me.

Make sure you write down the SPEAKER and the SPEECH that you’ve chosen.

Rank Speaker Title/Text
1 Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have A Dream”
2

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Inaugural Address
3

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address
4

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
5

Barbara Charline Jordan

1976 DNC Keynote Address
6 Richard Milhous Nixon

“Checkers”
7 Malcolm X

“The Ballot or the Bullet”
8 Ronald Wilson Reagan

Shuttle ”Challenger” Disaster Address
9

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Houston Ministerial Association Speech
10 Lyndon Baines Johnson

“We Shall Overcome”
11 Mario Matthew Cuomo

1984 DNC Keynote Address
12 Jesse Louis Jackson

1984 DNC Address
13

Barbara Charline Jordan

Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
14

(General) Douglas MacArthur

Farewell Address to Congress
15

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
16

Theodore Roosevelt

“The Man with the Muck-rake”
17

Robert Francis Kennedy

Remarks on the Assassination of MLK
18 Dwight David Eisenhower

Farewell Address
19

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

War Message
20

(General) Douglas MacArthur

“Duty, Honor, Country”
21

Richard Milhous Nixon

“The Great Silent Majority”
22

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Ich bin ein Berliner”
23

Clarence Seward Darrow

“Mercy for Leopold and Loeb”
24

Russell H. Conwell

“Acres of Diamonds”
25

Ronald Wilson Reagan

“A Time for Choosing”
26 Huey Pierce Long

“Every Man a King”
27 Anna Howard Shaw “The Fundamental Principle of a Republic”
28

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“The Arsenal of Democracy”
29

Ronald Wilson Reagan

“The Evil Empire”
30

Ronald Wilson Reagan

First Inaugural Address
31

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Fireside Chat
32 Harry S. Truman

“The Truman Doctrine”
33 William Cuthbert Faulkner

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
34

Eugene Victor Debs

1918 Statement to the Court
35

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

“Women’s Rights are Human Rights”
36

Dwight David Eisenhower

“Atoms for Peace”
37

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

American University Commencement Address
38

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards

1988 DNC Keynote Address
39

Richard Milhous Nixon

Resignation Speech
40

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

“The Fourteen Points”
41

Margaret Chase Smith

“Declaration of Conscience”
42

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“The Four Freedoms”
43

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A Time to Break Silence”
44

Mary Church Terrell

“What it Means to be Colored in the…U.S.”
45

William Jennings Bryan

“Against Imperialism”
46

Margaret Higgins Sanger

“The Morality of Birth Control”
47

Barbara Pierce Bush

1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address
48

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Civil Rights Address
49

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Cuban Missile Crisis Address
50

Spiro Theodore Agnew

“Television News Coverage”
51

Jesse Louis Jackson

1988 DNC Address
52

Mary Fisher

“A Whisper of AIDS”
53 Lyndon Baines Johnson “The Great Society”
54

George Catlett Marshall

“The Marshall Plan”
55

Edward Moore Kennedy

“Truth and Tolerance in America”
56

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
57

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

“The Struggle for Human Rights”
58

Geraldine Anne Ferraro

Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech
59

Robert Marion La Follette

“Free Speech in Wartime”
60

Ronald Wilson Reagan

40th Anniversary of D-Day Address
61

Mario Matthew Cuomo

 “Religious Belief and Public Morality”
62

Edward Moore Kennedy

“Chappaquiddick”
63

John Llewellyn Lewis

“The Rights of Labor”
64

Barry Morris Goldwater

Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
65

Stokely Carmichael

“Black Power”
66

Hubert Horatio Humphrey

1948 DNC Address
67

Emma Goldman

Address to the Jury
68

Carrie Chapman Catt

“The Crisis”
69

Newton Norman Minow

“Television and the Public Interest”
70

Edward Moore Kennedy

Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy
71 Anita Faye Hill

Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee
72 Thomas Woodrow Wilson

League of Nations Final Address
73

Henry Louis (“Lou”) Gehrig

Farewell to Baseball Address
74

Richard Milhous Nixon

Cambodian Incursion Address
75

Carrie Chapman Catt

Address to the U.S. Congress
76

Edward Moore Kennedy

1980 DNC Address
77

Lyndon Baines Johnson

On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election
78

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Commonwealth Club Address
79

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address
80

Mario Savio

“Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech/An End to History”
81

Elizabeth Glaser

1992 DNC Address
82

Eugene Victor Debs

“The Issue”
83 Margaret Higgins Sanger “Children’s Era”
84 Ursula Le Guin “A Left-Handed Commencement Address”
85

Crystal Eastman

“Now We Can Begin”
86

Huey Pierce Long

 “Share Our Wealth”
87

Gerald Rudolph Ford

Address on Taking the Oath of Office
88

Cesar Estrada Chavez

Speech on Ending His 25 Day Fast

89

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Statement at the Smith Act Trial
90

Jimmy Earl Carter

“A Crisis of Confidence”
91

Malcolm X

“Message to the Grassroots”
92

William Jefferson Clinton

Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address
93 Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm “For the Equal Rights Amendment”
94 Ronald Wilson Reagan Brandenburg Gate Address
95 Eliezer (“Elie”) Wiesel “The Perils of Indifference”
96

Gerald Rudolph Ford

National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon
97

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

“For the League of Nations”
98

Lyndon Baines Johnson

“Let Us Continue”
99

Joseph N. Welch

“Have You No Sense of Decency”
100

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights

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Senior Paper: URLs & Books!!

Mar 11

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First Period:

A big “Thank You!” goes out to Mrs. Florez in the library for finding these books for the class.  If you need help finding one of these books, talk to me or one of our wonderful library staff members.

David Berg – Rodeo/Bull Riding

David Fritz – Robotics

Tre Gray – Civil Rights Movement

Brandon Phemister – Heart Problems in Active Teens

Shawn Shirrrell – Smoking & Lung Cancer

Second Period:

Mandy Hemingway – Vaginal Cancer

Addison Levings – Leukemia

Jared Martinson – Waste Management

Shanice Mosley – Meth

Andrew Williams – Tae Kwon Do

Third Period:

Jared DeGarlis – Marijuana

Anthony Dexter – Diabetes

Wolfgang Bergstron – World Trade Center

Lacey Foster – Alcoholism

Senior Paper URLs

Mar 9

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First Period:

David Berg – Rodeo/Bull Riding

David Fritz – Robotics

Tre Gray – Civil Rights Movement

Brandon Phemister – Heart Problems in Active Teens

Shawn Shirrrell – Smoking & Lung Cancer

Second Period:

Mandy Hemingway – Vaginal Cancer

Addison Levings – Leukemia

Jared Martinson – Waste Management

Shanice Mosley – Meth

Andrew Williams – Tae Kwon Do

Third Period:

Jared DeGarlis – Marijuana

Anthony Dexter – Diabetes

Wolfgang Bergstron – World Trade Center

Lacey Foster – Alcoholism

World Lit. – Online Practice Test

Dec 9

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  1. Head over to this page
  2. Click “Sign in”
  3. Select your grade and click “Yes”
  4. Find “High School Reading” and click “Start Test”
  5. Wait for further instructions from Wells

World Lit: White Rose Obituary

Nov 17

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You’ve already been given the White Rose Obituary assignment, if you need to see the sheet again, you can find it here: The White Rose Obituary

Below is an example obituary:

Chris Wells

First Period

White Rose Obituary

Kurt Huber

October 24, 1893 – July 13, 1943

A beloved and well-known professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich died today at theKurt Hubert hands of the Nazi government.

Huber was born in Chur, Switzerland to German parents.  After four years in Switzerland, the family moved to Stuttgart, Germany.  Due to illnesses during his childhood, Huber could only stay home studying and learning from his books.  Huber was a fierce student who showed love for the studies of Philosophy and Psychology.  Because of his love of education, Huber became a professor in 1920 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

During the last couple of years of his life, Huber, an outspoken critic of Germany’s involvement in World War II, joined a non-violent resistance group called The White Rose.  Huber was joined by some of his students, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christopher Probst, and Alex Schmorell.  The group wrote and distributed leaflets decrying the horrors of the Nazi Government and the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.

Eventually, Huber and the entire group was arrested and sentenced to death for distributing the leaflets in Munich and other cities in southern Germany.  On July 13th, 1943, Kurt Huber was beheaded on the guillotine for his treason against the German government in the Munich-Stadelheim Prison.

Huber was survived by his wife and their two children, who are left without a source of income.

“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”

~Martin Luther King Jr.

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Sophomores: Poet Project

Nov 5

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This week, we’re starting on our poet project.  You’ll be researching one poet, their life and their poetry.  This is your final for this trimester.  We’ll be in the library for 4 days of research, both on the computers and books.  You’ll need to get some of your information from both types of resources.  First off, here’s the poets you can choose from (if you have one in mind that isn’t listed, let me know):

Emily Dickinson

T.S. Elliot

Edgar Allen Poe

Walt Whitman

Robert Frost

D.H. Lawrence

William Shakespeare

e.e. Cummings

Langston Hughes

Sir Walter Scott

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pablo Neruda

Sara Teasdale

Maya Angelou

Shel Silverstein

Ezra Pound

William Carlos Williams

W.H. Auden

Carroll Lewis

Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Gwendolyn Brooks

William Wordsworth

Ogden Nash

Carl Sandburg

Eugene Field

Our kind and resourceful library, Mrs. Florez, will have a collection of books for you to use to research your author.  On the web, I recommend these websites:

Poetry Foundation

Poets.org

Famous Poets and Poems

Biography

Famous Poets

Library Spot

I have also included the documents for this assignment, you can find them here:

Poet project

Poet Project Sheet

Poet Project Questions

Poet Paper Rubric

Poet Project – Example Paper

Poet Project Poster

Text Box: Emily Dickinson T.S. Elliot Edgar Allen Poe Walt Whitman Robert Frost D.H. Lawrence William Shakespeare e.e. Cummings Langston Hughes Sir Walter Scott Ralph Waldo Emerson Pablo Neruda Sara Teasdale Maya Angelou Shel Silverstein Ezra Pound William Carlos Williams W.H. Auden Carroll Lewis Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gwendolyn Brooks William Wordsworth Ogden Nash Carl Sandburg Eugene Field

YouTube Famous Speeches

May 11

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Head over to YouTube and search for some of these speeches… if you have other speakers you’d like to check out, check with me.

Make sure you write down the SPEAKER and the SPEECH that you’ve chosen.

Please keep in mind that all of these speeches may not be on Youtube.

Rank Speaker Title/Text    
1 Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have A Dream”    
2 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural Address    
3 Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address    
4 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation    
5 Barbara Charline Jordan 1976 DNC Keynote Address    
6 Richard Milhous Nixon “Checkers”    
7 Malcolm X “The Ballot or the Bullet”    
8 Ronald Wilson Reagan Shuttle ”Challenger” Disaster Address    
9 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Houston Ministerial Association Speech    
10 Lyndon Baines Johnson “We Shall Overcome”    
11 Mario Matthew Cuomo 1984 DNC Keynote Address    
12 Jesse Louis Jackson 1984 DNC Address    
13 Barbara Charline Jordan Statement on the Articles of Impeachment    
14 (General) Douglas MacArthur Farewell Address to Congress    
15 Martin Luther King, Jr. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”    
16 Theodore Roosevelt “The Man with the Muck-rake”    
17 Robert Francis Kennedy Remarks on the Assassination of MLK    
18 Dwight David Eisenhower Farewell Address    
19 Thomas Woodrow Wilson War Message    
20 (General) Douglas MacArthur “Duty, Honor, Country”    
21 Richard Milhous Nixon “The Great Silent Majority”    
22 John Fitzgerald Kennedy “Ich bin ein Berliner”    
23 Clarence Seward Darrow “Mercy for Leopold and Loeb”    
24 Russell H. Conwell “Acres of Diamonds”    
25 Ronald Wilson Reagan “A Time for Choosing”    
 
26 Huey Pierce Long “Every Man a King”    
27 Anna Howard Shaw “The Fundamental Principle of a Republic”    
28 Franklin Delano Roosevelt “The Arsenal of Democracy”    
29 Ronald Wilson Reagan “The Evil Empire”    
30 Ronald Wilson Reagan First Inaugural Address    
31 Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Fireside Chat    
32 Harry S. Truman “The Truman Doctrine”    
33 William Cuthbert Faulkner Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech    
34 Eugene Victor Debs 1918 Statement to the Court    
35 Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”    
36 Dwight David Eisenhower “Atoms for Peace”    
37 John Fitzgerald Kennedy American University Commencement Address    
38 Dorothy Ann Willis Richards 1988 DNC Keynote Address    
39 Richard Milhous Nixon Resignation Speech    
40 Thomas Woodrow Wilson “The Fourteen Points”    
41 Margaret Chase Smith “Declaration of Conscience”    
42 Franklin Delano Roosevelt “The Four Freedoms”    
43 Martin Luther King, Jr. “A Time to Break Silence”    
44 Mary Church Terrell “What it Means to be Colored in the…U.S.”    
45 William Jennings Bryan “Against Imperialism”    
46 Margaret Higgins Sanger “The Morality of Birth Control”    
47 Barbara Pierce Bush 1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address    
48 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Civil Rights Address    
49 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis Address    
50 Spiro Theodore Agnew “Television News Coverage”    
 
51 Jesse Louis Jackson 1988 DNC Address    
52 Mary Fisher “A Whisper of AIDS”    
53 Lyndon Baines Johnson “The Great Society”    
54 George Catlett Marshall “The Marshall Plan”    
55 Edward Moore Kennedy “Truth and Tolerance in America”    
56 Adlai Ewing Stevenson Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address    
57 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt “The Struggle for Human Rights”    
58 Geraldine Anne Ferraro Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech    
59 Robert Marion La Follette “Free Speech in Wartime”    
60 Ronald Wilson Reagan 40th Anniversary of D-Day Address    
61 Mario Matthew Cuomo “Religious Belief and Public Morality”    
62 Edward Moore Kennedy “Chappaquiddick”    
63 John Llewellyn Lewis “The Rights of Labor”    
64 Barry Morris Goldwater Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address    
65 Stokely Carmichael “Black Power”    
66 Hubert Horatio Humphrey 1948 DNC Address    
67 Emma Goldman Address to the Jury    
68 Carrie Chapman Catt “The Crisis”    
69 Newton Norman Minow “Television and the Public Interest”    
70 Edward Moore Kennedy Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy    
71 Anita Faye Hill Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee    
72 Thomas Woodrow Wilson League of Nations Final Address    
73 Henry Louis (“Lou”) Gehrig Farewell to Baseball Address    
74 Richard Milhous Nixon Cambodian Incursion Address    
75 Carrie Chapman Catt Address to the U.S. Congress    
   
76 Edward Moore Kennedy 1980 DNC Address    
77 Lyndon Baines Johnson On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election    
78 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commonwealth Club Address    
79 Thomas Woodrow Wilson First Inaugural Address    
80 Mario Savio “Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech/An End to History”    
81 Elizabeth Glaser 1992 DNC Address    
82 Eugene Victor Debs “The Issue”    
83 Margaret Higgins Sanger “Children’s Era”    
84 Ursula Le Guin “A Left-Handed Commencement Address”    
85 Crystal Eastman “Now We Can Begin”    
86 Huey Pierce Long “Share Our Wealth”    
87 Gerald Rudolph Ford Address on Taking the Oath of Office    
88 Cesar Estrada Chavez Speech on Ending His 25 Day Fast    
89 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Statement at the Smith Act Trial    
90 Jimmy Earl Carter “A Crisis of Confidence”    
91 Malcolm X “Message to the Grassroots”    
92 William Jefferson Clinton Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address    
93 Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm “For the Equal Rights Amendment”    
94 Ronald Wilson Reagan Brandenburg Gate Address    
95 Eliezer (“Elie”) Wiesel “The Perils of Indifference”    
96 Gerald Rudolph Ford National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon    
97 Thomas Woodrow Wilson “For the League of Nations”    
98 Lyndon Baines Johnson “Let Us Continue”    
99 Joseph N. Welch “Have You No Sense of Decency”    
100 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights

Senior Paper: Books

Apr 1

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First Period

Brandy – Egypt: 

  • The Middle East  REF 956.05 Middl
  • Youth in the Middle East:  Voices of Despair  956 Aboda

Josh C. – Anime: 

  • The Art of Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play 741.5 Watas 

Glen – Samurai: 

  • Early Japan  952.01 Leona

Dylan – Vietnam War: 

  • Vietnam War Almanac REF 959.7043 Summe
  •  America Takes Over 959.7043 Doyle

Scarlett – First Responders: 

  • The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety  REF 616.0252 Ameri
  • First Aid Without Panic 616.0252 Hartl

Tina – Childbirth:  The Birth Book 618.4 Sears

  • The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth  618.2 Kitzi 

Stephanie – Heart Transplants:

  • Heart Disease 616.12 Arnol
  • Transplants:  Today’s Medical Miracles 617.95 Leinw
     

 Second Period

Cali – Child Care: 

  • Day Care:  Looking for Answers 362.712 Gay
  • Child Care and Development 649.1 Ames

Kody – Fetal Alcohol Syndrome:

  • Born Hooked: Poisoned In the Womb 618.92 McCue
  • The Encyclopedia of Alcoholism REF 613.8 O’Brien

Alex – State Trooper: 

  • Police in Society 363.2 Fitzg
  • Crime:  A Serious American Problem  REF 300 Info

Robin – Child Abuse: 

  • Child Abuse 362.76 Dolan
  • Child Abuse:  Opposing Viewpoints 362.76 Koste

Shad – Down Syndrome: 

  • Down Syndrome 616.85 Gilrod
  • Understanding Birth Defects 618.9 Grave
  • The Enc. of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects REF 616.0420 Wynbr

Jack – Robotics/Engineering: 

  • Robotics: The Marriage of Computers and Machines 629.892 Thro

Stephanie – Poetry:

  • Entire 811 and 821 sections are poetry

Jacob – Logging: 

  • Logging the Redwoods 634.9758 Carra
     

 Third Period

Joe – Nez Perce:  

  • Encyclopedia of the Native American Tribes REF 970.1 Waldme
  • The Nez Perces: Tribesmen of the Columbia Plateau 970.3 Haine

Courtney – Hyperthyroidism: D

  • iseases: Spider Bites-Zoonoses REF 616 Bunch Vol. 8
  • The American Medical Assoc. Family Medical Guide REF 616 Ameri

Ashley – Cervical Cancer:

  • Cancer Sourcebook for Women REF 616.99 Sutton

Angie – Smith Lehman Opitz Syndrome: 

  • The Merck Manual of Medical Information REF 616 Berko
  • Genetic Disorders Sourcebook REF 616.042 Belle


Alex – Stomach Cancer:  

  • Cancer 616.994 Yount
  • The Cancer Dictionary REF 616.994 Altma

Adriana – Diabetes: 

  • Teens Face to Face With Chronic Illness 616 LeVer
  •  Merck Manual of Medical Information REF 616 Berko
  • Genetic Disorders Sourcebook REF 616.042 Belle

Kyle – Heart Disease:

  • Heart Disease 616.12 Arnol
  • Merck Manual of Medical Info REF 616 Berko
  • Genetic Disorders Sourcebook REF 616.042 Belle

Pheleasha – Sexual Molestation: 

  • Coping With Sexual Abuse 362.76 Coone
  • Child Abuse:  Opposing Viewpoints 362.76 Hurle
  • Child Abuse and Domestic Violence REF 300 Info
  • Child Abuse:  Betraying A Trust REF 300 Info

Ty – Diabetes: 

  • Teens Face to Face With Chronic Illness 616 LeVer
  • Merck Manual of Medical Information REF 616 Berko
  • Genetic Disorders Sourcebook REF 616.042 Belle

Christian – Immigration: 

  • Illegal immigration:  Opposing Viewpoints 325.1 Bende
  •  Immigration:  Opposing Viewpoints 325.73 Rolef
  • Immigration 325.73 Long

Miles – Tattoos: 

  • Hot Bodies, Cool Styles:  New Techniques in Self-Adornment REF 391.6 Polhe

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Senior Paper Research

Mar 30

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I’ve done a little looking around on your topics, I’ve posted 3-4 links (sorted by period) by your name.  These won’t be a magical source of everything you need, but it should help:

First Period

Brandy – Egypt

 Josh C. – Anime

 Glen – Samuri

 Dylan – Vietnam War

 Scarlett – First Responders

Tina – Childbirth

 Stephanie – Heart Transplants

 

 Second Period

 Cali – Child Care

 Kody – Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

 Alex – State Trooper

 Robin – Child Abuse

 Shad – Down Syndrome

 Jack – Robotics/Engineering

 Stephanie – Poetry

 Jacob – Logging

 

 Third Period

 Joe – Nez Perce

 Courtney – Hyperthyroidism

 Ashley – Cervical Cancer

Angie – Smith Lehman Opitz

 Alex – Stomach Cancer

 Adriana – Diabetes

 Kyle – Heart Disease

 Pheleasha – Sexual Molestation

Ty – Diabetes

 Christian – Immigration

Miles – Tattoos

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