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Algebra 10-12 assignment; Feb. 6

We continued working on word problems today, focusing on coin problems and ones that involve different rates of admissions.  We used two equations in each one of these problems and then solved the system of equations to come up with the answer.

We will have a quiz on solving systems of equations tomorrow.

Assignment:  word problems worksheet; set #3;  #4-6, 8-10

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Fishing and forgiveness

Look, truth be known, I'd much rather go fishing with Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte than Gijsbert Haan, the conservative holy roller who gave Van Raalte fits. Van Raalte had all kinds of good reasons to lock arms with the New York/New Jersey establishment of the Dutch Reformed Church, after all. Whether or not his new southwest Michigan colony of wooden shoes was going to make it in this country was still, a decade arrival, still very much up in the air. He need all the help he could get, and he could get some out East. You can't blame him.

Van Raalte was a leader, a politician who understood the necessity of compromise. Van Raalte wanted the best for the irresolute gang of pious church separatists he led to America, and he wanted to keep them Dutch. In the political spectrum of his time, he was no leftie.

Gijsbert Haan, on the other hand, was irascible, opinionated, always scrapping for a fight. Gijsbert Haan told the same Dutch immigrants Van Raalte wanted to lead that he'd been to those New Jersey Dutch Reformed and that he'd listened to and experienced bone-chilling liberalism--they practiced open communion, after all, and sang hymns. He stood foursquare against allowing that radical Hendrik Scholte, from Pella, to preach anywhere, certainly not in the Pillar Church. Gijsbert Haan is an icon in Christian Reformed history, but I don't know that I'd want him in my boat for too long, and I certainly wouldn't trust him in a canoe. 

The CRC left the Dutch Reformed Church in 1857, even though, for the most part, every last Dutch immigrant to come to America since 1848 was him or herself a child of the Afscheiding, the separation (the schism) of 1834, in Holland. Most of the immigrants had cut their teeth fighting modernism in Holland's state church. Many had suffered derision, some persecution, some even prison. Many had found their churches locked or visited by soldiers from the crown. Breaking away had been no cakewalk. It had been serious stuff.

But Van Raalte understood that compromise was a part of life, especially when the future of his colony was at stake. He let Scholte have a Sabbath in his pulpit because Scholte was a leader, even if his orthodoxy was questioned even among those he'd led to Pella.  Sometimes, in life, you've got to swallow a little pride, he might have said--greatest good for the greatest number. I'm quite sure I'd have liked him.

When Gijsbert Haan stoked theological fires and got himself a following, when those fires burned bridges and a new church was created, the reasons listed on the spanking new denominational masthead, from a distance of 150 years seem, well, paltry, most of them having to do with Van Raalte and those modernist Easterners abandoning church order created by the Synod of Dort (1618-1619): hymn-singing (they were agin' it), open communion (they were agin' it), and not preaching the catechism (they were agin' it).  There was lots of things they were agin'.

Underneath all of that, however, lay the real gripe, the interpersonal rift that was created when it became obvious to Gijsbert Haan and others that those American Dutch Reformed just rolled their eyes at the separation in the old country . "What grieves our hearts most in all of this," the grounds for separation (in Graafschap church) said, "is that there are members among you who regard our secession in the Netherlands as not strictly necessary."  
That made them boil, and I can't blame them. There were still open scars among Van Raalte and Scholte's people, and what angered the secessionists more than anything was that it seemed as if the Easterners simply snickered at them or, worse, pulled up their noses.  

I get that. Go Gijsbert.

Make no mistake. I'm all for bandaging wounds once and for all between these two fellowships. I'm all for more working together and fewer skewed eyebrows.  I'm all for making the most of a diminished thing since both denominations are closer to the chopping block than the cutting edge; both are, sadly, in decline. Locally, I'm all for Dordt and Northwestern Colleges working together; after all, Dordt's new Pres was, not that long ago, runner-up at NW.  In all kinds of ways, ye olde separations are dead in the water, even in Siouxland hamlets still dominated by Dutch-American majorities. I like the new synodical dispensation about merger. I'm all for it.

But I can't help but smile when I read--in Christian Century, by the way--that some CRC pastor at the recent Pella synodical gatherings told some RCA pastor that, "on behalf of the CRC, I ask forgiveness." 

Wow.  Really?  To me, asking forgiveness for the whole CRC seems a little cheesy.

What's all in that plea anyway? Calvin College and Seminary, Dordt College, Trinity, Kings, Redeemer, Kuiper? Is Rehoboth part of our sin? Zuni, perhaps? Nigerian missions? CRWRC? How about a system of comprehensive Christian education spread continent-wide? Is all of that manifestation of our sin?

Besides, any reading of RCA history may well exonerate a rapscallion like Gijsbert Haan since he may have been right. The rift between the Eastern and Midwestern RCA churches is still a country-mile wide. 

Doesn't asking for forgiveness, institution to institution, make forgiveness a little facile?

I know, I know--just call me Gijsbert Haan.  If I show up with a tackle box, don't let me in the boat.

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Geometry assignment; Jan. 24

We went over next two types of similarity theorems today in class:  SSS and SAS for similar triangles.  The proofs for these theorems involve showing that the corresponding sides are proportional through the use of equivalent fractions.

We will go over the homework on Monday before taking a quiz on Monday as well over sections 7-4 and 7-5.

Our test for chapter 7 is scheduled for Friday of next week.

Assignment:  Section 7-5;  page 266;  #1-12 all

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Geometry assignment; March 26

After turning in the chapter 9 review assignment, the students took the chapter 9 test in class today.

Assignment:  none

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Book Review--The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo

Interesting but not a compelling book. Kent Nerburn has done wonderful things as a writer, committed as he is to exploring, documenting, and narrating Native life and stories. He makes me mightily envious, and I respect him greatly.

But The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo suffers from the problem most books that intend to describe spiritual experience do. For years I taught a wonderful book titled Salvation on Sand Mountain in a writing class as an example of successful non-fiction and memoir. Sand Mountain had real qualities; I loved it, really. But finally it couldn't do what Dennis Covington wanted it to do so badly; it couldn't bring us into what he considered his own authentic spiritual experience. 

Vivid spiritual experience (and I'm not saying this as a veteran of such events--I'm not) is tough, if not impossible, to describe, not because words are so limited in meaning, but because vivid spiritual experience goes where words simply do not go. 

What Nerburn wants so badly to do here--maybe even too badly--is to describe something of Native spirituality from the inside, not as some kind of anthropologist would but as someone who is, like himself, not Native experienced it. In that way the book is typically Nerburn, and we should thank him for writing it.

On the other hand, The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo simply cannot do what he intends. It's a grand try, but I found it tedious at times, not because the intent was cheap or simple but because it seemed he needed so badly to document the path to his enlightenment that soon enough the reader--me at least--got weary. I simply found the book hard to stay with, even though I love books about Native history and culture.

Also, I must admit that I was hoping the book would do a more thorough job of explaining and describing what exactly went on at the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians (the actual name of the place!), an institution that ran for years just down the road, east of Canton, SD. The book's exploration of the Hiawatha Asylum (I'm serious--that was the name) and its history is very limited, mostly a backdrop to the quest for understanding Nerburn undertakes.

To my mind, he's done better. His weaknesses derive from the sheer limitations of the story-telling here. Not even Kent Nerburn can describe mystical experience from the inside. Anthropologists can, of course, but their descriptions come from the outside.

Dennis Covington very effectively describes his relationships with the Scotch-Irish snake-handlers on Sand Mountain. What he couldn't do--what no one can really--is describe snake-handling. 

Think of it this way. In the book of Acts we have a wonderful story of the Apostle Paul on the Damascus Road. What we don't have is Paul's play-by-play of what exactly happened in his mind and heart when his life changed forever. Biblically, the closest thing we have, perhaps, to the inside story of revelation may well be the book of Revelation itself. 

The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo is interesting but, to this reader, finally not compelling.

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Geometry assignment; Feb. 27/28

These are early release days for parent/teacher conferences, so this class only meets once over these two days.

We turned in our chapter 8 review assignment to start the period, and then the rest of the period was devoted to taking the chapter 8 test on right triangles.

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Algebra 10-12 assignment; Feb. 27/28

These are early release day for parent/teacher conferences, so the class just meets once over these two days.

We reviewed our exponent rules together by going over homework and then going through a few more examples together.  We then took a short quiz on the exponent rules that we have been working on this week.

After the quiz, the students got started working on their homework assignment;

Assignment:  combining exponent rules worksheet;  #49-68 all

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Brit and Yankee Butchers

The obscene murders of two American journalists is horror enough for anyone from the West, but what seems especially dispelling is that the beast who's cut both throats speaks with a British accent. In the last few weeks, two American-born jihadists have been killed, one as a suicide bomber, the other fighting another rebel group in Syria.

It seems impossible, somehow, that the West raises these mad men.

I've never wrapped myself too tightly in Old Glory, so, to me, that someone would criticize American culture is neither surprising nor heretical; but it is hard to understand how someone can jump ship to join a gaggle of cold-blooded killers and a way of life committed to destroy anyone and everyone who isn't what they've become.

Are they insane? Yes. But there are more than a few.

How on earth can Islamic jihadists grow up from American soil? Seriously--how?

Phillip Jenkins, who has taught the evangelical world a ton about world Christianity, draws a startling cultural and demographic analogy in the latest Christian Century, when he argues that the greatest success story in the Christian faith in the last century, the world-wide rise in Pentecostalism, has grown as abundantly as it has for understandable demographic reasons. "What is surprising," he says in "Sects Without Tradition," is how very closely that Christian narrative echoes trends in modern Islam."

In both cases, he claims, the children of dislocated traditionalists find themselves connected neither to their parents' religious and cultural pasts nor to the values around them in what is still something of a strange land.  Mom and Dad get by, religiously, on remnants of their own pasts. But their children have been, he says, "deterritorialized"; they're robbed of the time and place in which their parents came to understand their own faith and practice. 

They're dislocated. They're aliens. In the case of the jihadists, they can no more be their parents than they can be ordinary Americans or Brits. 

They turn instead to the apparent certainties of a universalized or globalized Islam, which in practice offers the sternest and most demanding standards of the Wahhabis or Salafists. In return, believers receive a vision of themselves as the heroes of a glorious historical narrative in which faith defeats the temporary and illusory triumph of disbelief and paganism.

They're given certainty and identity by something new, something immensely powerful and only tangentially linked to history.

Here's the analogy. "This seemingly ancient version of faith is a quintessentially post-modern response to social dislocation and destabilization, and it is presented through strictly modern electronic media." 

What Jenkins steers wide to avoid is the equation of jihadists and Pentecostals; coming to Jesus, after all, isn't the same as coming to Satan. What he's diagnosing is how tempting it is--how blessed it can be and seem--for dislocated and "deterritorialized" people to find themselves, to be born again, in new, muscular religious cultures. 

The phenomenon he's describing isn't necessarily going to help President Obama deal with the deadly poison that is ISIS, nor will it help the UK determine how long Muslim clerics in London or Liverpool can preach hate before they become enemies of the state.

On Monday, Prime Minister Cameron outlined new measures by which the state would more closely police which Brits get back into the country after spending time in Syria, for instance, or Iraq. Such measures threaten the basic human rights Brits, like Americans, take for granted; on the other hand, jihadism threatens the UK.

Still, it is as impossible for Cameron as it Obama to watch and listen as that animal with a British accent cuts the throat of yet another reporter.

Phillip Jenkins may not relieve our fears, but he does at least help us to understand.  

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Geometry assignment; May 9

We took the Chapter 12 test today on the volume and surface area of solid objects.

There was an extra credit assignment after the test if the students chose to work on it.

Assignment:  extra credit optional assignment

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Downright foolishness

You must have heard this. 

A group calling itself "Open Carry Texas" decided to demonstrate its something or other last weekend and simply do what they claim "the founders" would have loved: lug their hardware into places where they and their weapons would be seen and noted. So they grabbed their assault rifles and showed up hither and yon, the sweet heat strapped over their shoulders.

All perfectly legal, of course. Nary a sinner in the bunch. All true, red-blooded Americans with a love affair with their country and their blessed guns. After all, with Obama, you never know when you'll need a uzi. 

Turns out some panty-waist lefties complained that they weren't comfortable grabbing a latte with some yahoo toting an MPA 930 9mm carbine in line behind him. You know--this:  

Okay, men and women shouldering assault rifles just isn't something you see every day, unless you frequent third-world airports. And besides, toting hardware and touting the second amendment is all perfectly legal and downright American.

Some of the those not armed that day complained. They hadn't stopped at Burger King to be assaulted by gun nuts festooned in ammo belts. Understandable. So a whole bunch of left-leaning restaurant chains--Wendys, Chilis, Sonic, among them--put up signs asking customers not to haul in their hardware. Some asked them to leave. Can you imagine?

Then, some mole at the NRA put out a note asking members not to brandish their wares all over the place because having chicken nuggets next to a gal sporting an M4 carbine was, well, "weird," and probably didn't aid in good digestion. Some gun-owners, this NRA guy said, "crossed the line from enthusiasm to downright foolishness."

"Open Carry Texas" went ballistic, metaphorically speaking, some members lambasting the NRA. After all, one of them said, the NRA was now siding with "the ultra-liberal gun-control bullies" in a group who call themselves "Moms Demand Action." Open Carry Texas was not amused. "The NRA has lost its relevance and sided with the gun control extremists and their lapdog media," said the group in a tweet. Some even burned their NRA cards. It's all perfectly legal.

On Tuesday, some NRA guy backtracked and backed off the whole "downright foolishness" thing. "Our job is not to criticize the lawful behavior of fellow gun owners," he said.  And then this:  "The National Rifle Association unapologetically and unflinchingly supports the right of self-defense and what that means is that our members and our supporters have a right to carry a firearm in any place they have a legal right to be. If that means open carry, we support open carry."

It's all perfectly legal, after all. 

On Wednesday, "Open Carry Texas" made peace with the NRA, lauding Wayne LaPierre's return his right mind. 

So, Wendy's, here they come. Starbucks, here they come. It's all perfectly legal. 

And all perfectly cuckoo.

Sleep well tonight. Open Carry Texas will be monitoring the situation. You never know about those Moms.

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Clovis, TR, and WWJD

That's a political rally right here in Alton, circa 1903. That's Teddy Roosevelt gesturing off the caboose of that train, making a stump speech, I'm sure, to a couple hundred locals. Good old days, right?

I didn't pay much attention to the primary races this year in Iowa. I'm just not that cranked about politics these days, when any discussion thereof brews up so much hostility you'd think that what's at the root of all the evil is money, which may well be true.

What I couldn't miss were these street signs. Any trip around the county made it clear that this Sam Clovis was the huge favorite with the locals.

Now no county in America is as true-blue Republican as this one. Two years ago, our own Steve King, a man capable of ID-ing undocumented workers by the size of their calves, won bigger in this county than anywhere in the state. 

All those Clovis signs meant he had to be, religiously speaking, the chosen, or so it seemed to this Calvinist. That's why I was flummoxed when a candidate named Joni Ernst got the Republican nod apparently for having grown up castrating hogs. Someone out flanked Sioux County Republicans--on the right? Say it ain't so.

Apparently, Clovis was the sweetheart of Christian conservatives, of which there are more than a few about. Iowa's Mr. Christian Conservative, Bob Vander Plaats, a northwest Iowan himself, supported Sam Clovis, while Ms. Ernst was a favorite of the party establishment, including the Gov, who determined she could win when Clovis--too hard-line CC!--couldn't, even if he could sweep Sioux County. 

Sam Clovis lost, but he didn't quit. He went to his website and just scratched in the word "Treasurer" instead of "Senate." He's still running, just walked back his ambitions. Watch for him. Shouldn't be difficult. He's hard to miss.

I just now read that Candidate Clovis had said somewhere that there were enough votes in the House to impeach President Obama; and, if he'd be there, he'd vote for it himself. No wonder Sioux County liked him. We haven't had a good old impeachment hearing since Clinton. 

George W got a pass, of course.  He got us into a war over weapons of mass destruction that weren't there. Thousands of people died--including 4500 Americans. Hey, what the heck--everyone else was wrong too, you know. Besides, W was a Christian. Obama's a Muslim.

Last week the South Dakota Republicans officially called for Obama's impeachment for the five-terrorist swap for that turncoat Bergdahl, the bald-faced lie about keeping your insurance under Obamacare, and seven other deadly sins. "I've got a thick notebook of impeachable offenses of the President," said the guy who sponsored the South Dakota resolution. It passed.

Among this country's conservatives, hate's become a virtue.

Research indicates the most conservative burgs in their respective states are not only close to home, they're heavy laden with wooden shoes. In Minnesota, it's a tiny place named Prinsburg, which is almost exclusively Dutch Reformed. In Iowa the hot spot is Doon, just up the road. In Wisconsin, it's Oostburg, where I was born and reared. 

What does that say?  It says that somewhere down the road of life I went far, far astray. Today, if voting laws stipulated you had to have a Dutch name to participate, Obama would long ago have been back in Oahu.

Once upon a time right here in Alton, a whole crowd of people showed up to greet Teddy Roosevelt, a candidate for President who ran on a ticket determined--get this!--to control big business. That's right. Let me say that again: "to control big business." 

If it wasn't for the mustache, you could mistake TR for Elizabeth Warren.

And he was a Republican.

And he was a Dutchman.

Look at that crowd.  It's almost embarrassing.  Wonder what they think of us in Doon?

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Geometry assignment; April 10

We continued our work with areas of polygons today by reviewing the homework and making a formula notecard for the quiz tomorrow.  We went over some sample area problems that involve perimeter in class before starting the assignment that deals with more practice problems.

Assignment:  area of polygons worksheet


Answers appear below  (all the answers are listed, but not all the problems were assigned)

Section 11-2 side

1.  231 square inches
2.  72 square millimeters
3.  160 square inches
4.  264 square cm
5.  99 square cm
6.  115 square mm
7.  7 cm
8.  19 inches
9.  8 times square root of 5   (or 17.9)
10.  16 times square root of 3   (or 27.7)
11.  400 square cm
12.  x squared - 25
13.  length = 20 cm;  width = 15 cm
14.  96
15.  $1000
16.  70.7 square feet]


Section 11-3 side

1.  45
2.  200
3.  208
4.  56 times square root of 3    (97.0)
5.  297
6.  108
7.  7
8.  8
9.  220
10.  height = 16;  perimeter = 136
11.  area = 160;  median = 20
12.  height = 16
13.  33 km
14.  128 square feet

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Morning Thanks--Nose up

It's what you might expect from Billy Collins, something smart and warm that engages by way of a smile--well, a giggle, which is bigger than a simple smile.

Genius

was what they called you in high school
if you tripped on a shoelace in the hall
and all your books went flying.

Or if you walked into an open locker door,
you would be known as Einstein,
who imagined riding a streetcar into infinity.

Technology has changed all that, hasn't it? These days, nurds get respect because everybody knows they'll clear bigger salaries than anyone else a month after high school grad.

Later, genius became someone
who could take a sliver of chalk and squire pi
a hundred places out beyond the decimal point,

or a man painting on his back on a scaffold,
or drawing a waterwheel in a margin,
or spinning out a little night music.

Sure. We get smart. It's part of the aging process. Trust me, I'm retired..

But earlier this week on a wooded path,
I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir
were the true geniuses,
the ones who had figured out how to fly,
how to be both beautiful and brutal,
and how to mate for life.

Vintage Billy Collins. See what I mean?

Twenty-four geniuses in all,
for I numbered them as Yeats had done,
deployed upon the calm, crystalline surface—

forty-eight if we count their white reflections,
or an even fifty if you want to throw in me
and the dog running up ahead,

Here's the poetry.  See how deftly he slips himself into all of this? That works, or so it seems to me. Suddenly he's in this still life himself, as, of course, are we.  And now the joke:

who were at least smart enough to be out
that morning—she sniffing the ground,
me with my head up in the bright morning air.

There it is: Billy Collins the dog, just another sweet hound loving the morning. No sermon, just a smile. I like that.

Thursday, out on a country road on the South Dakota side of Big Sioux River, I suddenly found myself in an infinity of green, June busting out all over. Wasn't Yosemite. Wasn't Niagara Falls. Wasn't even the Black Hills. Just an ocean of emerald. 

But there I was, windows open, head up in the bright morning air.

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Algebra 10-12 assignment; March 13

We spent time today going over homework and a previous quiz from earlier in the week.  We then reviewed several topics together that will be covered on tomorrow's test.  The students spent the last portion of the period independently working on their review sheet for the test.  They were able to check their review sheet at the end of the period so they could use it to study.


Assignment:  Exponents and Polynomials Review Sheet

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The juggler last night

It took him three times to accomplish what he announced to be the big finish. It wasn't smooth as silk in other words, twice he fell off the rope. Because it didn't work, he had us all on the edge of our lawn chairs. He'd pulled out a big steel frame maybe 12 feet wide, the kind of gizmo people put up in their back yards if they don't have a couple of trees for a hammock. 

I have no idea what kind of rope he had strung between the ends because he wet it down with something akin to lighter fluid. There was going to be fire. Then he got up on that rope, a tightrope walker, and actually climbed an aluminum ladder set ON THE ROPE (I'm serious!) and started into juggling burning torches while a hastily drafted volunteer from the crowd--a young lady!--lit the whole blasted rope up beneath him. Got it? Listen, fire is lapping at him, running up and down the rope and even up the sides of the ladder (how'd he do that?)' and all of us, a whole park full, are guessing he's got asbestos shoes or really, really hot feet.

Twice he failed before he actually pulled this big-time final act, before he finally gets himself and all that mechanism up and moving in what some circus barker would have likely called "a den of fire." Right there on the stage at the Orange City, Iowa, right there in the town's own band shell. I'm not lying. It happened just last night. Took our breath away. Had us clapping like a crowd full of great seals. 'Twas a joy.  

The real story yesterday was no magic show. The real story is these ISIS madmen (I'm not sure what they demand to be called today), who'd already a month ago proved they were, what?--animals is too good a word, soulless maybe, men and women whose hearts are little more than shards of cut glass.

"Part of the problem with these conflicts," James Foley said in a forum several years ago, is that "we're not close enough to it, and if reporters--if we don't try to get really close to what these guys--we don't understand the world, essentially." That's why James Foley became a journalist. He'd started his career as a teacher and ended it in that way, trying to help us all "understand the world."

James Foley was murdered, butchered alive.

In so many ways, what these masked killers did was pure, unsullied evil. In beheading James Foley, they murdered free speech. In beheading James Foley, they spit on anything approximating Geneva Conventions. In beheading James Foley, they did everything but behead "the Great Satan," the U. S. And they did it on video they made sure the world could not miss.

Weeks before, they'd killed anyone who didn't believe their version of Islam--anyone. Buried them alive. Beheaded them. Men, women, and children--infidels. Thousands of innocents ran up a mountain with no food, no water. ISIS makes Al Quida look almost peaceable, the Taliban seem choir boys. 

They've already slaughtered Christians whole sale, turned those who could flee into refugees, tens of thousands of them. 

It rained late yesterday afternoon, but an e-mail announced bravely that people should bring umbrellas because the juggler was going be on stage outside. The act wasn't moving. He was going to be appearing in the park, as advertised. My raincoat stayed in the car. There was no rain.

We went and watched and smiled, laughed, gasped, paid rapt attention, loved it, kept telling ourselves that our grandkids should have been there--that kind of thing. It was great fun. 

Maybe it was pure escapism. Maybe the guy was, yesterday, a real sideshow to horror. Maybe no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people--wasn't that P.T. Barnum? Maybe it was ridiculous to be there in the middle of what will now certainly escalate into something that, once more, is going to cost American lives. Maybe I was fiddling while America burns.

Maybe so. 

But this morning, it wasn't the clown's goofy antics I woke up with. I wasn't thinking of him and his wild, flaming torches. Just before five this morning, it wasn't the juggler I saw before me up there balancing on that rope, everything beneath him aflame. 

It was me, the Christian, the one who wants, more than anything, to understand, the one who can't forget Christ's beckoning forgiveness for that jeering crowd who wanted yet more of his precious blood. "Forgive them for they know not what they do," he said. 

Forgive? These soulless men in black masks must die. Or we will.

When I woke up this morning, I saw a man's throat cut.  And I was the juggler trying to make sense of what was in the air before me, while everything beneath me was in flames in a world in which there was no rain.

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Algebra 10-12 assignment; March 21

We went over our entry task and homework today to begin the period.  The lesson today involved two shortcuts within the foil method.  One involved taking the difference of two squares, and the other involved squaring binomials.  We went over several samples together before then taking a short quiz over using the foil method.  After the students were done with their quiz, then they got started on their homework.


Assignment:  Specials cases of multiplying polynomials worksheet

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Algebra 10-12 assignment; March 24

We went over our polynomials quiz today in class before spending some more time in working with special cases of multiplying polynomials.  We reviewed what we had done on Friday and then went over a few more examples before starting our homework.

Assignment:  Special Cases of Polynomials worksheet  #1-29 all, 33-38 all

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Our story and how we tell it

I remember feeling the same thing in South Africa, in Pretoria, when our hosts rolled up in front of a impressive museum designed to celebrate the sheer glories of Afrikaaner history. We were there not long after apartheid ended, officially at least. The wicked witch of racism was dead, people claimed, and the country--or so it seemed to us--was on a honeymoon. There was a palpable sense that at long last things would now somehow improve. South Africa was invoking the name "Mandela," as if it were a song.

The trekker museum--I don't remember it's name back then, and it's been changed since, I'm sure--was an immense, classical structure. What we'd already witnessed and felt was the sheer power of the Afrikaaner heritage among white and Dutch South Africans. Youth organizations celebrated the triumphs of the story--little kids were little trekkers.

But then, the Dutch South Africa story is incredible--and it is ancient, Dutch folks having arrived early in the 17th century, when they also put up shop in New Amsterdam here in North America. To think of the Afrikaaners as Dutch is, after all, a stretch.  Hundreds of years of trekker ancestors have been buried in South African soil.

There we were, out front of this massive museum dedicated to telling the really improbable story of the triumph of Dutch South Africans, who, against all odds, had forged a society, a culture, a way of life, even a language, in a place where their presence had been violently opposed, not only by the indigenous people they dispossessed, but also by snobbish, well-heeled Brits who fought them wherever they could find them. The trekker story is worth telling, worth remembering.

But in the new South Africa it became, suddenly, part of a much larger story. In the new South Africa, it would be told in a different way. That huge museum didn't simply require a face lift, it would need a transformation.  It had a different context altogether when apartheid ended. I was looking at an artifact, and I knew it.  That grand museum would no longer feature the Dutch.

Last week, at the National Homestead Monument, just outside Beatrice, Nebraska, I felt something somehow similar, not because change was in the air but because telling this American "trekker" story--and it too is an incredible saga--is something that simply can't be done without a broader context the monument itself tries very well to do. 

Millions of Americans today have descended from American trekkers who, like my own ancestors, came to this country for liberty, an "empire of liberty," Jefferson once dreamed. They came to live, not cower; they came to claim a new life, not wither slowly away in a land where the horizon was a stone fence.

There it stands, this Homestead Monument, in the shape of a plow that, at once, ripped up an entire ecosystem, altered prairie like no other place on the continent has been altered; yet, at the same time, the plow created a bread basket not only for those who broke ground but for hungry people around the world. That plow was as much an instrument of death as it was of life; and homesteading, which brought millions of Americans to what they thought of as unoccupied land, created untold opportunities at the very same time it destroyed hundreds of indigenous cultures and thousands of its people. 

It's an incredible story, it's the American story, it's our story, it's my story. But those who are in its cast are not superheroes. They're human, like all of us; and their story is much, much larger than their own indomitable pioneering strength. To my own ancestors, the land was free, unoccupied. It simply had to be "proved up." All land ownership required to make it ours was buckets of sweat and blood. All it demanded was work, and, for most of the American trekkers, hard work was an inheritance, even a calling. Here there was good rich earth to be subdued.  

It wasn't easy, not for my ancestors or the Afrikaaner trekkers. Life was no push over.

But when we came, those who were once here left. That's the big story, the story that's much harder to tell and much harder to hear.

Right about here, just down the hill from the memorial building, sits the very first registered homestead in American history. 

It belonged to only one family, two generations, the ranger told me. But they weren't the first inhabitants. There's a bigger story.

And that story is ours too.

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