Announcements for Monday December 6, 2010

1.    Lunch: Shrimp Popper with Lowfat White or Chocolate milk

 

2.    There will be a meeting for 7th grade basketball players after school tomorrow Tuesday December 7th in room 221.  Please come right after the bell.  We should be done by 3:15.

 

3.    The very last day for submitting cards 4 recovering soldiers is this Wednesday, Dec.8^th

 

4.    On this day in 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city's namesake and the nation's first president, George Washington.

 

5.    The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." With these words, the single greatest change wrought by the Civil War was officially noted in the U.S. Constitution.