Spotsylvania County

a number of smaller tributaries that are "impacted" or worse quality. I have lived in this area long enough to know these streams and runnels well, the only thing that surrounds them are the many small farms that dot the landscape in Spotsylvania and other counties that lie adjacent to Fredericksburg. Ground water sytems have always interested me greatly, and I will concentrate the specific local impact…

scout, well mounted, who had been sent out to watch our movements." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Black Confederate Levi Miller, born in Rockbridge County Virginia, was one of thousands of slaves who accompanied their owners to the war as a body servant. After nursing his master back to death from a near-fatal wounding in the Wilderness campaign, Miller was voted by the regiment to be a…

Wilderness is a major battle that occurred in Spotsylvania and Orange Counties, Virginia. The Union army(Potomac Army) was Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederate army was lead by Robert E. Lee. Out of the blue the battles results were inconclusive even though the Union outnumbered the Confederacy by 5:3. Both armies suffered…

Play-Based Curriculum In early childhood education, there are different methods that can be used when teaching the curriculum. Two approaches of teaching the curriculum include play-based and subject-based curriculum (Downey & Garzoli, 2007). A play-based curriculum approach to teaching revolves around teaching the curriculum through play. In order for this to occur, the classroom is usually set up with centers where children are allowed to roam the room and play. Within these centers, a…

after that decision, no matter how difficult, shaped me into who I am today, and I was able to meet some pretty amazing people and do a few things only a handful of people can say they’ve done. In elementary school, I was in the S.C.O.P.E. (Spotsylvania County Program of Enrichment) program, my county’s way of separating out students who they considered gifted and a distraction in the classroom. Every day, for at least two hours, a few of my classmates and I were pulled out of class with our…

program analyst at NOAA, was fatally shot and killed in the Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store parking lot in Glenmont. The next morning on October 3, within two hours four more people were shot in Aspen Hill and other nearby areas in Montgomery County. Another individual was killed that evening in the District of Columbia which was just over the border from Silver Spring. Each of the victims was killed by a single bullet fired from a long…

but also the high school level. I believe schools are doing a pretty good job at coming up with alternative forms of punishment to help a child with special needs, but they have to know what the child needs. Having a mother who works on the Spotsylvania County School Board and helping out at my sister’s elementary school gives me a little bit of insight on how the schools run. It’s up to the parents to get their child diagnosed so the school can properly work with them. Schools can’t show…

school education experience began in 1976 and concluded in 1989. Between 1975 and the early spring of 1980 I attended school in a Maryland suburb of Washington, DC. The spring of 1980, my family moved to what was at that time a very rural Spotsylvania County, Virginia where I would complete my public education experience. My school experiences, including those involving STEM stand in stark contrast to the experiences I provide for my students. My elementary teachers relied heavily upon…