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Insider), that means out of all the sports participants a Monticello Trails Middle School, only eight-percent are likely to earn scholarships. It is even less than that because there are more than forty people who play school sports. Which would cause the kids to be depressed if they don't get a scholarship. This causes the student's to be stressed out and that would affect their grades in school. Another reason sports should be banned from Monticello Trails is all of the stress that is placed…

possibility of him, having an affair with a slave. Basically, the main point of the article has focused on Jefferson and the possibility of a male member of his family who had fathered at least one child with a mulatto slave Sally Hemings. The Monticello association, a group composed from six hundred and fifty descendants of Thomas Jefferson, who look after the Jefferson gravesite, got caught in a media circus after a DNA test result proved the that a male member of Jefferson family had been…

political stance in the late eighteenth century was not of the popular opinion; however, Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, did just that. The irony lies within the fact that Jefferson himself had slaves on his plantation Monticello, which causes one to wonder as if he really wanted the blacks to be free in America. On his plantation, he did not pay any of his slaves, or give them any compensation, besides room and board, that was different to how other whites…

lives of Beverly, Harriet, Maddy, and Eston. These are the illegitimate children of Thomas Jefferson, or as he is called in the book: Master Jefferson. These four children were the sons and daughter of Sally Hemings, a slave on the plantation of Monticello. Sally Hemings is the sister of Martha Wayles, which makes Sally Thomas Jefferson’s sister-in-law. Sally and Jefferson had an unmarried union that lasted almost 40 years after Martha Died. Thomas Jefferson had promised to Sally that all of…

James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758 and died on July 4, 1831. He served as the 5th U.S. president on March 4, 1817 and left office on March 4, 1825. In 1774 at age 16, Monroe entered the college of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He cut college studies short in 1776 to join the continental army and fight for independence from Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War 1775-83. During the war, Monroe saw action in battles in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. He was…

Thomas Jefferson The third president was Thomas Jefferson and also the 2nd Vice President. Thomas Jefferson also believed in the freedom of slaves. Jefferson made his contribution to Freedom of Slaves by freeing 7 slaves. He also made a law about the importation of enslaved African. Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell,Virginia on April 13,1743. His parents names were Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph. Thomas Jefferson was the third of ten siblings. Peter Jefferson passed away at the age of…

Through the collaborative efforts of the BOCES Wellness Team and Cornell Cooperative Extension, two water bottle filling stations were installed at the White Sulphur Springs School. The Wellness Committee has been working with SueAnn Boyd, Healthy Schools Coordinator at Cornell Cooperative Extension for the past eight months to bring a number of healthy options to the students and staff at BOCES. Although the water stations were just installed, the school is already seeing a positive impact.…

Hello. I am writing on the behalf of the 8th grade class at Monticello Trails Middle School. We would be interested to see if your interested in publishing a new edition to your “Good Night” of books. I along with my fellow students have been working very hard on creating the book. We did all the illustrations and captions. We want the book to be called “Good Night Kansas”. We understand on your website it says “All of our books are written and illustrated in-house, so we do not accept…

Thomas Jefferson was the most influential person from the American Revolutionary Era. Jefferson was a very smart man since childhood. Jefferson was very kindhearted and cared for people and was very outgoing. Thomas Jefferson was very smart since childhood. As a small boy Jefferson would spend his pastimes playing in the woods, practicing violin and reading. He was very interested in learning. By the age of nine he began his formal education studying Greek Latin and Greek. At age 14, he took…

Thomas Jefferson, a crucial American leader, set the standard of America as a nation politically, economically, and socially. He helped contribute the United States of America to be an independent nation by counting the two party system, land purchases and explorations, the establishment of religious freedom, and the foundation of the Declaration of Independence. “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” Jefferson once said that he believed our liberty is extracted from God…