Lobo grad receives national FFA honor

During the January regular board meeting, the board and administration recognized 2021 Longview High School graduate Mr. Cooper Mayes for receiving the American FFA Degree from the national organization for outstanding achievement in agriculture business, production, processing, or service programs.

Mr. Gary Krueger , Executive Director of Longview Educates and Prospers (LEAP), said the American FFA Degree is awarded to members “who have demonstrated the highest level of commitment to FFA and made significant accomplishments in their supervised agricultural experiences.”

“This accomplishment is a testament to this young man and his family’s belief in bet - tering goodwill to man and society, and also his agriculture teachers for promoting Agriculture Education,” he said. bers last year, less than 1 percent of members attain this level of achievement.”

One of the organization’s highest honors, the American FFA Degree is awarded at the National FFA Convention & Expo each year.

Eligible members must have earned and productively invested $10,000 through a supervised agricultural experience program in which they start, own, or hold a professional position in an existing agriculture enterprise.

Recipients must also complete 50 hours of community

WHEELER |Continued from page 5 classes, students are currently working on a scrapbook of the Great Depression. Each student researches one year of the Great Depression and is provided with two pages for the class scrapbook in which to display newspaper headlines, artifacts, a timeline, and authentic photographs with an explanation of what each image shows about life during the Great Depression.

“Of the 850,000 FFA mem - word essay counting 20% of their final grade, moderated by the IB.

LISD is fortunate to have IB Diploma Programme teachers of Stacie Wheeler’s caliber, whose expertise and dedication to excellence, well prepare her students for university and beyond.

Board|Continued to page 17 sources,” and in order to help students determine the reliability of sources, she gives them an exercise in which the students themselves come up with measurement tools for evaluating sources, such as “is the source objective, balanced in its argument, complete, accurate, honest, and can it be corroborated by other sources?” to name a few student-generated criteria. Among the variety of sources they encounter are political cartoons and speeches.

Because the IB exams are comprised completely of written responses, students write essays for their major grades in her class, resulting in consistently excellent scores on IB exams come May of their senior year. Students also complete one project per semester, and in her junior

Once completed, students give a presentation of their pages, telling what they learned about how the Great Depression affected peoples’ lives then. In her senior World Topics class, from September through May, students research a world event, such as the collapse of the Soviet Union or the violations of neutrality before Pearl Harbor, which will result in a 2,200