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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Jo Wenzel, fourth |
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| grade teacher at Pearl City Elementary School, on being named |
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| the Agricultural Teacher of the Year by the Stephenson County |
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| Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural Teacher of the Year by |
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| the State Farm Bureau; and
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| WHEREAS, In June of 2009, she will represent Illinois in |
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| the national competition in St. Louis; if she wins there, she |
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| will represent the nation; she does not teach agriculture as a |
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| separate subject, but incorporates it into the social studies |
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| curriculum of her fourth grade class; and
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| WHEREAS, She also includes agriculture as part of her |
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| approach to teaching literature, math, and economics; she uses |
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| the journals of Lewis and Clark to help her students understand |
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| the national expansion west and the historical effects of |
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| American agriculture; the students keep their own journals as |
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| they follow along, tracking the Corps of Discovery; and
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| WHEREAS, Her students study renewable resources, longitude |
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| and latitude, soil, water, and the effects of too much |
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| fertilizer; they make charts recording the loss of food |
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| production jobs and the subsequent rise of service jobs; they |
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| travel to Grand Detour to see where John Deere made his first |
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| steel plow, harvest crop samples brought in from the fields by |
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| the teacher, map climate and weather patterns, enter poster |
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| contests, compile a reference book containing agriculture |
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| facts about all 50 states, and complete a research project on |
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| the ways in which a selected American Indian tribe used natural |
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| resources for its food, shelter, and clothing; and
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| WHEREAS, Jo Wenzel has been teaching Pearl City fourth |
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| graders for 20 years; she has been intimately involved with |
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| farming throughout her life, growing up on a farm in Henry, |
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| where her family raised soybeans and corn; she, along with her |
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| husband, Brian, operate a small farm in Kent, where they raised |
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| three children, Benjamin, Jessica, and Seth, and where they |
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| continue to grow corn and soybeans; and
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| WHEREAS,
Jo Wenzel is proud of her students; she will |
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| reward the children this spring when she gives them the prize |
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| she won for them, courtesy of the Stephenson County Farm |
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| Bureau, a field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry in |
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| Chicago; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| congratulate Jo Wenzel on her achievements and thank her for |
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| her continued dedication to education; and be it further
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