Serenity Gardens will make downtown Knox look a lot better.

Without donations, this project can never be completed.

If you would like to help make the downtown look better, please consider donating an item.

All donor's will have their name on a plaque indicating they donated that particular item.

The items we need and their cost are:

Our main fundraiser is still the engraved name brick sales.  The engraving of your name will be in Capital Letters.  4x8 name engraved bricks are only $30.00.  PLEASE CONTACT KNOX HIGH SCHOOL at (574) 772-1670

Some engraving ideas are:

Name, year of graduation, then school name
Business name and location

In remembrance of

Please consider making a donation. There is a downloadable brick order form on my website at: www.johnpoindexter.com.

Please consider sending a check to the school.

Without the help of people like you, we can not do this project. Time is running short, as items need to be ordered and made so they can be delivered in March to start the work.

UPDATE:  This week two businesses have donated to the Project a total of $450.00.

How about you or your business?  Can you help make this project come true?

Please donate an item.

With the start of a New Year coming up soon, it is time to solicit donations for the Serenity Gardens project that 30 seniors from Knox High School want to build in order to beautify the downtown of Knox.

Without donations, this project can never be completed.

Our main fund raiser is the engraved name brick sales.  The engraving of your name will be in Capital Letters.  4x8 name engraved bricks are only $30.00.  PLEASE CONTACT KNOX HIGH SCHOOL at (574) 772-1670

Some engraving ideas are:

Name, year of graduation, then school name

Business name and location

In remembrance of

If you have questions about what you want on your brick, please call us at the number up above.

The plan includes benches, picnic tables, gazebo and landscaping. The 4 x 8 engraved bricks will be placed in a walkway going into and/or through the area. Funds needed are $10,000-15,000.

Please consider making a donation. There is a downloadable form on my website at: www.johnpoindexter.com.

We only make $10.00 from each brick sale.

If you use a credit card, we only make $7.00 due to the fees we have to pay the credit company.

Please consider sending a check to the school.

Without the help of people like you, we can not do this project. Time is running short, as items need to be ordered and made so they can be delivered in March to start the work.

If you have questions, please leave a message down below. I will get back to you with an answer.

Thanks for helping us out and making the city look better.

Until next time,

John

Serenity Gardens

My seniors are going to try to raise enough money to put in a gazebo, several benches and a few picnic tables, a walkway along with evergreen trees and plants.

The big fundraiser is offering engraved name bricks for only $30.00.  

Order On-line at: https://www.bricksrus.com/order/knoxhighschool/

Contact Knox High School at 574-772-1670. 

Or download a copy of the order form here: http://www.johnpoindexter.com/index.htm

You can have your name engraved in a 4x8 brick that will go in the walkway through the area.

Some engraving ideas are:

Name, year of graduation, then school name

Business name and location

In remembrance of

If you have questions about what you want on your brick, please call us at the number up above.

All names are engraved in CAPITAL LETTERS. Each engraving will allow 18 characters per line with up to three lines per brick; and it is sealed to last a lifetime.

Order one and be part of history in downtown Knox.

The site we are fixing up will be where the very first bank in the town was located and then it became the very first drug store. So, this is a historical site.

Last time I wrote about how two of my classes are doing this psychological analysis of literary characters, now two of my other classes are starting to work on a plan to beautify a vacant lot in the downtown area.

It is being called Serenity Gardens.

They are going to try to raise enough money to put in a gazebo, several benches and a few picnic tables, a walkway along with evergreen trees and plants.

The big fundraiser will be asking for donations by offering engraved name bricks for only $30.00.   Now On-Sale. Contact Knox High School 574-772-1670  Order form is here: http://www.johnpoindexter.com/index.htm

You can have your name engraved in a 4x8 brick that will go in the walkway through the area.

Some engraving ideas are:

Name, year of graduation, then school name

Business name and location

All names are engraved in CAPITAL LETTERS. Each engraving will allow 18 characters per line with up to three lines per brick; and it is sealed to last a lifetime.

Usually these classes do project based learning by just figuring out what needs to be done and completing the paperwork. But, this time they wanted to know why they could not go out and do the actual work. So, we have taken it all the way through the school system and will be visiting the city council next week to get their permission or denial.

If they approve our plan, our fundraiser will go in effect on Tuesday, Nov. 11th. (Pretty sure it will be approved, as the Mayor told me it would).

Bricks can be ordered from the students involved, myself or by calling the school's office, and through the company's on-line ordering process.

We will be working with Bricks-R-Us for this fundraiser.

If you graduated from Knox, then buy brick with your information. If you didn't, buy one anyway. But wait until Tuesday. I will post an update here in the comment section when they go on sale.

They sent me a sample and it a real nice looking signature brick.

My students would appreciate your support in their endeavor to turn an ugly lot into something people can enjoy.

Leave us a comment down below and tell us what you think of this idea.

Also, you can mention how many bricks you want engraved with you and your family's names on them.

Until next time,

John

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Hello everyone, hope you had a great week and will have another great week coming up.

As some of you might know I am an English teacher in a high school. This is my 25th year of teaching and I am often asked why I became a teacher, especially when someone finds out that I was a Special Agent prior to going into teaching.

All I can say is it is because of an elderly lady that taught English at Indiana State University. She convinced me that I would be a great teacher as I had the ability and talent to reach out to others and get them to see how they can improve themselves. Also, because I had travelled around the world and spent time in areas where literature was written or written about.

Education has changed in the past 25 years and I am not sure it was all for the good. We now have politicians who think they know more about what is good for education, even though they have never spent any time in a classroom filled with young minds, questioning why they need this material. We fight against electronics that seems more important to a student than any book.

Two of my classes are preparing to start on what I call their major project. It was introduced to me a few years ago by a colleague and I loved it so much I moved it from summer school to the regular year.

The students will do a psychological analysis of three main characters and apply the steps of The Pattern of Human Experience to each character. This seems to be a good combination of using English skills and psychological principles to develop their analysis of how the pattern affects all humans, real or fictional.

This project really does make the student stop and think, and simply not look up on the Internet an easy answer to submit for a grade. It will task their mind so deeply, they will be screaming at me to tell them the answers.

Which, I will not do.

Once finished, they will have learned not only how The Pattern of Human Experience affects life, but how to take a subject, any subject, and complete an analysis to show an intelligent step-by-step description of how the subject can affect us all.

This is the exciting time of teaching when you see young minds thinking, squirming to figure out something they have never had to do before. Then all of a sudden you look at one of them and see the expression on their face when they finally have the answer. They look up at you and you smile back, it is then they know they are on the right track. So they ask, is this it?

My answer to them when this happens is simply one word, "interesting".

Until next time, keep it interesting!

John

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She Rises at Dawn, Dreamer's Paradise, Hollywood Dream, and All in the Family Cruise

You can find them at Amazon http://tinyurl.com/ma8gd83

They are also on Nook and Kobo.

Smashwords carries them in all formats and even in PDF files.

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JohnPoindexter

You don't need a special reader machine.  You can download the Kindle app or Nook app from their websites to use on your computer, tablet, or laptop.