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Kelly Mesker Activities: Activities Director-Basketball and Softball Coach. |
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First Semester Schedule 1st- AD2nd- Prep 3rd- American Civics 4th- American Civics 5th- American Civics 6th- American Civics 7th- AD |
AMERICAN CIVICS!!!!! A healthy meal of World, National, State, and Local government principles and concepts. LOCAL HISTORY!!!! Students do historical investigation and find out about the rich history of Parkers Prairie and the surrounding area. Current event knowledge, comprehension, synthesis, analysis, and evaluation is an important element of the weekly rigor in the classroom. Reading the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Newsweek during the week is part of the curriculm. It gives the students an insight about current events and also allows the students to practice their reading skills, increase their vocabulary, check their grammatical insight... FRIDAY JEOPARDY!!! A tradition in Mesker's classroom for many a year. Most students look forward to ending a the week with a very competitive game of Team C.E. Jeopardy. It is the only way in that my students can get extra credit during their class. Each Friday we divide out into teams and play the game. The members of the 1st place team get "x" number of extra credit points, while the last place team gets nearly none.
Extra-curricular activities that we provide at PPHS are; choir, band, knowledge bowl, yearbook, FFA, speech, one-act play, visual arts, girl's tennis, football, volleyball, wrestling, boy's basketball, girl basketball, softball, baseball, girl's track, boy's track, football cheerleading, basketball cheerleading, wrestling cheerleading. "Shoot for the Moon, cuz even if you miss, you'll hit a Star." "Success is a journey, not a destination." "Lifes battles don't always go to the strongest or wisest person, but rather to the person who thinks that they CAN. Think big and your deeds will grow and think small and you'll fall behind. Think that you can and you will, it's all in your STATE OF MIND." Everyone of us can obtain a P.H.D. in the game of life. What is your P. ride, What is your H. ustle, and what is your D. esire. Having this P.H.D. mentality will assist in carrying you towards the "success" level that you want for yourself, your family, your job/career, your neighborhood, your community, your church, ... Kelly Mesker is in his 29th year in education. A graduate of Arlington-Green Isle high school, Fergus Falls Community College (AA), The College of St. Scholastica (BA 1983), and graduate credits from Hamline University. He spent his first six years at Badger Public school in NW MN and has been at PP for the last 22 Mesker is married(1984) to Tracy, a nurse. The couple has two sons. Adam is a rancher, farrier and oil well inspector in western North Dakota. He is married to Kristen and they had their first child last June, Dakota. Our second son Drew has joined his brother Adam in ND. He too is employed in the oil industry as an oil well mechanic. He recently purchased land out near Powers Lake and built a house. |
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Second Semester Schedule 1st- AD 2nd- Local History 3rd- American Civics 4th- Prep 5th- American Civics 6th- American Civics 7th- AD
FACTS ABOUT PPHS FACULTY- After beiing rejected as the Celtic leprechaun, Obrien came back to Parkers Prairie. He was deemed tall enough to teach social studies. Little do people know, but Duber is a "closet" democrat.
Mesker, Obrien, and Duberowski are members of the BC Club. |
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