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Hello everyone! I am looking forward to a great year in World History. This will be my third year teaching this subject and I am excited to expand on all of the great projects/discussions that we had last year in my classes. I love teaching this course and I think you will find this course enjoyable as well. I just want to welcome you and tell you a little about myself before we get started into our journey through history.

I grew up in North Fork and I have deep roots in the mountain area. I attended North Fork Elementary and Sierra High School before moving on to Fresno City College and Fresno State. While working on my college degree, I worked 6 months out of the year as a firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service. I would spend six months in the classroom and six months on a hotshot crew, working to pay my way through college. This taught me a lot about team work and hard work. I worked there for six years before leaving to pursue a career in teaching.

After earning my credential I got a job teaching at Lemoore High School. I taught World History, Geography and AVID there as well as coached Varsity football. I enjoyed my time there, but when I saw that Minarets was hiring a social science position, I jumped at the chance to apply. Coming back to teach in the area where I grew up has truly been a blessing. It is also great to be part of such ground breaking school like Minarets, where teachers and students work together to do some amazing things.

I teach the Social Sciences because I have always had a passion for learning about people, their stories, where they live, how they live, and what drives them in life. We can learn many lessons by studying history, and we can understand the present more clearly by examining the past. We all have a story, and each story is important. I hope to help foster a desire to be life long learners of history amongst my students. This is why I do what I do.

Thanks,

Daniel Ching