Welcome to Class 1-204's website! Here you can access our homework for the week, view the spelling words the children chose, see what the calendar assignments for the month are, choose the STAR Words activities, pick a response log assignment, and more!  Take a few minutes to navigate the site. Remember that you can contact the school at 718. Games! alamo world geography. Becker News Becker Professional Education Launches One-of-a-Kind Study Tool “CPA SkillMaster” Videos CHICAGO, Ill. – May 16, 2018 – Becker Professional Education, a global leader in professional education and a part of Adtalem Global Education, today launched its one-of-a-kind “CPA SkillMaster” videos for students preparing for the.

World Events

World Statistics

• Soviet leader Chernenko dies at 73 and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev, 54 (March 11). Under the slogans of glasnost and Perestroika, Gorbachev initiates a broad program of reform and liberalization. Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Two Shi'ite Muslim gunmen capture TWA airliner with 133 aboard, 104 of them Americans (June 14); 39 remaining hostages freed in Beirut (June 30).
• PLOterrorists hijack Achille Lauro, Italian cruise ship, with 80 passengers, plus crew (Oct. 7); American, Leon Klinghoffer, killed (Oct. 8); Italian government toppled by political crisis over hijacking (Oct. 16).
• Reagan and Gorbachev meet at summit (Nov. 19); agree to step up arms control talks and renew cultural contacts (Nov. 21). Background: nuclear disarmament
• Terrorists seize Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner after takeoff from Athens (Nov. 23); 59 dead as Egyptian forces storm plane on Malta (Nov. 24).

U.S. Events

U.S. Statistics

• Ronald Reagan, 73, takes oath for second term as 40th President (Jan. 20).
• General Westmoreland settles libel action against CBS (Feb. 18).
• US Supreme Court, 5–4, bars public school teachers from parochial schools (July 1).
• Arthur James Walker, 50, retired naval officer, convicted by federal judge of participating in Soviet spy ring operated by his brother, John Walker (Aug. 9).
• US budget-balancing bill enacted (Dec. 12).

Economics

Sports

Super Bowl

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Entertainment Awards

Events

• Rock Hudson dies of AIDS at age 59. He's the first major star to fall victim to the disease.
• Madonna launches her first road show, the Virgin Tour.
• Dozens of top-name musicians and bands perform at the Live Aid concerts in Philadelphia and London. The shows benefit African famine victims.
• With the availability of relatively inexpensive laser printers and computers, tools for desktop publishing begin to be commonly used.

Movies

• Kiss of the Spider Woman, Out of Africa, Prizzi's Honor, The Color Purple

Books

• Robert Bly, Loving a Woman in Two Worlds
• Keri Hulme, The Bone People
• Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

Science

Nobel Prizes in Science

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• British scientists report the opening of an enormous hole in the earth's ozone layer over Antarctica. Background: Environment & Nature
• Researchers at IBM develop the scanning tunneling microscope, which can visualize images on an atomic scale.
• Coca-Cola attempts to change its 99-year-old formula in an effort to attract younger drinkers. 'New' Coke is poorly received, and the company soon reintroduces the original, 'Classic' beverage. Background: carbonated beverages

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Death

• Louise Brooks
• Frank Oppenheimer

The History Of Becker Elementary

AISD completed construction on Becker School in the late summer of 1936. The school officially opened to students the third week of October in 1936, when four busloads of first, second and third graders arrived to set up new records and make history by attending the new school.

Before Becker opened, all students in south Austin (of all ages) attended Fulmore for school. Video converter sony handycam download free for windows 7. Hence, Becker was the first Elementary School in south Austin. You can find these and a myriad of wonderfully interesting historical facts about Becker in History of Becker School 1936-2006, in the stacks at the Becker Library, the Austin History Center and the Texas Historical Commission.

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Becker celebrated its 80th anniversary the third week of October 2016!