1. Develop my potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success.

FFA has many types of business and skill set programs. These examples include SAE projects and CDE projects that help teach students how agriculture works. In order to develop  leadership skills FFA gives students the chance to lead competition teams and become chapter officers to become well leaders who are able to be in charge of a group.

2.                                                                            Make a positive difference in the lives of others.

FFA helps make a difference in the lives of others by having fundraisers, growing food and giving it out to the community, and raising cattle to provide meat which most of the world eats. This helps others lives because it gives them food to help supply their families with something to eat. Also they have fundraisers to earn money for their school and for their organization.

3.                                                                          Dress neatly and appropriately for the occasion.

FFA competitions have a dress code that people have to follow in order to be able to compete. This helps teach kids what to wear during different situations preparing them for the business world. Also when kids are showing animals it teaches them that at times they have to wear casual clothes in order to not ruin their official dress.

4.                                                                          Communicate in an appropriate, purposeful, and positive manner.

FFA has students learn to communicate with other people in an orderly fashion. One example of this is the committees competition where students learn proper educate and procedures that are used in some political matters that our government handles.

5.                                             Demonstrate good sportsmanship by being modest in winning and generous in defeat.

My FFA chapter held a dodge ball tournament along with a ping pong tournament. These tournaments were a way for our chapter to hang out and have fun. This event taught us to be very generous in defeat and very humble when we win and not to brag in each others faces.

6.                                                                    Conduct and value a supervised agricultural experience program.

FFA is a every hands on organization where students are able to interact with agricultural life under the supervision of an agricultural teacher. For example our school has recently added a green house for our FFA organization to use in order to let kids have the experience of growing plants while under teacher supervision.

7.                                                              Appreciate and promote diversity in our organization.

FFA encourages people of all walks of life to come and have the agricultural experience through their organization. For example in the picture above there are thousands of people from all over that have gathered for this conference. With that many people and everyone being different then they are all different in some way creates a variety of people from all walks of life that participate.

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Swallowing Stones

By Joyce Mcdonald

Review by James Langley

Swallowing stones will make feel sorry, sad, and at points leave you wondering what will happen next. It starts on the day when the main characters lives change. They are the same age but do not even really know each other.

Michael is a very popular guy he is a good track star and has a girlfriend and a good best friend who at times drinks. During all of this Michael comes to like someone else named Amy. While Jenna on the other hand is just an ordinary girl with a best friend named Andrea who likes Michael and a boyfriend.
Both of them end up in a bad situation when Jenna’s father dies and Michael learns that he killed someone. As they try to find and not be found they run into each other multiple times throughout the book and start to suspect each other of things that are going on. While Jenna is trying to get vengeance Michael is trying not to get caught by the police.

The book swallowing stones is a good mystery and I would recommend it to people who like to guess and find out what is going to happen I think it will be a bit of a challenge.

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