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Dakota Meyer Weekly Reader Album

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Alan W. Reed, Media Coordinator for the Adair County School District, sent several photographs about a highlight of the week at John Adair Intermediate School, where students in Jason Curry's Social Studies Classes got a huge surprise this week: The Weekly Reader, a staple of Curry's classes, featured Congressional Medal of Honor Winner and Adair County native Dakota Meyer.




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JAIS students study Dakota Meyer in Weekly Reader



2011-11-11 - JAIS, 202 Gen. John Adair School, Columbia, KY - Photo by Alan W. Reed, Ed Waggener.
Students in Jason Curry's Social Studies Class at John Adair Intermediate School regularly receive copies of Weekly Reader, and were surprised this week to find that a national hero on the front, back, and centerfold of the paper features fellow Adair Countian Dakota Meyer.

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Big Payoff this week for Jason Curry's Weekly Reader program



2011-11-12 - JAIS, 202 Gen. John Adair School, Columbia, KY - Photo by Alan W. Reed. Adair Schools photo.
Mr. Jason Curry, Social Studies Teacher at JAIS, had a real payoff this week, more than justifying his long use of Weekly Reader lessons as a study tool. On Friday, November 11, 2011, the Veteran's Day featured Adair County native Dakota Myer, an accomplishment almost the equal of watching the President presenting the Congressional Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer. For those who remember it from childhood and love Weekly Reader as I do, this is the equivalent of seeing Dakota Meyer selected as Time Magazine Man of the Year. (Which he deserves.) - ALAN REED

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Studying the Dakota Meyer issue of The Weekly Reader



2011-11-14 - JAIS, 202 Gen. John Adair School, Columbia, KY - Photo by Alan Reed, Adair County School District photo.
Kaityln Lacy, left, Billie Joe Lawless, center,, and Reece Giles study the Dakota Meyer issue of the Weekly Reader in Jason Curry's social studies class at John Adair Intermediate School.

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Dakota Meyer Weekly Reader at JAIS



2011-11-14 - JAIS, 202 Gen. John Adair School, Columbia, KY - Photo by Alan W. Reed. Adair Schools photo.
JAIS Students, From left, Reece Giles; Lexi Feese, Failey Corbin, Derek Burris, Macy Brown, and Madelyn Brian, were all reading the Dakota Meyer Weekly Reader edition in Jason Curry's Social Studies class at John Adair Intermediate School in Columbia, KY, birthplace of the Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Alan W. Reed remembers that Weekly Reader day was anxiously anticipated by all the students in the classes which received them when he was in elementary school in Liberty, KY, and said he could only imagine how much this special edition had to mean to students on the same campus the national hero attended himself.

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