There was no school yesterday due to President's Day, so there was no assignment.
We started section 8-4 today, talking about special cases of right triangles. The students learned the relationships found in 45-45-90 triangles and 30-60-90 triangles. The shortcuts that these triangles involve allow the students to solve more types of right triangle problems.
Assignment: Section 8-4; page 302; #1-16 all
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Sunday, 3 May 2015
Algebra 10-12 assignment; Feb. 24
We went over our quiz today that we took on Friday and then got started on a new unit. We will be working with polynomials in this unit, but we need to do some review work on exponents before we get to polynomials. We went over how to multiply and divide with exponents today, as well as how to handle negative exponents. We will be working on these tomorrow as well.
Assignment: operations with exponents worksheet #2-70 evens
Assignment: operations with exponents worksheet #2-70 evens
Saturday, 2 May 2015
Welcome to school year 2014-2015
Hi everyone,
Welcome to the 2014-15 school year here at Hanford High. I'm looking forward to a great year, and I hope you are too. A little about myself. This is my second go around at Hanford High, as I started out my teaching career in the early 90's here at HHS. Between then and now I have enjoyed teaching at an international school in the Philippines, Enterprise Middle School, and Three Rivers' Homelink. I'm a math and science teacher, so there have been a number of different courses in both those areas that I have taught over the years. My wife and I have three boys in elementary school, and I enjoy watching them grow up, coaching their sports teams, and taking part in all the adventures that little boys have. I look forward to getting to know you this year and hear more of your own story.
A big part of having a great school year is getting off to a good start. Good habits of work routines and regular communication about class expectations are things that I want to help you develop in my class this year. Regularly reading this blog is part of that process. I will use this blog to communicate with you the various assignments and upcoming tests/quizzes that we have talked about in class. This same schedule will be posted on the board in the room. This is just another way to let both you and your parents know what we are doing in class and what responsibilities you have here in class.
I will have two headings for each of my blog entries -- one for algebra and one for geometry. Be careful to read the correct one so you won't be confused! If you do have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me via email, as I will check that regularly throughout the day up until about 4 pm. If you email after that, I most likely won't get back to you until the next day.
Here is my school email address: toby.landers@rsd.edu
Again, welcome to the new school year. Hanford is a great school and has a lot of great offerings for students to be involved in and make a positive impact. It all starts with a great attitude in the classroom though. I look forward to doing all I can to help make this year a successful one for you.
Mr. Landers
Welcome to the 2014-15 school year here at Hanford High. I'm looking forward to a great year, and I hope you are too. A little about myself. This is my second go around at Hanford High, as I started out my teaching career in the early 90's here at HHS. Between then and now I have enjoyed teaching at an international school in the Philippines, Enterprise Middle School, and Three Rivers' Homelink. I'm a math and science teacher, so there have been a number of different courses in both those areas that I have taught over the years. My wife and I have three boys in elementary school, and I enjoy watching them grow up, coaching their sports teams, and taking part in all the adventures that little boys have. I look forward to getting to know you this year and hear more of your own story.
A big part of having a great school year is getting off to a good start. Good habits of work routines and regular communication about class expectations are things that I want to help you develop in my class this year. Regularly reading this blog is part of that process. I will use this blog to communicate with you the various assignments and upcoming tests/quizzes that we have talked about in class. This same schedule will be posted on the board in the room. This is just another way to let both you and your parents know what we are doing in class and what responsibilities you have here in class.
I will have two headings for each of my blog entries -- one for algebra and one for geometry. Be careful to read the correct one so you won't be confused! If you do have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me via email, as I will check that regularly throughout the day up until about 4 pm. If you email after that, I most likely won't get back to you until the next day.
Here is my school email address: toby.landers@rsd.edu
Again, welcome to the new school year. Hanford is a great school and has a lot of great offerings for students to be involved in and make a positive impact. It all starts with a great attitude in the classroom though. I look forward to doing all I can to help make this year a successful one for you.
Mr. Landers
Friday, 1 May 2015
Wasicu at Chankpe Opi: A White Man at Wounded Knee V
A single troop—who knows who?—tried to wrestle Black Coyote, one of the Sioux men. Some say he was deaf. At the same moment, the medicine man gets to his feet, picks up a handful of dust, and throws it at the soldiers, his shrieking exhortation continuing in the Sioux language. The soldier and Black Coyote wrestle for the possession of a rifle, while down the line another soldier begins struggling with another for a rifle wrapped in the blanket covering one of three young men standing close together. The medicine man keeps telling his people white bullets will not harm them.
One shot. Whose was it? Did it come from Black Coyote in the struggle? No one knows for sure. But in a moment all hell broke loose, and, for less than a half hour, what follows is a fierce and bloody battle waged hand-to-hand in a council circle soon choked by dust and smoke, and thick with bullets, most of them from army issue rifles, bullets that flew indiscriminately, killing many of the Sioux in the middle, as well as bluecoats on either side. That the cavalry could have avoided shooting each other at such close quarters seems impossible, despite claims to the contrary in military hearings conducted later.
An old woman who used to live down our street claims that out here on the prairie we get only about ten sweet days a year. Prairie cold locks life in its frigid jaws; the heat wilts anything that grows; and always, the wind blows. In the summer, it’s capable of sand-blasting your face; in the winter, its bite is not only dangerous but deadly. But that morning, December 29, 1890, the wind stood still. When you look down now, from the promontory where the First and Second Artillery have been firing those Hotchkiss guns into the horror beneath them, imagine a cloud of dust and smoke so thick as to stop breath. In seconds, in the very middle of the fray, combatants cannot see each other, but blindness doesn’t stop the killing. Seventeen miles away, at the Pine Ridge Agency, people claimed to hear the firing.
Just exactly who fired first might never be established, but there is no question whose rifles ended the massacre. With the first shots, hundreds of Lakota women and children run away into that ravine you see just beyond the fighting. With dozens of their own down in the middle of the madness, Forsyte’s men are in no mood to take prisoners, so for several hours after the bloody combat that began in front of Big Foot’s tent, scattered gunfire continues as far as three miles away, up and down the ravines that cut through the tawny prairie around the creek called Wounded Knee. What began in intolerable heat ended in cold-blooded murder.
If you’d like, perhaps you could walk down into those ravines, no more than a half mile from where we’re standing. There are no markers anywhere, like the ones at Little Big Horn, no whited stones to mark the spots where people fell. But even in their absence, ghosts linger.
That afternoon, when the shooting ended, Army personnel loaded 39 of their wounded into wagons, along with their dead, 25. Fifty-one wounded Sioux were located, 47 of them women and children, some of whom—like six of the cavalry survivors—would soon succumb to their injuries. The Sioux dead were left on the field and in the ravines, but exactly how many had been killed will never be known. Native people consider 300 a fairly just estimate.
That night, a blizzard came in on the wind and laid a gossamer veil over the carnage—some say mercifully; some think the hand of white man’s God was simply covering their sin. Wounded Knee was the final military action in the Plains Indians Wars, the horrid, bloody conclusion of a cultural and religious confrontation that, from my vantage point, a white man at Wounded Knee, looks even today like something obscenely inevitable. Millions of white people—my own Dutch immigrant ancestors among them—went west for cheap land they assumed the Sioux didn’t value. After all, where were the improvements, the tree lines, the fences, the buildings, the cut sod? Millions of white people—my own ancestors among them—thought our holy book to a pagan people was a generous gift for the millions of acres those people had once roamed in freedom. My own family included, we wanted to own what they wanted to honor.
But the Lakota people lost far more than those buried on the hill where we’re standing. They lost what the cavalry and the government called “the battle”; they lost the war; they lost their way of life. “And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard,” Black Elk says. “A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”
One shot. Whose was it? Did it come from Black Coyote in the struggle? No one knows for sure. But in a moment all hell broke loose, and, for less than a half hour, what follows is a fierce and bloody battle waged hand-to-hand in a council circle soon choked by dust and smoke, and thick with bullets, most of them from army issue rifles, bullets that flew indiscriminately, killing many of the Sioux in the middle, as well as bluecoats on either side. That the cavalry could have avoided shooting each other at such close quarters seems impossible, despite claims to the contrary in military hearings conducted later.
An old woman who used to live down our street claims that out here on the prairie we get only about ten sweet days a year. Prairie cold locks life in its frigid jaws; the heat wilts anything that grows; and always, the wind blows. In the summer, it’s capable of sand-blasting your face; in the winter, its bite is not only dangerous but deadly. But that morning, December 29, 1890, the wind stood still. When you look down now, from the promontory where the First and Second Artillery have been firing those Hotchkiss guns into the horror beneath them, imagine a cloud of dust and smoke so thick as to stop breath. In seconds, in the very middle of the fray, combatants cannot see each other, but blindness doesn’t stop the killing. Seventeen miles away, at the Pine Ridge Agency, people claimed to hear the firing.
Just exactly who fired first might never be established, but there is no question whose rifles ended the massacre. With the first shots, hundreds of Lakota women and children run away into that ravine you see just beyond the fighting. With dozens of their own down in the middle of the madness, Forsyte’s men are in no mood to take prisoners, so for several hours after the bloody combat that began in front of Big Foot’s tent, scattered gunfire continues as far as three miles away, up and down the ravines that cut through the tawny prairie around the creek called Wounded Knee. What began in intolerable heat ended in cold-blooded murder.
If you’d like, perhaps you could walk down into those ravines, no more than a half mile from where we’re standing. There are no markers anywhere, like the ones at Little Big Horn, no whited stones to mark the spots where people fell. But even in their absence, ghosts linger.
That afternoon, when the shooting ended, Army personnel loaded 39 of their wounded into wagons, along with their dead, 25. Fifty-one wounded Sioux were located, 47 of them women and children, some of whom—like six of the cavalry survivors—would soon succumb to their injuries. The Sioux dead were left on the field and in the ravines, but exactly how many had been killed will never be known. Native people consider 300 a fairly just estimate.
That night, a blizzard came in on the wind and laid a gossamer veil over the carnage—some say mercifully; some think the hand of white man’s God was simply covering their sin. Wounded Knee was the final military action in the Plains Indians Wars, the horrid, bloody conclusion of a cultural and religious confrontation that, from my vantage point, a white man at Wounded Knee, looks even today like something obscenely inevitable. Millions of white people—my own Dutch immigrant ancestors among them—went west for cheap land they assumed the Sioux didn’t value. After all, where were the improvements, the tree lines, the fences, the buildings, the cut sod? Millions of white people—my own ancestors among them—thought our holy book to a pagan people was a generous gift for the millions of acres those people had once roamed in freedom. My own family included, we wanted to own what they wanted to honor.
But the Lakota people lost far more than those buried on the hill where we’re standing. They lost what the cavalry and the government called “the battle”; they lost the war; they lost their way of life. “And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard,” Black Elk says. “A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”
___________________
Tomorrow: Aftermath
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Geometry assignment; April 17
We spent time today introducing the concept of arc lengths and sector areas in circles. Both of these figures involve working with a fraction of a circle that is found by using the central angle and then comparing it to the entire 360 degrees of the circle. We did a few problems together before getting started on the homework problems.
Assignment: section 11-6; page 453; classroom exercises #1-4; written exercises #1-10
Assignment: section 11-6; page 453; classroom exercises #1-4; written exercises #1-10
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Algebra 10-12 assignment; March 24
We went over our polynomials quiz today in class before spending some more time in working with special cases of multiplying polynomials. We reviewed what we had done on Friday and then went over a few more examples before starting our homework.
Assignment: Special Cases of Polynomials worksheet #1-29 all, 33-38 all
Assignment: Special Cases of Polynomials worksheet #1-29 all, 33-38 all
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
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Saturday, 25 April 2015
Book Review: "My Walk of Faith"
Memoirs continue to sell and sell well because our lives always will make the best stories, one way or another, even when those lives are imaginary, as is Harry Potter's. Besides, they almost always have similar plot lines, and we like repetition, just like our kids. Time after time, memoirs show how so-and-so overcame this or that problem or series of, to become what they've become. The ugly ones--and they are legion--detail ugly lives. They too do well.
I just finished a short one from an older man whose first language is not English but Navajo. "My Walk of Faith," by Ernest Phillip Benally, is short, but not sweet, telling but not at all sordid, even though it includes it's share of ugliness. Benally grew up in a hogan, hearing only Navajo in a thoroughly Navajo cultural world.
His father had two wives, as did his grandfather. Bigamy was perfectly acceptable, he says, as it was in the Old Testament, a way of life and frequently practiced. As a child he never questioned it, just as he didn't question his father, who he says was rather painfully shy and, by his account, a good, good man, who happened to have two wives.
When Christianity came into Ernest Benally's life, some judgments had to be radically altered because the religion his parents practiced, as well as his father's bigamy, was, to the Christianity of the missionaries, perfectly unacceptable.
What the story of Ernest Benally's life does--even though it may not be the mission of the story--is help white folks like me understand how mission efforts were capable of not only turning people away from Christianity but even making them bitter. His readers have no reason to question the integrity of Ernest Benally's parents; they maintained moral values to their kids: stay away from alcohol, get a good education. They were, in every way, loving, caring people.
But those parents were, by Protestant standards back then, the heathen, a word that has little, if any, redeeming value. What white Christians asked the heathen to do was forsake a way of life that, whatever its religious character, was wrong or evil or sinful--and all those words scald the soul.
The basic plot line of all memoirs is here. Ernest Benally, a thoughtful Christian, somehow, by the hand of God alone, overcomes paternalism and outright prejudice to discover who he is, a Navajo and a Christian.
Benally's Navajo name is Naa't'tyil Haswood, which means, he says, "a leader came over the horizon." Perhaps his parents, who never did convert, understood better than they knew because their son's career, in the church and in profession of social work, shows himself very much a leader, a leader of his people.
Even here, in his story, he's leading the rest of us to learn more about being believers.
Ernest Benally’s “My Walk of Faith” is beautiful and telling in so many ways, especially for those who want to understand Native America in general and Native American Christians in particular. Honestly and courageously, Benally walks us through a life fraught with unintended prejudice, well- meant but so often demeaning, a story that ends, nonetheless, in commitment and faith. I’m thankful—all of us should be—for Ernest Benally, his life, his faith, and his story.
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"My Walk of Faith" is available from Rev. Al Mulder, who urged his good and long-time friend to sit down and tell the story. You can write him at amulder@crcna.org, or else write Ernie's wife Ruth at ruthmariebenally@gmail.com.
Friday, 24 April 2015
Algebra 10-12 assignment; April 11
We went over our homework and practiced this week's factoring skills one more time through the entry task today before taking the factoring quiz. After the quiz, the students then got started on their homework assignment for the weekend.
Assignment: Factoring Trinomials worksheet #1-18
Assignment: Factoring Trinomials worksheet #1-18
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Geometry assignment; March 11
We continued working with arcs and chords out of section 9-4 today. We also did more review for the quiz tomorrow. The key concept today dealt with determining the chord length once the distance from the center of a circle is known.
Assignment: section 9-4; page 347; #1-13 all; page 349; Self-Test 1; #1-3, 5, 6
Assignment: section 9-4; page 347; #1-13 all; page 349; Self-Test 1; #1-3, 5, 6
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Algebra 10-12 assignment; April 21
The students got back their factoring quiz today that they took last Friday. We then started over our next topic that involves factoring the difference of perfect squares. We went over several examples together before getting started on our homework at the end of the period.
Assignment: Factoring Difference of Squares WS; 1-8 all; 10-46 evens
Assignment: Factoring Difference of Squares WS; 1-8 all; 10-46 evens
Saturday, 18 April 2015
Morning Thanks--Strawberry sin
Out here in the northwest corner of Iowa, the guilty pleasures of sweet corn are simply a given. Sweet corn comes with the territory. Shouldn't be long now that summer solstice is behind us and days are already shrinking. Maybe a month, at best--or at worst. It'll be here. You can bet on it--sweet corn is like the dawn.
That it is doesn't mean people take sweet corn for granted. No way. We pay outrageous prices for first fruits. Really. Anticipation turns Silas Marners into spendthrifts. Some people claim sweet corn alone is reason enough to live here.
If the Tall Corn State were really wanted to market itself, we'd simply link all of our summer festivals at the hip and create a gargantuan state-wide Sweet Corn Fest, then invite the world. Seriously, if we'd build it, they'd come because where sweet corn is concerned, this isn't Iowa, it's heaven. Or something like that.
But strawberries are special grace. Only some summers get truly blessed. People grow strawberries, but as a garden crop they make untoward demands. Birds prey for 'em and on 'em, and basically laugh off scarecrows and whirlygigs. Strawberries don't like Iowa heat, and they're a whole lot more thirsty than a good crop of anything we grow out here should be. Truth be known, they're unbiblical--they prefer their foundations a little sandy. They're even a little snooty, turning up their red noses at our 20-thou-an acre black soil.
So when we get 'em out here on the edge of the plains, we lose all semblance of self-control.
Yesterday, a partly cloudy Monday morning, we picked way more than we needed, three whole flats of the roundest, reddest, juiciest berries folks around here can imagine. Hardly a dud in the bunch, and plenty of young'uns left on the plant to get rich and juicy tomorrow. In Wisconsin's lakeshore woods, where I grew up, strawberries grow wild in a perfect sandy homeland. Out here, they're far more rare. They're immigrants, so raking in a bumper crop is just about as great a shock as it is a blessing.
So we had fun--grandpa and grandma with the boys, out in the rows on a perfect day. My knees creak, so I went down on all fours early, crawling along between the rows. No matter. We never made it farther than fifty feet or so--that's how thick they were.
And when we got home, we partook of the bounty in shameful excess. We ate strawberries, we ate strawberry muffins, then we ate more strawberries. Last night I had strawberries on ice cream; this morning, strawberries on cereal. My wife promises more strawberry muffins and, she says, almost sexually, all sorts of questionable delights.
So this morning thanks are bright and red and juicy and sinfully sweet, and we got 'em in spades. This morning's thanks are for strawberries--so strange and sensual and wondrous we really don't deserve them.
Oh, the heck with it. Today, I'll cash in my Calvinist chips and join the Lutherans.
You know what Luther said. That's right. Sin boldly.
Sunday Morning Meds--Inheritance
“For evil men will be cut off,
but those who hope in the LORD
will inherit the land.” Psalm 37
I don’t know that this line sounds right out here in farm country.
My father-in-law was what used to be called a “small farmer,” in the days when there was such a thing. My wife grew up on a farm like Old McDonalds—little of this, little of that.
Well, I got news. Out here, those kinds of farms simply don’t exist. Farming has become agri-business, and everything has changed.
My father-in-law bought some land when he was farming, nowhere near enough for a young farmer today. But he owns the land, enough of it that my wife’s inheritance is significant. We could come heir to it, but then he might just give it away, to church or school.
But let’s say his land comes to us. Let’s say we keep it, and even though we don’t live on it, we might just drive by once in a while. We’d likely rent it out to the cousin who now farms it. Eventually however, we’d likely pass land ownership on to our children.
Now there is a possibility that our children will live in the neighborhood someday, but that certainly isn’t a given. So it’s possible that eventually the land her father bought as he slowly built his own farm will end up in the hands of absentee landlords.
That phenomenon is happening all over the rural Midwest, prompting people to ask whether so much “absentee landlordism” is going to be good for the health of communities. That question goes to the very heart of the quality of life out here on the far western edge of the cornbelt. What exactly is our future if people in faraway cities own the land we live on?
To promise, as the NIV does, that those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land sounds, in this region, like a pipe dream—and it is. Good people don’t inevitably win in the quest for land ownership. The mid-80s’ “farm crisis” made that perfectly clear. More often than not, good, hard-working people got flattened. Sorry, David—maybe that was true in old Israel, but it’s not true—nor should anyone promise it—in the rural areas of the Upper Midwest.
The KJV says, more metaphorically perhaps, that the righteous will inherit the earth. In our present context, I much prefer earth to land. If I lived in Toronto or New York or Los Angeles, I wouldn’t much care which word is used; but here, where the future of rural life is dependent upon land ownership, I much prefer “the earth.”
Earthspiritualizes richly. It suggests that those who hope in God inherit the concept of earth; they inherit the true (which is to say, spiritual) riches of this earth, not the ground itself, not the back forty, the neighbor’s thousand acres. Cold hard cash is not at issue here and neither is good black dirt.
Calvin says that what David means with this line is that those who hope in the Lord “shall live in such a manner as that the blessing of God shall follow them, even to the grave.” That blessing may well include a thousand acres, but you can’t take that promise to the bank.
It probably goes without saying that what David is promising is a far site better than the flattest, blackest land in all of Sioux County, Iowa. But out here, where land ownership is so important, it probably needs to be said.
Eventually, my wife will inherit the land. More importantly, and by grace alone, she—and her husband and our children and all of those we love, those who hope in the Lord--will inherit the earth.
Friday, 17 April 2015
Geometry assignment; May 27
After the long weekend, we went back to work today with our second coordinate transformation. We worked on reflections today, identifying the line of reflection first and then making the necessary image from the original. We went over several examples together in class before the students got started on their homework.
Assignment: Reflections worksheet
Assignment: Reflections worksheet
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Algebra 10-12 assignment; May 7
After going over the homework and an entry task together, we spent time reviewing the various topics we had covered during our unit on radicals. After going over several problems together, the students then worked independently on their review sheets. Most the students finished and checked their work before leaving class.
Test on radicals tomorrow.
Assignment: radicals units review sheet
Test on radicals tomorrow.
Assignment: radicals units review sheet
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
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Color : Army Green
Amazon.com Price : $35.09

Features Rucksack Thick Canvas Backpack School Bag Great for School and Camping with Genuine Leather Straps B1039 Dark Brown (Army Green)
Descriptions Rucksack Thick Canvas Backpack School Bag Great for School and Camping with Genuine Leather Straps B1039 Dark Brown (Army Green)
Material:canvas and Genuine Cow Leather
Size:16.5"(H)x11"(L)x6.3"(D)
Dual leather straps with adjustment buckles, antique finish brass metal buckles
4 zipper outside pockets(1 front,2 side,1 back).1 laptop pocket and several little pockets inside
color:dark brown
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We went over the first part of section 7-6 today dealing with proportional lengths in triangles. This theorem is known as the side-splitter theorem and can be used with lines parallel to the base of a triangle.
Assignment: section 7-6; page 272; #1, 3-5, 12, 15, 16
worksheet questions #1-6
Assignment: section 7-6; page 272; #1, 3-5, 12, 15, 16
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Assignment: Multiplying polynomials worksheet #3
Assignment: Multiplying polynomials worksheet #3
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Reviews for Canvas Backpack - Vintage Rucksack with Star Detail By Rothco
Canvas Backpack - Vintage Rucksack with Star Detail By Rothco
Brand : Rothco
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Color : Olive
Amazon.com Price : $36.49

Features Canvas Backpack - Vintage Rucksack with Star Detail By Rothco
Vintage canvas backpack with black star on front
Washed-out, olive-drab-colored canvas construction
Large main compartment; 2 side pockets with flaps
Inner zippered pouch; padded adjustable shoulder straps
Metal buckle pocket closures; measures 18 x 15 inches
Descriptions Canvas Backpack - Vintage Rucksack with Star Detail By Rothco
Rothco's Canvas Utility Pouch can be carried on the belt with the attached belt loops. It is constructed of heavy weight cotton canvas and its dimensions are 7"X 6"X 2"
Keep your school or adventure gear close at hand with the Rothco Vintage star backpack. The pack is made of washed-out, olive-drab-colored canvas and includes a black star on the front flap, giving it an authentic appeal. Storage-wise, the pack features a large main compartment, two side pockets with flaps, two front inside pockets with a drawstring closure, and an inner zippered pouch, giving you plenty of space for books, gear, and other on-the-go essentials. Other features include adjustable shoulder straps and metal buckle closures on the front and side pockets. The pack measures 18 by 15 inches.
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