NAME:
Malee Jergensen
SCHOOL:
Wasatch Jr. High
CLASS:
PreAlgebra Honors, PreAlgebra 8, Algebra 1 (7th-8th Graders)
SCHOOL PHONE:
385-646-0219
Ms. Jergensen grew up in the great state of Idaho. She lived in a small
farming community, where her back yard was and still is the Snake River. Her
father owned the Farmers Equity and a grain elevator. He also farmed 180
acres of dry farm land that is adjacent to the Teton Dam site. (This dry
farm land now has a well on it and we now can grow both potatoes and grain).
Ms. Jergensen learned to drive grain trucks, swim, and play sports at a
very young age. She loved her carefree life. When she was 11 years old her
father died suddenly of a heart attact and this changed her family's life
forever. Because of her father's death she and her family moved to Salt Lake
where her mother taught English at the University of Utah. She left all her
friends and started Jr. High in Salt Lake. She didn't like the big city and
she really didn't like Jr. High. The only joy in her life was when the bell
rang on the last day of school and she could go back to Idaho for the summer.
(She still feels that way).
Her ninth grade year she had a wonderful teacher who changed her life. She
learned to like Salt Lake and she loved Jr. High, this is when she decided to
teach.
Ms. Jergensen attended the University of Utah (Go Utes)where she
received her bacholors in Physical Education with a minor in Health Education
and a minor in Mathematics. She decided not to teach when she graduated, but
left for the sunny skies of California where she worked for two years for a
Dentist. She missed the seasons, her friends and family so she decided to
come back to Utah and teach. She started her first job of teaching at
Brockbank Jr. High in 1982 where she stayed for six year. She transferred to
Wasatch Jr. where she is currently teaching math.
Ms. Jergensen still goes home every summer to that small town where she
drives grain and potato trucks, floats on the Snake River daily, mows the
lawn, takes care of her garden, and enjoys her family, (especially when they
all come to visit). The summer of 2002 the Jergensen's all gathered in Idaho
for the funeral of their mom. All the children, grandchildren, and great
grandchildren attended her funeral on the hottest day in July in an air
conditioned church. After the funeral you could find all of us in
that glorious Snake River swimming down from the back of our house to the
sand bar. My mom and dad would have been happy, because this is what
they taught us all to do. Enjoy life! "Life is not measured by the number
of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." To this
day the Snake River takes my breath away usually because it is so cold.
Let's have a great year at Wasatch!!!!!
I. THOU SHALT READ THE PROBLEM FROM BEGINNING TO END.
II. WHATSOEVER THOU DOEST TO ONE SIDE OF YE EQUATION, DO YE ALSO TO
THE OTHER.
III. THOU MUST USE THE "COMMON SENSE," ELSE THOU WILT HAVE FLAGPOLES
9000 FEET IN HEIGHT, YEA...EVEN FATHERS YOUNGER THAN SONS.
IV. THOU SHALT IGNORE THE TEACHINGS OF FALSE PROPHETS TO DO ALL WORK
IN THY HEAD.
V. WHEN THOU KNOWEST NOT, THOU SHALT LOOK IT UP, AND IF THY SEARCH
STILL ELUDE THEE, THEN THOU SHALT ASK THE ALL-KNOWING TEACHER.
VI. THOU SHALT MASTER EACH STEP BEFORE PUTTING THY HEAVY FOOT DOWN ON THE
NEXT.
VII. THY CORRECT ANSWER DOES NOT PROVE THAT THOU HAST WORKED THY PROBLEM
CORRECTLY. THIS ARGUMENT CONVINCEST NONE, LEAST OF ALL...THE TEACHER.
VIII. THOU SHALT FIRST SEE THAT THOU HAST COPIED THY PROBLEM CORRECTLY
BEFORE BEARING FALSE WITNESS THAT THE ANSWER BOOK LIETH.
XI. THOU SHALT LOOK BACK EVEN UNTO THY YOUTH AND REMEMBER THY ARITHMETIC.
X. THOU SHALT LEARN, SPEAK, WRITE, AND LISTEN CORRECTLY IN THE LANGUAGE
OF MATHEMATICS AND VERILY A's AND B's SHALL FOLLOW THEE EVEN UNTO
GRADUATION.