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Category Archives: From the CM Trenches

Newspaper Covers Mountlake Terrace High School’s Use of the Civic Mirror

A huge round of applaus to Mr. Ryan Niman and his 9th Grade students at Mountlake Terrace High School. All year long they’ve been making headlines within the online Civic Mirror community, taking the program and their education to remarkable heights. … Continue reading

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OPPORTUNITY! Submit a Video Response for the Upcoming Civic Mirror Intro Videos

Civic Mirror Teachers, Students, Parents, and Curriculum Coordinators! This summer Action-Ed will be working with a video production company to develop super cool Civic Mirror Intro Videos. We hope that these videos will better help teachers and students ‘get’ what … Continue reading

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Civic Mirror Country Continues Economic Debate

On Tuesday May 11, The Civic Mirror Trenches posted an article about Ze Empire!’s,a grade 11 Civics class lead by instructor Paul Chafee at Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody, BC, economic hardships.  Citizen Jason.K felt cheated when the … Continue reading

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Kidnapping in Tropjia: A CTU Investigation part 3

On May 4, 2010 we presented the second installment of our series: Kidnapping in Tropjia: A CTU Investigation.  The citizens of Tropiji, a country under the oversight of Instructor Warren Bezuidenhout at Brentwood Academy in Brentwood, Tennessee have been working fervently to find Mr. East … Continue reading

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Civic Mirror Country Faces Economic Crisis

Civic Mirror Country Ze Empire! citizens, a grade 11 Civics class lead by instructor Paul Chafee at Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody, BC, are facing what some see as an Economic Crisis and others understand as good management.  … Continue reading

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Latest on Civic Mirror Country Kidnapping

On Thursday April 29, 2010 we presented the first installment of our series renamed  Kidnapping in Tropjia: A CTU Investigation. (Our deepest apologies on any confusion based on the previous title Murder in Tropijia: An FBI Investigation)  Tropijian (a country based Brentwood Academy in … Continue reading

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Murder in Civic Mirror Country

Just before eight am Tropijian (a country based Brentwood Academy in Brentwood, Tennessee) Citizen Molley,  posted this report: “Last night at 5:05 pm, the Tropiji Police Department received a 911 call from a distressed citizen. Said person’s name is Mr. Arthur … Continue reading

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Civic Mirror Country Tropiji Holds Elections

Tropijians, a country under the oversight of Instructor Warren Bezuidenhout at Brentwood Academy in Brentwood, Tennessee,  are in the midst of national elections. Perhaps for the first time in Civic Mirror history, Tropjians are using text messaging to vote for a … Continue reading

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Civic Mirror Government Leader Resigns

Tropjiians, an 8th grade civics class at Brentwood Academy in Brentwood, Tennessee under the leadership of instructor Warren Bezuidenhout, signing onto the CM were treated with a shock Monday, April 5th as they read the posting President Molly Vogel left on the … Continue reading

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Civic Mirror Country Hexatopia Considers New Bills

Should a government be able to decide how private land is used within a country? It seems when it comes to individual propety rights versus those of the government, the one thing Hexatopians, a Grade 10 Civics class of Ms. Cheryl Payne-Stevens … Continue reading

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