Elgin 'wheel' classes allow students to explore beyond core curriculum

GREEN CAMP -- Elgin Junior High School is "spinning the wheel" to let seventh and eighth graders take classes beyond the core curriculum.

In an effort to offer more opportunities to students, the school has instituted what it calls wheel classes. The exploratory wheel features several different classes that rotate every nine weeks so students get a chance to try something new.

Teachers are complimenting the system for letting them teach material that may not be covered in the core curriculum.

"We wanted to offer students a variety of educational opportunities," said Principal Michael Malcom.

Seventh-grade wheel classes include life skills, research skills, wellness and technology. Eighth-grade wheel classes are wellness, vocabulary skills, technology and general music.

Shanda Held, in her seventh-grade wellness class, encourages students to exercise such as walking around the playground with pedometers that track their steps. They also learn other healthy habits.

"It's not about looking good when we do this," she recently told her class. "We are focusing more on wellness for life."

Seventh-grader Nole Gerfen called the class fun and said he enjoys getting to run around.

"At least you are not sitting behind a desk looking at textbooks all day," he said.

Seventh-grader Evan Oldham enjoyed technology because it taught him how to use programs such as PowerPoint and how to use the Internet to do research.

Held said she believes it's a better use of students' time than study halls.

Eighth-grade teacher Chris Kimball agreed and said the class time lets him teach students how to use Google's line of products such as spreadsheets and documents. Students also learn how to email and study proper email etiquette.

"We are busting apart (the thought that) school can only happen seven hours a day," said Kimball as he talked about how students are practicing and completing assignments at home.

Eighth-grade language arts teacher Kim Cornelius incorporated the game of chess into her teaching and brought in other enrichment activities. Students will eventually get to become movie critics as they review the movie "Akeelah and the Bee."

"We are getting the chance to take it above what we do in the classroom," Cornelius said.

There are other middle schools offering similar opportunities such as Grant Middle School, which offers six-week electives called "Encore." Principal Les Ryle said all students take the same electives their sixth-grade year while they get to choose from different options their seventh- and eighth-grade years.

"In sixth grade they can figure out, 'I am pretty good at my music stuff,'" Ryle said. They can then pursue additional classes later in middle school.

Courageous

We were made to be courageous
We were made to lead the way
We could be the generation
That finally breaks the chains
We were made to be courageous
We were made to be courageous

We were warriors on the front lines
Standing, unafraid
But now we're watchers on the sidelines
While our families slip away

Where are you, men of courage?
You were made for so much more
Let the pounding of our hearts cry
We will serve the Lord

We were made to be courageous
And we're taking back the fight
We were made to be courageous
And it starts with us tonight

The only way we'll ever stand
Is on our knees with lifted hands
Make us courageous
Lord, make us courageous

This is our resolution
Our answer to the call
We will love our wives and children
We refuse to let them fall

We will reignite the passion
That we buried deep inside
May the watchers become warriors
Let the men of God arise

We were made to be courageous
And we're taking back the fight
We were made to be courageous
And it starts with us tonight

The only way we'll ever stand
Is on our knees with lifted hands
Make us courageous
Lord, make us courageous

Seek justice
Love mercy
Walk humbly with your God

In the war of the mind
I will make my stand
In the battle of the heart
And the battle of the hand

In the war of the mind
I will make my stand
In the battle of the heart
And the battle of the hand

We were made to be courageous
And we're taking back the fight
We were made to be courageous
And it starts with us tonight

The only way we'll ever stand
Is on our knees with lifted hands
Make us courageous
Lord, make us courageous

We were made to be courageous
Lord, make us courageous

hello

I am doing good today and i am working on a other song today and i have not done that in a long time but i am meeting up with some of my friends today and i am going to have them look at the one that i am i am stuck on know lol i want some help. But anyway besides that i am doing good school is doing good and i am here right know i don't have a class but i am going to have lunch with a friend at noon today and then my friends are going make to school for classes and then idk what i am going to be doing and i am hoping that i have a job by the end of these week because i really need a job right know

hello

How is everyone doing today and i will leyt you know that i am doing very good and that i am going to be on here more then what i thought i would be becaue of my classes

Hello

I have been realy bust wiht my college homework that is why i have not posted in a longe time but a little update i am still going to college i had to dropped my math class but i am fine with that and then i am going to pick it back up sometime here very soon i am hoping i love you all will i have to go i hope that i can blog more when i get things done an ooooooooooooo i all most forgot i am doing sound know at my church and i am doing good it is and a thing that my freind told me that i am teach able and i am with some stuff and sound is one of them and i love doing it know so i am going to be doing that for a long time kniow and i think that is where GOD wants me to be doing because i have been doing better good will know i have to go i will talk to you guys later love you all and have good day

Serendipities

Last night my hus­band and I were at din­ner with our kids and two grand­kids (did I men­tion BLISS?). We were at a Mex­i­can restau­rant that we fre­quent and they have live music on Sun­day nights. Except we’ve never been there on a Sun­day night, so when the band came out in their match­ing mari­achi out­fits with gui­tars, a vio­lin, and a pic­colo trum­pet, our lit­tle two-year-old grandson’s eyes got wide with won­der. I was watch­ing him process it all and it was almost as if you could see the rea­son­ing process happening: 1. This is where they serve food. 2. This is not a place where there’s sup­posed to be a band. 3. But look! There’s a band in the mid­dle of this place. 4. That’s strange. 5. That’s awesome! And when the band made their way over to our table, my grand­son couldn’t believe they were play­ing just for us. He laughed and clapped and promptly put a tip into the big gui­tar. Now, that’s pretty much the term ‘serendip­ity’ in a nutshell—something you never expected that is won­der­ful. Or, as Webster’s Dic­tio­nary puts it “an unex­pected pleasure.” Life is filled with unex­pected things. Some of them are dev­as­tat­ing, and I’m thank­ful that God gives us grace to sur­vive them and the abil­ity to com­fort oth­ers with our expe­ri­ences. But many of them are serendip­i­ties— those unex­pected moments where God shows up like a mari­achi band and brings a party to the table of your life. Those moments where many of us react with a very adult-like, “What’s with the noise? I’m try­ing to enjoy my enchi­lada here.” Lots of us never even look up from our plate. After all, that’s what hap­pens here every Sun­day night. It’s no big deal. I love watch­ing my grand­boys expe­ri­ence the world. It’s fresh. It’s won­der–full. That’s how I want to expe­ri­ence life. Not tired, jaded, been-there-done-that. I want to find (dis­cover) and dance (enter in) and clap (cel­e­brate) and tip (give thanks) every sin­gle day! Isa­iah 43:19 tells us, “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not per­ceive it?” The God of Serendip­i­ties is full of sur­prises. Don’t miss ‘em!

Central Ohio Radio Station Recognizes Drenda Keesee

Drenda Keesee is a woman you just have to know. At least that’s what the peo­ple at Sunny 95 out of Colum­bus, Ohio think. It’s what a num­ber of vot­ers who voted her one of the “20 Out­stand­ing Women You Should Know” think, as well as what hun­dreds of mem­bers of the church she co-pastors think.

When Drenda began home­school­ing her chil­dren in her small farm­house she was deter­mined that there would be more out there for her­self and her fam­ily. With her hus­band, Pas­tor Gary Keesee of Faith Life Church in New Albany, Drenda set out to make a change. Together, the hus­band and wife duo began study­ing the prin­ci­ples of the King­dom of God out­lined in the Bible. They also started a busi­ness. While still learn­ing the prin­ci­ples them­selves, they began to teach oth­ers how to get out of debt and live free of that bur­den. As they con­tin­ued to build their busi­ness, and later Faith Life Church, Drenda con­tin­ued to pur­sue her pas­sion of help­ing hurt­ing women around her suc­ceed in liv­ing a ful­fill­ing life as godly women, wives and mothers.

In 2010, she fur­thered the vision by author­ing the book She Gets It – a pow­er­ful book about becom­ing a woman who loves her life and who she is as she dis­cov­ers her iden­tity in Christ. Along with the book, Drenda held a top-notch con­fer­ence for women, fea­tur­ing such tal­ent as singer/actress Rebecca St. James, author/speaker Michelle McK­in­ney Ham­mond, and nation­ally acclaimed come­dian Anita Renfroe.

Along with women like Ellie Hite from Project Clause, and the Angel Works Foun­da­tion, and Rose­lyn Beery, a Sal­va­tion Army vol­un­teer and for­mer par­tic­i­pant in USO shows, Drenda was hon­ored at an event held by Sunny 95 radio on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 25 at the Aladdin Shrine in Colum­bus, Ohio. The event fea­tured the 20 rec­og­nized women and the var­i­ous causes they sup­port. Atten­dees were pam­pered with free gifts, hand mas­sages, pho­tographs, and more. With some­thing for every­one – from infor­ma­tion on every­thing from per­sonal health to new floor­ing – the evening had an eclec­tic blend of tastes, sights, and sounds. Drenda’s table fea­tured her book, as well as infor­ma­tion about her church.

If you missed the event, you can get to know Drenda on tele­vi­sion. She cur­rently co-hosts a tele­vi­sion pro­gram with her hus­band Gary. She is also now the host of her own tele­vi­sion pro­gram, Drenda, com­ing this spring.

For more infor­ma­tion, check out drenda.com.

Drake Bell

Are you excited to Between the release of his EP A Reminder and starring role in A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up Timmy Turner, Drake and Josh's Drake Bell has had a busy summer. Still, he took time out to sit down with J-14 and let us in on four secrets no one knows about him! Five years after his album It's Only Time came out, Drake Bell is releasing a new EP, A Reminder, on June 28. "I wanted to release these four tracks for my fans," he says. "They haven't had new music for a while."

FOLLOW: J-14 on Twitter

Luckily, we don't have to wait until the end of the month to hear what Drake has in store -- his song "Terrific" drops tomorrow! "The song is really about calling someone out on not being themselves," Drake says. "People growing up and trying to fit into different scenes, getting into different things that aren't necessarily good for them or who they are. Trying to be someone that they're not, and maybe shouldn't be, and watching that happen right before your eyes."

Here's the full track listing for A Reminder:

1. "Terrific"
2. "You're Not Thinking"
3. "Big Shot"
4. "Speak My Mind"

Good Moring

How is everyone doing today? I am doing fine and I am going to a high school football game tonight and I cant wait for tonight and see if we WIN. I hope that we win but if not it is just a game:). What are you guys doing for the weekend and what are you doing for the week? Let me know what way we might be able to hang out and talk about some stuff if you don't have anything to do these weekend. I have church on Saturday night at 6 and than again on Sunday morning 10 and True Life Church is the best one in Marion for these guy(Gibby) and for my family and friends i am so happy that i have a good friends there and out of church. The family that I have at TLC are just so good to me and my family i don't know what i would of done if i have never meet these church.Because before i would not do anything that they would say that i would have to do. But know because of me and my pastor and his family are friends and i have a lot of people there at my church that are my friends. They all was watch out for me and my family and everything.If I ask them to do something like pray for someone or something they well do and that is what i like about them very munch. So......... if you are every in Marion,Ohio just post something on my blog and i well see if I can get you to TLC i just love them so munch and i know that they well make you fell like you was there for a very long time i know they have with me (Gibby). I will post some stuff on here for you guys that way you can see what they do and all of that and I love you guys and be bless and have a good day and safe weekend and to see you at TLC sometime love you all. :) <3 The TLC website is these www.truelifemarion.com

Justin Bieber

Biography from Biography Reference Bank (2010)
Copyright (c) by The H. W. Wilson Company. All rights reserved


The teen pop star Justin Bieber, who was discovered through a series of YouTube videos, became a force in the music industry with the release of two top-selling records--My World (2009) and My World 2.0 (2010). Leah Greenblatt wrote for Entertainment Weekly (March 10, 2010), "Bieber Fever, the heady pop cultural delirium that seems to leave grown-ups untouched while sweeping every susceptible tween in its path, is now a full-blown epidemic--one characterized by shopping-mall riots, Twitpic raptures, and generalized episodes of mass swooning."

Justin Drew Bieber was born on March 1, 1994 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, the only child of Jeremy Bieber and Pattie Mallette. While growing up he taught himself to play a number of instruments, including guitar, drums, piano, and trumpet. In the official biography posted on the Island Def Jam Web site, he explained, "I entered a local singing competition called 'Stratford Idol.' The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place." Two years later Bieber began posting clips on the video-sharing Web site YouTube, assuming that his extended family and friends would be the only ones to watch. His performances--covers of such pop and R&B artists as Usher and Ne-Yo--proved so popular, however, that a large YouTube fan base began to develop.

After viewing the videos, Scooter Braun, a talent agent and former marketing executive for Jermaine Dupri's So So Def record label, set up an audition for the young singer with R&B star Usher and Island Def Jam CEO Antonio "L.A." Reid. Bieber was flown to Atlanta for the audition, and soon thereafter he was signed to a recording contract with Island Def Jam and RBMG, a label imprint on which Braun and Usher work as partners. Usher, who had begun his music career at a similarly young age, told Monica Herrera for Reuters (July 19, 2009, on-line), "Given my experience, I knew exactly what it would take for him to become an incredible artist."

In 2009 Bieber had four Billboard Hot 100 hits: "One Time," "One Less Lonely Girl," "Favorite Girl," and "Love Me." He became the first solo artist in Billboard history to see four singles enter the Top 40 of the Hot 100 list prior to an album's release. My World appeared on shelves in November 2009 and became the biggest-selling debut of the year. It has since been certified platinum in both the U.S. and Canada.

Bieber's follow up, My World 2.0, featured 10 songs and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Andy Kellman wrote for the All Music Guide Web site, "The two [Bieber] releases are certainly of a piece, filled with upbeat R&B-flavored pop songs with a few ballads that might be termed adult contemporary if the singer happened to be of age. Bieber makes all the right, charming moves for a teen, and he covers all the bases. The dance-pop songs are light on the ears yet memorable; the unrequited material sounds deeply felt; the ballads have all the necessary us-against-the-world teen-love dramatics. . . . Everything is age-appropriate. 'She says she needs a little company,' sung with the slightest wink in the eye, is as racy as it gets, and even then, Bieber projects an image that is utterly harmless."

Older journalists sometimes liken the fervor of Beiber's fans to that of Frank Sinatra's or the Beatles'. In November 2009 such a large crowd showed up to see Bieber at a Long Island mall that police instructed Braun to cancel the appearance, for fear that a mob scene would ensue. When it took Braun too long to do so, five people received minor injuries, and he was later brought up on charges of reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance. In April 2010 Bieber's mother was knocked over when a group of fans rushed her son at a New Zealand airport. Although his mother was not injured, Bieber wrote in a post on the social-media service Twitter: "Not happy that someone stole my hat and knocked down my mama. Come on people." (Bieber has more than 2 million Twitter followers.) Later that month Bieber was forced to cancel an Australian concert when a stampede broke out among the more than 4,000 fans who had camped out overnight to see him. "With his floppy bowl haircut and adorable lisp, the teenage pop star Justin Bieber may not seem like a dangerous figure," Dave Itzkoff wrote for the New York Times (April 26, 2010, on-line). "But make no mistake: his public appearances can be battlegrounds."

Suggested Reading: New York Daily News (on-line) May 6, 2010; New York Times (on-line) Apr. 26, 2010; People (on-line) Apr. 19, 2010; Us (on-line) May 10, 2010

Selected Recorings: My World, 2009; My World 2.0, 2010


Citation:
Original source: Biography Reference Bank
Original publication date: 2010
Original publication type: Online
Publisher of original publication: The H. W. Wilson Company
Database publisher: The H. W. Wilson Company
Database: Biography Reference Bank

Jeremy Camp's Family

These is Jeremy Camp's family

Hello

I know that I am a little late today lol well i have been busy with the students and everything and my mind is going crazy a lot and I have a lot on my mind right know and I need to have some help with my weekend planes because I want to go to the thing tonight with a freind but i cant because i have a class that I have to go to tonight and my and my new freinds have been texting him a lot today and we might be going to a football game together on friday night and I might stay the night with him on friday night and go to the popcorn thing that is in Marion,Ohio and than he might been coming to my church and I hope that he well come.Then we are going to be going ot the same school then about other people than and it is a BIG school wiht MTC and OSUM together so I am going to hope that I can find my way around the school like fast and that way I can get to my class a lot faster than what I need to have to do. I hope that you guys have a good day and weekend if i post something I well tell you what i am mgoin g mto be doing these weekend.I am going to be going crazy by the end of the day and week because of all of these kids that are not doing what the teacher tells them to do and they just need to SHUT UP and listen to me and the teacher all day and some of them just don't care crap about anything that we are trying to teacher in schools.

These is my day 2 at south

Today the kids are all wild and talking very loud today.There are some of them that do nto know how to long on to a computer but we are working on that.They do not what to listen toda and it is driving me nuts.


God bless you

These is jeremy Camp

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Hello

Good Tuesday Morning everyone how are you doing and i am doing good but i kind of fell bad because one of my new friends was over to my house and we was playing a game and we lost track of time and is not allowed to text or do anything because of it what should i do go to his mom and talk to her about it or what please help me ? I really need your guys help thanks a lot


God Bless You

Hi i am still living lol

It has been a long time since i have been on here i have been busy getting ready for college and stuff just wanted to let you know that i am doing fine and i have a nice lovely gf she is the best thing that is has every happen to me and i love her lots and i don't know what i would do with out her LOVE U BO

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Exclusive: Selena Spills Monte Carlo Secrets!

BOP and Tiger Beat had an exclusive sit down with Selena Gomez to talk about her new movie, Monte Carlo. The movie comes out in theaters next Friday, but Sel spilled some unknown secrets only to us about pranks on the set and why she was so nervous!

BOP&TB: How was filming Monte Carlo different then filming Wizards of Waverly Place?
Selena: With this whole movie in general, I felt like I needed to put my game on a lot more. I always work so hard with my acting, but when I found out Nicole Kidman was producing it and all of the other actors were going to be a part of it, I was kind of freaking out a bit! During filming, I was so nervous everyday. I would always go up to my mom between scenes and ask her, “Was that scene okay?”
BOP&TB: Did anyone pull pranks on the Monte Carlo set?
Selena: Leighton Meester is actually kind of a prankster! She would constantly say something like, “Oh, I have to go right now — I have to leave.” I would be worried and think something terrible happened, but then she would say, “Just kidding!” She’s just that kind person and she’s just so funny.
BOP&TB: You play two different characters in the movie — how was that?!
Selena: I play a British heiress and a Texas girl. One of them fortunately is very easy for me — the Texas girl! But playing a British heiress was very nerve-wracking, because of course that’s very far from who I am. But the producers and directors and everyone else on the set were so wonderful and helped me so much.
TELL US: Will you see Monte Carlo when it’s released next Friday, July 1?

Life after Haiti: Big, different, safe

MARION - A year after two Haitian girls joined their American family in Marion in the weeks following an earthquake that devastated their home country, remembering life in their home country stirs a mix of emotions for the teenagers.

U.S. citizenship for Saintania, 15, and Eveline, 13, is a work in progress, but inside their Greenwood Street house with their new parents, brothers and sisters, they have a permanent home.

Bill and Christina Wyatt run a busy family, with their five other children, who are homeschooled with their newest sisters.

The couple is also fostering another child they'd like to adopt, as they did their second youngest, Abel, who is 2 years old and took to Saintania and Eveline from the start.

After being matched with the Wyatts, it took four years for the girls to come home to the U.S., a time filled with trips for Bill and Christina to Haiti to do mission work and see their daughters-to-be, lots of paperwork and lots of waiting.

When the earthquake hit in Haiti, the western half of a Caribbean island shared with the Dominican Republic to the east, the girls were in an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, the country's capital that was devastated by the natural disaster.

The finalization of their adoption was months away, and the Wyatts feared it would be postponed further, but hoped that in the midst of the catastrophe, somehow, the girls would get to come home sooner.

After a few more days, which Bill said seemed like forever, Saintania and Eveline boarded a military plane filled with 80 other children from the girls' orphanage.

When it landed in Florida, Christina and her mother-in-law were there to meet them.

During the waiting period, the couple didn't get much sleep.

"Or you'd sleep with the TV on and pop up when you heard them say Haiti," Christina said.

OLD FAMILY AND NEW
The country hasn't changed, she said.

The only contact the girls have had from their family in Haiti was when Christina received an e-mail from the orphanage months ago, requesting an update on how they were doing because their birth father was there asking about them.

They were two of 10 children when their parents decided to give them up for adoption, unable to care for them.

Such stories are commonplace for children in Haiti, Christina said, recounting stories from the girls and from orphanage officials about the infants who had been pulled from toilets and trash heaps, abandoned by parents who couldn't care for them.

The girls miss their family and their friends from the orphanage.

Christina thinks if Saintania and Eveline had had to leave behind the other children, the transition would have been much more difficult.

"They would have felt much worse. Knowing their friends are here, it's easier that way," she said.

But the biggest difference for Saintania is that in her life in the U.S., she always feels safe.

Tears came to her eyes when she thought about how she lived in fear at times, hearing stories of killings and turmoil when she lived in Haiti.

Both girls talked of the new style of discipline they've grown used to, looking to their parents as they explained the difference between being corrected verbally now instead of otherwise in Haiti.

"I like to be here, having friends and family around," Eveline said. "I like when we listen to people and they listen to us."

Both girls were less shy than a year ago, but still cautious when they spoke with their Creole accents.

SIBLINGS, CHURCH AND SCHOOL
The family's church, True Life Church, is a large part of the girls' lives.

"We learn about God, not to do bad and pray to God every day," Saintania said.

Eveline is a greeter at the church, and both girls are depended on and have roles in the congregation.

"They're active and a big help," Christina said.

Eveline has become a good conscience for her siblings, correcting them when they misbehave, reminding them what their parents would want them to do.

It's something her little sister, 10-year-old Rheanna, says makes her a good role model.

From Saintania, Rheanna said she has been inspired to take more responsibility for herself.

"To not watch television and play video games all day long," she said.

Her sisters, instead, are first to help around the house and work on school work.

While Christina and Bill had two teenage boys before the girls arrived stateside, having two teenage girls too was an adjustment.

Understanding the bond they have and the bond they have with Rheanna can be frustrating.

"But I'm glad that they have it," she said.

Her husband agreed.

"Going from two to four teenagers over night. The two daughters are different than the teenage boys," he said.

"They have different outlooks and perspectives," Bill said.

Sibling rivalries have a different dynamic now, with the teen girls, 18-year-old Dakotah, 14-year-old Tristen, then Rheanna, Cornelia, 3, Abel, and the foster child.

All-in-all, Saintania and Eveline adjusted quite well, he said.

And though there may be rivalries, there are special bonds, too.

"Dakotah is a good buddy," Saintania said. "And Rheanna keeps my secrets."

"It's like a big slumber party every night," Christina said.

While the girls were excited to see snow for the first time last year, Saintania has decided she doesn't like it.

Eveline, however, is Rheanna's snow buddy.

One of the biggest challenges in the adjustment was bringing them up to speed in school.

The standards between Haiti and the U.S. are very different, and though she thinks Saintania and Eveline made up a couple grades just in one year, meeting the work requirements in high school still would be difficult for them.

"I'm thankful I'm able to keep them at home. Otherwise, they wouldn't get the individual attention they need," she said.

Reading and math are where they've made their most significant improvements.

Math even is Saintania's favorite subject, though it definitely wasn't at first, she said.

NOT ALWAYS EASY
Sometimes, the Wyatts face criticism for having adopted children from abroad, outside their own culture.

But it's always anonymously, with comments left online on the family's blog posts, social media networks or on news media reports.

"We're big. We're different. We're interracial and intercultural," Christina said.

When they go out, they inevitably draw attention.

Christina doesn't mind those who are curious and ask questions.

She often finds herself explaining why she and Bill decided to adopt children from abroad, and that they also are foster parents and have adopted in the U.S.

Parents who give their children up for adoption in Haiti are making the choice to give them a better life, when otherwise they may starve or be homeless, she said.

"To step up and say, 'I can't,' and giving up your child for adoption isn't saying 'I don't love you,' " she said.

In fact, it says they love their children very much.

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, isn't even a third world country.

"It's a fifth world country," she said.

Both girls shook their heads instantly, almost fearfully when their mother asked them if they would rather be back in Haiti than living with a white family in the U.S.

Buckeyes Break Top 5 In AP Poll

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Auburn has finished No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll, completing an unprecedented climb to its first national title in 53 years.

The Tigers led the Top 25 after a 22-19 victory against Oregon in the BCS championship Monday night.

Auburn won its only other AP title in 1957, and the Tigers started 2010 further back than any champion since the poll expanded to 25 teams in 1989.

POLLS: AP | USA Today | SPECIAL SECTION: Ohio State Football

Auburn (14-0) began the season at No. 22. The previous lowest preseason ranking for a national champion in the Top 25 era was Oklahoma, which went from No. 19 to No. 1 in 2000. The Tigers received 56 of 59 first-place votes. One voter did not submit a ballot.

Undefeated TCU (13-0) will have to settle for No. 2. The Horned Frogs received the other three first-place votes.

Oregon finished third, a spot ahead of Pac-10 rival Stanford.

The Ohio State Buckeyes, who knocked off Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl, were ranked No. 5.

Auburn's title makes it five straight for the Southeastern Conference.

Watch 10TV News and refresh 10TV.com for continuing Buckeye football coverage.

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I am doing a lot of these time of year and theres is y kast year of high school and i am so happy and than i am off to colleg here in my home town the big towne of marion and than i off to get a good job i go and i have to give it all to GOD he is the one that is helping me do these stuff and i am going to fellow him all the way to the kingdom and love you all and god bless you all