Community Advocacy

My Goals

This Year: 

My Goal for this year are to dedicate myself to my school work. I want to make good grades while I'm in my classes at Furman, and I want to learn to good teaching styles while I'm doing student teaching.

My Future:

My goal for my future is to become the best teacher I can be. I want to be a fun teacher that makes students enjoy coming to school to learn. 

Making a Difference

In my Life:

I want to live a healthy lifestyle by having a healthy mind and body.

I will keep a healthy mind by continuing to learn throughout my life. Teachers are lifelong learners and learn just as much from students as students learn from them. I will also continue to have healthy relationships with my family and friends.

I will keep a healthy body by exercising and eating healthy. Too much of my life, I have not been as healthy as I should be. If I stay healthy I'll live a longer, better life.

In the Lives of Others:

My students will be the first group of people I will make a difference for. I want my students to see that school isn't a bad place. Learning is fun! My students will see that, because my classroom will be a fun place.

My friends and family are very important to me. I have always been a person that has strong, lasting friendships (I consider my family my friends, too). Even doing something as simple as being there for someone in need, makes a difference to that person.

In the Community:

My class will help me make a difference in my community. We will do community service projects to help in the area around our school. I would like to do stuff like clean up garbage, help with or host fundraiser events, or even just increase awareness of the community around us.

All About my Community

Welcome to Greenville, South Carolina! This is the place I now call home. It is a very wonderful community and I'm going to give you a tour and show you!

There are many things about Greenville that make it a fun place to live! One thing is that is is the city my school, Furman, is in. Furman is its own little community. We'll come back to Furman later, right now let's explore the rest of Greenville!

Greenville is located at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Foothills means we're not quite in the mountains but we're still close enough to have a lot of hills.

Look we can see downtown from here!

Being so close to the mountains means we have a lot of fun things we can do, like go to state parks to hike and camp.

 Table Rock

 Jones Gap

 Caesars Head

I don't know about you, but I am exhausted from all that hiking!Before we go downtown, let's see what else there is in the area. After all, Greenville is a big place. 

I have a good idea, let's go get a car! Greenville is home to the North American headquarters for Michelin Tires and BMW cars.

While we make our way downtown, I'll give you a little bit of history about Greenville, South Carolina.

Before 1831 Greenville used to be named Pleasantville. Greenville also used to be known as the "Textile Center of the World" because we had so many textile mills. At textile mills, workers make different cloths and fabrics. A lot of those mills are still standing today!

They don't make cloth anymore, though. Now they've used the buildings for things like apartments or schools.

Greenville also used to have a big Air Force base located in it, Donaldson Air Force Base

Pretty cool, huh? Oh look we're getting close to downtown! Where should we go first? There is a whole bunch of fun stuff we can do here.

We could get something to eat at one of downtown's many authentic souther restaurants,

After we eat, we could go watch a play at the Peace Center,

We could go to the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. That's a big building where there's a lot of stuff we can watch like a concert, a basketball game, or a hockey game!

Or we could go to Fluor Field and watch our local baseball team, the Greenville Drive, play,

or if your legs are rested from all that hiking, we could take a walk through Falls Park

So we've seen Greenville from a bunch of different views:

We looked down on the city from the top of Paris Mountain,

We hiked through the state parks,

We drove past some of the historical sights,

We sat down and looked at some of the amazing sights downtown,

and we took a stroll along the Reedy River in Falls Park.

Greenville is a really beautiful city full of lots of fun and interesting stuff. But you know what part of Greenville I find most beautiful? 

The school I am lucky enough to attend, Furman University, and I want to show it to you in a new way! 

Now it's time to pretend we're birds as we fly through Furman

All About Me

"Just think what a fantastic place this world would be if every child reached his or her fullest potential. You, like me, can make that happen, one child at a time."

-Brad Cohen

My name is Cody Hendricks. I am a 20 year old student at Furman University. I'm studying Elementary Education in hopes to one day become a teacher.

 

I have one sister, named Emily, who is also trying to become a teacher. My dad's name is Robert and my mom's name is Tracey. That's us above. We used to live in Michigan but moved to Greenville, South Carolina 8 years ago.

Greenville, South Carolina is not only my home, but it's also home to my school, Furman. It is a very beautiful school.

Some of my interests are:

Lacrosse

Baseball (I don't play either anymore, but I still love watching them)

Hanging out with friends and family (who I consider some of my best friends as well)

and watching and cheering for my favorite sports teams back in Michigan (my favorite to watch is hockey)

But my biggest interest is education. That's why I want to go into teaching. I believe it is a powerful thing if you can put it to use correctly.