Tuesday Homework

We shared our family immigration stories today by creating a piece for our class time-line about when our ancestors emigrated to America and then we participated in a mingling activity where we asked questions to each other and shared our histories. I think we were all surprised and impressed by the stories we bring to class and it sparked our interest to want to learn more about our families' histories.
A couple students brought up a few resources to help discover more about your family's history. One was http://www.ancestry.com/ and the other was a service provided by National Geographic -- https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/journey.html

Due Tonight: Hope for snow! Hopefully our snow dance led by Amy, Maya, and Julia at the end of the day will help our cause.

***Permission slips for field studies -- please turn in ASAP***
Plus $3.50 for admission to Oregon Historical Society on Jan. 18

Due Thursday:
- Current event for group 3 (Julia, Zoe, Miette, Janai, Elvis, Dylan, Amy)
- Final Reading Assignment for Sees Behind Trees:

1. Finish reading Sees Behind Trees (page 73-end)
2. Choose 3 of the following questions and answer them in complete sentences. Each answer must be at least 5 sentences long and provide evidence/examples.

1. When Sees Behind Trees is with Gray Fire in the Land of Water, do you think he can really see clearly, or was it just another level of his ability to sense his environment?
2. What do you think became of Gray Fire at the end of the story?
3. Why do you think the Land of Water is so important to Gray Fire?
4. What purpose does the introduction of Karna, Pitew, and Checha serve in the story?
5. Do you sometimes become too focused on one of your abilities and/or one of your disabilities? Explain.
6. The weroance says she knew that Gray Fire would not return from the Land of Water. Why do you think she let him go on his trip?

Due Friday:
- Geography #11
- Service Reflection #2 (Only do if you have participated in 2 service activities this trimester so far)
Suggested Questions for Tree Recycling ~

1. What did you do for tree recycling? Who did you work with? What was fun about it? What was challenging? What did you raise money for? Who brought trees…people from school? Community members?
2. Why do people ‘recycle trees’? What is the value? What else would people do with their trees? Where do the trees go once they have been recycled?
3. How does the environment benefit from you participating a tree recycling event? How do you benefit from participating in this event?
4. Do you think people should have real trees for the holidays at all? Why or why not?

Other ideas for your reflection:

· Rewrite the lyrics to a song about your experience and its impact

· Write a poem about your experience and its impact

· Create a collage or art piece with key words/images that relate to you experience and its impact