We come from America, most of our ancestors came from Europe. We all speak English.

We eat lots of food like pizza, salad, bacon, fruit and veggies. Turkey is our holiday food but we eat food from other cultures, like tamales too.

In our group only one person goes to church. The rest of us do not go to church at all.

Most of us live in a nuclear family, but one member sometimes has extended relatives living with her family.

Our families value our education because they expect us to go to college.

Our families all respect old and young people equally.  We respect our parents and our parents respect their parents.

Our culture is African American and comes from Africa.

A map of Africa

Our cultural group speaks English. The food our culture ate traditionally is greens, cornbread, chicken, and macaroni and cheese. Now we eat a lot junk food. 

Our spitritual practices are from the Christian Church, but some of us do not go to church.

Our famlies are organized by parents and their children (nuclear.)

In our culture we finish high school and some of us are expected to finish college.

Older peple are important because you couldn’t do anything without them. The adults are respected the most because they get respect from the kids. We also respect Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for standing up for African Americans  rights.

Here is the homework sheet for the week.  I will be in the class homework club @ http://vyew.com/room/170301
Tuesday from 5-6 and Thursday from 7-8 p.m.

You can also answer the book report questions here by selecting Comments below. Here are the questions:

1. Is this story what you expected? Why or why not?
2. If you could be any character in this story, who would it be and why?
3. Is there one character that you don’t like? Why?
4. What was your favorite part of the story?
5. Where did the story take place? Would you like to go there and why?
6. If the story took place in the past, when did it take place?  Would you like to visit that time?
7. If the story took place in the future, when does it take place?  Would you like to visit that time?
8. Did the characters in the story remind you of anyone you know? Who did they remind you of and why?
9. Is there a toy or something in the story that you would like to have? What was it and why do you want it?
10. Was there food in the story that you think would taste good? What was it, and why did it sound tasty?
11. What is the conflict or problem in the story? How does it get resolved (taken care of)?
12. If you could change one thing about this story, what would it be and why would you change it?
13. Does one of the characters change? Who changes and how do they chang

Your comments should have the following:

• The book title and author
• Describe the main character (one sentence)
• Describe what happens in the story (two sentences)
• Answer two of the questions above. Make sure that you include the question number and write a complete sentence to answer the questions.

The first comment is a sample of what I will be looking for.

Our cultural group comes from Laos, but most of our families were in refugee camps in Thailand before we came here. Most of our families speak Hmong, one group member is Mien, which is another cultural group in Laos. We all speak English.

Our foods are noodles, and egg roll, but they are different than American and Chinese noodles and egg roll. Papaya and fruit. We celebrate lunar new year. Sometimes Hmong people have string ceremonies where we kill two chickens or a pig, to bring good spirits back when you are sick. They ring bells, and gongs. They tie strings around the persons wrist. The strings red or white or both. Strings are for good luck. We put white strings beside us, to keep away bad ghost.

Some of the students in this group had extended family living togehter, but most were nuclear, with only parents and children.
Finishing High school and going to college is more important, because adults want them to have good jobs.

Older people are more important, because young people has to take carre of them when we grow up.

Please make a comment by clicking on Comments below.

We start a new unit on the start of our nation, the United States of America 

Play the sentence sort game

CPW for “If You Lived at the Time of the Revolution…”
Find out more about the American Revolution:
The Revolutionary War on Yahooligans!
America’s Homepage

Read this site on cause and effect sentences. Write a sentence showing cause and effect and send it to me from the comment box below…

Converting fractions to percents
Order of Operations game on FunBrain
Math question of the week,
(8 x 37) = (8 x 30) + (8 x 7)
Is this true? Answer in the comment box below…

Since we are doing unit testing, and I didn’t get a lot of responses to discussion questions because you are still working on your heritage wikis, and most of the links aren’t changing, I’m keeping up the same links this week:

You can hear our radio play from ELD here 

These are the times that I will be available for tutoring online the week of 02/13/2007:

Thursday 2/22 from 4-5 p.m.  Go to the homework here to get more information.
 

Here are places you can go this week on our site to write:

I’ve updated the mathematics question, since we answered that question.

This week we will read about an African American family in “Parmele”

Here is our Word Knowledge and Spelling PowerPoint for this story:

Parmele PowerPoint 

Question of the week: Why are plants important to humans? Answer in the comment box below…