Continue to use the technology tools recommended throughout Modules 1-3 to create anchor charts to share with families; to record students as they participate in discussions and protocols to review with students later and to share with families; and for students to listen to and annotate text, record ideas on note-catchers, and word-process writing. Invite the reasons to move and stand next to a place that makes sense ("have trunks and limbs to climb" makes sense with "playground" but not "beach"; however, "makes shade" is a reason that could go with either place, and that's okay!

Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya - Goodreads

Maathai's agenda widened as she joined efforts to stop powerful politicians grabbing land, especially forests. The picture of Wangari as a child with the tadpoles is taken right out of her autobiography, Unbowed. Mama Miti is a children's book that explains how one woman changed a nation by restoring ecosystems and how that helped everyday people. Nelson’s ( We Are the Ship) breathtaking portraits of Maathai often have a beatific quality; bright African textiles represent fields, mountains, and Maathai’s beloved trees…Napoli ( The Earth Shook) creates a vivid portrait of the community from which Maathai’s tree-planting mission grows.And the illustrations are simply wonderful, extensively using fabric remnants to create simple, yet beautiful images. A possible Text to Text selection for Mama Miti could be "Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day (I Can Read Book 1) by Nancy O'Connor. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and he worked on the visual development for DreamWorks SKG films Amistad and Spirit - Stallion of the Cimarron. The narrative here is less of a biography proper, and more of a description of various women seeking Maathai's aid for various problems - sick goats, a lack of firewood, and so on - and her advice to each seeker, to plant trees. To that end, she founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, which led to the planting of more than thirty million trees.

Mama Miti Reading, Speaking, and Listening: Focused Read-aloud: Mama Miti

Having grown up with a great respect for the mugumo, or spreading fig tree, Maathai eventually became a veterinary doctor, a university professor, and a woman who encouraged other women to plant trees, thereby combatting the deforestation of her country, and all the ills it brought. Adult readers will be led to wonder at a true story of social and environmental renewal emerging from an area commonly thought to herald the next worst things in the future of the planet. She is Kenyan and started the “Green Belt Movement,” a national grassroots organization fighting the deforestation of Kenya in 1976.Tell students that they can use the opinions from the Places People Plant Trees anchor chart and the reasons from the Reasons to Plant a Tree anchor chart to play a matching game. This brought her into conflict with the authorities, and she was beaten and arrested numerous times. Kadir Nelson's artwork, done in oil paint and fabric, is boldly colorful and immensely striking - well worth seeking out, for its own sake. The children thoroughly enjoyed the morning and challenged themselves to perform their medley to the parents at the end of the morning.

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But in reality she went to school and had advanced degrees that helped her to spread her knowledge and to be listened to and respected as a knowledgeable figure. The book doesn't reveal the full complexity of her life or work, but it is a good introduction and is visually stunning. Remembering stories of the sacred fig tree and how it brought peace between the angry men, Wangari grew older, remember these beginnings, planted, and gave plants away for families do the same. Nelson’s pictures, a jaw-dropping union of African textiles collaged with oil paintings, brilliantly capture the villagers’ clothing and the greening landscape. The illustrations are absolutely stunning and are reason enough to include this book in a collection.

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