https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy en-us 2016-06-03 14:32:44 UTC 2024-05-17 08:19:44 UTC hello@padlet.com jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610598 -Coyote wanted to go hunting with eagle because eagle was a good hunter and coyote wasn't.
-They decided to join together and go to the Kachinas.
-Coyote and Eagle saw the people from the Kachinas Pueblo dancing around a box.
-They waited for the people to get distracted so eagle could quickly steal the box. 
- As Coyote and Eagle ran away, coyote insisted Eagle to let him carry the box. Eagle  denied to give him the box.
- Coyote kept insisting until eagle finally gave in, and let coyote carry the box.
-Coyote hid behind some bushes and opened the box. The sun and moon came out.
-Before they opened the box, the earth was soft and new. 
-Summer turned into winter forever

-]]> 2016-06-03 14:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610598 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610613 -Those who lived in a mysterious world called Mount Olympus never grew old; they never died. 
-So they were not humans, they were all mighty gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece.
-This story is about the argonauts and their adventures. 
-In this journey Odysseus take out a cyclops eye. 
-When he tries to go back, Poseidon punish him 10 years in the sea because he blinded his son the Cyclops. 
-The goddess Ino knew that Poseidon was angry at Odysseus, but she tried to help him by giving him her magic veil.
-At the end, Odysseus died.]]> 2016-06-03 14:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610613 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610638 -This is an Aztec leyend.
-A warrior falls in love with a princess.
-The warrior was named Popocatepetl and the princess Ixtlaccihuatl.
-Both fell in love with each other, but Popocatepetl needed to go to the war.
-Ixtla´s father, the emperor, forbids Ixtla to get married.
-He kill many people because he was the best warrior.
-Jeaulous people went with Ixtlaccihuatl and said her that Popocatepetl was dead
-Ixtlaccihuatl was so sad that she died of sadness.
-When Popocatepetl came back, he notice that Itxtlaccihuatl has dead, he order his men to build a mountain in honor of her.
-Then he made a mountain for himself, so he can protect her all his life.]]> 2016-06-03 14:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610638 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610689 -Long time ago in America the white people took slaves from Africa.
-They were exploded and made them work a lot of hours. The Driver made them work harder and harder.
-Once a slave had a baby, when she was working the baby started to cry, the landlord got mad because he said the baby distracted all the other workers, the landlord started hitting her, the baby kept crying.
-All the other slaves started helping her and an old man said some wise words and started talking about how they could fly, he said they were black birds searching for freedom.
-The old man said some words and the people suddenly could fly, that means they at last were free. 


]]> 2016-06-03 14:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610689 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610745 -It is about a traveler passing through the winter countryside.
-His journey may be a simple trip through the woods.
-As you read the poem, you start to realize that it is about the journey through life.
-It is like a metaphore, the woods are like life so it is a journey through life.
- It describes the woods as a lovely, dark, and deep place.


]]> 2016-06-03 14:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610745 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610760 -   The story is about an old man that have a conversation with he's young sun.

- The father was an old men with a very white hair.
- Also he's sun thought that father William make thinks that wasn't with their age. 

]]> 2016-06-03 14:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610760 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610810 - It is about 2 friends that haven't seen each other in 20 years.
- A policeman comes and starts talking to him.
- The policeman is questioning him.
- He starts telling the policeman about the agreement between his friend and him.
- Then, the policeman left and came back acting as his friend (Jimmy).
- He hands him a note sent by Jimmy.
- He finds out that his friend sent that policeman to arrest him because he was wanted in Chicago.
-Some time later, Jimmy wrote a letter to his friend apologizing by what he had done.

]]> 2016-06-03 14:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610810 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610829 - The story is told by a woman who tells her childhood experiences.
-She grew up among her Italian family and friends. Some of them were descendants of Italians.
-She explains how people in America adopt the culture but also stay with their own culture.
- People often refer to America as a melting pot, but we rather refer at it as a mosaic of cultures in which each piece retains its own identity while forming a united whole with others, instead of a melting pot.
-The author says that being tolerant and interested in different cultures will help people get along.

]]> 2016-06-03 14:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610829 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610880 -There was a man named Mr. Peters. , he was driving his car when he saw a swan  that was struggling in the water.
-He save the swan , and he got 3 wishes from the King of the Forest.
-He used his first wish for having a wife as beautiful as the forest.
-Leita, was her wife, she cooked delicious cakes, and she was fantastic.
-Then, Mr. Peters. discovered that she was a swan and that she was sad because she missed her sister that was a swan, too.
-He used his second wish to turn Leita into a swan again.

-Mr. Peters did'nt use his last whish 

]]> 2016-06-03 14:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610880 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610905 -Icarus and Daedalus is a myth about a man that built a maze for the king minos to lock the Minotaur 
-so the king minos lock deadalus in a tower so he could tell no one about the way out
-Then Daedalus built wings made of wax and wings of the seagull.
-then before started flying daedalus told Ikarus he didn't  fly near the sun because the wax will  melt or to close to the sea because the waves    Will hit him 
-but Ikarus didn't listen and flew to near to the sun so the wax melted and Ikarus fell to the sea and drowned

]]> 2016-06-03 14:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610905 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610949 -A frog tells a princess with a pathetic voice that he used to be a handsome prince until he turned into a frog Jby a witch's spell.
-The only way to break the spell is to get a kiss from a beautiful princess.
-The princess feels sorry and doubts about him before actually kissing him.
-When she kisses him, nothing happens.
-The frog just wanted to get kissed by a princess and was lying the whole time.
-The frog is clever.]]> 2016-06-03 14:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610949 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610973 -it is about a grasshopper that arrives to his home and he was going with his friends.
-He says that he didn't have to much homework.
-He arrived to his home, but her mom investigated if he had homework.
-The grasshopper said he had to do a huge history report for tomorrow.
-He didn't know where the teacher left the homework.
-the big homework was to rewrite 12 Greek myths as Broadway musicals. Write music for songs.Design the sets and make the costumes.  
-Her mother was freak out.

]]> 2016-06-03 14:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113610973 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611028 -It's an autobiography of a boy name Russel that lived in the Great Depression.
-His family had to move to their uncle's house because they had no money.
-His mom took him to a magazine company to get a job.
-He started selling  magazines to help his family with money.
-He had no gumption.
- So he didn't sell any magazines.
-The first day he sold none so his uncle bought a magazine from him to help.
-His sister helped and she sold all the magazine.
-For school he had to write an essay.
-He got an A.
-He discovered that he liked and was good at writing.
-At the end, he discovers he should be a writer because you need no gumption do be a writer.

]]> 2016-06-03 14:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611028 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611048 -Chief Dan George is a Native American.
-He tells about his life, living in two different cultures.
-As a child, he lived with native people, having respect with each other and the nature.
-They lived in communal houses.
-When he grew up, he lived in a big city, and saw that they didn't trust each other, or respect each other, and they abused from the nature, and all its gifts.
-He is surprised for the big difference in both cultures.
-The Natives believed in friendship and respect, while modern people don't know its value.
-He is afraid that eventually, modern people that live in cities will forget his culture and all its values.
-Chief respects nature,
-Chief doesn't harm animals,


]]> 2016-06-03 14:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611048 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611096
-It's named "Onomatopoeia" because the author is using onomatopoeia for the sound of water.
-It is a poem that talks about water falling from a spigot or faucet.
-It describes the sound of the water when it touches the sink.]]> 2016-06-03 14:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611096 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611168 -It was about a daughter that is going through a hard time because her mother passed away.

-Her mother had lots of courage, so she wishes to have her courage instead of material things she left her.

-She compares courage with granite.

-It talks about how much she admires her, misses her and wishes that she could be like her, and be able to confront a difficult situation the way her mother would.

]]> 2016-06-03 14:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611168 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611194 -Life is compare with a toy.
-It ticks to amuse childhood.
-A very old man, gets tired of the game.
-When the watch stops, life ends.]]> 2016-06-03 14:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611194 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611202 -It is like a telegram.
-It has the shape of a plant called Forsythia.
-It has random words and they are:
-Forsythia
-Out
-Race
-Spring's
-Yellow
-Telegram
-Hope
-Insist
-Action
-It was written by Mary Ellen Solt.
-It is a poem, not a story.
 ]]> 2016-06-03 14:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611202 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611237 - It's about two boys that live in the USA and are from Puerto Rico.
- This two boys practicebox.
- Felix was dark, short, and husky. Felix' hair was black and with a natural Afro style.
-Antonio was fair, lean, and lanky. Antonio's hair was allways falling over his eyes.
- They trained in the same club.
- The love each other like if they were brothers 
- One day they were qualified to the finals but they need to meet each other in the ring.
- They do not saw each other before the finals 
- At the finals,the friendship don't let them hurt each other because they love each other
- We don't know who won the fight.
-The lesson in this story is friendship.]]> 2016-06-03 14:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611237 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611251 -Leah was a refugee in the U.S.A. 
-Leah's family was dead.
-Suzy was a girl with a wealthy family. They live in New York.
-Leah had the opportunity to go to school.
-Then, Suzy's teacher told her she was assigned with a refugee to help her, and that refugee was Leah.
-Suzy hated her because as Leah was a refugee, she used Suzy's old green dress (which was donated by her mother).
- When Suzy read Leah's diary, she realized all the things she had been through,  she finally could understand her.
- They became good friends, basing their friendship in equality.]]> 2016-06-03 14:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611251 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611262 -It is an autobiography.
-It is about a Mexican boy that immigrates to United States.
-The boy tries to adapt to his new life in the United States.
-He enters to a school to learn the language and to make new friends.
-Her teacher show him to speak Spanglish.
He didn't speak English 
-He was sacred ]]> 2016-06-03 14:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611262 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611269 -Byron Yee is the second son of a Japanese immigrant.
-Byron wanted to know more about his father by first seaching at Angel Island. Angel Island is know as the Ellis Island of the West, but it was more like Alcatraz.
-He searched first there because during 1910 to 1940 most Chinese immigrants arrived there.
-US law states that children of American citizens are automatically granted citizenship themselves, so many immigrants claim that they were offspring of US citizens.
-The individuals that claim they were offspring of US citizens were called paper sons 
- Byron's next step was to find his father's immigration file. Byron didn't find his father's file at San Bruno, California, but he found his grandfather's file.
-Byron's dad was in fact a paper son.
-Byron thanks his father and uncle because they adventure the unknown, and with one wrong answer during the interrogation  he couldn't be in America.
-China's people run away to US because of Japanese invasion.
-He was 15 years old when he arrived America.


]]> 2016-06-03 14:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611269 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611305 -Mrs. Pickens tells her great grandaughter how she met her husband.
-Tee is the name of the great granddaughter.
-Elzie Pickens and her best friend, Ovella, go to Silas Greene (a kind of fair).
-They went to the Silas Greene fair because they wanted  to  see new things and have fun.
-In the fair, they saw a dancing dog.
- Everybody started throwing pennies, so Elzie  threw  her lucky stone and it hit the dog on its nose.
- The dog started chasing  her. 
-Mr. Pickens was behind the dog chasing it, so it stops chasing her.
-Her future husband saves her, and he walks her home.
- Mrs. Pickens thought that he was very kind and a gentle.
-Mrs. Pickens explains to Tee that it was her  luckiest time of all because she met Mr. Pickens, her husband. ]]> 2016-06-03 14:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611305 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611333 -Mrs. Breckenridge lived during three centuries, so people want to interview her.
-She lives in an elder care facility.
-She lied in the interview, she said she had lived in 2 terrible things. The San Francisco Earthquake and The Hindenburg.
-She has read many books, and that is why she could describe them as if she were there.
-At first, Megan, the granddaughter, wasn't excited to visit grandma, but she changed her mind after hearing all the fake stories. ]]> 2016-06-03 14:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113611333 jennifer_douwes https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113798943 -The story of "All Together Now" is about how Barbara Jordan thinks about the racism in the United States to the African American people. 
-Barbara Jordan  fought against this racism.
-She was the first African-American woman to deliver a key-note speech at a major party's political convention. 
-She said that we are all the same, so we have to be all together now.]]> 2016-06-06 14:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_douwes/5asb5kl40hoy/wish/113798943