Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

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Wangari grew up in the shadow of Mount Kenya listening to the stories about the people and land around her. Though the trees towered over her, she had loved them for as long as she could remember. Wangari planted trees one by one to refresh her spirit. When the women came to her for help with their families, she told them to do the same. Soon the countryside was filled with trees. Kenya was strong once more. Wangari had changed her country, tree by tree. In Lessons 7-8, students will continue to engage in a focused read-aloud of Mama Miti and use the information and ideas from the text to add to the Reasons to Plant a Tree anchor chart and discuss the Module 4 guiding question. The government sells a lot of land to big companies. They cut down forests for timber and clear land for coffee plantations.

Mama Miti : Wangari Maathai and the trees of Kenya : Napoli

Take turns orally processing the matches by forming sentences using the sentence frame: "Plant a tree ___________ because _____________."

Kadir Nelson's illustrations are gorgeous and it is worth flipping through this book just to drool over his paintings. The text, unfortunately, leaves much to be desired. While Donna Jo Napoli's prose is poetic, Mama Miiti reads more like a hagiography than a biography. Napoli reduces Wangari Maathai's highly political story to a heart-warming tale of one wise woman helping the poor village women who come to her beseeching aid.

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Does the book contain anything that teachers would wish to know about before recommending in class (strong language, sensitive topics etc.)? Lccn 2008023604 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA16883 Openlibrary_editionWangari’s brother teachers her what he learns at school; her parents see that she is smart and a hard worker. Friday 28May 2021 marks World Hunger Day in the UK: a day which in so many ways, feels as if it should not exist. Especially not in a world in which millions of tonnes of food are destroyed daily, whilst millions of people go hungry. More people listen to her message. She is elected to Kenya’s parliament, and continued to plant trees.