Words Alive Discussion:A Piece of Cake

What I liked about the book A Piece Of Cake was that everything the author wrote was real and I loved how she wrote it she wrote it how it really happened and exactly how everything happened. What I learned about this was that every person in the world has a story and you cant judge someone by there looks. What I liked about the discussion that we had about the book was how some girls related to the story and the cupcakes we had everything was great about it. I enjoyed the discussion because we got to meet some of the new girls that came in and also new somethings about there life that they related to the story.

Spelling Bee Sentences!!

My cousin is affluent and she takes really good care of everything she has.
My brother didn't believe me when I told him that Dinosaurs where extinct a long time ago.
I made a oath in church and I have to keep it.

Manifest Destiny and Ethnocentrism

1. Why can we say that there was cultural diversity in the Americas even before whites arrived?For example they had different tribes, different beliefs about God,different diet depended on location,different dress codes.
2. Give two examples of how the Native Americans and the Europeans experienced acculturation?Native Americans shared food, corn, furs, planting tech.Europeans shared tools, horses.
3. Describe how Navtive Americans and Europeans had different ways of looking at how the land should be used and shared?The Native American had land for everyone they didnt need to have documents to show that they could be in there land. Also they had a religious belief that there wasnt such thing as private property.The Whites had to see legal documents for the people to live in there land.Also the titles gave people rights to own land based on there religious beliefs.
4. Explain why the idea of Manifest Destiny is an example of ethnocentrism?The whites believed that God wanted them to own and control all of the land from coast to coast regardless of what other cultures believed and wanted.
5. How do you believe American history would have been different if Phillip/Pometacomet or Tecumseh had been successful in their plans?the expansion of white settlements and private property
6. What purposeful strategies (list at least three) were employed by the English to clear the Wampanoag from their lands?NA trated health care for land. Using God as a excuse to kill and take land.
7. What were the main events of King Philips War?Why were the whites ultimately succesful in winning this war?They took some of his people and made them into christanity.

Kumeyaay Tribe

1. The Spanish rename the Kumeyaay tribe The Digueno.


2. The three main foods of the Kumeyaay were mollusks, grunion, wild fruits, berries, stapple acorn


3. The three groups the Kumeyaay were divided are called Ipai, Tipai, Kamia.


4. No, they didnt convert into Christanity.


5. A force of Kumeyaay surrounded Mission San Diego de Alcala and set fire to its wooden structures and attacked a small contingent of spaniards.


6. Currently there are about 20,000 Kumeyaay decendants in San Diego.


7. Women had tattoes in their chins and sometimes in foreheads, cheeks, arms, breasts as well. Men sometimes had them on their legs. And painting in the face and body were also used for body decoration and ceremonial purposes.


8. Women wore willow bark shirts. Men usually wore no clothing only a woven agave belts to hold tools for hunting and gathering.They sometimes wore agave fiber sandals over rocky or thorny areas but usually went barefoot. In cold weather men and women wore a rabbit fur blanket.


9. They were experts on making baskets and weaving which were worn as hats by both men and women. Also they used it as a bowl to carry water.


10. Cuyamaca State Park.