Native food paragraphs

Native Americans had many ways of cooking. They baked, boiled, and roasted. They made various soups and stews by boiling. This was done often. When water was scarce, they baked and roasted. They baked things in shallow pits with hot coals around the outside. They wrapped food in wet leaves to prevent burning. When they boiled, to assist with the heating process, they took rocks out of the fire and placed them in the water.

Indians gathered the majority of food from fields, as it was eaten every day. They gathered food such as berries and camas, an onion-like food. When they collected acorns, they usually washed, ground, and used them in bread. When they collected rice, they rode in canoes and grabbed the stalks. They beat it with a mallet until all the rice came out. For sap collecting, Indians set up temporary camps by trees and cu a “V” in each trunk. Then sap dripped into a bucket.

Indians got many new foods from settlers. Indians gave them recipes, while settlers gave them pigs and cows. Indians got dairy products from the settlers, also. Indians used these new ingredients in traditional recipes. Indians also used new ingredients to make fry bread.

Before the horse came, Indians had to be innovative in hunting. They wore wolf masks and chased bison off cliffs to be collected at the bottom. When they hunted small groups of animals, like turkey, they set up small, temporary camps. After the horse came, Indians tamed them. They then mastered horseback hunting. Indians knew the best fishing spots, and came back to them every year. To catch massive amounts of fish, they used nets and weirs. A weir is an underwater fence that fish run into. For catching individual fish, they used harpoons, spears, hooks, and lines.

Along with gathering and hunting, Indians also grew food. They grew sunflowers, corn, beans, squash, chilies, peanuts, and pumpkins. Chilies, however, grew only in the southwest. They almost always grew corn, beans, and squash together. The beans could use the corn for support, while the squash shaded the ground and kept it moist. They roasted their sunflower seeds, then brewed them to make a coffee-like drink. They used their fresh corn kernels in stews.

For the chrismas concert, we are playing sleigh ride, chesnuts on roasting on an open fire, and white chrismas. I have boring parts in all of them, especially sleigh ride. I am the backbeat going doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo for the whole song. in the other ones I have a boring low melody. The concert is on the 11th.

The baritone I have been playing is an old beat-up one. Avi has a nice baritone that she will lend me. Instead of a up-facing bell and valves, It has forward facing valves to fir your hands better. The bell is facing forward so it can project sound better. She is still working on it, but I will get it soon.

Juan Ponce de Leon Claymation and Reflection

Stop Frame Reflection

For My Reflection Essay, I will cover the following topics: The parts that were most fun, most difficult parts, and what I learned.

The part I thought was most fun was making the people, backgrounds, and terrain. I also liked filming it. I liked how instead of making lots of people, we made one do all the parts. It was fun putting them on the computer and arranging them in the right order. When Mitch and I stayed after school, we spent 50 minutes trying to figure out why we could not do recordings. We then realized that our computer did not have a microphone! Then we saved it on the server and accessed it on a microphone computer.

I think that the most difficult part was keeping the characters clean. If you watch our movie carefully, you will notice that in the scenes we filmed first, the characters are clean. In the later scenes, however, our characters are smudged with lots of different colored clay. It was difficult keeping our tiny characters not lost, so they wound up in the middle of the clay bin.

I think that the most important thing I learned was that Juan Ponce De Leon was originally looking for The Fountain of Youth.
It was rumored to make you live for millions of years. He never found it because it did not exist. On his journey, he discovered Florida and was the governor of Puerto Rico for several years.

In conclusion, I think this project was a stressful activity while it was going on. We had to meet due dates with all the scenes. But I also think it was a fun way to learn about our country’s history while sharing work with a worldwide audience.

Firefighters
Daniel Estill
5th period science
I chose a firefighter as my career because it seems like a cool job. The main purpose of a firefighter is, of course, extinguishing fires. A firefighter is also a trained rescuer. Most stations have 24-hour shifts, with about 8 days a month. How cool is that? They go to the station and do training until there is an alarm. Then, they get ready for action!
The basic equipment of a firefighter includes two fire retardant steel soled boots to walk over hot debris, a helmet to protect the head, a face mask to protect the face, a breathing apparatus to breath in smoke, a lock breaker to get into locked buildings, hydraulic rescue tools to pry doors and debris away, smashing tools, such as the axe, and the ever-important flashlight.
Although it may vary between stations, for most, all you need for a job is a high school diploma. If you want to be promoted, however, you need some sort of a college education.
The average salary for a firefighter in Seattle is about $66,132 a year. For other places, like New York, Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Dallas, the pay varies from $41,082 to $44,088.
As a result of my findings, I can conclude that being a firefighter would be very interesting. With Hydraulic tools, lots of action, and strange 24-hour shifts, it sounds exiting.

One time, when I was home alone, I was playing with my cat Maverick (named after the dude from TOP GUN), and he went out onto the little ledge on the outside of each stair (he had to be on the top one!) When I tried to coax him out,he tried to turn around and he slipped and fell. I could not find him for the rest of the day. The next morning, I found him and he was fine.

Our band teacher kept going on about how we needed more low brass. So, last September 20, I went and tried the baritone. I only tried it because it had the same fingerings as trumpet. I ended up taking it home and practicing the baritone for more than 2 hours. So, in time, I got pretty good. Now I have been playing baritone in band for several weeks, and it is very cool.

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