My Louisiana Sky Webquest In Search of Truth. You are Tiger Ann Parker in the late 1950's in Louisiana and have just turned 12, the age where you question.

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My Louisiana Sky Webquest In Search of Truth

You are Tiger Ann Parker in the late 1950's in Louisiana and have just turned 12, the age where you question life around you. For the first time you have noticed that mentally challenged people don't have the same lives as "normal" people and that although they're slow in some ways, they're advanced in others. You also notice that blacks and whites are not treated the same and start to question why. By going through this web quest you will find the answers to

many of your questions, but you will find that many of the answers lead you to question even further life around you. By questioning life and the ways different types of people are treated, perhaps you will come to a better understanding of the world, and in some way, whether small or large, you will be a part of making the world a better place for all of us to live. It's now time for you to begin your journey.

Part I First, let's see what we can find out about the mentally challenged and their treatment over the years.

1. A.TLG is an organization that helps children, parents or grandchildren who have what? B. What do the initials TLG stand for?

2a. In which year was The Americans with Disabilities act signed into law?

2b. This law makes it illegal, as of 1994, for employers with how many employees to discriminate individuals with a disability?

3A. Future mothers can help prevent their baby being born with birth defects if they take which supplement? 3B. for how long should she take this beforehand?

4. According to the linked website here, what is a recommended phrase to use to describe someone who is medically “mentally retarded?”

5. What is the other phrase for “bruised” when referring to brain or cerebral cortex? (The answer is NOT concussion.)

6. How does “direct trauma” to the brain occur?

7. The movement that was an effort to breed "better" human beings by not allowing the mentally challenged and others they felt to be inferior to have children was called __________. ( Be sure to scroll down and read to find the answer.)

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Part 2 Next, let's see what we can discover about weather lore and how nature helped people predict the weather, just as it happened with the intellectually slow character of Daddy in My Louisiana Sky. Also, you will find some questions dealing with the actual hurricane that hit Louisiana in 1957 as the one in the book does.

9. Just for fun fill in the following old sayings: a. When squirrels lay in a big store of nuts, look for a _________________.

b. If you want to have time for some fun, do you want a ring around the moon or the sun?

c. How can you tell how far away a storm is?

d. What do bees do when rain is close by? e. How does hair help predict rain?

10. Where did the saying "Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning/ Red sky at night, sailor's delight" originate? Be exact.

11a.What is the name of the real hurricane that hit Louisiana in 1957? 11B. What is the exact date? 11C. How many people died? 11D. To which recent hurricane do meterologists now compare that one?

12A. Why will the name Audrey never again be used for a hurricane? 12B. What was the first year that hurricanes were given names? 12C. When were men’s names added and why?

13A. List 4 items hurricane experts use to predict strength of hurricanes. 13B. What are the top two things to do to prepare for a hurricane?two 13C. Specifically, how do forecasters get close enough to a hurricane to get strength measurements? how

14. What is the name of this flower and how is it connected to the book?

Part 3 Segregation 15A. How many years exactly was it past the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that the “I Have a Dream” speech was given? (A score = 20 years.) 15B. Who gave this speech and in what city? 15A. How many years exactly was it past the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that the “I Have a Dream” speech was given? (A score = 20 years.) 15B. Who gave this speech and in what city?

16. The most important Jim Crow laws required what?

17. Who started the bus boycott and what was the exact date?

18A. Who did the Montgomery Bus boycot give a position of leadership within the national movement and show that the nonviolent method of protest was effective? 18B. What percent of blacks actually participated in the bus boycott?

Part 4 19A. Now, let's learn a little about Kimberly Willis Holt, the author of My Louisiana Sky. A. When she was a child, what did she want more than anything? B. What is the name of the real place on which Saitter is based? C. Which recipe did Holt include that she also ate as a child?

20C. Name two books Holt recommends you read if you want to be a writer. Holt 20A.What is the first thing Holt does when she gets stuck in her writing? 20B. How does she make herself web even when she doesn’t want to do so?doesn’t

21. Holt got her idea for My Louisiana Sky from a time in her childhood when she was how old?

22. What is the address you would use if you wanted to write to Kimberly Willis Holt?