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A SPECIAL DEDICATION IS ALSO MADE TO LEAH BRADY FOR HER UNTIRING EFFORTS ON THE COOPERATIVE LEARNING UNITS.
THE FOLLOWING POEM IS DEDICATED TO HER. ALL I WANT All I want is the bread to turn out like hers just once brown crust soft, airy insides rich and round that is all. So I ask her: How many cups? Ah Yaa ah, she says, tossing flour and salt into a large silver bowl. I don't measure with cups. I just know by my hands, just a little like this is right, see? You young pople always ask those kids of questions, she says, thrusting her arms into the dough and turning it over and over again. The table trembles with her movements. I watch silently and this coffee is good, strong and fresh. Outside, her son is chopping wood, his body an intense arc. The dull rhythm of winter is the swinging of the axe and the noise of children squeezing in with the small sighs of the wind through the edges of the windows. She pats and tosses it furiously shaping balls of warm, soft dough. There, we'll let it rise, she says, sitting down now. We drink coffee and there is nothing like the warm smell of bread rising on windy, woodchopping afternoons. - Lucy Tapahonso |
This unit was developed for upper elementary students. The units were compiled by Native American teachers of Nevada Indian descent. The individual units were written by individual teachers, thereby, incorporating the individual teacher's ideas.
Leah Brady is of Western Shoshone descent and taught first grade Learning Disabled students in Fallon, Nevada. Debra E. Dale was of Northern Paiute and Shoshone descent and taught fourth grade at Roger Corbett Elementary School in Reno, Nevada. Yvonne Emm Dunn is of Northern Paiute descent and taught first grade at Natchez School in Wadsworth, Nevada. Maxine Castillo Emm is of Northern Paiute descent and taught upper elementary in Carson City schools and Lyon County. Bernice H. Servilican is of Laguna-Pueblo and Washoe descent and taught at the secondary level in Washoe County School District. SHAWL
Long, pretty - swinging, swaying, moving To the drums beat Blanket Amy Egan 3rd Grade, Mrs. Jim, 1987 Owyhee Combined Schools 
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