Weekly Blog 11/12/12

Jacob

11/9/12

            This week we have been learning about the Appalachia culture. Long ago Native Americans, Europeans, and escaped slaves came to live in the mountains. Later people from all over came for the rich farm land and lumber. Soon the culture of the people began to mix. Coal mining started. Music and dance was a big thing to do up in the mountains. You usually taught yourself. Families were close and made arts and crafts, such as a cornhusk wreath. Next week we are going to Foxfire Museum, were we will learn more about the people that lived there.      

Appalachia Poem

Work, Work, Work

Everyday we’re working

Whether it’s building the house

Or planting the crops

Sometimes working in the mines

It’s work

I want to build an instrument

Father says that will take time we don’t have

The roof is almost on our small house

It’s been hard moving up to the mountains

Yet we’re free

I know that back down there is no freedom

Here we can do what we choose

And if some work is the cost of that

I’ll buy it