Sample PPT for Roots and Routes Assignment

1. Roots and Routes By Ms. Duke What is life…

2. My past is like an onion. I was born in Kansas on a farm: the sweet inner layer.

3. Kansas is the heartland of the U.S. and is covered by vast pastures and plains of wheat. My family was healthy (due to all the fresh air and food) but not wealthy. And so the onion starts to get a little zest. One day, my mother got a new washing machine. The one she had used three separate sections: one to rotate or wash the clothes, one with bleach and one with clear water or bluing to rinse the clothes. In between these sections was a wringer that you had to feed one garment at a time. The wringer pressed the excess water out of the clothes so that they could go to the next step and then out to be hung on the line to dry. As you can guess, this was very time-consuming. So, when my mom got a new washing machine, you can imagine how she felt.

4. My Mother Her ancestors came from the Netherlands and Germany.

10. U.S. Peru Bahrain Greece Germany Czech Republic Singapore Israel Egypt Places I Have Lived

14. On Nov. 22, 1964, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States and its first Catholic president, was assassinated in Dallas. His passing began a very violent time for the U.S. Within four years, two more leaders were assassinated: Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Incredible Moment

15. What will the future bring?