Jordan

=Jordan's Page=

__ASSIGNMENT #1: Luther Family Tree__

 * Roy Luther- Father of Devola, Mary Call, Romey, and Ima Dean; old; just died**


 * Cosby Luther- Mother of Devola, Mary Call, Romey, and Ima Dean; dead **
 * D **** evola- Eighteen; childish in her mind; not allowed to marry Kiser Pease because of Roy Luther **


 * Mary Call- Most responsible; made promises about the family to Roy Luther; fourteen; runs the family **
 * Romey- Last male left in the family; ten **
 * Ima Dean- Youngest; five **

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Devola Immature and cloudy headed Hehe, meow, gnarsh A beautiful girl Childish



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Mary Call is an adult Mature, manly, magnificent She is practically the parent

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__ASSIGNMENT #3: My Little Bookr of Life Lessons__
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__ASSIGNMENT #4: Wildcrafting__
The Luther’s Wildcrafting

In the realistic fiction novel Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver, the Luther children discover wildcrafting and how efficient it would be for making money. Wildcrafting is the development of survival skills in the wilderness such as using the plants they can find to live and eat. For example, harvesting ginseng (Panax quinquiifolius) and slippery elm (Ulmus rubra or Ulmus fulva) would be profitable for them. Ginseng is an herb found in cool, rich woods in Monitoba to Quebec, south to Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, and north Florida. It has 3 long-stalked, palm-shaped leaves, a short green stem, pale yellow-green flowers, red berries. It is perhaps the best-known tonic, it originated in Asia, it is used to restore strength and vigor, increase stamina, improve digestion, and it is a cure for many illnesses. It is popular in the United States and Asia. It is also used as an aphrodisiac and an alternative medicine, it helps the body adapt to mental and emotional stress, fatigue, heat, cold, and even hunger. The roots are called Jin-chen by natives of China. One caution of ginseng is do not take it with coffee, it will accelerate the caffeine effects in the body and cause diarrhea. Other names for it are American Ginseng, Panax Ginseng, San, Redberry, Five Fingers, Man Root, Divine Root, or Root of Life. Another plant the Luthers used for wildcrafting was slippery elm. Slippery elm is a small or medium sized tree with five-eight inch leaves that are rough and sand papery on the top and hairy on the bottom, rough-hairy twigs, the older bark on the tree is a grayish color, the tree can grow to be sixty feet tall and two feet in diameter found in rich soil in woods in North Dakota to New England, south to Texas to northwest Florida. The tree it is found on is obtained from a large, deciduous tree, it is collected in the spring, it has reddish-brown fruits that grow in clusters. It is native to North America. It soothes and coats irritated tissue or skin, it is a nutritious food, it is also good for quietening babies’ colicky symptoms, it relieves pain from bowel or Crohn’s-like attacks, and it is used to treat chest conditions. Other names for slippery elm are Red Elm, Sweet Elm, American Elm, Indian Elm, Moose Elm, Oohooskah, Ulmenrinde, and Ecorce d’Orme. In the novel, slippery elm was used as a salve for swelling. Once they got started, the Luther family started making profits from wildcrafting and it was worth the trouble of finding the plants.