Marco Polo, pp 20-21

Micah, year 3

Marco got sick. He climbed up in to the mountains where the air was healthier. The people in the valley got sick easily, so they lost no time in climbing the mountain and after a few days they were well again.

They were crossing mountains where it was super duper cold, and a bunch of blizzards and they would need to use two months to get across them. Fires couldn't burn very well and food couldn't cook because there was so much snow that the fires didn't burn very well because the snow just melted. (Mom: Actually in the pages, it was the lack of oxygen in the air why the fire didn't burn).

Tree in the Trail, ch 5

Eva, year 2

The plains had changed and the tree had changed. There were horses now, and people rode the horses. And the Spaniards came. The Indians played on the horses that they stole from the Spaniards, or the horses that ran away from the Spaniards. The boy gave his shield to the tree.

Marco Polo p 15

Micah, year 3
All the places that Marco went were new to him. He saw a mountain bubbling oil. The oil wasn't good for eating, it was good for burning, and now we use it for cars. They used it in their lamps.

There were shepherds who lived with their sheep.