Prep: Book 1 Text 4

• Wangari and her mother want to plant more trees.

• Mugumo trees are important to people and animals.

• Mugumo trees can provide shade to many people.

• Wangari and her mother think education is important.

• She likes to think about plants.

• She wants to keep learning.

• She imagines ways to help others.

• She believes in working together.

• as a description of how animal habitats changed.

• as an explanation of the solution to a problem in the environment.

• as a comparison of the village before and after the government sold the land.

• as a description of how a problem was caused in the area and its effects.

• sharing it with women around the country.

• giving it the name Green Belt Movement.

• watching the land in Kenya turn green again.

• planting trees herself everywhere she went.

• People can make the changes they want by working together with determination.

• People change their traditions and customs with each generation.

• People cannot rely on the government to help them in a time of need.

• People in other countries do not need to work as hard on the same problem.

• It describes advice Wangari followed.

• It describes how Wangari solved a problem.

• It explains how Wangari felt about trees.

• It explains which values Wangari’s village held.

• from the school she attended in the capital city.

• from the government of her country.

• from the women of the village where she grew up.

• from what her mother taught her as a girl.