Mali Poems
And
Water Colors
By Stony Point
Third Graders
Torans start with
Ordinary trees. They’re
Really common
And hold up buildings
Niani people use them to hold
Sand buildings up during the summer rains
By Brandon Wiseman
Torans are made of wooden beams that support mud buildings that help the buildings stay
up during the summer rains.
Mali has a lot of travelers
Using gold and salt for trading, going through the
Desert—there are a lot of
Caravans--that is the name for travelers
Lots of travelers are coming to Mali
Over the land to
The people of Mali “Do you
Have anything to trade?” they say.
By Britt
MUDCLOTH is cloth that the Mali people wear that is made out of dyed mud
Boys in the
African deserts
Of Mali dancing with drumming Malians under a
Baobab tree. With
A
Big audience from a city called Niani.
Cage L.
A Baobab tree is a tree that only grows in Africa.
Mansa
And his clans at
Night
Spotted
A caravan of traders traveling to Mali to trade for salt and gold.
Chandler
mansa = ruler of all clans
Camels take people
Around the Country of Mali
Many camels
Even carry bags on their hump backs. They
Lay down to take a break and stop at the Niger River.
They can drink twenty–five gallons of water at a time
A camel is a mammal with two humps (sometimes one) on their
back. They live in Mali. They take people around and they drink a
lot of water.
By Chloe
Dung from elephants lie in the
June sand around the city of Timbuktu
Every elephant in the herd ambles to the
Niger River to cool off. Gold
Necklaces are traded
Every day at the market.
Djenne is a city in Africa
Cole
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Gold, the source that kept Mali alive trading and trading
“Ono” the tribe exclaimed and traded for
Luxury items, food, water, and
Drums
Ono is a Swahili word
Dalton
K
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N
G
S
ings have griots and the griots are for
nspiring the king to do the right thing but
ow it’s time to die. Mansa Musa dies in 1332 and all the
riots were
ad, sad, sad but they had to go on with life
By:DanielJ.Hillard
Kings are people who rule over a lot of people.
Sundiata, the Lion King of Mali,
Under a baobob tree, next to the
Niger River a griot is
Drumming the story of the Lion King.
It is a famous story in the country of Mali
As time passed Sundiata became big and strong
The lion and the buffalo had a big problem
A n arrow with a rooster’s spur defeated the buffalo.
By DeAndre Bright
Sundiata- Lion King of Mali.
Griot - Storyteller
Dads weaving cloth for bogolanfini
Every day in Ancient Mali
Little children watch
Their fathers working in
Africa
Delta is a place where a river carries a lot of fertile soil in its waters.
By Franklin Morris
Sitting in the sand in an indigo bogolanfini in Timbuktu gazing
At some lions they do not move
Looking at some gazelles in the desert
The lions just stay there staring at the gazelles
Bogolanfini is a mud cloth.
By Hailey Gelzer
Nearly every Malian enjoys the Niger River
It is the best road because of its efficient ways
Generally it is great to travel and the
Elephants love it too, but not just for traveling. The Niger
River is one of the most famous rivers, the Niger brings Mali life-giving water and
fertile soil to grow crops!
By Hannah
NIGER, a really important river and very long, it stretches over 2,500miles
(4,000 km). That is the distance from Washington D.C to California,
that’s a long way!
Mali has lions, cheetahs, leopards and camels. Malians used
Animals for food, transportation and clothes
Lots of animals were used for those reasons
In Mali all animals need water.
Mali is a country in Africa
Marie C. Schneider
Hot sun
On hot sand, walking
To Mali
by Marquis
Dorcas gazelle skin on a drum
Roaring like thunder
Under a baobab tree.
Monkey dancing to the beat
Salt all around in Taghaza, gold in all the west.
Parker Miller
Drums an African percussion instrument
Explorers & Native Cultures
Paintings & Paragraphs
By Stony Point Third Graders
Hernando de Soto
1500?-1542
By Franklin Morris
Hernando de Soto was a Spanish warrior who discovered new
lands. He also spent 4 years searching for gold and silver. He was
one of the richest men in Spain. De Soto was born in Barcarrota
(1500?-1542) and his crew was made up of about 1,000 men. De
Soto landed on the west coast of Florida in 1539 and also discovered
the Mississippi River in 1541. De Soto was an explorer for 13
years. He served under Francisco Pizarro. De Soto left Spain in
1532 and returned in 1537. His enemy was the Chickasaw people.
The Chickasaw people lived on the west side of the Mississippi
River. He must have had an interesting life.
Mayan Culture
300-900 A.D.
Mayan people kept spider monkeys as their pets.
They also built big pyramids. Maya might sound like a
name, but it is a great culture. They lived in central
America. They wore animal skin for clothing.
Hernando De Soto, a Spanish explorer, destroyed their
culture.
By Brandon
Bartholomew Dias
By: Brittany Murphy
Bartholomew Dias died during an expedition. He got
lost in the sea, near the Cape of Good Hope. Bartholomew
Dias was born in 1457 and he died in 1500. In 1488 Dias
sailed near South America, on his way to Africa and to the
Cape of Good Hope. He was a great Portuguese explorer.
The Aztecs
By: Cage O. Lambert
The Aztec times lasted from 1100-1600 AD.
They lived in the region that is now Mexico. Art was
considered carved stone, and their houses were made
of wattle plastered with mud. They also built one of
the largest cities in the world with a temple that was
more than 164 feet tall. Hernan Cortez, a Spanish
explorer, conquered the Aztecs.
How many more years did their empire
survive than the United States so far?
Leif Erickson
There was once a famous Viking named Leif Erickson. Leif
was an explorer like Christopher Columbus. He started to explore
after the year 986 and before the year 1001. He was important
because he discovered new places where people hadn’t been before,
like North America. Leif made landfalls at Helluland, Markland, and
Vinland (now called Newfoundland). After he discovered Vinland,
he lived there for a short time, until Native Americans attacked him.
He escaped and never went back to Vinland again.
by Chandler
The Inca Empire
1438-1532 AD
By: Chloe Herring
The people of the Inca Empire built extravagant houses. They also had
gold, China and the Malians had gold too. The Inca Empire had an emperor
and Malians and Romans had emperors too. Atahualpa, the emperor, offered
to give Pizzaro, a Spanish explorer, a room filled with gold in exchange for
his freedom. But Pizzaro killed the Inca emperor because he wanted to keep
the room filled with gold. The Inca Empire fell apart and the Spanish became
the new rulers of Peru. The Inca Empire lasted from 1438–1532 AD.
Francisco Pizzaro
By Cole S. Dickerson
Did you know Francisco Pizzaro led a group of Spaniards who
captured and destroyed a whole culture? Francisco Pizzaro was a
Spanish conquistador who traveled through much of the Pacific
coast along Peru looking for gold and land with 180 men and 37
horses. Pizzaro, his men, and Hernando de Soto arrived at
Cajamarca in 1533. They captured the Incan emperor, Atahualpa
and killed over 1,000 of the Inca and destroyed their culture. Now
that you have read this passage on Francisco Pizzaro, you can decide
for yourself, if he was a hero, like the Spanish thought, or a villain,
as the Inca thought.
Hernando Cortez
1485-1547
By. Daniel J. Hillard
Hernando Cortez was inspired by sailing. Cortez
was from Spain, like Christopher Columbus! He
wanted gold from the Aztec Empire in Mexico. He
made them think he was a god and he conquered the
Aztec Empire with his warriors and weapons. Some
people think Hernando Cortez was a great warrior.
Juan Ponce DeLeon
1466 – 1521 AD
By DeAndre Bright
Juan Ponce DeLeon sailed with the great Christopher
Columbus. He was the first Spanish explorer to set foot on Florida.
He and his men where looking for the legendary fountain of youth.
In the river he found lots of gold. He was the first person to set foot
on the Gulf Stream. He died in Florida in 1521.
Jaque Cartier
By Hannah Harper
You probably think Jaque sounds like a prince name but
he is a famous French sailor out to claim a new land for
France, in 1535, and he did so in Canada. Jaque set out in 2
ships because he had a whole lot of men. He was born
in1491 and died in1557. He mistook a sea for a bay and
things got ugly. Man it must have been fun to have a life like
Jaque Cartier did!!!
Ferdinand Magellan
1480-1521
By: Marie C. Schneider
Ferdinand Magellan was the first sailor who sailed around the
world. Ferdinand Magellan sailed for Charles the First. When
Ferdinand Magellan was preparing for a voyage he had 1,000
lances, 60 crossbows 120 spears, and cannons. On Ferdinand
Magellan’s voyage he ate penguins and seals. Ferdinand Magellan
also joined the Portuguese navy.
I hope you learned some interesting facts about Ferdinand
Magellan.
CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS SAILED THREE (3) SHIPS.
ACROSS THE WATER.
BY: MARQUIS
HE SAILED
Christopher Newport
1560?-1617
Do you know anyone who has sailed to find riches? Instead of
finding riches Christopher Newport founded Jamestown.
Christopher Newport was an English privateer (a commander of a
ship privately owned). As the commander of three ships, the Susan
Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, Newport sailed for England’s
King. In 1609, Newport made a fourth trip to America and was
shipwrecked off of the Bermuda Islands. He died in Java (Indonesia)
in 1617 on a voyage to the East Indies.
By: Hailey
Amerigo Vespucci
By: Parker Miller
Amerigo Vespucci might sound silly, but he was a great
Italian explorer. He sailed after Christopher Columbus. The
continents of North and South America were named for him
in 1507 because Amerigo Vespucci realized that America
was not part of Asia, but a new world.
Chickasaw People
By Dalton McWilliams
The Chickasaw people were divided into two groups named
Choctaw and Chickasaw. The Chickasaw people discovered the
Mississippi River. They lived on its banks for years. From 15401541 the Chickasaw people had a war with an expedition of Spanish
treasure seekers led by a man named Hernando Desoto. I hope you
want to learn more about the Chickasaw people.