by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 24, 2026
On pages 14–15, you’ll notice tree roots competing with pipes underground. Watch this video about what New York City looks like underground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX1xmaKPb9o. What do you think is under your city? Is it the same or different?
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 24, 2026
On pages 12–13 the author talks about something called the Wood Wide Web. Watch this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWOqeyPIVRo and consider how trees and people are similar and different in the way they build communities.
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 24, 2026
How are urban forests different from rural ones?
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 24, 2026
What did you learn in the book or from other research about the difference between how Indigenous people and European settlers thought about trees?
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 24, 2026
Listen to your teacher or Amanda Palmer read Mary Oliver’s poem, “When I Am Among the Trees”: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/23/amanda-palmer-mary-oliver-when-i-am-among-the-trees/. Write a poem or draw a picture about how it feels to you to be among the...
