Nico participated in a guided reading exercise. We alternated reading two chapters (Chapters 3 and 4) in the book about Rosa Parks ("Take a Stand, Rosa Parks!"). Nico related to a story about one of Rosa's earliest teachers, Ms. Hill and stated he had a teacher by the same name at his school at Big Bear in California. We learned how much Rosa enjoyed school and learned about Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver - and what they are each best known for- founding the Tuskegee Institute and finding hundreds of uses for peanuts, respectively.