Hello from Mrs. Umana. I am a history major; I love people, kids, animals, nature, and view life as an adventure.  In the classroom, I encourage students to think for themselves and to get in touch with their own thoughts and opinions about our subject matter.  It is a literary rich environment: analyzing, making infereces, drawing conclusions with evidence, and students expressing their views with each other both orally and in writing.  It is a safe environment where we lean to listen to one another.  My classroom expectations are for each student to pull their own weight, cooperate with their team mates, and to show respect to all classmates, the teacher, and classroom materials.