Closing ppt for Literate Nation/Tremaine Foundation April 2013 Boot Camp/Think Tank

2. Point of reference for remembering
what you learned/committed to
during this think tank/boot camp

3. Touchstone gift for
you …!

4. Touchstone gift for
you …!
… actually IS a stone.

5. No ordinary stone
“Lucky Stones”

6. Pick one that speaks to
YOU …

8. While I tell the !

10. RODINIA
750 mil
yrs ago
Time: 1 billion ago to today
Place: 3 supercontinents
colliding, splitting, reuniting
GONDWANA
LAURENTIA
550 mil
yrs ago
PANGEA
245 mil
yrs ago

11. GONDWANA
LAURENTIA
550 mil
yrs ago

12. Melt-water rivers
from high-
elevation
glaciers
deposited stones
(BOSTON BASIN)

13. Cemented into Tectonic rifts &
a conglomerate collisions buried
400-1,550 ft.
stone deposits—
deeply—as land
masses migrated
north.
PANGEA
425-245 mil
yrs ago

14. Heat & pressure
cemented these
stone deposits
(Called “ROXBURY
CONGLOMERATE”)

15. Pressure created
fractures in the
conglomerate
(through
individual
stones!!!),
which later filled
with liquefied
quartz

16. Quartz vein
intrusion in
conglomerate

17. 550 mil
yrs ago
1. Broken off GONDWANA LAURENTIA
(about 550 mil yrs ago) GONDWANA
2. Collided with each
other in process
3. Welded to LAURENTIA PANGEA
(about 370 mil yrs ago) 245 mil
yrs ago
4. Been sandwiched into
PANGEA (about 245
mil yrs ago)

18. Then, about 200 mil yrs ago,
began to rift apart to create modern
continents. (Rifting continues)
PANGEA
TODAY

19. Powerful Forces!
creating/impacting
our main character 
√ Tectonic rifting, colliding
√ Volcanism
√ Weathering, erosion, glaciation, depositing
√ Burial, heat, compression, fusion
√ Fracturing, melting, cooling
√ Uplifting, overthrusting, mountain building

20. Can see power
of forces in this
imprisoned,
fractured stone
with weathered
vein of quartz
… which brings
us to our closing
chapters …

21. Wind ice water
Eroded exposed (uplifted) conglomerate

22. Releasing the
Lucky Stones
from the
conglomerate

23. Releasing the
Lucky Stones
from the
conglomerate

24. Releasing the
Lucky Stones
from the
conglomerate

25. Ta-dah!
6 million
years old
(1 billion?)

29. … waiting
to be
found

30. Each tells
a story

31. Etched
by time

32. Each is
unique

33. Ancient
enduring

35. Why are
we giving
you a Lucky
Stone?

36. Touchstones ~ Lucky Stones
Lucky Stones, ancient and enduring,
serve as touchstones, reminding us
of our collective commitments to
our shared goals on
behalf of all children
at-risk for reading
difficulties.

37. Like the Lucky Stone, our
commitments must endure
over time & persist in all kinds
of environments …

38. … which
generate
forces and
conditions
that
challenge,
shape,
sometimes
even enhance,
our efforts.

39. Like the
Lucky Stone,
our
individual
attributes are
remarkable
… but these can intensify
when brought together.

40. To succeed,
we must
endure but
change,
Lucky Stones !
stand alone
but work
collectively.
We also need a bit of luck, which
the lucky stone brings to you …

41. … along
with the
lessons and
commitments
of the …
Tremaine-
Literate Nation
boot camp/
think tank!

46. • DARK STONE: For testing
precious metal
• METAPHOR: Point of reference
- Against which things are evaluated
- For remembering

47. Lucky Stones still are
being released today

48. • Often called “Pudding
Stone.”
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
described appearance as
“plums in pudding.” In
1830 poem, “The
Dorchester Giant:”
“… the giant’s unruly children flung it over to Roxbury Hills,
They flung it over the plain and all over Milton and
Dorchester too
Great lumps of pudding the giants threw …”