Please remember that your April project is due on the 18th.
Here are your options again:
The Nations Grows
Pick one of the following projects to do for your book report.
1) Write 10 entries in a dairy pretending you are Lewis and Clark.
2) Play the game “Oregon Trail
” by MECC on the computer. Then write a one-page paper about your trip.
3) Rewrite “The Star-Spangled Banner” in modern words.
4) Make a map showing the western trails.
5) Create a comic strip about the Gold Rush.
6) Demonstrate the process cotton goes through from the plant to cloth.
7) Write a 100-word essay answering one of the following questions or following the directions:
a. Many people who went to California
to get rich on gold were failures until they found a product or service to sell to miners. What would you have sold? How? Why?
b. Davy Crockett was famous for his tall tales about his own adventures. Write a tall tale about one of your adventures.
c. Pretend you went west on the Oregon Trail
. Why did you go? Were the benefits worth the sacrifices you had to make?
