Westward Expansion

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?