Task
There are many books written about western expansion and the Oregon Trail.
Select one of these titles to read.
Bound for Oregon
A Pioneer Sampler
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
Westward ho with Ollie Ox
How Would You Survive in the American West
Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl
Addie's Long Summer
Trouble for Lucy
Balazing a Wagon Trail to Oregon
A Day with the Cow Column
The Oregon Trail
Children of the Wild West
Along the Sante Fe Trail
Process:
Before selecting a book to read, make a KWL chart.
Step 1
One column of the KWL chart presents "K". What do you already know about
the Oregon Trail? Write all you know underneath the "K" column.
Step 2
The next column is "W". Write everything you want to learn and everything
you expect to learn about the trail.
Step 3
The last column is "L". After reading the book, write everything you
learned.
Evaluation:
Students should have written the answers to the following questions in the
KWL chart.
*Why did emigrants travel on the Oregon / California or Sante Fe Trails?
*What did the emigrants expect to happen when they reached their final
destination?
*Compare and contrast what the emigrants expected and what actually happened.
*What did they have to do to prepare for the journey?
*What happened to Native Americans before, during, and / or after migration?
*What was the impact of the Native American way of life as a result of
westward expansion?
