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sartorias

The more things change...

Mar 27, 2006 16:41

So the next unit is the Westward movement for my fifth graders. I'm looking through collections of diaries and letters and memoirs of Pioneers and others involved in the Westward Movement.

Came across this bit from a letter from a wagon train driver going out to the Gold Rush.

Whenever a wagon unluckily gets stuck in the mud in crossing some ( Read more... )

nineteenth century, quotes

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gillpolack March 28 2006, 01:59:47 UTC

Now I want to re-read Laura Ingalls Wilder's The First Four Years. Drabbit, why do your posts keep suggesting books I have to read!!

shahrizai March 28 2006, 02:06:30 UTC

May I suggest emulating the Oregon Trail on an Apple II emulator? I was a wee student about the age of yours when that game took my class by storm - we loved it.

merriehaskell March 28 2006, 02:52:22 UTC

I was going to suggest the same thing. Here's a link to an online emulator: http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

I didn't get to play this when I was 10 or 12 when all the other kids were doing it. I had to wait until I was 29, when I found the emulator. I have to say, it lived up to the hype.

sartorias March 28 2006, 02:58:49 UTC

I will give them the link, but alas, all we have are extremely ancient PCs that nobody wanted six years ago. They can type papers on the old versions of Word, and that's about it.

That's why I have to justle all my own enrichment stuff.

sartorias March 28 2006, 02:59:07 UTC

hustle, not justle. Urgle.

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fourjacks March 28 2006, 14:23:08 UTC

That's great. Sounds like rush hour in Atlanta.

rachelmanija March 28 2006, 19:14:55 UTC

That's hilarious. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Lewis and Clark tidbit anonymous March 28 2006, 19:15:08 UTC

I know that if you are working on the Westward Expansion you are past Lewis and Clark, but Rod Gragg's book LEWIS AND CLARK ON THE TRAIL OF DISCOVERY published by Rutledge, is full of facsimiles of the original documents written before and during the expedition. The best was the juxtaposition of the letter Meriwether Lewis wrote to his mother: Really, Mom, don't worry, the Indians are sure to be friendly, with the letter from the President: You may not come back alive, and if you don't, we aren't coming after you. Here's ten bucks, do what you can." It's a great book. My son, who suffers from the family spelling curse, loved it that Clark couldn't spell either.

Re: Lewis and Clark tidbit sartorias March 31 2006, 14:14:42 UTC

Thanks! I will look into this!