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Help students to better understand American history through the use of a personalized interactive notebook.

Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with the Mark Twain Interactive Notebook: Westward Expansion for grades 5–8. This 64-page interactive notebook includes 19 lessons that cover three units of study: The Louisiana Territory, Moving West, and California Gold Rush. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered. This workbook helps students record, store, and organize essential information and serve as resources for review and test prep.

64 pages

Grade 5-Grade 8 / Ages 10-14

Missions, Miners, and Moviemakers in the Golden State, Includes 21 Activities

By Katy S. Duffield

The rich story of the men and women who settled and built the Golden State is told in this engaging chronicle, from the first native inhabitants that arrived 9,000 years ago and the Spanish in the 1700s to the followers of the Gold Rush in 1848 and the Hollywood and Silicon Valley newcomers. They faced many struggles—including earthquakes, economic hardships, and the forced internment of Japanese citizens—yet they persevered. To get a better idea of the scope of California history and the lives of the state’s residents, children will create a Chumash rock painting, play the Miwok game of Hoop and Pole, bake and eat hardtack like a gold miner, design a cattle brand, assemble an earthquake preparedness kit, and more. This valuable resource also includes a time line of significant events, a list of historic sites to visit or explore online, and Web resources for further study.

Recommended for grades 6-8

100% Unique Content! No overlaps in matching Teacher Guide #8665 and Student Packet.

This student packet features multiple-level reproducibles that offer solutions based on the latest reading strategies.

This packet includes content-rich activity sheets, quizzes, and a final exam for direct student use.

44 + pages

• Prereading activities
• Vocabulary activities,
• Study guide
• Graphic Organizer
• Literary Analysis
• Writing Activities
• Critical and Creative thinking challenges
• Comprehension quizzes
• Unit test
• Answer key
• Scoring rubric

The award-winning storyteller, May McNeer brings her delightful style to the amazing, wonderful, and dramatic story of California. A classic book revived from the mid-twentieth century, McNeer’s history is made extraordinary by the pairing with a master lithographer–Cornelius DeWitt–who creates sweeping spreads of the Golden state’s dramatic story. California’s stunning coastline, its agriculture, Missions, giant redwoods, Rancherias, and the wild days of the Gold Rush, are vividly and unforgettably brought to life in this lovely reissue.

36 pages

Paperback

From Beautiful Feet

Recommended for all ages

Teacher Guides

Teacher guides provide the framework for the novel, including any background information necessary to prepare students for the text. Discussion questions help you delve into the novel's plot, conflict, theme, and character motivations/interactions. Plus, they're designed to elicit student thought, discussion, and participation!

Time-saving, inspiring lesson plans provide a comprehensive novel unit—created by teachers for teachers. The legwork is done for you. The chapter-by-chapter guides incorporate research-based, higher-order reading, writing, and thinking activities.

• 32+ pages
• Summary
• "About the Author"
• Character list
• Background information
• Initiating activities
• Vocabulary activities (Gr.1–8)
• Discussion questions and answers
• Graphic organizers
• Writing ideas
• Literary analysis
• Post-reading discussion questions
• Cross-curriculum extension activities
• Assessment Scoring rubric

See also Student Packet #8666

Focusing on the Lewis and Clark exploration, the expansion of the United States, and the California Gold Rush, Westward Expansion and Migration will show students how settlers packed up their families and made the long journey across the country to settle in new territories. Perfect to supplement your history curriculum, independent study, or at-home tutorials, this 128-page social studies resource book explores history, geography, and social studies with activities that involve critical thinking, writing, and technology.

By Carson Dellosa/Mark Twain Media

ABOUT WHAT WAS THE GOLD RUSH?

Which of these facts are true?

Bedbug, Hangtown, and Murderer’s Gulch were mining camps

People poured into California to get rich quick

The largest nugget weighed 195 pounds In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn’t.

Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!"

With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!

Imagine having an experienced Greek teacher walk right into your home to teach your students.

With this DVD set, your students will receive just that kind of one-on-one learning experience.

They will enjoy learning with author Dr. Christopher Perrin as he teaches each chapter from Greek for Children, Primer A, presenting clear, whiteboard grammar lessons given by from a cozy office.

Your students will be able to chant along with other students to master the vocabulary from each chapter in the book.

The pronunciation of Greek will become a breeze, and don't be surprised to hear even your youngest children picking up the catchy chants and songs.

Each lesson (average twenty minutes per lesson) corresponds to the weekly chapter in the Primer, and features the chanting and singing of vocabulary and paradigms along with clear grammatical explanations by Dr. Perrin.

The actual text from the book appears on the screen as the material is presented, making it easy to follow along.

This smooth, clear introduction to Greek will set your students on their way to learning Greek and reading the Greek New Testament.

The fourth grade social studies student learns the geography of California, including physical characteristics and regions. The student distinguishes early explorers, and focuses on key time periods, such as Spanish and Mexican rule. Students study the effects of the Gold Rush and how it changed California. Fourth grade students learn of California from 1900 to the present. They organize and write a report on the history of California. Set includes Starline Press Social Studies 4 Student Books 401-412 and Teacher Score Keys. Order the complete set and save.

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This brand-new year-long study is a literature approach to the fascinating history of California, the Golden State!

Designed for the intermediate student, this teacher guide and the required literature fulfills the California History requirement for fourth or fifth-grade. In addition to the award-winning books and corresponding Socratic questions prompting discussion and discovery, students will also study art, poetry, geography, music, and culinary history. Beautiful drawings of plants and animals familiarize students with the unique gifts of nature indigenous to this state, cultivating respect and wonder for the natural world.

A journal accompanies the course where students will record all they learn, creating a memorable keepsake.

•This study contains 80 lessons.

•Complete 3 lessons per week for a one-year study.