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Westward Expansion
Annotations by Cindy Brown
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Track #295477
Format: Worksheet
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<p><span class="txt"><font color="#330000">Westward HO! is a five week classroom project and online event! In the first week, you will organize your learners for the adventure, helping them assume real identities, organize into wagon families, pack their belongings, buy their supplies, and acquire background knowledge of the period.</font></span> </p><p><font size="+1">T<span class="txt"><font color="#330000" size="2">he second, third, and fourth weeks are structured by the Travel and FATE </font><font color="#330000" size="2">cards. Your class will travel along the Oregon Trail through the Travel and FATE scenarios. The Travel and FATES provide opportunity for simulated experiences, further research, and authentic collaboration by your student wagon families. Your students will participate in making cooperative decisions that decide their fate on the Oregon Trail. </font></span></font></p><p><span class="txt"><font color="#330000">Each week, an online student TRAIL MEETING is held. Conducted by the Wagonmistress as a guided discussion, the meeting allows students to share, <em>in character,</em> the week's trail decisions, adventures, disasters and triumphs. In weeks two through five, this meeting is used, as well, to make an important trail decision together, as a Wagontrain.</font></span> </p><p><span class="txt"><font color="#330000">During their five weeks "on the trail" students can: trade and barter for livestock or needed supplies, offer their hand in marriage or seek a sweetheart or spouse, look for work or offer jobs to others, by posting their needs at the "Pioneer Trading Post." They can share news of their life on the trail and their adventures on the "Pioneer Bulletin Board." </font></span></p><p><span class="txt"><font color="#330000">Encourage your pioneers to keep and publish trail journals and/or family stories. Have them participate in side</font> trips <font color="#330000">selected from our suggestions or developed by you to meet your particular curricular needs. Dress in costume, sing, play games of yore, square dance, perform, cook, sew, and immerse your class in the adventure. This is engagement in "reliving history"!</font></span></p>
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