Eighth+Grade

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In history, students have to write a simulated journal of a pioneer traveling west on the Oregon Trail. To extend on what we read about in the textbook and help students brainstorm ideas of the type of information they need to include in their own journals, we read and respond to several sources, fiction and non-fiction, including __Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie__ from the //Dear America// series and actual pioneer journal entries taken from []. CCSS W 3 a-e