Cycle 6
Reading
Argumentative Writing/Debate
Read Aloud: Because of Winn Dixie
Read Aloud: Because of Winn Dixie
Social Studies
Read "The Foul Filthy American Frontier"
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Western Expansion and the Gold Rush
The class learns about how our US grew to the west coast and the troubles that settlers went through to travel there. One of the reasons setters chose to travel there was the discovery of gold in CA in 1849.
Vocabulary:
Westward Expansion: Moving west of the Mississippi River to settle and make a home.
Manifest Destiny: The belief that is was the white man's God given right to expand the borders of the US no matter what may have been in the way.
Settle: To make a home
Pioneer: The first to go somewhere or do something.
Homestead, homesteader, homesteading: The home you made when you settled, or the person making the home.
wagon: The main form of transportaion for families traveling west. Also called the Conestoga Wagon or Prairie Schooner.
Frontier: A region just beyond r at the edge of a settled area. Called the Wild West, or Untamed Country.
Pony Express: Horseback riders who carried messages or mail across the Frontier to far away places. They were the Mailmen
of the west. This was a terribly dangerous job.
Telegraph: A system for sending messages from a distance along a wire, sending a message by creating signals. Signals are made by making a breaking an electrical connection. The signals are called Morse Code.
Gold Rush: The discovery of gold in California in 1849 made people rush out there to claim land. They wanted to get rich. Most did not.
Forty-Niner: The nickname given to people who went west searching for gold in 1849.
Persecution: Mistreating a group of people just for being different. Unfair treatment of others based on their religion, race, or ability.
Transcontinental Railroad: A railroad made it easier to travel west. Transcontinental means across tje continent of North America.
The class learns about how our US grew to the west coast and the troubles that settlers went through to travel there. One of the reasons setters chose to travel there was the discovery of gold in CA in 1849.
Vocabulary:
Westward Expansion: Moving west of the Mississippi River to settle and make a home.
Manifest Destiny: The belief that is was the white man's God given right to expand the borders of the US no matter what may have been in the way.
Settle: To make a home
Pioneer: The first to go somewhere or do something.
Homestead, homesteader, homesteading: The home you made when you settled, or the person making the home.
wagon: The main form of transportaion for families traveling west. Also called the Conestoga Wagon or Prairie Schooner.
Frontier: A region just beyond r at the edge of a settled area. Called the Wild West, or Untamed Country.
Pony Express: Horseback riders who carried messages or mail across the Frontier to far away places. They were the Mailmen
of the west. This was a terribly dangerous job.
Telegraph: A system for sending messages from a distance along a wire, sending a message by creating signals. Signals are made by making a breaking an electrical connection. The signals are called Morse Code.
Gold Rush: The discovery of gold in California in 1849 made people rush out there to claim land. They wanted to get rich. Most did not.
Forty-Niner: The nickname given to people who went west searching for gold in 1849.
Persecution: Mistreating a group of people just for being different. Unfair treatment of others based on their religion, race, or ability.
Transcontinental Railroad: A railroad made it easier to travel west. Transcontinental means across tje continent of North America.
Science
Math
Decimals
Symmetry
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Symmetry
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