Timeline and Due Dates
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Monday, 1.14 |
Research Pioneer Biographies,
Homesteaders' Act 1852
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Tuesday, 1.15 |
Establish families; pick surname and
individual names; decide from where your family is
coming (town and state); mini lesson on how to write
your persona paper; brainstorm and pre-write webbing of
persona
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Wednesday,
1.16 |
Work on rough draft of
persona; use scoring guide; final, edited draft due on
Thursday.
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Thursday,
1.17 |
Hand in individual
persona papers. Begin research of types of covered
wagons; work on Budget and Supply lists; research and
fill out Excel form; each family gets $1600; create
paper doll family figures for bulletin board.
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Friday,
1.18 |
Decide on what materials
you need for your covered wagon construction and who is
bringing what; work on Budget and Supply lists (due
Tuesday, 1.22)
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Monday,
1.21 |
No School; Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day |
Tuesday,
1.22 |
Finish research of
covered wagons, sketch what you will create; make sure
everyone is bringing what is needed to construct your
wagon. Supply lists are due by 2:00 today.
You and your family decide on what
vittles you will be bringing on Friday. Tell
Shoofly Shae by Wednesday this week. |
Wednesday,
1.23 |
Schedule of your family
journal writers due today. Try on pioneer
clothing. Construct covered wagons. Pick Oregon
Fever Letter role, A or B. Review scoring guide,
brainstorm and pre-write Oregon Fever Farewell Letter.
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Thursday,
1.24 |
Mini lesson review of
friendly letters; work on rough draft of Oregon Fever
Farewell Letter; revise and edit and write final draft
of letter, due 3 p.m. today.
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Friday,
1.25 |
Pioneer family pictures
today. Bring your outfits, guitars, and empty
rifles, hats, and bonnets.
Campfire and vittles for chuck wagon today.
Don't bring lunch. Campfire from 11:30-1:00 today.
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Monday,
1.28
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Leave Independence,
Missouri, to head out on the Oregon Trail. |
Each wagon family needs to
complete the following steps during the Introduction week
and Week 1 of Westward Ho!
I.
Forming Your Families and Pioneer Personae.
--Research and assume an individual pioneer identity or
 persona
Each student is to research and assume an individual pioneer identity.
All pioneers need to be at least 14 years of age. The reason for this is
that anyone aged 14 or more could vote. Younger children could
not. (See our webpage
“Pioneer Biographies” for some possibilities and don’t forget to check at
the library for books, too.). Keep in the time period of around the
1850’s. Gain background knowledge about the period. Use period pictures,
diaries, and other
primary source materials you can find. Be as factual as possible.
--Each wagon will represent a family.
Pioneers (the students) will divide into wagons consisting of 3-4 students
in each wagon. Each wagon will represent a family. Our classroom wagons
will make up one wagon train led by yore faithful scout,
Shoofly Shae. All of the wagon trains are
under the leadership of our Wagon mistress, Leni.
Scholastic Overview of the Oregon Trail
Families are assigned.
Research primary sources to find out about real Oregon Trail
pioneer families; find a picture of what they looked like and
what they wore; pick family surname.
--Decide on family name and your relationship in the family.
Each wagon is to work out the details of their family relationships, that
is: Are you a son, daughter, mother, father, uncle, aunt, etc.?
Make sure you know why a man was important to be in your family.
(Hint: It has to do with land ownership. Check the
Homesteaders Act of 1852.
After reading and doing some research, each family needs to choose a
family
surname.
Your goal: to decide
upon your relationship within the family; draw and write a
description of your persona (identity)
--Draw and write a description for your persona.
Next, each pioneer (student) is to draw and write a description for his or
her persona (name, age, occupation, past experiences, family role,
appearance, personality traits, aspirations, hopes, dreams, etc.). Try
to investigate their true heritage and make-up the missing pieces or let
your historical imagination run free! See the
Pioneer Persona
Scoring Guide on our webpage
for more details.
II. Creating Your Supply List
and Budget
Each wagon is to create a supply list and budget (see Westward Ho!
Supply List and Oregon Trail Price List handouts and websites).
Pioneers may use these documents to help them decide which supplies to
take on their journey. Buy your wagon and supplies and pack yore
belongings. Your scout will let your wagon know if you have adequate
supplies for our long and dangerous trip. (Remember, there are few
trading posts along the way. Think hard and make sure you have
what you need and some extra supplies if things like wagon wheels
break!)
Make sure you understand the importance of these supplies as well as how
they were used. The provided supply list was compiled from the general
lists of supplies most often found in historical reference to this
period. Students may add to the list but must be sure they have enough
food supplies for the trip. (when
adding items, consider quantity, weight, room etc.) The Emigrants' Guide
to Oregon & California, recommended 200 lbs. of flour, 150 pounds of
bacon, 10 pounds of coffee, 20 pounds sugar, 10 pounds salt, and these
additional supplies: chipped beef, rice, tea, dried beans, dried fruit,
saleratus,
vinegar, pickles, mustard and
tallow.
Each wagon is to prepare a budget ledger and keep a
daily supply ledger of expenses/income occurred while on the trail (see
Supply Ledger and Oregon Trail Price List handouts). Please
look over the "Sample Supply List Ledger" on the website,
then use the
Supply List-Ledger
for the 5 weeks. We will load
onto our desktop. Save it to
your family’s name (Hawke.budget-ledger).
When it is completed, export the data into a Microsoft Word document to
hand in to Scout Shoofly Shae.
**The budget ledger must be completed and turned in to
Shoofly Shae by 1.22 at 2:50 p.m.
Pioneers needed cash or trade
commodities
to pay expenses while on the trail and to set up their new life once they
reached their destination. Pioneers purchased supplies and livestock
en
route, and paid fees for using toll roads, bridges, ferries,
etc. Poor farmers often had very little cash, while storekeepers and
professional families may have had a great deal of money.
Each wagon will be allotted $1600.00 to
buy necessary supplies and replace stock animals while "traveling".
Depending on their occupations, pioneer families would have $400-$600
per person to make the trip. We will all begin with the same
amount of money.
Pioneer families may be allowed to "earn" money by family group as the
wagon progresses along the trail, based on criteria your scout
establishes. The Travel and Fates do not require any forfeit of money,
but do require
adequate
supplies in the pioneer wagons.
III. Research Types of Wagons
Families need to research types of wagons. Do research with your
family and decide on what kind of wagon your family will use.
(Remember, you need the wagon that can go over mountains easily.
Which kind it is?) Design, draw, and construct your wagon. You
will have one wagon for your family.
**Completed wagons
are also due Wednesday 1.23, 2:50 p.m.
Diary #1 - Oregon Fever
Farewell Letter
Each pioneer
needs to begin his/her journey by writing a letter home about your
particular "Oregon Fever”. You may write poignant letters to friends and
family whom you will be leavin’. You may
want to share tales of your leave takin’
(the tears, the breakin’ hearts, the gifts
from special friends or relatives, etc.) or of your
packin’ and preparation by posting them on the Pioneer Bulletin
Board. Use yore creativity and imagination,
pardners! Get into character when you write these letters.
You will be assigned to a partner and write either a letter of goodbye
to someone who is leaving for Oregon or you will be the person leaving
for Oregon and leaving friends and relatives behind.
**Diary #1 - Oregon Fever Letter is
due by Thursday, 1.24 by 2:50
Wednesday,
1.24
Diary Entry #1 Create rough draft of friendly letter.
Topic: Oregon Fever, Farewell to Friends and relatives.
You will pick for partner names in the morning when you come it
to the classroom. Find out your partner's pioneer name.
You will be writing letter A or B.
A = letters of pioneers
leaving on the Oregon Trail trip;
B= You are a friend or
relative staying in your home and you will be writing to your
partner who is leaving.
Find an Oregon Trail Map for
Your Family
Each wagon family should keep track of their map of the Oregon Trail.
They can use it daily to keep track of where they are after the Travel
and Fates have occurred for that day. Pay attention to and label the
landmarks along the way!
Your family will receive a blank United States map for you to
track you trip to Oregon.
Wear pioneer outfits tomorrow for family pictures and for the
Campfire.
Be prepared to share your friendly letter with the class.
Final
draft of Oregon Fever Letter due Thursday. 1.24 by 2:50
Campfire Wagon Train Send-off
We need volunteers to make the vittles for the campfire meetin'.
Shoofly Shae needs to know who is doing the cookin'
by Wednesday 1.23
Our campfire send off meeting will include all the families along with
vittles
and stories on Friday, January 25.
Plan on wearing some sort of pioneer-lookin’
outfit that day. Those of you who have volunteered to prepare
the vittles should bring them in on that morning. Vittles
will be shared at 11:30-1:00 during the campfire.
**Campfire and vittles Friday, January 25
May y’all have a safe journey out to the Oregon Country!
Friday, January 25 between 9:40-10:40
Family pictures will be taken.
Campfire and vittles at the chuck wagon at 11:30
Keeping Your Family's Daily
Journal
Each wagon is to work out a rotating schedule for each family member to
contribute weekly to their family’s written journal by writing diary
entries of the daily events your wagon experienced from the “Travel &
Fates”. See daily journal template located in your pick up folder.
Please drag to your desktop and save with your family name and journal.
(Hawke.journal)
**A schedule must be submitted to Scout Shoofly
Shae by Wed., January 23 10:40 a.m.
Monday, 1.28
We leave Independence, Missouri. Our travel and fate cards
begin today as does daily journal writing.
Later in the unit:
Diary entry #2 Letter at Fort Kearny -
scoring guide
Diary entry #3 Letter at Willamette Valley -
scoring guide
There will be other assignments along the way.
Consult your daily assignments from now on.
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