Week 2 - Jan. 11-15

HW DUE Friday :
Read 5/27-6/11 and complete a Reading Response Entry.
This includes: a Golden Lines/Passage and explanation, 1-2 THICK questions, and vocabulary activities for blasphemy (p. 24).

• This week the students will explore the euphemism "seeing the elephant" which was a popular phrase used by emigrants on the Oregon Trail and forty-niners traveling to California for the gold rush. 
• We will explore the covered wagons emigrants used as transportation.
• We will research some topics that we come across in the novel such as cholera and the Pawnee Indians.