By reading about the lives of the pioneers through primary sources, we can actually feel that we also lived through this time period. Read three different journal entries and then pretend that you are a pioneer crossing the Oregon Trail. Write a three day journal entry about your experiences. Be sure to include your family, sights, feelings, and memorable events.
Read three of the following:
 Diary of Patrick Breen (scroll down to the printed version of the diary.)Across the Plains in 1864 by Prairie Schooner to Oregon (read any two chapters)James Addison Bushnell (Read only the first three paragraphs.) |