Web Hunts
From Chapter 1 Just as I am : Children on the Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html
Use the diaries section of the site
In Search of the Oregon Trail http://www.pbs.org/opb/oregontrail/teacher/index.html
Using the sites above discover what life was like on the Oregon Trail:
1. Who were the first emigrants to go to Oregon?
a. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
b. The Cheyenne
c. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
d. The Astorians
2. In whose diary do we learn about the death of their parents?
a. Catherine Sager Pringle
b. William Porter
c. James Madison Coon and Nancy Miller Coon
d. Amelia Stewart Knight
a. 1830
b. 1841
c. 1846
d. 1848
4. According to In Search of the Oregon Trail which of the following 'myths' is untrue?
a. Indians would come into a wagon camp to trade or ask to be paid for the use of their grazing areas.
b. Indians often committed unprovoked violence against countless innocent white families.
c. In the early 1840s, people were encouraged to travel in large groups for protection.
d. What the emigrants did experience, however, was boredom, drudgery, sickness, fatigue and hard work.
5. What is the difference between a diary and a memoir?
a. Nothing they are both the same.
b. A diary is written in the first person and a memoir in the second person.
c. A diary is factual and a memoir is fictional.
d. Diaries are written at the time of the events while memoirs are written after the event.
a. Walking
b. Accidents
c. Weather
d. Cholera
