1. Take 3 minutes to share your “Danger Sign” with your group!
Warm Up:
Take 3 minutes to share your “Danger Sign” with your group!

2. What groups of people traveled west? Why did they make the journey?
Today’s Question:
What groups of people traveled west? Why did they make the journey?

3. Agenda:
Begin creating mini-dramas
Continue listening: To Stay Alive…!

4. What groups of people are traveling west?
Chinese
Americans
Cowboys/Vaqueros
Forty-Niners
Frontier Women
African
Americans
Railroad Owners

5. Mini Dramas:
You will be given a picture and primary source material about your group. Step 1: Look at the picture and read the information about your group. Step 2: Create a THREE SCENE mini-drama to describe your group’s experience in the west: Scene 1: Before the picture Scene 2: During the picture Scene 3: After the picture

6. Cowboys/Vaqueros

7. African American Pioneers

8. Chinese Americans

9. Frontier Women

10. Forty Niners

11. Acrostic Poem
On the left side of your notebook, create an illustrated acrostic poem using the word westerners that summarizes various aspects of life in the west. Your poem should include references to each of the groups you heard about in the mini- dramas.