After you complete the State of Illinois assignments, we will concentrate on Alaska, especially the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. Eventually, we will read a very good story about two gold miners. The link below will introduce you to the Klondike Gold Rush on the Yukon River in both Alaska and Canada. Do you think you would have participated in the Gold Rush if you were alive in 1896? Whose life is more difficult? Yours today or a gold miner's in 1896?
Sometimes the weather there was - 20 F. They had to sleep in tents. Imagine that!
http://library.thinkquest.org/5181/GoldFact.htm
http://www.questconnect.org/ak_klondike.htm
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