Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History)

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024759
ISBN
9781476536071
Grade 3-7
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Charlotte Mason
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  • Explore what it was like to live in the U.S. during the time of westward expansion
  • With three story paths that lead to 17 possible endings, this book is full of historical places, people, and facts
  • As students choose their own story, their personal investment results in more learning
  • Includes a timeline, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index for further learning
Description

Imagine you are living in the United States during the time of westward expansion. What would you do—go west with your family? Serve as a trail guide? Head to California to search for gold? Embark on this educational choose-your-own-adventure to discover the outcome of different choices and encounter real scenarios that happened to real people during this time in history. With three story paths that lead to 17 possible endings, this book is full of historical places, people, and terminology. As students form a more personal connection with this era by moving through a story they choose themselves, learning becomes a natural result. The book includes a timeline, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index, so the learning doesn’t have to end when the story does. 112 pgs, pb.

Publisher's Description of Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History)

You're living in the United States during the time of the Westward Expansion. Settlers are heading west on the Oregon Trail as they seek better lives. Will you: Go west with your family as part of a wagon train? Serve as a trail guide for a group of settlers? Try to cope with the changes in your way of life as a western American Indian? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to opportunity, to wealth, to poverty, or even to death.

I loved these kinds of choose-your-own-adventure books when I was a kid and incorporating historical events and facts into the stories makes them even more entertaining. Each book focuses on a different event in history, but it's up to the reader to choose the point of view to take. The story will progress for a few pages and then the reader must make a decision about what course they want to take. Then, the reader turns to the page directed in the book and sees what happens based on the choice made. Choose whether to be a civilian, patriot or British soldier during the Battle of Bunker Hill, whether or not to rush for a lifeboat on the Titanic, what job to take as an Irish Immigrant, and much more. On average, each book has about 3 story paths, 35-45 choices, and 15 different endings. This series will help students see historical events in a new, real way and is just plain fun to read. Each book is about 112 pgs, pb. ~ Rachel

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Product Format:Softcover Book
Brand:Capstone Press
Author:Matt Doeden
Grades:3-7
ISBN:9781476536071
Length in Inches:7.5
Width in Inches:5.5
Height in Inches:0.25
Weight in Pounds:0.35
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