Title Page
 
 

Launch
 
 

Literature Circle Lessons
 
 

Closure
 
 

Bibliography/References
 
 

Instructional Ideas & Extensions
 
 

Alignment to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Brenner, Barbara.  Wagon Wheels.  New York: Harper Collins, 1978.
• Cushman, Karen.  The Ballad of Lucy Whipple.  New York: Clarion Books, 1996.
• Gerrard, Roy.  Wagons West!  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 1996.
• Harvey, Brett.  My Prairie Christmas.  New York: Holiday House, 1990.
• Holm, Jennifer L.  Our Only May Amelia.  New York: Harper Collins, 1999.
• Sanders, Scott Russell.  The Floating House.  New York: Macmillan Books for Young Readers, 1995.
• Turner, Ann. Grasshopper Summer.  New York: Macmillan Books for Young Readers, 1989.
• Van Leeuwen, Jean.  A Fourth of July on the Plains.  New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997.
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls.  Farmer Boy.  New York: Scholastic, 1961.
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls.  Hard Times on the Prairie.  New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1998.

 

Pioneers of the American West

Tracy Hutchens, Jennifer Lucas, Cammie Mitchell, and Emily Pratt