Mrs. Renz's 4th Grade Class  Redmond, Oregon

 

Oregon Trail Stories

April - May 2007

Students wrote stories as if they were traveling the Oregon Trail.  They selected a quilt design for their book cover and ironed the fabric onto muslin, then glued it to a piece of cardboard for the book cover and back.  Below is the story Una wrote.  Enjoy!

inside cover

Title Page

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

page 5

page 6

page 7

page 8

page 9

page 10

page 11

page 12

page 13

page 14

page 15

page 16

page 17

page 18

page 19

page 20

page 21

page 22

page 23

page 24

page 25

page 26

page 27

page 28

page 29

page 30

inside back cover

Evaluation

Sheet

 

Quilt Designs

 

Supply pictures

Note taking sheet with story requirements

 

Rough Draft Paper

These are the finished books.  Notice the different quilt designs on the cover.