Lesson Plan

Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories

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Young scholars complete a history and research lesson about the Gold Rush using selections from Jack London. In this Gold rush research lesson, students research the Klondike/Alaska Gold Rush and use details from the history in their own stories about the Alaska Gold Rush. Young scholars use Jack London's vivid narrative prose as a model to develop their own varied sentence structure in their stories.

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Grade
7th - 9th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Instructional Strategies
Research
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