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A Teacher's Guide to 'Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party

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I am a Liberal Studies student at the Calif State Univ. at Stanislaus. Approaching graduation, I am searching for useful tools for my future fourth grade classroom. On a recent field study of the Calif. Gold Rush of 1849, I stumbled across this book at a museum in Coloma, Ca. After reading it and showing it to many of my professors, we agree that there should not be a fourth grade classroom in Calif without one of these guide books. It has an endless supply of activity sheets ready to be reproduced. Many great art, science, language arts, and even math activities so that one may teach their students the life and times of those so brave to attempt the journey west.

I used this is in my classroom, and it was very
helpful, especially all the different vocabulary
exercises. It increased their understanding
as we read through. Thank you very much

Very impressed with the activities! My 4th grade daughter wrote letters to historic sites and museums all along the trail that Patty Reed's doll traveled, and she received back all kinds of really cool information and maps to enrich her study. With comprehension, vocabulary, writing, recipies and more, this is most certainly one of the best study guides we've ever purchased in the 11 years that we've been homeschooling!

Everyone likes a kebab after a night out on the sauce. Patty Reed liked them more than other people. "The Story of the Donner Party" is the latest offering from the much-maligned Louise Baldwin, and is a riotous romp of Dickensianesque farce, set as it is in turn-of-the-19th-century California. With her flowery prose and powerful metaphors, Baldwin takes us on a warts-and-all ride through an eventful evening in Ms Reed's life. There's murder, intrigue and suspense. Gasp for breath as Ms Reeds loyal friend Lauren chokes to death on some of that white stuff you sometimes find in the mixed salad you get at 'bab shops. Is it cabbage? I think it's cabbage. It might be cabbage but I'm not sure. Where I live, it'd be kohl-rabi. Anyway. Cry fat, sympathetic tears of white-hot laughter as Derek drunkenly says "yes" and ends up with chili sauce on his kebab, but smiles gamely as he forces himself to eat it to win honour amongst his gnarled gold-digger compatriots. Twitch with suspicion as Patty finds "mint sauce" on the collar of her husbands shirt collar. Is it mint sauce, or toothpaste? Or something more sinister?
You'll find out when you buy this whirlwind adventure romance novel book. Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party contains small parts and may have been assembled in a factory where nuts are processed.
A rip-roaring read. Top marks!