Running Away to the Great Plains - History Creative Writing Activity

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Writing prompt that tasks students with taking on the role of someone that wants to move onto the Great Plains after the Civil War. Best used as a writing assignment after the teacher has introduced content regarding the geography of the Great Plains, inventions and adaptations that allowed people to live on the Great Plains. and the different reasons people moved onto the Great Plains.

This assignment compliments the $0.75 notes, skeleton notes, and questions that are hyperlinked below:

• Westward Expansion; notes, skeleton notes, and questions