Web Site Resources

Art

http://cprr.org/Museum?Ephemera?American-Progress.html

Allegorical painting by John Gast, 1872, for website viewing only. Use this with Property Values lecture and land advertisements

Attitudes toward Women

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=439

Suffrage: How the West Was First; Why Did Suffrage Succeed; worksheet for determining why suffrage succeeded in West first

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=437

Women's Equality:Changing Attitudes and Beliefs

Critical Thinking

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/document.html

Worksheet for evaluating documents (ads, newspapers, etc.)

http://www.webeenglishteacher.com/frost.html

Website for suggested student activities and teacher background on Robert Frost poetry

Heritage Project

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=299

Possible alternative to Heritage Project; emphasizes value of family oral history

Homesteading Women

http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/fsowhome.html

Pie Town Woman (Joan Moyers) story of Doris Candill, homesteader; use with Heartland film

http://memory.low.gov/ammen/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html

Photographs of rural and small town North Dakota life at the turn of the century; use with Heartland film

http://xroad.virginia.edu/~HYPER?HNS/domwest/french.html

Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman; describes the harsh realities of homesteading. Use with Heartland or Mari Sandoz' excerpt "Old Jules".

Influence of Railroad

http://edsitment.neh.gov/lesson_images/lessons253/locomotives_timeline.pdf

Impact of Transcontinental Railroad and timeline of events in the West, this material could be used with Property Values lecture and land advertisments, or with Roughing It.

Women and the Gold Rush

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/women.html

Extraordinary Women, who came to the Klondike? From a woman's standpoint: what to take and what to leave behind. Also, a letter from Mae in Dawson, NW Territory, about "the condition of things from a woman's standpoint" to home, August 25, 1898.

This is suggested for use with "Roughing It".

http://overlandtrails.lib.hyu.edu/ctrail.htm

Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869

"Chasing a Golden Dream: The Story of the California Trail"; use this site with "Roughing It" excerpts.

Additional Teacher Resources

http://athena.english.vt.edu/~exlibris/essays02/Ballagh.html

Internal Conflict and Realism in the Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman, by Kath Ballagh. Teacher preparation for "The Revolt of Mother".

http://wwwjeannepasero.com/giftoutright.htm (Can be used with Day 1 lesson plan)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/umhtm/unhome.html

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910.

Http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/

Selected plans cover the Railway, Mark Twain, Images of the West, Writings of the West, Water Use, Infectious Disease, Natural Disasters, Native Americans, African Americans---excellent lessons.