TruthQuest History SAMPLE - A Journey Through Learning...

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Copyright 2011 A Journey Through Learning

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Authors-Paula Winget and Nancy FilecciaCopyright © 2011

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Lapbook Assembly Choices(see photos on how to fold and glue your folders together)

We recommend using Zip Dry Glue.

Choice #1 -Do not glue your folders together until you have completely finished all three folders. It is easier to work with one folder instead of two or three glued together.

Choice #2 -Glue all of your folders together before beginning. Some children like to see the entire project as they work on it. It helps with keeping up with which folder you are supposed to be working in. The choices are completely up to you and your child!

A booklet placement key is at the top of every booklet page. This key shows where that particular booklet will go in that folder.

Hamburger Fold-Fold horizontally Hotdog Fold-Fold vertically

Dotted Lines-These are the cutting lines

Accordion Fold-This fold is like making a paper fan. Fold on the first line so that title is on top. Turn over and fold on next line so that title is on top again. Turn over again and fold again on the next line so that title is on top. Continue until all folds are done.

Cover Labels-Most of the booklets that are folded look nicer with a label on top instead of just a blank space. They will be referred to as “cover label.”

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This placement key tells you the booklet goes in the first folder at the top of the left flap.

How do I know where to place each booklet in the lapbook?


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Gather the number of folders required for the project. Fold them flat as seen here.

Original fold line

For each folder, fold the left and right sides inward toward the original line to create two flaps. Crease so that the highest part of each flap is touching the original line. It is important not to let the two flaps overlap. You may want to take a ruler and run it down each crease to make it sharper.

Highest part of flap.

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Glue your folders together by putting glue (or you may staple) on the inside of the flaps. Then press the newly glued flaps together with your hands until they get a good strong hold to each other. Follow this step to add as many folders as you need for your project. Most of our lapbooks have either 2 or 3 folders.

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Photo of a completedlapbook base


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*Lapbook Pages*3 Colored File Folders*Scissors*Glue*Stapler*Brads (not needed for every lapbook. If brads are not available, a stapler will do.)*Hole Puncher (again, not needed for every lapbook.)

To make the storage system (optional)See details below about the use of a storage system.*Duct tape (any color)*One 3-ring binder*Hole Puncher

My child has made several lapbooks. Can I store all of the lapbooks together in one place?

Yes! A three-ring binder serves as a great place to keep your lapbooks. This method of storage not only keeps your lapbooks from getting lost but also keeps them neat and readily available to share with dad, grandparents, friends, etc. When you are through sharing your lapbooks, just place the three-ring binder back on your bookshelf! Below are step-by-step directions of how to prepare each lapbook to be placed a in a three-ring binder.

Supplies and Storage

Close the lapbook. Measure a piece of duct tape that is as long as the lapbook. Place the edge of the duct tape on the top edge of the lapbook. Then fold the duct tape over so that it can be placed on the bottom edge. Make sure to leave enough duct tape sticking out from the edges to punch three holes. Be careful when punching the holes that you do not punch the holes in the folder. If you do, that’s okay. Then place in three-ring binder. Depending on the size of your three-ring binder, you can store many lapbooks in it.


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Folder 2

Folder 1

Map of America

People Living in the West

Manifest Destiny

Map

Other Side of the Mountains

Lewis & Clark

Famous People of the Oregon Trail

Covered Wagon

My Journal

Crossing Rivers

Wagon Train

Times to Travel

Supplies

Folder 3

Dangerous

My Trip West

Indians Businesses

Recipes

Promise Land

Books


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Cut on dotted line. Glue to the front of your folder. Complete the scene. Fill the covered wagon with items that you would need to take on your journey west. Draw what your evening would be like with your family gathered around the fire.


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What was Manifest Destiny?

Yeehaw! We’re off to the wild frontier! Did you know that it was “wild” in another way that you may not have considered? What am I talking about? Well, don’t you picture the West as a big empty space, just waiting to be explored and settled? Do you think of it as being unclaimed and unknown?

Not so! Many Indian tribes already lived there—or had arrived after being forced from their eastern homes—and sections of the West were claimed by several other nations! Yes, Spain/Mexico already had settlements throughout California, in Texas, and in the Great Southwest, since just 50 years after Columbus found the New World for Spain, Coronado was exploring there, and they established Santa Fe as early as 1610. Meanwhile, in the Great Plains and Northwest the French had thriving fur-trading outposts around the frontier. Also, the British still held sections connected to their colony in Canada. Even Russia had a foothold, since they had reached to Alaska across the Bering Strait, and then worked their ships down the coast.

Yes, the West was a cauldron of struggle between many nations! Had you thought of that? Naturally, eastern Americans eyed it longingly too, because the great foundation forged by the Pilgrims, Puritans, and founding fathers had paved the way for tremendous growth, prosperity, and liberty. (As you know, any time godly principles are put into government, people are mightily blessed!) This meant that the new United States was looking westward, seeking room to spread out. The leaders were also concerned about protecting America’s then-western flank from those war-prone European powers with footholds father west.

Everyone could see that there was much opportunity on the frontier. It was a land of open spaces, endless sky, rugged mountains, powerful rivers, hidden valleys, plentiful forests, and buried treasure. Then, there was the dramatic Pacific coastline. America began to feel that it was her “manifest destiny” to revel in the land from sea to shining sea, from the Atlantic Ocean to that Pacific Ocean. Those words had been delivered poetically by newspaper editor, John O’Sullivan, in 1845, when he wrote that we were meant to fulfill “our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.” That gives me goosebumps!

So, many had eyes for the American frontier, but one thing is certain: the earth is the Lord’s footstool (Is. 66:1), along with everyone and everything in it. And, the Bible says many times, as in Jeremiah 27:5, that He gives the land to whomever He pleases. So, we will always remember that His authority is much greater than merely human plans. And, whomever is living on the land must move and dwell upon it rightly, and must deal with others, such as the Indians, as God directs, or they will experience the Lord’s response. How did all that play out? You’ll have to watch!

(A special “thank you’ to Edwin Tunis” Frontier Living for informational contributions. Tunis, Edward. Frontier Living, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1961.)


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Read What was Manifest Destiny?Cut out the booklet. Glue into folder. Directions: Use the map throughout this lapbook.

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Map of what America looked like during this

time.


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Read What was Manifest Destiny?Cut out the booklet as one piece. Hamburger fold in half and glue into folder.Directions: Inside of the booklet, write what you have learned.

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Read What was Manifest Destiny?Cut out the booklet as one piece. Hamburger fold on the red line. Fold up the smaller green dotted line like a matchbook. Glue into lapbook. Directions: Inside of the booklet, write what you have learned.

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What did people think was on the other side of the mountains?

Interestingly, the mountain men who first explored, as well as the earliest pioneers who followed their trails, thought that the new land’s riches were all in or beyond the mountains. The vast plains of the Midwest which they must cross before reaching the mountains were seen as only a long stretch to endure in travel, the “Great American Desert.” What they didn’t know was that those plains blanketed wonderfully rich farmland which would later be America’s “breadbasket,” and help feed the world! Yes, the Great Plains would be some of the last land settled in America, and would thus see the final wave of pioneers. Before that discovery, though, dreams were of the far reaches. “Go west, young man!” was the slogan, for it seemed like a fresh start. The government allowed people to keep land if they improved it, and there were hopes for farming, cattle ranching, fur-trapping, and mining.

What started as a westward trickle became a faster-moving stream when gold was discovered in California (in 1848) by a mechanic building a riverside sawmill for Mr. Sutter. President Polk mentioned it in his year-ending speech to Congress, and the newly dawning year (1849) saw a wave of “forty-niners” heading west on foot, in wagon trains, or on speedy clipper ships which left the East Coast to sail clear around the stormy southern tip of South America, and then up the western coast to San Francisco!

Just before that time, American settlers and the Mexican government were fighting over California and Texas. No one then knew of the oil riches in the earth deep below the Texas soil, but there was much surface land for running cattle. California was also moving out of Mexican control…and would soon become American, drawing even more eastern settlers to the area.

Further north, you know that Lewis & Clark explored and praised the Oregon Territory in the early 1800s, meeting many Indians along the way. John Jacob Astor soon had fur-trading posts all along the Columbia River. Marcus & Narcissa Whitman took the Gospel to the Indians there (who had actually traveled to St. Louis asking for someone to teach them of God), and American settlers soon followed, many enjoying the Willamette Valley. They sought to be under American law, and Britain eventually gave up control there by treaty.

If you can picture the overcrowded, tired cities of Europe, where most people were trapped in the lower classes, you can understand why the immigrants were hungry for a wide-open space to call their own, a place where they could invest their blood, sweat, and tears…and earn a wondrous reward for many generations. And the eastern American cities were increasingly cramped, and the stony soil of New England quickly thinned out, causing even native-born Americans to look westward.

Yes, the West was often presented more gloriously than was the truth, but many were hungry to believe it. What many encountered was quite difficult, an existence that was intensely rigorous, and the travelers often saw the bleached bones of those who had trod the western trails before them….but still they came. Hope is such a powerful force!


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Read What did people think was on the other side of the mountains?Cut out the booklet as one piece. Fold in half. Glue into lapbook. Directions: Inside of the booklet, write what you have learned.

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The Other Side of the

Mountains


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