Language Arts Standards:
-Create multiple paragraph compositions
-Demonstrate basic keyboarding skills and familiarity with computer terminology
-Write a narrative
-Use simple and compound sentences in writing and speaking
-Use details , examples, anecdotes, or experiences to explain or clarify information
-Make narrative presentations
Mathematics Standards:
-Multiply three digit numbers involving decimals
-Successfully complete multi step word problems
Social Studies Standards:
-The effect of the Gold Rush on settlements and daily life
Other Skills Reinforced:
-Develops thinking and communication skills
-Allows students to work in teams
-Students do a creative writing project that forces them to put them self in another's position and to write from that position.
-They have the opportunity to do peer editing and to clarify their own writing.
