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Suggested levels for Guided Reading, DRA,Suggested levels for Guided Reading, DRA,™™ Lexile,Lexile,®® and Reading Recoveryand Reading Recovery™™ are providedare provided in the Pearson Scott Foresman Leveling Guide.in the Pearson Scott Foresman Leveling Guide. CaliforniaCaliforniaCaliforniaCaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia Gold Rush:Gold Rush:Gold Rush:Gold Rush:Gold Rush:Gold Rush: A Letter HomeA Letter Home by Catherine Quirinby Catherine Quirin ComprehensionComprehension GenreGenre Skills and StrategySkills and Strategy HistoricalHistorical • Realism and Fantasy• Realism and Fantasy fi ctionfi ction • Draw Conclusions• Draw Conclusions • Prior Knowledge• Prior Knowledge Scott Foresman Reading Street 3.1.1Scott Foresman Reading Street 3.1.1 ì<(sk$m)=bddccc<ì<(sk$m)=bddccc<ISBNISBN 0-328-13322-10-328-13322-1 +^-Ä-U-Ä-U+^-Ä-U-Ä-U
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Reader Response 1. Is this a realistic story or a fantasy?CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia 2. What did you know about the gold rushbefore you read this book? What did youGold Rush:Gold Rush:Gold Rush: want to know? What did you learn? A Letter Home K W L What We What We What We Know Want to Know Learned by Catherine Quirin 3. Look up the word boom in a dictionary. Write a sentence using a different meaning from the one used on page 5. 4. Do you think Zach was glad that he went to California to hunt for gold? Tell why or why not. Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New York Sales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts • Duluth, Georgia • Glenview, Illinois Coppell, Texas • Ontario, California • Mesa, Arizona
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Josh rushed through the doorway. “Ma! Pa!” he yelled. “I’ve fetched a letter from Uncle Zach. He’s looking for gold in California!” “Read the letter, Pa,” said Ma. Pa started to read. Josh wanted to hear all about life in the California gold fields. Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd) Opener: Getty Royalty Free, Denver Public Library; 3 Richard Stergulz; 4 Library of Congress; 5 Library of Congress; 6 Library of Congress; 7 ©Comstock; 8 Library of Congress; 9 ©Comstock, Denver Public Library; 10 Getty Images; 11 Richard Stergulz; 12 Denver Public Library ISBN: 0-328-13322-1 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 3
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October 1850 We claimed a spot along the American River. Then we went into San Francisco to Dear Family, buy tools to pan for gold. San Francisco is a busy boom town! I met two men named Matthew and Peter New houses are being built. Businesses are while on the trail going west. We became opening everywhere we look. There are friends. We decided to travel together for people here from all around the world. safety. Our trip was long. We were mighty happy to cross the mountains into California! Gold seekers crossing the mountains San Francisco, a boom town in the gold rush 4 5
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We each bought a pick, a shovel, and We stand in the river all day to pan for some pans. This cost us most of our coins. gold. We use picks to loosen dirt and rocks We set up tents in a mining town near from the bottom of the river. Then we shovel our claim. Some miners don’t even have a the rocks and dirt into pans and wash tent. They have to sleep on the ground. away the big pieces. If we are lucky, we find gold in what’s left! Miners sifting through dirt, hoping to find gold Tents and shelters in a mining town 6 7
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We had no luck at all until we bought a On Sundays all the miners take a rest. gold cradle. To work the cradle, one person Many men write letters home. Sunday is shovels rocks and dirt into it while another also a good day to do laundry and mending. rocks the cradle back and forth. Water is I sure miss the food at home! Here we poured over the dirt. Finer sand and gold cook salt pork in a skillet over an open fire. are washed through a screen and trapped on the floor of the cradle. A group of miners in California A gold cradle 8 9
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Pa finished reading the letter. Everyone sat quietly. Josh had been hoping to join his uncle I’m sure you’re wondering if we’ve had for an adventure in California. Now he couldn’t any big gold strikes. We haven’t. In the wait for Zach to come home. spring our group will split up. Matthew is going to stay. Peter and I will head home. See you in the spring, Zach Workers at a mine 10 11
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The Gold Rush Reader Response About eighty thousand miners arrived in 1. Is this a realistic story or a fantasy? California in 1849. Because of this, they were 2. What did you know about the gold rush nicknamed the “ ’49ers.” At the very beginning before you read this book? What did you of the gold rush, gold was easy to find. It could want to know? What did you learn? be panned right out of the rivers. This gold was called surface gold. All the miners needed were K W L a pick and a pan. Sometimes all they had to do What We What We What We Know Want to Know Learned was look down into the water to find a very shiny nugget! As more people came to hunt for gold, the surface gold was claimed. That meant that the miners had to work harder to find gold. Some 3. Look up the word boom in a dictionary. began to work together with equipment such as Write a sentence using a different meaning from the one used on page 5. the cradle, or rocker. The California Gold Rush lasted about ten 4. Do you think Zach was glad that he went to California to hunt for gold? Tell why or years. why not. 12
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