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Final essay submission is due 11/5.

What are some challenges miners faced during the California Gold Rush? Write your response as an informative article for a kids' history website. Include details from "The California Gold Rush" and "Peter Wechselberg’s Gold Rush Letters" to support your ideas.

In this project, you will explore the California Gold Rush and write a text that answers this question:

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What are some challenges miners faced during the California Gold Rush? Write your response as an informative article for a kids' history website. Include details from "The California Gold Rush" and "Peter Wechselberg’s Gold Rush Letters" to support your ideas. Task: Informative Article Purpose: to INFORM Audience: a kid’s history website (and your teacher will be reading this essay)

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What information are we going to need for our essay? What are some challenges miners faced during the California Gold Rush? We want information that is relevant, on topic, to our question. We want to find information about the challenges miners faced.

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What are some challenges miners faced during the California Gold Rush? We want information that is relevant, on topic, to our question. We want to find information about the challenges miners faced. Click the buttons below to read

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"Peter Wechselberg’s Gold Rush Letters"

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Your essay requirement is to have 3-5 paragraphs. An introduction, 1-3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion. The outline gives you space for 1-3 body paragraphs. You need at LEAST one body paragraph.

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Use the outline template provided to help organize your ideas. Do you remember the steps for making an outline for an informative text? Step 1: Name the topic you are writing about. Step 2: Decide how to group ideas into main points. Step 3: Add evidence for each main point.

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Use the Outline you made in step 3 to develop your sentences and paragraphs

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At this point, you should now turn your outline into the first draft of your essay. We will revise our essay for step 5. Using the checklist, you will ask yourself these questions about your essay. For each question, answer "Yes," "Almost," or "Not Yet." If you answer "Almost" or "Not Yet" to the checklist, it means that your essay needs some revisions. After making revisions, you should be able to answer "Yes" for every question on the checklist. Keep up the good work!

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Images and multimedia can help your audience more easily understand new and complex topics. You should choose your images and multimedia wisely! Select items that come from reliable sources and clearly connect to the topic of your text. How can images or multimedia help readers better understand your project? Review the draft of your informative writing essay. Then, use the steps for adding images and multimedia items to support your ideas. If you are a good artist, you may consider drawing an illustration to support your ideas.

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Read your draft carefully and correct any mistakes you find. Make sure to check your spelling. Highlight at least three places in your draft where you correct or confirm the spelling of a word. Here are some other items you should check for as you edit your draft:

• Did you write using complete sentences? Remember that a complete sentence has a subject and a verb, and tells a complete thought.
• Did you end each sentence with a punctuation mark (a period, question mark, or exclamation mark)?
• Did you capitalize the first letter of each sentence and the names of specific people and places?

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It would be best to type your essay. When typing your essay here are a few tips for the best format: Size- 12 pt Font: Arial Color: Black If you are handwriting your essay, make sure to use your best handwriting. Take a clear picture or scan your essay. If it’s hard to read, your teacher may ask you to resubmit.

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This is your final step. Before submitting, it would be good to have a learning coach or someone at home read over your essay. If you want, you can send your essay to your teacher to look over and edit.

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