» Gold Fever
Gold Fever
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Book meta-data
- Silver (Levels 23-24)
- Three
- Non-fiction
- Change over time, Economics, History
- Explanation, Report
- Making predictions, Drawing conclusions, Monitoring for meaning
- 32
- 24
- 200238
- ACELA1479, ACELA1484, ACELY1678, ACELY1679, ACELY1680
Reader Description
A place booms when something happens that brings many people to an area. In the 1890s, thousands of people travelled to the Klondike Valley to look for gold and a town called Dawson was built. But would the boom last?
After you have completed the Reader
The gold miners faced many challenges. Imagine you are a miner at the Klondike. Write a letter home to your family. Use the information in the book to describe the hardships you are facing. Read the letter to your family.
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