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Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: In Plain Sight WebsiteCarol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: In Plain Sight Website
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3rd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: In Plain Sight

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Carol Hurst uses one of her own books, "In Plain Sight," as a basis for this lesson plan on the California gold rush. In addition to discussion questions about the book, Hurst provides ten activities designed to help students explore both the book and the gold rush.

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family narratives, family stories, gold rush, gold rush of 1849, in plain sight, seeing the elephant, california gold rush, carol hurst, carol otis hurst, hurst, elementary authors g - i

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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