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1) What was the purpose of the pony express? The purpose was to tell how the pony express worked and how they developed the pony express.

2) Would you have been a good candidate to be one of the riders? Why or why not? (use the information from the article to support your answer) I think I would be a good candidate for one of the riders because I think I work good with animals and I think I can be good at delivering mail.

3) Just as the telegraph led to the end of the pony express, do you think it might be possible that the internet is impacting our current postal system? Why or why not? yes because it it can interfear with anything.

4) Write a summary of the movie that Miss Dauman showed you at the beginning of class and put it in my correcting basket at school. It was very interesting and there was a lot of great things in that movie.

[|Lincoln] If you have time click on the following article and read the story. Answer the following questions.

1) Who was John Wilkes Booth and why was he so angry with President Lincoln? John Wilkes Booth was an actor who worked with shakespear.

2) What assumptions are you making from the article? Another words, what are you taking for granted? Don't shoot anyone or you will end up like John Booth.

3) How can you check to see if those assumptions are accurate or not? What evidence would you site to support or refute this assumption? you can get a picture of him and figure out where he lives.

Once you are in the story please click on John Wilkes Booth's name or Dr. Samuel Mudd. Read their stories and write a brief summary. 2-3 paragraphs about each of them. john and samuaal are very good friends and samual is older than john.


 * You may not get all of this done, but get as far as you can.

Miss Hansen