Gavin

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1) What was the purpose of 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)

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?

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.

[|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? He was Southern follower during the Civil War. He hated Abraham Lincoln who represented everything Booth was against. He wanted revenge so he killed Lincoln 2) What assumptions are you making from the article? Another words, what are you taking for granted? Assumptions that I made are how Lincoln was against slavery and he wanted to make the country be a whole. And also how Booth was the opposite of Abe.

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? A website I would site would be the wiki page on Booth and the wiki page on Lincoln.

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. Dr. Mudd was born on December 20, 1833, in a plantation in Charles County, Maryland.

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