Students had a quickwrite on Manifest Destiny and what the term means or looked like. Often times we have this idea that the land to the west was this God given land for us to take and that is why we got it. While we did take over the land we see that its not so much just because we feel like God had given it, but more that there was a purpose in going. Students looked at 3 individual groups of people and why they went to Utah, California and Texas. They began in class a journal assignment writing a 1st person account of what it would be like. The assignment and quickwrite are linked below.
Manifest Destiny quickwrite, maps and class assignment