Elvira Woodruff - Tips For Teachers - Dear Levi
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Activities for Dear Levi

    Twelve year old orphan, Austin, writes letters to his brother as he travels the Overland Trail en-route to land left him by his father. A sensitive observer, he details the slow journey, untimely deaths, niceties bestowed on him by friends and the violent relations with the Sioux and Pawnee Indians.

1. Play the computer game "Oregon Trail".
   
   
2. Design and create your own button. Make enough for everyone in your class. Swap the buttons with your classmates. Create your own button books.
   
   
3. Map the trail that Austin and his fellow travelers used.
   
   
4. Keep a personal diary in letter form for a specified amount of time.
   
   
5. Write several letters to Austin from Levi depicting what is happening back home.
   
   
6. Make a diorama of one of the story scenes.
   
   
7. Make a bookmark that highlights the book.