1. Nonfiction Text Features

2. Students read from California Gold Rush Days in the Bridges to Literature books

3. Students answered questions 2 and 3

4. Students wrote down, in the form of a list, the 10 items that they would take with them to California, had they lived during the time of California Gold Rush.  Students were asked to imagine which items they would take with them, had they made the several thousand mile journey from Missouri to California.