“Boom Town”
While we read “Boom Town,” think about how Amanda’s business sparks the development of the town. Type in the boxes to complete the sequence chain as we read.
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Amanda and her
family arrive in
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Pa comes in from the gold fields every Saturday night. Some miners were striking it rich but pa had no luck. |
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Amanda loves to bake pie but it takes her a while because they don’t have a real stove but she tries and gets it rite. |
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Then pa took a pie to the gold field everyone likes the pie. So Amanda starts a pie stand if you want a pie you have to give one gold piece. |
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Then a man came in with dirt all over his clothes he asked if there was someone who did laundry. Amanda said that the man could start a laundry stand he would make a lot of money that way. |
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They started all kinds of stands it made the land less lonely. Some people liked the pies so much that they stayed and soon they had a cooper, tanner, miller, and a blacksmith. |
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The town slowly began to be more like a city. Then men went with there families soon the town was filled with children. They built a school and many new houses appeared everywhere. |
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A café and a hotel opened the owner of the café bought pies from Amanda. Then Amanda said they need better streets and sidewalks. |
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Then Amanda finds a skillet and they make the best pies in the whole town. Pa doesn’t searching for gold anymore. Our house is in the middle of a boomtown and to think it all started with me Amanda baking pies. |
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“Boom Town”
Now it’s your turn to be an entrepreneur! Use the drawing tools in Microsoft Word to create a picture of an idea you have to improve our community or school, or make students’ lives easier. After you have created your drawing, compose a poem or short song that could be used in an advertisement for your idea.
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Brrrrrrrrrrring! Time To Get Up! |
