The Sharlot Hall Museum Fourth Grade Curriculum
Enrichment Materials for Teachers

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Section One

Pre-Visit Materials

1. Pre-visit Activities
2. Barsinia Rogers and her father Samuel Curtis Rogers are early historic Prescott figures featured in the fourth grade tour at the Sharlot Hall Museum. The following is the actual transcribed diary of their journey on the overland trail in the year 1867 with an accompanying lesson plan.
   • Westward You Go: An Overland Adventure written by Barsinia Rogers
   • Journal of a Wagon Trip from Evansville Indiana to Prescott Arizona
   • Barsinia diary detective
3. Sharlot Hall's poetry
   • Old Governor’s House
   • Paw an’ Me

Section Two

Post-Visit Activities

1. Eleven Activities To Do After You Have Visited
   • “Be a Reporter!”; the "5 Ws" needed for Activity 6
   • Arizona Miner News Release needed for Activity 6
   • “In My Jacket Pocket” needed for Activity 7
   • Venn diagram needed for Activity 9
   • Journals and Diaries
2. Flour Sack Socks
3. Victorian Fan Language

Section Three

Additional Post-Visit Activities

1. Talking Tombstones
2. Photo History Activity
3. Pictures Tell a Story

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Written by Gretchen Guice, Sharlot Hall Museum Education Department
and Lori Brandman, University of Arizona Education Coordinator