Homesteading

Go to this link and look at the picture at the top of an early homestead.

Look closely and study the picture. This a primary source of information. Look closely at the other pictures, they give a lot of information. 

Answer below

Read the letter that follows a little below the picture of the early home, at #3.
1. What would be different about a picnic today and one a hundred years ago?

2.What would be still the same?

Read #9

3. An acre is about the size of a soccer field. How long would it take to break it? How much would this cost if you hired someone?

Read #10, 

4. What advice does the woman give that applies today to people looking for relationships online?


Thinking and using your general knowledge

5 . What food would homesteaders here on the prairies eat come April?

When done, quietly read the other information on the pages and/or pick up your reading book, and/or onto your writing.