Tell It Again! Read-Aloud Anthology - EngageNY

The Journal of a Twelve-
Year-Old on the Erie Canal
3B
Extensions
20 minutes
Timeline
Quickly review what was placed on the timeline in the previous
lessons. Show students Image Card 7 (Erie Canal). Explain that the
Erie Canal was first used in 1825, which was almost twenty years
after the first voyage of Robert Fulton’s steamboat. Ask students
where the Image Card should be placed on the timeline, and then
place it to the right of the image of Fulton’s steamboat. Save the
timeline for use in later lessons.
Multiple Meaning Word Activity
Sentence in Context: Board
1. [Show Poster 2M (Board).] In the read-aloud you heard the
twelve-year-old boy write in his journal, “Every time we take
more goods on board, it slows down our travel.” Here, board
means to be on or in a boat. [Show image 2A-1: People in
New York boarding Fulton’s steamboat. Then point to image 1
on the poster, people on board the flatboat on the Erie Canal.]
2. A board is a long, thin, flat piece of wood. [Point to the board
in image 2.]
3. Board also refers to a flat piece of material that is used for
a special purpose, such as writing. [Point to image 3, the
chalkboard and the whiteboard.]
4. Now with your partner, make a sentence for each meaning of
board. I will call on some of you to share your sentences.
[Call on a few partner pairs to share one or all of their sentences.
Have them point to the meaning of board that their sentence uses.]
50 Westward Expansion 3B | The Journal of a Twelve-Year-Old on the Erie Canal
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