Rural Settings in Stories
Missouri 1840s, Texas mid-late 1800s, Carolina Mountains 1930s 

​Use the following resources to research each rural setting. Gather 10 facts about each setting to complete your Rural Fact Sheet shared with you in Google Classroom
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Missouri in the 1840s
  1. Mark Twain's Mississippi (yes, this is correct. It refers to the Mississippi River, not the state)
  2. Missouri Digital Heritage (stay within your correct time frame)
  3. Missouri Historic Towns
  4. Hannibal History 
  5. The History of Hannibal
  6. Mark Twain Historic District
  7. Voices from the Trail
  8. Henry County Missouri

Texas in the mid to late 1800s (roughly from 1850-1900)
  1. ​Rural Life in Texas
  2. Late Nineteenth-Century Texas
  3. Timeline of Texas Women's History (stay within your correct time frame)
  4. The Transformation of the Texas Economy
  5. Life on the Frontier
  6. Bell County History (just one of many rural counties at the time)
  7. Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead
  8. Life in the State of Texas
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​Carolina Mountains in the 1930s
  1. Blue Ridge Mountains (Be sure to check out the additional links at the bottom under "Learn More About the Parkway")
  2. Great Smoky Mountains
  3. History of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park​
  4. Great Smoky Mountains Parkway and the Cherokees
  5. The Great Depression in North Carolina
  6. Agriculture in North Carolina during the Great Depression
  7. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
  8. Great Depression and the New Deal
  9. The Depression for Farmers
  10. Life During the Depression (Be sure to check out all the links on the side of this page)

​How to Cite a Website in Noodletools. DO NOT paste a URL onto your fact sheet. That is NOT a proper citation.
​Use Noodletools!
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​You probably need a website citation refresher. Watch the video on the left to help you. Although the video walks you through a different website than others on this page, the process for citing any website is the same! Use the process in the video to walk you through how to cite the sources you need to for this assignment.
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To get started: 
  1. Login to Noodletools using Google
  2. Create a new project. Name it. Choose Junior for your style.
  3. Make sure you are in the Sources tab at the top (not Dashboard)
  4. Click New Citation, Choose Website, and then choose Webpage
  5. Then cite the website (use the video above to help)