Traveling West Constructed Response is a guide for students to write a constructed response step by step based on what settlers would take on the journey west.

1. Traveling West
Constructed Response

2. Steps to Writing a Constructed Response
• During the period of Westward Expansion, many
settlers traveled across the same 2,000-mile trail to
the west, and the trip was very challenging. Tell 3
things you would take on the trip west and why?
Use details from the Westward Expansion:
Oregon Trail passage to support your answer.
• (2-5 sentences in a paragraph)

3. 1. Understand the Prompt
Background knowledgeSettlers travelled the Oregon Trail and it
was a challenge.
Tell 3 things you would take and why. Question or Command Task
Use Oregon Trail passage to
support your answer.
Proof

4. 2. Restate the question.
Tell 3 things you would take on the trip west and why.
•Settlers traveling west had to make decisions
about what to take. If I had to travel west on
the Oregon Trail, I would take Item 1, Item
2, and Item 3.

5. 3. Explain Why & Evidence & Conclusion
•Item 1 would be useful because
_________________. Item 2 would______
and Item 3 in case
____________________________.

6. Re-Read Your Response
• Settlers traveling west had to make decisions about what to
take. If I had to travel west on the Oregon Trail, I would
take rice, blankets, and footcream. Rice would be useful
because its food that would last on the six month journey,
and could trade with other settlers for things that they may
have. Blankets would be great to keep warm and for when
stops are made to eat and sleep. Footcream would help
with the pain of having to walk six month barefoot with no
shoes. These are the items that would be most helpful on
the journey west.