Answer the following questions using the chapters, "Last Man Out," "Winter Days," "Christmas Eve" and Web sites listed below to find your answers. You must cite specific passages from the book to support your answers.

What did people do for entertainment on the frontier?

Where did they get items such as food and clothing?

What types of food did they normally eat?

What types of foods were considered exotic?

How does the Ingall's holiday compare to the last holiday you celebrated?

Where do your clothes and food come from?

Where do you find presents for your family members?

Would you rather spend your next holiday as the Ingalls did or as your family does? Why?

Web sites:

• Think Quest
  http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6400/toys.htm
  Learn about pioneer games, toys, and songs.
  
  
• Walton Feed: Food and Food Preservation on the Frontier
  http://waltonfeed.com/old/
  Use the index of links to information to find out what people ate and how they preserved their food.
  
  
• PBS: FRONTIER HOUSE
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/
  This is a great source of information about life on the U.S. frontier in the late 1800.

Compare: How does the Ingall’s holiday compare to the last holiday you celebrated. Where do your clothes and food come from? Where do you find presents for your family members? Would you rather spend your next holiday as the Ingalls did or as your family does? Why?