Students will be able to: 1. Identify the characteristics of a boom town 2. Describe a boom town 3. Interconnect a boom town to a growing economy 4. List businesses connected to boom towns ELL: Ell's will be able to discern the traits of boom towns and identify jobs related to boom towns. Also, the definition to typically hard words will be explained to them: cooper, miller, blacksmith, tanner. History: Connections between old jobs and last names.

Students will count hearts and organize them by color, and they can do this in English or Spanish. Then they have to read the messages in the candy hearts, and count the number of hearts per message. Great for regular ed and ESOL.