This set of worksheets provides reading questions and writing tasks that cover five themes (work, corruption, tensions among immigrant groups, conflict with Indians, boomtowns) found in the historical fiction book, The Journal of Sean Sullivan.

This is a list of the book’s themes along with the related journal entries.

This is a basic vocabulary list to use with this book. There are other words and terms that your students may want to add in the space provided at the end.