This is a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the life of Levi Strauss; co-inventor of the blue jean. It depicts his life as an uneducated immigrant who, through his hard work and tenacity, became successful during the Gold Rush Years. Show this to your class as an addition to you Gold Rush unit; showing how it was the merchants who really made money during Gold Rush times.

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I've been teaching for 13 years in Elementary Education. I taught for 9 years in a parent participation charter school in Watsonville, California; grades K-4. I loved the experience of working in a farm community with such a diverse group of children. I've been teaching 2nd grade for two years in the urban and equally diverse area of Hoboken, NJ.