The last project that we finished in 6th grade Language Arts of the year was The Westing Game book and stocks. The Westing Game is a brilliant book by Ellen Raskin. In the book, one of the main characters invested in the stock market. We took this idea and our math specialist helped us create a spreadsheet for stocks. We invested as close to $20,000 fake dollars in the stock market to six different companies, and bought as many shares as necessary to make it to the set price. We started checking the stocks on April 14th and ended on May 30th, checking every week. When I first checked my stocks after a week, I was up $275.80, and the last time I checked them a couple of weeks later I was down $2003.20. You can invest in stocks in the real world, and you can actually end up gaining more than you bought. This project was fun to put ourselves in the shoes of a beloved character, and I loved checking it every week to see the results.