Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Michael Crichton: If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.

Announcements and Reminders:  April 14 Looking ahead:  We have 3 more classes. April 14 will be our class Read-a-Thon.   Bring books and treats and perhaps pillows to sit on. On April 16 you will rotate to Mrs. Fugal's classroom.

Today’s Agenda: 1. Individual Reading and Fill Out Your Log 2. Partner Fluency Practice (Your "passage" is to be labeled  "TT." 3. Reading to Learn:         Using Mind-Mapping to Learn and Remember        Continuing to create a Mind-Map for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Add drawings, words, icons, etc. to your map to help you understand  and retain (that means remember) the information  about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Sketch in state boundaries, rivers, events.  Start with the article. Use the maps you have. Use the timeline. Use information from the poem. Use information from the video. Finish watching the video. Video?    A3 to 26 with 15 left A4 to 30:51 with  10:52 left Take a test on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.  Test this time! Happy April Fools' Day!  The test is next time.  What strategies are you using?  Asking questions Visualizing Predicting Skimming and Scanning Close Reading Note taking  and creating icons and other visual images Making connections

If you were absent:  See above. Ask for the handouts when you get back. Complete 20 minutes of reading on your own, record it, get a parent signature, and attach it to your reading log.

On your maps (and in your minds), make sure you have

1. The  year that Jefferson became president.
2. The year that the U.S. bought the Louisiana Purchase.
3. From whom did the U.S. buy the Louisiana Purchase?
4. A sketch of where the Louisiana Purchase fits on the map of the expedition
5. What month and day did the expedition begin?
6. What month and day did the expedition end?
7. How far did they go?
8. Where did the expedition begin and end? 
9. To whom did the Oregon Region belong at the time?
10. How did the expedition travel?
11. What was the main river they traveled on while on the east side of the mountains?
12. Who were the two leaders of the expedition?
13. How old was each of them?
14. How was each chosen? 
15. What did Meriwether Lewis do to prepare for the expedition?
16. What was Clark doing at the same time to prepare for the expedition?
17. Who was York?
18. Tell about the only pet to go on the expedition.
19. How many men went with the expedition?
20. How many boats did they take?
21. For whom did they take gifts? 
22. What was the first tragedy that the expedition experienced? 
23. Who was the most powerful -- and perhaps dangerous -- tribe that they met?
24. Where did the expedition spend their first winter?  Fort -------  near what is now Bismark, ______   _________ (state)
25. The expedition was joined by two (soon to be three) people.  Who were they?
26. How old was Sacajawea at the time?
27. They sent part of the group back to Saint Louis.  What did they send with them?
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28. Name two animals they saw that they had never seen before. (One of them is dangerous!)
1.  ____________ 
29. As they approached the mountains, they knew they needed horses. How did they get the horses?
30. What hardships did they experience crossing the Rocky Mountains?
31. Name one of the rivers they traveled on after crossing the Rocky Mountains.
32. Where did they spend their second winter?
33. Why did they divide into two groups on the way back?
34. What was "the most important" result of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
35. In what other ways was it helpful?