Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:  If you need it, be prepared to take or retake the Bill of Rights quiz during cave time. Use your pictures or flashcard or study at Friday, May 2, 2014. May 27:   Read-a-thon -- Bring something to read, a treat if you wish, and a pillow to sit on if you'd like to.  Return any books you have checked out from our classroom. No late or revised work or extra credit after Friday, May 23, 2014. Have you met the 40 book challenge?  Turn in your chart to your English teacher right away for a special treat next week. Do you have these facts about Lewis and Clark? Thomas Jefferson became president of the U.S. in 1801.  In 1803 the United States bought the Louisiana Purchase from France for $15 million, or about four cents an acre. Lewis had been President Jefferson's secretary, and Jefferson chose him to lead the expedition. Lewis was 28 years old at the beginning of the expedition. Lewis chose William Clark to be his co-leader. Clark had been his superior in the army, but because he had retired from the army, his rank was now less than Lewis'.   They shared leadership responsibilities equally on the expedition, and there is no record of them ever arguing or disagreeing about any important decision. Clark was 32 years old. In preparation for the expedition, Lewis went to Philadelphia to study classification of plants and animals and how to determine geographical position by observing the stars. In the meanwhile, Clark went out to recruit members of the expedition.  He was looking especially for skilled hunters and woodsmen.   Most of the men were soldiers, used to hard work and military discipline.  Clark's slave York went with them. Lewis brought his dog, a Newfoundland named Seaman.   They left in May of 1804 and returned in September of 1906. They had been gone for 28 months and had traveled 8,000 miles. On the way they wintered with the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians in what is now North Dakota.  They called their winter camp Fort Mandan.   They were joined by a French-Canadian trader named Toussaint Carbonneau.  His young wife, a Shoshone Indian who had been kidnapped from her home by another tribe, also came along with the expedition.   Her name was Sacagawea and that February she gave birth to a baby boy they named John Baptiste Charbonneau.   It took them a year and a half to reach the Pacific Ocean. The return trip took them only six months.  By the time they returned most people back East thought they had all died. Only one member of the expedition died-  a Sergeant Floyd who probably died of appendicitis near present-day Sioux City, Iowa.

Today:
1. Individual Reading
2. Fluency Practice -- new passage
3. Study more about Lewis and Clark.  Complete your mind map for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Prepare for the test next time.

Did you

   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  boundaries, rivers, people, events? 
Did you start with the article,
use the maps you have,
use the timeline,

 and 

use information from the video?

Take a test on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 

Test next time!

For the test you will put facts (and sketches) on your map in appropriate places.
Label so the ideas are clear. Writing must be legible. 
10 facts = C
20 facts = B
30 facts = A

If you were absent:  See above. Don't forget to complete the make-up work for your individual reading.