Thursday, May 12, 2016

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Announcements and Reminders: Put away your kendamas and other toys before you come into the classroom.       Your internet/computer packets were due April 28.  If you did not hand it then, you should have taken it home to finish.  Hand in your internet/computer packet as soon as possible.  See Thursday, April 28, 2016 for helps and links to reprint the packet. Should you need to revise and resubmit any work, make sure that is turned in by May 20. May 20 is the last day to hand in any make-up, revised, or extra credit work.  Please pick up your work from the bottom wire basket for your class. At the end of class last time, your BICUM Brochure was due.  May 18, your Mind Map will be due, and you will take a test on the Lewis and Clark Expedition by recreating the map.   May 24 Read-a-thon!  Bring treats, pillow to sit on, blanket,  if you wish.  Make a note for yourself to bring treats!

Targets for Today: I read for enjoyment, and add to a record of my reading. I can read aloud fluently. I can use effective reading strategies and improve my reading skills.

Today’s  Agenda: Pick up your folders and take out or find a book or magazine to read. 1. Individual Reading Time and fill out your reading log.       Be in your seats READING by the time the bell rings. You are welcome to read the Lewis and Clark books if you wish to. Here is a reminder of how to fill out your reading log: Filling out your reading log: Examples  -- The Reading Log is required. # Date B M N O Title -- Use ditto marks (“)  when continuing the same material.  Material read/Explanation/Read from page__ to page __ Minutes Read Total Hours Read EX 1/13/16 X Scholastic Scope, Sept. 2013 pages 4-9  “Malala the  Powerful” 20 1/15/16 x The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles to pg. 43 20  2/3 2.   Partner Fluency --   Fill out your graph.         Use the passages you received last time. Here is a reminder of how to fill out your fluency graph: The Fluency Graph is required. Date 2-26-16 2-26-16 3-1-16 3-3-16 Passage # SCSS SCSS 706 706 Words Per MInute 120 124 122 130 3. Inferences:  A3: Complete inference worksheet #5   on your own. A4: Complete inference worksheet  on your own. _____________________ We finished the BICUM Brochure and  handed it in last time.  4. Today we will  practice by Study Reading the Packet about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and adding information from it to the Lewis and Clark mind Map. May 18, your Mind Map will be due, and you will  take a test on the Lewis and Clark Expedition by  recreating the map.   Illustrations for Lewis and Clark Last time we placed these items on the mind maps:   Atlantic Ocean Monticello,  Washington, D.C.  Philadelphia Pittsburgh Cincinnati St. Louis   with Camp Dubois Where the river bends in North Dakota, place Fort Mandan. (Where they show Portland, put Fort Clatsop instead.)  Ohio River Missouri River Mississippi River Great Falls of Montana Columbia River Pacific Ocean Photos of a Lewis and Clark Mind Map Thomas Jefferson  -- President 1801 Meriwether Lewis -- 28 years old William Clark  -- 32 years old Seaman York Today add:   Add  information from the packet to your mind map.    As you add each fact to your map, place it as near as you can to where it happened.  Top right corner The Lewis and Clark Expedition       Corps of Discovery Lower right corner (Your Name --- Your Class Period) Label  Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Monticello Pittsburgh Cincinnati St. Louis (Do not include Portland, Oregon.   It was not settled or founded until years later.) Mississippi River  (goes north and south through St. Louis Missouri River (label just west of St. Louis) Thomas Jefferson 1801 -- Became president  58 years old Louisiana Purchase -- 1803 bought from France $15 million Meriwether Lewis -- 28 years old Jefferson's private secretary Dog -- Seaman   William Clark -- 32 years old had been in the army together  York -- Slave He was about the same age as Clark. 32 at the beginning of the expedition. keelboat built in Pittsburg Lewis picked it up on his way from Philadelphia to Camp Dubois keelboat pirogues Pirogues They took two pirogues -- large rowboats with sails Seaman Seaman was thought to have been purchased by Meriwether Lewis for $20 while he was in Pittsburgh waiting for the completion of the keelboat.  Video:  A3 to 12:30 A4 to 15:59 Notes: The expedition was the equivalent in its day of a journey to the moon. Lewis was 28 years old, was President Jefferson's chief aid Clark was an expert mapmaker and river man, and a proven leader -- 32 years old. Many thought they would not return. Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States. York was Clark's slave and companion from childhood. Their main mission was to find a water route to the Pacific. Lewis studious and solitary. Two days out Lewis nearly lost his life. They made about 10 to 15 miles a day up the Missouri River. Sargeant Floyd died -- the only member of the expedition.  Prairie Dogs Bison  Buffalo Hunter Indians Lewis and Clark let the Indians know that the United States claimed their land.  Teton Sioux the most powerful tribe along the Missouri.  They often stopped travelers on the river.   Chief Black Buffalo waved his men off.  (near present site of Pierre, South Dakota) Mandan and Hidatsa Indians 5 villages -- 4000 people  (More than lived in St. Louis at the time) winter quarters for the Corps hired an interpreter 2 young Shoshone wives --  16 years old and pregnant    Sacagawea

http://www.lewis-and-clark-expedition.org/lewis-clark-keelboat.htm

http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/3072  Pirogues

https://franceshunter.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/lewis-clarks-prairie-dog-an-odyssey/  

Seaman:

http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/2295

Seaman's Fate:  

[Timothy Alden's] Entry 916 in his American Epitaphs and Inscriptions lists an interesting inscription on a dog collar in an Alexandria, Virginia, museum. It reads, "The greatest traveller of my species. My name is SEAMAN, the dog of captain Meriwether Lewis, whom I accompanied to the Pacifick ocean through the interior of the continent of North America."6

Seaman's collar in an Alexandria museum in 1814 – proof that he survived the expedition! But the entry gets better. Alden includes a note about the collar and its owner. It reads:

The foregoing was copied from the collar, in the Alexandria Museum, which the late gov. Lewis's dog wore after his return from the western coast of America. The fidelity and attachment of this animal were remarkable. After the melancholy exit of gov. Lewis, his dog would not depart for a moment from his lifeless remains; and when they were deposited in the earth no gentle means could draw him from the spot of interment. He refused to take every kind of food, which was offered him, and actually pined away and died with grief upon his master's grave!7