Saturday, September 17, 2016

Tuesday, September 20, 2016


Announcements and Reminders:
                         
You'll be having your test on Lewis and Clark soon! Use your time wisely today to finish your Mind Map.


Targets for Today:

I can finish my Lewis and Clark Mind Map!


Today’s  Agenda:

Silent Reading 

Mind Map Helps

Title at the top of the page -- Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Corps of Discovery 

  • the brief background about M. Lewis and W. Clark and Jefferson 
  • Lewis studying in Philadelphia 
  • Clark finding men
  • the keelboat on its way to St. Louis
  • Camp Dubois (Camp Wood)  at St. Louis and the date the expedition actually began
  • Death of Capt. Floyd -- a gravestone  (date) 
  • seeing prairie dogs and buffalo
  • encounter with Teton Sioux
  • Fort Mandan -- wintered there -- Sacajawea (baby  born in February) (What years?)
  • left in spring -- sent keelboat back with specimens and maps and their least competent men to Jefferson
  • grizzly bears
  • The Great Falls of Montana where they had to portage around
  • Needing horses -- finding the Shoshone Indians -- and Sacajawea's brother
  • Nez Pierce Indians
  • Columbia River
  • Fort Clatsop -- wintered there  (What years?)
  • first time black man and woman voted in official government vote
  • return trip separated -- Lewis went North (brief battle with a few Blackfoot Indians) and Shortly afterward, the half-blind private Pierre Cruzatte mistook Lewis for an elk and shot him in the thigh
  • Clark followed a more southern route.  
  • Return to St. Louis  (date)



If You Were Absent:

Make up your reading using a pink form. Finish your Mind Map!

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