Early Pioneers Passing Through Utah

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Early Pioneers Passing Through Utah

• Unit 3 Chapter 5 - Passing Through the Great
  Basin

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Bell Activity
This is a no gum class. Please dispose of it
properly!

• Your words are desolate and replenish
• Find the word on your orange study guide and
  complete the following information for the word.
• Find the definition using a glossary.
• Use your own knowledge and experience to complete
  the rest of the definition.
• Where should your backpack be?

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Does your work look something like this?
Word desolate Word desolate My Understanding 4 3 2 1
Definition Definition Draw a picture of it
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Sentence Sentence Draw a picture of it
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Synonym/Example Antonym/Non-Example Draw a picture of it
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Does your work look something like this?
Word desolate Word desolate My Understanding 4 3 2 1
Definition barren deserted Definition barren deserted Draw a picture of it
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Sentence Jed Smith crossed the Sentence Jed Smith crossed the Draw a picture of it
desolate Great Basin on his way back to desolate Great Basin on his way back to Draw a picture of it
Utah. Utah. Draw a picture of it
Synonym/Example bleak barren desert Antonym/Non-Example lush, verdant forest Draw a picture of it
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What are we learning today?

• History Objective - We will identify the early
  pioneers who crossed through Utahand their
  contributionsto those who followed them.
• Behavior Collaboration Work together to
  identify each group and what was distinct about
  them.

• Language Objective - We will read about a
  pioneer group in our book, pick 5 details about
  them, and present them to the class.

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Divide your paper into six boxes.
Early Pioneers Pass Through Utah
Bidwell-Bartleson Party (84-85)
Lansford Hastings (88)
Bryant Party (88)
Harlan-Young Group (88-89)
Lienhard Party (89)
Miles Goodyear (92)

• Leave enough space for 4-6 details about each
  group or person.
• Then read and write down 4-6 important details
  about each group or person.
• Deciding what information is important from a
  section of reading is a critical skill to have.
  Work with your group to decide what information
  to include.

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This clip summarizes how the U.S. expanded across
the continent and beyond.
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Example Bidwell-Bartleson Party

• 1) This was the first wagon to pass through Utah.
  They were going to California and included Nancy
  Kelsey, the first white woman to pass through
  Utah.
• 2) They had little knowledge and no maps of the
  region, but they were joined by a trapper named
  Fitzpatrick three priests who knew the way to
  California.
• 3) They struggled to cross the Great Salt Lake
  Desert and the Great Basin beyond to reach the
  Humbolt River.
• 4) They had to abandon their wagons to get
  through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in October,
  but they made it to California.
• 5) No group used their route again. It was too
  difficult!!

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Lansford Hastings

• 1) People were looking for faster routes to
  Oregon California.
• 2) Hastings talked to John C. Fremont decided
  Cali. could be reached by a short cut through
  Utah.
• 3) He published An Emigrants Guide to Oregon and
  California, and proposed a short cut to Cali.,
  but he had never taken the route he proposed!!
• 4) The next year he traveled the route on
  horseback, and left messages for groups to take
  his route to California.
• 5) 5 groups took his short cut (out of 1000s
  going west).

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Bryant Party

• 1) This group met Hastings at Fort Bridger and he
  convinced them to take his cut-off (short cut).
• 2) The 9 people in the group set out on mules
  through Utahs mountains.
• 3) They followed the Weber River through the
  Wasatch Mountains into Ogden Valley. It was not
  an easy route!
• 4) They went around the Great Salt Lake and west
  across the salt flats.
• 5) They reached California in good shape.

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Did you get the most important details?

• Present your information to the class then
  compare with the details that were the most
  important?
• Do they match?
• Was your information important or trivial?

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Harlan-Young Group

• 1) They were the first wagon train to cross
  through the mountains of Utah.
• 2) Weber Canyon was almost impossible to get
  through.
• 3) They lost horses and a wagon in the canyon.
• 4) Hastings warned the next group to find a
  different path rather than go through Weber
  Canyon.
• 5) This group made it to California in good shape.

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Lienhard Party

• 1) This group included immigrants from Germany
  and Switzerland who had just come to the United
  States.
• 2) They wanted to get free land in California.
• 3) They met Hastings who told them not to go
  through the mountains to Ogden to find a
  different route.
• 4) They ignored him and made it through the
  mountains safely.
• 5) They would have stayed in Utah if other white
  families had lived there, but went onto
  California instead.

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Miles Goodyear

• 1) Miles Goodyear was a mountain man who planned
  to build a trading post near the Great Salt Lake.
• 2) He had married a Ute Indian woman years
  earlier and had two children.
• 3) He thought a trading post on Hastings's Cutoff
  would make good money for him and his family.
• 4) Goodyear and his partner built the trading
  post, Fort Buenaventura, on the Weber River at
  the future site of Ogden.
• 5) The fort included a garden, sheep and cattle
  (good supplies for hungry travelers!)
• 5)

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Bell Activity
This is a no gum class. Please dispose of it
properly!

• Your word is replenish
• Find the word on your orange study guide and
  complete the following information for the word.
• Find the definition using a glossary.
• Use your own knowledge and experience to complete
  the rest of the definition.
• Where should your backpack be?

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Does your work look something like this?
Word replenish Word replenish My Understanding 4 3 2 1
Definition Definition Draw a picture of it
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Sentence Sentence Draw a picture of it
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Synonym/Example Antonym/Non-Example Draw a picture of it
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Does your work look something like this?
Word replenish Word replenish My Understanding 4 3 2 1
Definition to replace or make Definition to replace or make Draw a picture of it
complete again complete again Draw a picture of it
Draw a picture of it
Sentence Many pioneers traveling on Sentence Many pioneers traveling on Draw a picture of it
the Overland Trails had to replenish their the Overland Trails had to replenish their Draw a picture of it
supplies at forts or trading posts. supplies at forts or trading posts. Draw a picture of it
Synonym/Example replace Antonym/Non-Example deplete Draw a picture of it
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Bell Activity
This is a no gum class. Please dispose of it
properly!

• Get your folders from the back of the room
• Take out your study guide and work on anything
  that is incomplete, including the essay!
• Where should your backpack be?