Crossing the Plains, 1865

Good morning,
   Lots of fun last week with Lewis and Clark. You got to practice finding assumptions and statements about nature. Let's try it again and take it a step further.
   About 60 years after Lewis and Clark a teenage girl named Sarah crossed the plains with her family in a wagon train headed for Montana.  She kept a diary. 

1. As you read keep looking for ASSUMPTIONS and evidence of NATURE.
2. When you are done highlighting paste the URL in your English Journal.
3. Then copy one of your assumptions into your EJ also.
4. EXPLAIN why you think the part you copied is an assumption.

Awesome Highlighter
Sarah Raymond's Diary (Note the first three paragraphs are an introduction before her actual diary entries start.)

Moving West With Lewis and Clark

Good morning,
   In 1803 the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France.  In 1804  Lewis and Clark set out to explore this new territory overland. They were supposed to determine what resources the United States had acquired through this purchase.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/images/lewis-and-clark-map.jpg 

Today we will look at some of the entries in the journals of Lewis and Clark. As you read through these look for two things:

1. Any statements they make that relate to the natural space they were in.

2. Any statements that reflect their assumptions or beliefs.

We will use Awesome Highlighter for this today.

1. Go to The Journals of Lewis and Clark. 
2. Paste the URL for the journals into Awesome Highlighter.
3. Highlight statements about NATURE in GREEN 
4. Highlight ASSUMPTIONS or BELIEFS in YELLOW 
5. When you are DONE put the URL for your work today in to your English Journal. 
6. Example from Mrs. R.

Standard RC 2.5 Analyze an author's implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.