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Sacagawea’s Journey
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Word Knowledge Line 1: explore explorers exploring exploration Line 2: curtain campfire crime contact command Line 3: afternoon homecoming hailstones rainstorm Line 4: plain plane waist waste herd Sentence 1: The exploration party buried a cache of food near the campfire. Sentence 2: The explorers made contact with the captain. Sentence 3: This afternoon there was a shower of hailstones outside. Sentence 4: From the window of the plane, we could see the river winding through the campfire.
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Background Information BBiography LLewis and Clark expedition began in 1804 at the Mississippi River in St. Louis CCorp reached the Pacific Ocean in September 23, 1806 CClark published Lewis’s journal after he died SSacagawea was part of the Shoshone tribe and married a fur trader named Toussaint Charbonneau SSacagawea and her family were hired as interpreters and guides to help the expedition SSacagawea’s face appears on the one-dollar coin
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Provisions Supplies such as food, water, and medicine Singular: Provision NOUN
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The act of carrying boats over land when water passage is dangerous or impossible (V) Portaged (V) Portaging NOUN PORTAGE
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Capable Skilled or able to do something well (N) Capability (Adv) Capably ADJECTIVE
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Desperation A hopeless feeling when you are ready to try anything to help the situation (Adj) Desperate (Adv) Desperately NOUN
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Scouting When someone on a journey is going ahead to look for information (N) A Scout (V) To Scout
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Comprehension Questions 1. Why was it hard to travel on the Missouri River? 2. How did Lewis chart their route? 3. Why was the trip important to Sacagawea? 4. Why did Sacagawea look at the moccasins? 5. Why was the Missouri River such a challenge 6. How did Sacagawea help? 7. Why did they leave the red pirogue? 8. How did they help Sacagawea to feel better? 9. Who took Sacagawea away from the Shoshone? 10. What do the Shoshone call their land? 1. They traveled upstream. 2. He used the stars to chart. 3. She was returning to her homeland where she had been taken from as a child. 4. She checked to see what tribe they belonged to. 5. The river branched off in many directions and they didn’t know which one to take. 6. She knew the land and how to find food. 7. They had too much to carry. 8. They gave her mineral water. 9. A Hidatsa warrior took her. 10. They call it “Shining Mountains.”
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