Unit 3: Chapter 5 - Passing Through the Great Basin

 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? This is a no gum class. Please dispose of it properly!

Word: desolateMy Understanding: Definition:Draw a picture of it: Sentence: Synonym/ Example: Antonym/Non- Example:

Word: desolateMy Understanding: Definition: barren; deserted Draw a picture of it: Sentence: Jed Smith crossed the desolate Great Basin on his way back to Utah. Synonym/ Example: bleak; barren; desert Antonym/Non- Example: lush, verdant; forest

Word: replenishMy Understanding: Definition:Draw a picture of it: Sentence: Synonym/ Example: Antonym/Non- Example:

Word: replenishMy Understanding: Definition: to replace or make Draw a picture of it: complete again Sentence: Many pioneers traveling on the Overland Trails had to replenish their supplies at forts or trading posts. Synonym/ Example: replace Antonym/Non- Example: deplete

 History Objective - We will identify the early pioneers who crossed through Utah and their contributions to 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.

Divide your paper into six boxes. 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. 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)

 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!!

 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 Emigrant’s 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).

 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 Utah’s 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.

 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?

 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.

 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.

 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)

 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? This is a no gum class. Please dispose of it properly!

 Take out your study guide and answer questions  If you finish those questions, work on your map.  If you are finished with everything, read a book.  Where should your backpack be? 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? This is a no gum class. Please dispose of it properly!

 Review for the counties test! This is a no gum class. Please dispose of it properly!