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?

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Word: desolate My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: Draw a picture of it:

Sentence:

Synonym/Example:

Antonym/Non-Example:

Word: desolate My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

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: replenish My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: Draw a picture of it:

Sentence:

Synonym/Example:

Antonym/Non-Example:

Word: replenish My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

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 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.

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?

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Take out your study guide and answer questions 1-12.

If you finish those questions, work on your map.

If you are finished with everything, read a book.

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Get your folders from the back of the room

Take out your study guide and work on anything that is incomplete, including the essay!

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Review for the counties test!

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