Westward Expansion 1800’s

T.A.H. 2013The Hawks

Jennifer Guerrero, Tawanna Cardoza and Miriam De León

Essential Questions: 1- How does the Lewis and Clarke expedition affect the expansion of the United States population in the 1800’s?

2- What was the impact on the Native American communities of the west?

Standards:

NYS Common Core Standards • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with events are described reasons and information.

NYS SS Framework: 5.6 The forces of expansion and migration have affected nations and cultures throughout the Western Hemisphere, resulting in population shifts, development of urban centers, displacement of native cultures, and imperial conflicts. (a) Geographic characteristics found in particular regions have served to aid expansion and the connection with other societies.

CCSS.ELA W.5.1, W.5.3 and RL.5.6NYS SS Framework 5.6.a

Explore what…? Why?Who led the exploration and why?

Modeling Task:Using Images to

understand events & Concepts

Worksheet & Differentiation Option

People Body Language Movement Setting Composition

                      

Directions: Look carefully at the painting you have been assigned (at least one full minute). Then, consider and describe the scene using the category below.

● Look at the arrangement of the figures in the artwork. ● Turn and talk to a partner using the following questions: ● What might their poses tell you about the story? ● What might their poses tell you about their relationship to each other?

Your turn!

Share:What words were used in your group to describe the place,

person, interactions in the paintings.

Extension: Journal Entry

Pretend you are one of the explorers hired by Thomas Jefferson to travel west. Please write a letter or journal entry about what you have seen in your journey to the west.

* Would you invite others or warn them?

Making Aged Paper

Sources • 'Grand Central Terminal' - Patrons bustle at the "Grand Central Terminal: An Early December Noon in the

Main Concourse" in this photo-realistic oil on linen painting by Stone Roberts. Museum of the City of New York. http://www.bloomberg.com/photo/-grand-central-terminal-/203615.html

• Encounter with the Teton Sioux, September 25, 1804, (painted 2010) depicts the tension-filled encounter between the Corps of Discovery and the Lakota http://jamesayers.com/2013/04/23/lewis-and-clark-lead-to-discoveries-today/

• Lewis and Clark Expedition: Sacagawea. Photograph. Britannica Online for Kids. Web. 24 July 2013. <http://kids.britannica.com/elementary/art-88074>.

• Lewis and Clark in the Bitterroots painted by Jim Carson http://www.jimcarsonstudio.com/large/lewis-and-clark-in-the-bitterroots

• "Lewis and Clark at Cape Disappointment" This painting depicts the Lewis and Clark Party on Cape Disappointment, which is on the Southwest Washington Coast just west of the town of Ilwaco, Washington. http://www.rogercooke.com/descriptions/description.486.html

• The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Thomas Mickell Burnham (1838) http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=16152#

• Clip from the National Geographic film Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/movie.html