Good morning everyone,

I hope you had a great weekend. Today we are going to take a look at the expedition of Lewis and Clark across the United States from 1804 to 1806. Lewis and Clark embarked on their journey in 1804 to establish the most direct water route to the Pacific Ocean. The United States had just acquired land from the Louisiana Purchase. The land was bought from the French, who did not even technically own all of the land themselves, by Thomas Jefferson. The land purchased doubled the size of the United States and gave the Americans control over trade along the Mississippi river.

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Throughout their expedition Lewis and Clark kept detailed journals of their discoveries and findings which we will be reading today. Their findings contributed to the discovery of numerous plants and animals as well as the conservation of various natural parks and historic sights throughout the country.

1. Go to the Lewis and Clark journals.

2. Copy and paste the URL to the journals into Awesome Highlighter.

3. Use the color YELLOW to highlight all of the assumptions made by Lewis and Clark.

4. Use the color GREEN to highlight all the statements that apply to nature.

5. When you are finished, copy and paste the URL into your English journal.

6. Click HERE for an example.

We are also beginning a new standard today. The standard is: Analyze an author's implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.