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to be continued... We are going to create an adventure story about Lewis and Clark’s Expedition that: Lewis and Clark were ready to face the unexpected.

My adventure story will solve the following problem:

Was Lewis and Clark prepared for the unexpected?

My audience will experience my story through the eyes of:

Lewis and Clark being a young child learning new things.

My adventure story will have the following common characteristics of an adventure story:

Bravery, exploration, danger, new things, and also suffering a bit with trying to survive.

My adventure story will have the following key historical events:

The expedition, how they met the Shoshone Indians with Sacagawea, and the same climate that Lewis and Clark faced.

My adventure story will have the following key historical characters:

Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, the Shoshone Indians with Sacagawea, and the unexpected( like the animals they have discovered in the west.)

My adventure story will have the following key historically important concrete objects:

Our adventure story will have the Idians they have met, the animals, the mountains, ocean, rivers, different types of land like large fields, and also, the characters. (like Lewis and Clark.)

My adventure story will be credible because I will support it with the following primary sources:

The primary sources that we used is the journal of Lewis and Clark, which they wrote. ( at National Geographic.)

My adventure story will be credible because I will support it with the following secondary sources:

Map of Lewis and Clark's journey, the real characters ( in other words, not made up ones.), National Geograpic, Wikipedia, wikispaces (were we saved all of our notes.) and movie maker to show our project.

My adventure story will make the audience feel the following emotions:

Shocked, amazed, and also, they will feel as though they were Lewis and Clark.

I will engage my audience by doing the following (this is something I have never done before):

A movie on Lewis and Clark on their expedition and how they faced the unexpected.

April 7- May 3, 1805 The Indians warned them about the Grizzlies, but Lewis didn't think anything of it. On April 29, Lewis changed his mind. got chased by a bear for 80 meters before he was able to kill the bear.

May 29-June 11, 1805 On June 3, the expidition came to a fork in the river. Some believed that the southern branch would lead to the Rockies, which they wanted to cross. The rest dissagreed, and believed that the northern branch was the right choice. Lewis decided to to take 3 men with him up the southern branch in search of the Great Falls. He became the first white man to see the Great Falls of the Missouri River

August 25- October 7, 1805 Snow began to fall as they headed for the Continental Divide. There wasn't much food. Finally, they reached the divide and passed into the Bitterroot Valley. After 11 days in the Bitterroots, the horses and the men were close to starvation. They went over the mountains and made contact with the Nez Perce and got food from them.

March 23- April 28, 1806 On March 23, they began to travel up the Colombian River. During this journey, the men fought a strong current and had to portage around the falls of the river. Chinookan Indians were trying to steal the expition's supplies and were a constant source of harrassment. Also, getting around the falls was too hard of a challenge, so they soon abandoned their conoes and used horses to continue on their journey.

July 3- July 28, 1806 Clark and his group were crossing the divide again, and ended up in the territory of the Crow tribe, the great horse thieves of the plains. On July 31 they woke to find thalf of their horses gone, but never saw a Crow. Meanwhile, Lewis's men went across the Marias River, which was dangerous Blackfeet Indian territory. On July 26, eight Blackfeet spotted them. They seemed friendly, and they decided to all camp together. Lewis's men took turns standing guard through the night. In the morning, the Indians stole a pair of rifles, and two Indians died in the struggle. Lewis and his men rode off, not knowing if they were being chased by the Indians.