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Warmup : 9/26

Warmup : 9/26. When you hear the term, “The Wild West”, list 3 ideas that come to mind. 1. 2. 3. WRITE: Westward HO! In your spiral notebooks. Read : The Donner Party Diary & answer the following questions in your spirals. Write Heading: WestwardHO ! The Donner Party.

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Warmup : 9/26

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  1. Warmup: 9/26 • When you hear the term, “The Wild West”, list 3 ideas that come to mind. • 1. • 2. • 3.

  2. WRITE: Westward HO! In your spiral notebooks Read: The Donner Party Diary & answer the following questions in your spirals.

  3. Write Heading: WestwardHO! The Donner Party Answer the following in COMPLETE SENTENCES: 1. Who or what was the Donner Party? 2. Why do you suppose careful observations of the weather are entered in each diary entry? 3. What was the FATE of the Donner Party? 4. Was it necessary to resort to the actions that occurred?

  4. Manifest Destiny • Belief that it is mandatory that the United States expand its influence from “sea to shining sea”, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.

  5. “FRONTIER THESIS” by Frederick Jackson Turner

  6. “people who moved West were of hearty stock, they were tough”

  7. Rugged Individualism!A New kind of American • “Settling the West beyond the Mississippi River produced a NEW kind of American. One that defined America. Not the European that came and settled in the East but one that conquered the wilderness by foot, by wagon, by horse and set down roots to settle the plains”

  8. Movie: The Real West

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