sweet betsy from pike
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John A. Stone, before 1858 As you listen, point out features in the painting that the song mentions. Sweet Betsy from Pike. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
SWEET BETSY FROM PIKE John A. Stone, before 1858
As you listen, point out features in the painting that the song mentions.
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, an oil painting on canvas by Emanuel Leutze from about 1861, is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
WESTWARD HO! 1800 – 1850
Thousands followed the cry “Westward Ho!”
Western frontier – lure of new land, new opportunities, a new start
ACTIVITY 3 scene mini-drama 6 groups of western settlers
Explorers Californios Mountain men Missionaries Pioneer women Mormons
ROLES Director Script Manager Props Manager Stage Manager
STEPS Learn about your group
Look at picture, review reading material Brainstorm ideas and create 3
sceneboards Scene 1: Why the group moved west Scene 2: Hardships the group faced Scene 3: Legacies the group left
Write the script Prepare materials Rehearse
MINI DRAMA IMAGES
Image 1: Explorers Image 2: Californios Image 3: Mountain Men Image 4: Missionaries Image 5: Pioneer Women Image 6: Mormon Pioneers
Lewis and Clark at Three Forks. Edgar S. Paxson. Courtesy of the Montana Historical Society.
Image 1: Explorers
Hacendado y Su Mayordomo (“The Landowner and His Foreman”)
Image 2: Californios
Frederic Remington (1861–1909), The Mountain Man, 1903
Image 3: Mountain Men
Image 4: Pioneer Missionaries
Image 5: Pioneer Women
Emigrants Crossing the Plains. Hand Colored steel engraving by Henry Bryan Hall after a drawing by Felix Octavius Carr Darley. Published by D. Appleton & Company, 1869.
Image 6: Mormon Pioneers