Use the readings (Introduction v. 1 p. 311-3333) as a basis for your own musings, anecdotes, or personal reflections. In other words, allow your mind to make connections between what you read, past reading...
While I was reading I became very interested in the part when it was talking about the Lousiana Purchase and the exploration of Lewis and Clark. I lived out in Washington, extremely close to the mouth of the Columbia River, for 3 years. I moved there when I was in 4th grade and had never even heard the names of Lewis and Clark and by the time I moved to Texas at the end of 6th grade I was a self-proclaimed skilled Lewis and Clark expert. The work those two did and the adventures they embarked on had fascinated me when I lived out there. I was hungry for knowlegde about them and I believed they needed to become more important in other parts of the United States and children every where should learn about them because they had made such a huge difference after the Lousiana Purchase. After I moved to Texas I realized that Lewis and Clark were just a quick mention during history classes and that was about all the credit they ever got, slowly my fasination with them wore away and I became more interested in a great number of different things. I never knew my knowledge about them would come back to help me. I was a junior in high school when my world history teacher, who was always my sisters furture mother-in-law, knew I had lived in Washington. During the small segment of Lewis and Clark time I was called on by her to share my information and elighten people with my understanding. To this day I still get excited every time I see something about them or come across a Sacagawea dollar. Reading about Lewis and Clark in this part of the introduction vol. 1 was so fun for me to remember just how proud of I am of not only being an American but proud of living in Washington and proud to say I have been to the mouth of the Columbia River and stood were Lewis and Clark have both stood.
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