Thursday, December 13, 2012
Daily Dilemma #5
June 3, 1805
You and your men form a camp at the junction of two rivers. You have yet to reach the Great Falls of the
Missouri that the Native Americans told you about. Which river is the Missouri? A mistake at this point in
the journey would disappoint the entire Corps; it could even defeat the expedition.
You decide to scout both rivers on foot. The north fork is deeper than the south; its current is not as
swift, but its waters run in the same boiling and rolling manner as the Missouri. The south fork is very
rapid, with smooth round stones like most rivers coming from a mountainous country.
You become convinced that the branch you scouted, the northern branch, travels much too far to the
north for a route to the Pacific. You return the next day to the fork.
It continues to rain through the night. Everyone is disagreeable and restless. The rain has not stopped.
The ground is slippery; no one is able to walk on the sides of the bluffs. The ground is clay, making the
water saturation difficult and the ground slippery.
As you were walking along the face of one of the bluffs you slip and almost fall ninety feet. You
manage to save yourself with your espontoon.
Suddenly you hear Windsor cry out, “Good god Captain, what shall I do?” He too has slipped and
fallen. He is lying on his belly, with one hand. One foot is holding on to the edge of the cliff.
Knowing the clay is slippery, how will you attempt to save Windsor? Provided you all survive this
experience, which river branch will you take—the north or the south?
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ReplyDeleteWe decided we would help Windsor by giving him directions. We had him climb by making holes with a knife to put his hands and feet in. We cheated because we already knew Lewis and Clark did, but we tried to keep this out of are mind when we decided. Are discussion went like this. As soon as Misses McGuire read the dilemma Lexi and I said we thought we should give him directions. Lewis and Clark did the same thing. They though a person might slip if we tried to pull him up. We agreed. I think this the best choice.
ReplyDeleteWe also thought that we would take the south branch. Our discussion went like this.
"I think we should take the south branch." I said. Lexi agreed. Emilie wasn't sure, but decided to try the south branch. Lewis and Clark did the same thing. They explored the south branch until they found the Great Falls. I think this was a very good choice.
We decided to take the north branch. We decided this because Andrea looked at a map and learned that the north fork was the Missouri river. Sydnee said that we should take the North fork because that was what they did in the book, " The Captain's Dog". We all agreed. We also decided to tell Windsor to take his free hand, get his knife and carve a hold for his free foot. Than he could carve another foot hold and so in this way climb up the clay bank. I purposed something very similar to this because that is what they did in the book. Everyone thought that it was a good idea. Hugo also said that it would be dangerous to try to reach out to him.
ReplyDeleteLewis and Clark took the north fork. It had the same manner of current as the Missouri and also same characteristics. They decided to go on this, and we know now that they decided right. They also decided to tell Windsor to climb up. I know this because it was in our read aloud book. They told him to do exactly what we did.
We did not know any of the things that they knew, such as similarities in the river current and water flow. However we made the same decision. We made our decision because we knew which way was the Missouri. So our reasons were different but our ideas were the same. We told Windsor to climb because we knew it would be unsafe to try to grab him. They did to. So for this we decided the same thing for the same reasons.
we decided to take the south fork
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