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Name __________________________________ Donner Dinner Party Use this as a guide as you read Nathan Hale’s Donner Dinner Party. What are some aspirations of the people who wanted to travel west? Keep a list of trials and tribulations throughout the story _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ pg. 19 Would you be tempted to go on the shortcut route? Why or why not? _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ pg. 25 The pioneer book Reed refers to is written by a lawyer. How valid would you feel a pioneer book was if you found out it wasn’t written by an expert explorer, or even another pioneer? _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Name __________________________________ pg. 25 Make a prediction on whether Reed will take Lt. Clyman’s advice. Explain your reasoning. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ pg. 31 It’s hinted that Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez don’t give the letter from Hastings to the Donner Party. Why wouldn’t they? What’s in it for them? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ pg. 65 They made it back to the main trail which should be an exciting moment. But it isn’t, why? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ pg. 70 Reed and Snyder have a huge argument with disastrous results. The Hangman and the officer disagree about who is guilty. Which side do you agree with? Use evidence from the story to support your opinion. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Name __________________________________ pg. 87 The author, Nathan Hale, creates a visual of where all the different “parties” set up camp after the big snow. What information is included and how does it help? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Draw three conclusions based on the visuals on pg. 87. There were many bad decisions made along the trip to California, but most people would say that the first wrong turn was taking Hasting’s Cutoff and leaving the main road. How might the outcome of the story been different if they hadn’t taken the shortcut? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Turn to page 125. On it, there is a flow chart. Follow the chart to see whether not you would have survived the Donner Party. (For the purposes of this “fun” chart, consider a family to be large if there are more than 3 children.) Share your results below: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name __________________________________ All Those People! Use this table to keep track of the main characters and their attributes. Name Family/Party Physical Characteristics Things They Said or Did