FROM THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA

• WHILE CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH AND HIS MEN ARE ON AN

EXPEDITION, THEY ARE ATTACKED BY THREE HUNDRED

INDIANS WITH BOWS AND ARROWS.

• THE INDIANS KILL SMITH'S MEN (ROBINSON AND EMRY)

BUT THEY SPARE HIS LIFE AFTER HE GIVES THEM HIS

COMPASS, WHICH FASCINATES THEM.

• WHEN POWHATAN, THE INDIAN LEADER WITH MORE

THAN TWO HUNDRED MEN, DECIDES TO HAVE SMITH

KILLED, POWHATAN'S DAUGHTER, POCAHONTAS, SAVES

THE PRISONER.

• SHE LATER HELPS THE SETTLERS BY BRINGING THEM

FOOD.

• AFTER SIX WEEKS, SMITH RETURNS TO JAMESTOWN,

ACCOMPANIED BY FRIENDLY INDIANS. THE INDIANS

ADMIRE SMITH FOR HIS BRAVERY, AND HE GIVES THEM

PRESENTS.

• THE COLONISTS AT JAMESTOWN

EXPERIENCE MANY HARDSHIPS: ILLNESS,

STARVATION, AND EXHAUSTION

• BETWEEN MAY AND SEPTEMBER, FIFTY

PEOPLE DIE. THE COLONISTS NAME A NEW

PRESIDENT, BUT HE IS A POOR

ADMINISTRATOR. CAPTAIN SMITH TAKES

OVER MOST OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE

COLONY, AND HE SUPERVISES THE

BUILDING OF HOUSES.

Written in third person by John Smith

FROM THE HISTORY OF

PLYMOUTH PLANTATION

ENGLISH II

WILLIAM BRADFORD NOTES:

•BRADFORD ARRIVED AT CAPE COD ON NOVEMBER 11, 1620, ON THE MAYFLOWER. 

•GOVERNOR OF PLYMOUTH COLONY FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS

•HIS GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO EARLY WRITING IS HIS HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION, 1620-1647.

FOLLOW ALONG AS I READ ALOUDCHAPTER 9 FROM THE HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION

NOTES: CHAPTER 9 DESCRIBES THE MAYFLOWER'S TRIP AT SEA, ARRIVAL AT

CAPE COD, AND A LOOK AT THE CONDITIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE

PILGRIMS AFTER THEIR ARRIVAL.

ASSIGNMENT

IN YOUR SMALL GROUPS, COMPLETE THE

WORKSHEET ON

SMITH AND BRADFORD