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1、Pocahontas at JamestownA Reading AZ Level Y Leveled BookWord Count:2,116Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.www.readinga-Written by Terry Miller ShannonIllustrated by Gary UndercufflerPocahontas at JamestownLEVELED BOOK YWritten by Terry Miller ShannonIllustrated by Gary Undercu
2、fflerPocahontas at JamestownLevel Y Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Terry Miller ShannonIllustrated by Gary UndercufflerAll rights reserved.www.readinga-CorrelationLEVEL YT4040Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRAPhoto Credits:Page 3:North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy;page 4 and throughout:iS Zelei;p
3、age 5:REUTERS;page 6:Sloane MS 1622 Map of Virginia,showing in upper left hand a picture of Chief Powhatan by John Smith(1580-1631)1624(hand-coloured engraving),Bry,Theodore de(1528-98)(after)/British Library,London,UK/British Library Board.All Rights Reserved/The Bridgeman Art Library;page 8(main):
4、Superstock;pages 8(inset),12:The Granger Collection,NYC;page 16:courtesy of Library of Congress,The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 8.Virginia Records Manuscripts.1606-1737;page 18:Mary Evans Picture Library/Imagno;page 22:Ian Goodrick/AlamyPage 3:A hand-tinted portrait of Pocahontas,Rebecca Rolfe,wi
5、fe of colonist John Rolfe,shown with their son,Thomas.This portrait remained in the Rolfe family for many generations and is thought to have been done at the time of their visit to England.www.readinga-Pocahontas at Jamestown34Table of ContentsTruth or Fiction?.4Who Was Pocahontas?.5Newcomers.7Kidna
6、pped.12Love,Peace,and Prosperity.15In Londons Society.17A Mysterious and Legendary Life.22Glossary.24Truth or Fiction?Captain John Smith was one of the leaders of the new colony called Jamestown,which was founded in 1607 on the coast of what is now the state of Virginia.Years after he had returned t
7、o England,Capt.Smith liked to tell stories about what life had been like in Jamestown.In one of his stories,he claimed to have been captured by a group of local warriors,led by Chief Powhatan,the chief of all the tribes in the Chesapeake Bay region.As the warriors stood all around him,with their clu
8、bs raised,Smith was sure he was about to be killed.Just then,a little Indian princess named Pocahontas ran in and knelt alongside Smith.She begged the Chief,her father,to spare the life of this stranger.Her plea saved Smiths life.The only problem with this dramatic story is that it does not seem to
9、be true.Experts disagree about whether Smiths life would have been threatenedor wonder if he made up the whole story.He may have made up the story,but Pocahontas was a real person.Pocahontas at Jamestown Level Y56Who Was Pocahontas?Pocahontas was a young woman who lived more than 400 years ago,but p
10、eople are still fascinated by her today.Pocahontas didnt write about her feelings or thoughts so we know little about her everyday life.What we do know about her weve learned from word-of-mouth retellings of stories and the written records of historical events that took place around her at the time.
11、Some of those stories and records have been changed by people who wanted certain events to sound more exciting.These changes mean that many movies,poems,and stories about Pocahontas are fictional and contradict each other.The real Pocahontas was born around 1595.She was the daughter of Powhatan,the
12、powerful chief of the Powhatan Confederacy,a large group of Algonquian tribes.These member tribes had lived in the low-lying coastal regions of modern-day Virginia for hundreds of years.There were once more than thirty tribes and around 25,000 members in the Powhatan Confederacy.Several English colo
13、nists wrote about the Powhatans.They described strong,tall people who were uneasy with the newcomers but who also wanted to trade with them.The Powhatans built wooden homes,carved canoes from local trees,and used rock and bone to make tools.The men hunted and fished,and the women farmed.Pocahontas a
14、s imagined for the 1995 Disney animated movie.This detailed map,drawn by Capt.John Smith in 1606,shows the location of Jamestown and the territory of each of the Powhatan Confederacy tribes.Pocahontas had several names.“Pocahontas,”a nickname that means“playful one,”gives us a hint as to her persona
15、lity.Pocahontas at Jamestown Level Y78NewcomersPocahontas was 11 or 12 on May 14,1607,when the original group of 104 English men and boys arrived in the area and created the settlement called Jamestown.It was the first permanent English colony in America.Jamestown was named for King James I of Engla
16、nd,who granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London in 1606.The charter gave the company the right to explore and settle anywhere from modern-day New York State to North Carolina.The companys investors hoped to find gold and silver in the New World.They also hoped to find a shortcut river rou
17、te to the Pacific Ocean in order to trade more easily with the countries of Asia.The site chosen for the Jamestown colony was on a peninsula in the James River.Today,this peninsula has become an island.The settlers chose this site to build their settlement for several reasons:it was close to deep wa
18、ter for easy access to supply ships,no one lived on it,and its shape made it easy to defend.However,the confident colonists came to regret their choice.The land was marshy and the water they drank from the river was muddy and salty.A section of the recreated Jamestown fort,showing the well and typic
19、al houses.Inset:a drawing of the original triangular shape of the fort.Before Jamestown,the English had not successfully established colonies in North America.Spain had already founded many colonies in the Americas.The English settlers in Jamestown knew they were in danger from the Spanish navy.They
20、 feared the Spanish king might order their settlement destroyed if he learned of it.Jamestown VirginiaWest VirginiaMarylandNorth CarolinaPocahontas at Jamestown Level Y910These first settlers had little practical experience with farming,food storage,and organized labor.Most of the adult men were bus
21、iness leadersnot workers.The unskilled group did not collect and store enough food.In August 1607,bad drinking water,disease-carrying mosquitoes,and lack of food caused the settlers to become sick.Many died.At times,there were only 5 men well enough to bury the dead.By the end of the first year,only
22、 38 of the original 104 settlers had survived.Gradually,the English colonists and the tribes began to trade with each other.The Powhatans offered food in exchange for the settlers tools and other goods.Their relationship was an uneasy one.Although the Powhatans sometimes offered gifts of food,they a
23、lso sometimes attacked colonists found outside the fort.Some experts believe Pocahontas first met Captain John Smith in December 1607,when Chief Powhatans men captured him.Did Pocahontas save Smiths life?Experts today doubt it.Many believe that the ceremony Smith later described was a traditional on
24、e to welcome a newcomer to the tribeand that Smiths life was never in danger.If this is true,Pocahontass actions may have been an expected part of the ceremony.Other experts think that,because Smith did not describe Pocahontas as his rescuer until 1624,he might have made up the story.In 1608,Capt.Sm
25、ith wrote a letter that told of meeting Powhatan but he did not mention Pocahontas.Whatever the truth might have been,Powhatan and Smith eventually established a friendly relationship.Pocahontas at Jamestown Level Y1112At some point,Pocahontas became a familiar face in the settlement and became Smit
26、hs friend.She sometimes brought gifts of food from her father to the colonists.One time,Chief Powhatan sent her to Jamestown to ask the English to release Native American captives.When John Smith wrote of this incident later,he made it sound as if it were his idea to release the captives to Pocahont
27、as.However,this period of friendly trading didnt last.The struggling,unhealthy English colonists were desperate for food.They wanted corn,but a terrible drought had reduced Powhatan crops,and the tribes had nothing extra to trade.The angry colonists began threatening the Powhatans.Kidnapped After th
28、e summer of 1608,Jamestown settlers and Powhatans were more like enemies than friends.Chief Powhatan had moved away from the area and Pocahontas rarely visited the settlement.Some experts believe she may have saved the lives of colonists in a trading party in January 1609 when she warned them of an
29、ambush planned by her father.The arrival of new officers and additional colonists who were also inexperienced and also required food and shelter caused further conflicts.By October 1609,Capt.Smith had lost his leadership role,been injured,and returned home to England for treatment.After Smith left,J
30、amestown settlers became increasingly discouraged.By 1610,they had had enough of illness,hunger,and deathand those who remained decided to go home to England.However,as they were sailing away from the coast,they met a supply ship carrying the colonys new governor,Baron De La Warr.The weary settlers
31、returned to Jamestown.Baron De La Warr brought life-saving supplies to the colony.The state of Delaware is named after him.Pocahontas at Jamestown Level Y1314Under their new leadership,the expanding group of English settlers began to establish more colonies beyond Jamestownwhich increased tensions w
32、ith the Powhatans.An Englishman named Captain Samuel Argall learned that Pocahontas was visiting a nearby town.Argall decided to kidnap Pocahontas and use her to trade for the release of English prisoners held by Chief Powhatan.Capt.Argall persuaded a local chief to join forces with him against Powh
33、atan.This chief and his wives managed to lure Pocahontas onto Argalls ship.Argall then sailed to Jamestown,where he sent word to Powhatan that he had captured Pocahontas.Argall said he would set her free if Powhatan would release English prisoners and also return English weapons and tools that Powha
34、tans warriors had taken.At first,Argalls plan seemed to work.After Powhatan heard of the kidnapping and Argalls ransom demand,the chief freed seven English prisoners.However,he didnt return the stolen weapons and tools.After time passed without a solution,Powhatan finally refused to negotiate anymor
35、e.In March 1614,the English finally demanded that Powhatan pay the ransom,but by that time everything had changed in Pocahontass life.During the long negotiations between Argall and Powhatan,Pocahontas stayed at an English settlement called Henricus.According to English writers,she was treated with
36、respect,although she remained a prisoner.While there,she was taught her captors religion.The Anglican Church baptized Pocahontas and gave her the baptismal name“Rebecca.”Pocahontas at Jamestown Level Y1516Love,Peace,ProsperityAs the many months passed,Pocahontas fell in love with an English man.John
37、 Rolfe was a 28-year-old planter who was well thought of in the colony.Rolfe had begun to raise tobacco as a major crop in 1611.His farming and storage methods were quite successful,and Jamestown finally became profitable.More settlers,including many English women,arrived to create new businesses,st
38、art families,and expand the colonies.When Rolfe asked Pocahontas to marry him,Virginia governor Thomas Dale and Chief Powhatan both agreed to their marriage.One of Pocahontass uncles was a witness at their wedding,which took place in the Jamestown church around April 5,1614.The following year,Pocaho
39、ntas gave birth to a son,Thomas.There was another very important outcome of the marriage:the“Peace of Pocahontas.”The union of the native Powhatan woman and the English man helped to calm the ongoing conflicts between the tribes and the colonists.People saw Pocahontas as the symbol of these peaceful
40、 times.The Virginia Company in London saw the marriage as an opportunity to promote their business.The company had once paid for the settling of Jamestown.Now,they hoped to raise more money by using Rebecca Rolfe as a symbol of their success.They believed that people in England would be interested i
41、n the favorite daughter of a powerful chief,who now belonged to Englands church and had married an English man.A copy of the 1606 charter of the Virginia Company of London,stating its authority to establish the new colonyPocahontas at Jamestown Level Y1718In Londons SocietyThe Virginia Company sent
42、a group to England in the spring of 1616 with the goal of raising support for their settlements.Pocahontas and her family were on the ship,along with Virginia Governor Thomas Dale,and some young Powhatan women.Chief Powhatan sent his brother-in-law,Uttamatomakkin,to observe.After docking in Septembe
43、r 1616,the group toured throughout England before finally arriving in London.The Virginia Company provided the visiting Pocahontas with clothing and lodging during her stay.An artist created a portrait of Pocahontas for the Virginia Company to use as publicity for her visit.London society,as well as
44、 important investors,met Pocahontaswho enchanted them.The ladies and gentlemen of English high society were always hoping to find unique people to entertain them.Pocahontas caused a great sensation.After Pocahontas and Uttamatomakkin met King James I,he invited them to attend his Twelfth Night forma
45、l costume ball,which was held on the last night of the Christmas holiday season.The two guests were seated among the most important members of the audience to watch a play at the kings ball.One of Pocahontass old friends lived in England:Captain John Smith.Smith had never forgotten the courageous Po
46、whatan girl.He wrote a letter to Queen Anne,telling her all the things Pocahontas had done to help the Jamestown settlers.King James I(left)and Queen Anne of EnglandChief Powhatan asked Uttamatomakkin to tell him about the king of England and whether previous reports he had heard about England were
47、true:that there were almost no trees in England!An earlier visitor who had only seen London and the Thames River had mistakenly informed Powhatan that the English had no trees.Pocahontas at Jamestown Level Y1920But Smith didnt arrange to visit his former friend until after Pocahontas had already bee
48、n in England for several months.When he wrote about the meeting in 1624,he said hed been too busy to visit her earlier.Evidently Pocahontas was visibly upset when she finally met with Smith again.It may have been that she believed Smith had died in 1609 when he left Virginia to sail home to England.
49、Or she might have questioned why Capt.Smith had not come to see her earlier.Either way,it took her several minutes to become calm enough to speak with Smith.When Pocahontas finally did talk to Captain Smith,she reminded him how her father had welcomed him,a stranger in their world,as a son.Smith had
50、 even called Powhatan“Father.”Pocahontas told Smith that he had not treated her father and her people well.She said since she was now a stranger in Smiths land,she should be allowed to call Smith“Father.”Smith refused.According to Smiths 1624 writings,she told him that“your countrymen will lie much.