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Pocahontas lives through a time of great change in North America. She is still a young girl when the first white settlers arrive from Europe. She and her family must decide. Do they fight the settlers, or can they be friends?
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It is 1595, and a baby girl is born in a Native American village. Her father is a great chief, and people give her the name “Pocahontas”.
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POCAHONTAS Rob Sved lives and works in Oxford, England. He has worked in educational publishing for more than twenty years as a writer, editor, publisher, and educational consultant. He has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer, too. His works include a number of successful Primary and Secondary English Language Teaching courses that have been published all around the world. He has also written fiction and non-fiction readers for students at all levels.
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BEFORE READING
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Look at the front cover and read the back cover of this book. Decide if these sentences are True (T) or False (F). F
1. Pocahontas is English. 2. The story is modern.
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3. Pocahontas is very old.
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4. The story starts in America.
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Match the names and faces with the descriptions. 1. Pocahontas
a. the first English
2. Powhatan
b. the young daughter
3. Captain John Smith
c. the king of England
4. King James the first
d. the chief of
man to come to Powhatan’s land
of Powhatan
many Native American villages
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Pocahontas Our story starts in a Native American village in 1595. The village is near the Atlantic Ocean. Powhatan is the chief of this village and of forty other villages, too. One day, Powhatan’s wife has a baby girl. Powhatan calls her Matoaka. All the people in the village are happy.
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Matoaka grows up in the village. She loves living there. Her father is a chief, but she plays and works with the other children. She learns to help the people in the village. They plant seeds and grow food. Every year they have a lot of yellow corn and vegetables. Matoaka is a happy girl. New things are very interesting for her and she loves games. The people in the villages start to call her Pocahontas: a name for a child who likes playing.
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When Pocahontas is about twelve years old, things change. Powhatan’s brother, Opecha, comes to Powhatan’s home. “There are many ships. White people are arriving,” he says. Powhatan is angry. “I’m worried about these people,” he says. “They want to live here and to take our land.” Pocahontas is listening and she is very excited. “New people are here,” she says, and runs to watch them. But she is careful; she doesn’t want the white men to see her.
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The settlers are from England. They come across the ocean in ships and want to find new land and live there. In these times, the journey to America by ship can be more than fifteen weeks. On the ships, there are about a hundred men, and America is new for them. The captain is called John Smith. He tells the men to stop the ships. They go to the land on small boats.
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Powhatan asks Opecha and his men to watch the settlers. They wait behind some trees. Three big ships are in the ocean. People are arriving on the land with many boxes. “What are they doing?” asks one of the men. “What is in those boxes?” They move nearer to the settlers and watch. “They’re wearing strange clothes,” says Opecha, “and they have a lot of hair on their faces!”
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Opecha and his men see a girl walking out of the trees. “Who is that?” asks one of the men. “It’s Pocahontas! Why is she here? We must stop her.” “No. Let’s watch,” says Opecha. Pocahontas has some fruit in her hands. She gives it to one of the settlers and she smiles. The man takes the fruit and he smiles, too. “Thank you,” he says. Pocahontas does not understand him. She puts her hand on her face and says, “Pocahontas.” The man puts his hand on his face and says, “Captain John Smith.” Opecha and his men run back to see Powhatan. “Pocahontas is with the settlers. She is giving them fruit and talking to them,” say the men.
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Powhatan is quiet. “I don’t want my people to be friends with the settlers. Not my daughter!” he thinks. He waits for Pocahontas to come home. “Hello, Father,” Pocahontas says. “Sit down,” Powhatan says, “we must talk.” “Is it about the settlers? They are nice people,” Pocahontas says. “No. They eat our fruit and they take our land. Soon we have nothing. Don’t give them our food.”
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The settlers open all their boxes. They have many animals with them and they have seeds to plant for food. They have many different tools, too. “The weather is good now. We must make our houses before the winter,” says Captain Smith. The settlers start to make houses. It is difficult work, but soon there are houses for people to sleep in. They call their village “Jamestown”, because King James is the king of England.
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Pocahontas does not listen to Powhatan. She visits the settlers every day and she does not tell her father. Pocahontas always gives them some fruit. Soon she is friends with Captain Smith. He teaches Pocahontas some English words. “This is a sheep,” says Captain Smith. “It’s from England. It eats grass.” “Sheep,” Pocahontas says. “Yes, that’s right!” says Captain Smith with a big smile.
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Another day, Pocahontas takes some corn to Captain Smith. “Thank you, Pocahontas. We can make bread with this.” Corn is new for the settlers. They don’t know how to grow it. “Can you teach us to grow corn, Pocahontas?” asks Captain Smith. Pocahontas shows the settlers what to do. They get the land ready for the seeds. Then Pocahontas and the settlers work together and plant the seeds. Soon the corn starts to grow.
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