Characters
Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Story Questions
Misc.
100
The main character in the story.
Who is Samuel Collier?
100

A verb that means to show someone exactly how to do something. 

What is demonstrate?

100
"The trek to the home of Pocahantas seemed as long as the ride on the ship across the ocean."
What is a simile?
100
Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery.
What are the three ships that traveled to the New World?
100
A prediction about events that will happen in the future.
What is a prophecy?
200
This person orders Captain Smith be shackled.
Who is Captain Newport?
200

A verb that means working very hard.

What is toiling?

200
"The rain and wind shrieked across the rails of the ship." What type of figurative language is this?
What is personification.
200
"His name's Samuel Collier, age eleven, son of dead peasants. Can you take him?"
What the magistrate mumbles to Reverend Hunt when he takes him to the orphanage.
200
People who are not of royalty or gentlemen.
What is a commoner?
300
This person accused Samuel of stealing from his store.
Who is the pawnshop owner?
300

A noun that means acting slow, or lazy. 

What is slothfulness

300
"The bees buzzed around the garden that the settlers had planted." What type of figurative language is this?
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Indians rumored to eat the people they capture.
Who are the Carib Indians?
300
The sponsors of the Jamestown Settlement.
What is The Virginia Company of London?
400

The person who is in charge of Samuel. 

Who is Captain John Smith?

400

Tall wooden frame that has ropes tied to it

Gallows

400
"...an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life" mean?
A person who injures or kills another shall be similarly punished.
400
The first Native Americans to approach the settlers.
Who are the Algonquian Indians?
400
"If you beat me, I'll spit in your ale."
What Samuel thinks the first time he is introduced to Captain John Smith
500
He is placed in charge of the boys from the orphanage.
Who is Reverend Hunt?
500

A noun that means common person.

What is a commoner


500
"These islands are strung together much like beads on a necklace."
What is a simile?
500
"Land Ho!"
What is shouted when a ship nears land.
500
Manchineel.
What is a type of poisonous tree that grows in America?
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