Characters
Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Story Questions
Misc.
100

Who is the person Samuel stole from?

Who is the pawnshop owner?

100

A primary source that documents a firsthand or eyewitness account and gives us information about a place or time or person in history.

What is an epigraph?

100

"The rain and wind shrieked across the rails of the ship." What type of figurative language is this?

What is personification?

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
This is a place where people work loading and unloading ships.
What is a harbor?
200

"These islands are strung together much like beads on a necklace."

What is a simile?

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

Person whose tooth fell out when Samuel hit him is...

Who was Richard?

300
A container for human waste used by the passengers on board the ships bound for the New World.
What is a slop bucket?
300

"I know these gentlemen. They'll expect to have everything done for them, expect it to be easy.  They won't left a finger to work."  What kind of fig. lang. is this?

What is an idiom?

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

A youth that serves and is also trained by someone of rank

a page

400

The name of the place they hung people to execute them.

What are the gallows?

400

Capt. Smith has a satisfied look on his face, as if his regiment has just won a battle. "You see how it is when you've left the confines of England?" he asks me.  "You might have been born the biggest fish of the sea, but the skill and perseverance of those lower born can take you down and destroy you." (37)  

What is a metaphor?

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

These can be social or environmental and have an affect on people

What are factors?

500

On page 3, the author uses an idiom meaning something costs a large sum of money. What is it?

What is "This will bring a pretty penny"?

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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