Gearing up for Survivor: Jamestown with my fifth graders in January . . . so I read
Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 by Elisa Carbone. This wonderful historical fiction novel with a Lexile level of 820 provides a great review of all the significant details including Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, the Virginia Company, the
Susan Constant,
Godspeed, and
Discovery, palisades, wattle and daub, dysentery and starvation!! It is a historically accurate representation of the hardships and conflicts endured by the first English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia. Quotes from primary source material are used to introduce each chapter of the story told from the perspective of a young boy named Samuel Collier, an indentured servant.
