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Poll

What is another word or description for perspective?

• Your point of view.

• Your attitude about someone or something.

• The way you interpret something.

Multiple Choice

What is Samuel’s perspective of the Native Americans in chapters 17 and 18?”

• Samuel’s perspective of the Native Americans is that they are helpful. After the fire, they come and bring the settlers food and clothing so that they won’t starve or freeze.

• Samuel believes they should not be trusted.

Multiple Choice

How does the fire affect Samuel’s perspective about what is valuable in chapters 17 and 18?

• The colonists have learned to survive by working together. The men act as one, and Samuel’s behavior shows us that he believes the “colony (needs) to stand on many legs if (it is) not to be toppled over in the Virginia wilderness” (56).

• No one works together.

Multiple Choice

What is the Virginia Company’s perspective about what is valuable?

• The Virginia Company wants the settlers to grow food in Jamestown.

• The Virginia Company values finding gold above all else.

Multiple Choice

On page 138 Samuel thinks to himself that “A centipede does not topple in a storm”. What does this mean? A centipede is long, flat, and has many legs.

• Samuel is a loner and this will help him in The New World. A loner is a person who is often alone or likes to be alone.

• Samuel needs “to depend on others to work together in The New World. ”The centipede’s legs represent all the people in his new world—like Namontack, Captain Smith, and Richard—whom Samuel loves.

Multiple Choice

Humility means “being thankful and not too proud.” How is Samuel showing humility to Namontack and the Indian culture?

• On page 139 Samuel can tell that Namontack is both strong and knowledgeable, and he wants Namontack to keep teaching him “Algonquian words” and more about Indian culture.

• Samuel wants to look for gold.