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Chapters 1-3

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Carbone, Elisa. Blood on the River: James Town, 1607. Puffin Books, 2007.

• The narrative is prefaced by a prologue, containing a prophecy delivered to Chief Powhatan in 1607.

• The prophecy states that a tribe from Chesapeake Bay will build homes in the Powhatan kingdom, and destroy the kingdom in a series of three battles.

• The narration begins in London, England in 1606, where Samuel Colliers finds himself stealing a locket belonging to his late mother.

• Samuel explains that he is an orphan, and that his late mother had been widowed by a man (Collier’s father) who was an alcoholic.

• Samuel lives on the street, where he sleeps in garbage heaps, and goes to sleep with his mother’s locket around his neck

• Samuel is apprehended by the shop owner, who, with the help of his “burly...

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