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Chpt. 24

1. Reverend Hunt’s words could help cause if you lose someone you will usually be sad, not talking a lot, etc. It could help because talking to somebody when you feel bad sometimes helps.

2. Chief Smith, you should return to England with your people. Our world is no place for you. Look at how many winters you have starved. Your people also do not care how we feel, stealing our land and food. My people are getting angry, and soon I will have no choice but to destroy Jamestown.

Chief Powhatan, please help my people survive while I am away to treat my wounds. Many of my people will die if you don’t help. If you do help my people will always remember to show respect towards you and your people and will forever feel gratitude towards the Powhatan Indians.

Chpt. 26 through the Afterword

1.  When the new settler arrived, some of them killed some Native Americans and burned their houses to the ground. After this happened the new colonists didn’t understand why Captain Smith was angry and so didn’t like him. Chief Powhatan orders his tribes not to trade with the colonists. This starves the colonists and nearly destroys Jamestown.

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Chpt. 14

1. John Smith isn’t selfish and is good at talking.

2. Houses were build with the natural resources wood, mud, clay, animal dung, and straw. It tells me that nobody really got better houses and nothing was wasted.

Chpt. 15-16

1. Samuel was wrongto throw the rock becuase I could’ve gotten him and some others hanged.

Chpt. 17

1. Pocahontas  is 10 years old. Her real name is Amonute. She has straight black hair, cut very short on the front and sides, and fastened in a long braid down her back. She wears several necklaces of pearls and copper, and a mantle of deerskin over one shoulde. She saved Captain Smith’s brains from being bashed out. She saves him from getting killed in the movies so it is kind of similar.

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Chpt. 10-11

1. The Powhatan Indians attacked at this time because they were afraid that the colonists would take their land, the the colonists were sort of invading their land. The Indian’s raid on the colonists caused the colonists to build a palisade and quickly build up their defenses.

Cause: The Indians attacked the colonists.

Effect: The colonists quickly build their defenses.

Chpt.12

1.  In the New World the colonists will be mainly outnumbered.If you did not know the language of your enemies, and were outnumbered, there wouldn’t be much hope of negotiation. That way bloodshed can be avoided.

2. Samuel has to choose whether to report the fact that the gentleman are hoarding food. Henry has threatened to killhim if he tells anybody. It is out of love of his own life everybody who will die becuase the gentlemen are hoarding food.

3. If I were Samuel I would tell Captain Smith and then hope for protection from him.

Chpt. Thirteen

1. Some of the Native Americans are friendly becuase they can trade food for copper and glass wich seemed to them like diamonds and gold. But other Native Americans will be afriad that the colonists will steal their land. I would choose the hostile side, just to be safe.

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The Da Vinci Code

 Author: Dan Brown

Pages: 489

Read on: Sept. 17-21 2008

 The world renowned curator of the Louvre museum is dead, murdered to be exact inside his own museum. And if that weren’t strange enough he’s drawn strange symbols and words all around himself. An American Proffesor is then framed for the murder but is luckily saved by the daughter of the murdured curator, who also happens to work for the French equivilant of the FBI. As they run from the police they continue to find clues leading to the murderer, and the location of an object so powerful that people would do anything to have it, the Holy Grail.

  This book is actually quite educational. I learned quite a lot about the historyabout the Holy Grail and a lot of legends/lore about it. Not to mention the piles of information about Christianity itself that I never knew before reading this book. I found out a bit of ingenious inventions made by people back then.

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Chpt. 4-5

1) It shows that some English still think they are savages

2) It makes the boys think they are monsters

3) It different because it talks of less fighting. He does this to avoid bloodshed.

Chpt. 6

1) No.

2) People should be equal. This still exists.

Chpt. 7-8

I was once angry at myself a few years ago because even though I like playing mancala, I wasn’t really good at it. So I lost a lot. So then I thought that if I like the game so much, I should get better at it. This was at a summer camp, so in my free time I would get out and set up the mancala board, and think, and test out moves to see which ones were better. Then I would make plans with the moves that I had tested to be really goo. It turned out that doing that really paid off. I soon found myself doing a lot better in mancala.

Chpt. 9

To the Native Americans glass and copper are like diamonds and gold to the colonists. It all depends on the resources an area has. Silk was precious in China, but it was even more precious in other places because it couldn’t be made in other places then.

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The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Sir Author Conan Doyle

Pages: 246

Read on: Sept. 15 2008

This book consists of a series of cases, most of them have to do with murder. The detective sent to solve them is nonetheless, the great Sherlock Holmes. Along with his assistant Watson, an ex-soldier, he manages to solve all those cases suprisingly quickly and accurately.

Its amazing how Sherlock Holmes can solve so many cases that seem to have no evidence in them. He then always manages to spot these tiny pieces of evidence which nobody but him would have thought of. It gets even better since the setting is about a hundred years ago, so there is no fancy equipment like lie detectors to help solve the case!

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