Mr. Williams' Fourth Grade Class
1998-1999
Pond Cove School
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
We wrote this book around Thanksgiving, as part of a unit that combined American history and immigration studies.
We did a lot of reading, writing, and drawing to make this book. We especially learned a lot from the book If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, and from Caleb Johnson's wonderful "Mayflower Web Pages" on the Internet. (See the bibliography at the end of the book for more sources). Thanks also to Mr. Johnson for promptly e-mailing answers to any questions we asked.
We learned a lot from our research and writing. We learned who the Pilgrims were, and why they came to the New World. We learned what a hard life they had, and how brave they were. We felt like we got to know them as people and families. We learned that they weren't always serious and gloomy, and that they didn't just wear black! We also learned that the Native people were amazing and smart, and that without their help, the Pilgrims might not have survived. Squanto had one of the most adventurous lives in history ... we could write whole book just about him!
Most of what we put in our book is based on the real facts of Pilgrim and Native life, as we understood them. There are a couple of things that we knew weren't really true, but we put them in anyway. For instance, no one really knows if the Pilgrims actually landed on Plymouth Rock. Also, most experts agree that many of the details of the "love triangle" between Myles Standish, John Alden, and Priscilla Mullins were made up by the poet Henry Longfellow (born in Portland, Maine!) in his poem, "The Courtship of Myles Standish." So why did we include these things we know aren't true? Because they're such great stories!
We hope you enjoy this book!
Contents
Chris Beringer
Erica Cianchette
Conor Dodd
Rosemary Ehlers
Paul Hagan
Nathan Hendrick
Marla Houghton
Maureen Kertes
Elise Littlefield
Larry Mack
Parker Marvin
Garrett McGrath
Elise Moody-Roberts
Jackie Moran
Anthony Romero
Maia Stamieszkin
Danielle Steinman
Gina Stevensen
Liam Sullivan
Olivia Weill
Mr. Williams
Bibliography
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Bulla, Robert Clyde. Squanto, Friend of the White Man. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1954.
Dalgliesh, Alice. The Thanksgiving Story. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954
Groh, Lynn. The Pilgrims: Brave Settlers of Plymouth. Illinois: Garrard Publishing Co. 1968
Johnson, Caleb. "Mayflower Web Pages." <http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html>
Lowitz, Anson and Sadybeth. The Pilgrims' Party. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 1967
McGovern, Ann. If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. New York: Scholastic Co., 1969
McGovern, Ann. The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving. New York: Scholastic Co., 1973
Pilgrim Journey. Videotape. Films for the Humanities, 1988. 24 min.
Plimoth Plantation Web Site. <http://www.plimoth.org/Museum/museum.htm>
San Souci, Robert. N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 1991
Sewall, Marcia. The Pilgrims of Plimoth. New York: Scholastic Co., 1986
Siegel, Beatrice. Indians of the Woodland, Before and After the Pilgrims. New York: Walker and Company. 1972
Smelser, Marshall. "Plymouth Colony." World Book Encyclopedia. 1982.
Waters, Kate. On the Mayflower, Voyage of the Ship's Apprentice & a Passenger Girl. New York: Scholastic Inc. 1996 -
Waters, Kate. Samuel Eaton's Day, A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy. New York: Scholastic Inc. 1993
Waters, Kate. Sarah Morton's Day, A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl. New York: Scholastic Inc. 1989
so long,
friend!