Ethan's+book+report+(March)

Name: Ethan Escobar Date: 3/23/10 Reading Mr. Jacobson

=Biography of a Famous Woman=


 * Directions: Each section must be 1 paragraph!**

__I chose to research because__

I chose to reasearch Pocahontas because she loved nature and so do I. Pocahontas was very important in American History and the Colonies, there are movies about her, and she is a legend. Pocahontas is a very interesting woman that will always be in History and I will always be interested to learn more about her. Pocahontas is a mystery like all the past historical people, she was brave and saved lives.

__This famous women was born__

Pocahontas was born in 1595 she died at the age of 21. Pocahontas was eleven or twelve when the first English colonists arrived. Pocahontas was not her real name, her real name was **//Matoaka// but the Indians called her //Pocahontas// //or the playful girl.// **

__Her early years were spent__

Pocahontas spent her early years helping pick corn from the fields. Traveling with the Indians that traded furs and delivering messages for her father to Jamestown. When the settlers arrived Pocahontas met John Smith in 1607 and thought him how to speak Algonquian. Pocahontas had a short life but she did a lot for her people and the Englishmen. When **//Powhatan// ( Pocahontas's father) wanted to kill John Smith, in the middle of the execution Pocahontas got in the way and stopped him. She had married an indian //**Kocoum**// in 1610, but she was taken prisioner by captain Argall, and he claimed ramson from her father. She was a prisioner until 1613 when she moved with some freedom. She met **//John Rolfe//** and her father gave her permision to marry him. She converted to Christianity, then they gave her a catholic name that was //**Rebecca .**// She went to England where they dreessed her as a proprer English woman. //.// **

__Her later years were spent__

Pocahontas then had a son named Thomas. When her husband took her back to London, Pocahontas died in the trip Thomas was 2. Her grave was at Gravesend, England. Rolfe returned to Virginia to make more tobacco. John Rolfe left Thomas behind and he stayed with Sir Lewis.

__Her accomplishments include__

Pocahontas saved John Smith, she taught John Smith how to speak Algonquian. Pocahontas was the girl that spoke to the Enlgish and helped the colonists. When she married John Rolfe there was peace between the Enlgilsh and the Indians for a while. Without her many colonists would have died of hunger. She had a son, Thomas.