We just finishing reading The Diary of Mary Jemison, Captured by the Indians. I stumbled upon this book while I was looking for Ohio state history books. It was a great read aloud. It's about a 12 year old girl who was captured by the Seneca Indians. She was 'adopted' to replace a brother who had died. (Mary told her life story to a local doctor when she was in her 80s). She eventually becomes free and has the option of staying with her Indian family or going back to her birth family.
The kids and I enjoyed it. It had a lot of vocabulary words to go over such as tomahawked, squaw, bounty, melancholy, plundering, etc... The kids will journal about it tomorrow and complete some worksheets that I created.
Now for our next read aloud....
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