Pocahontas

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Pocahontas

• A Changing America
• Unit 6, Lesson 3
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Vocabulary

• bargaining
• agent
• relations
• startling
• citizens

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bargaining

• John Smith got into an argument with
  Pocahontas's people during a bargaining session
  and took seven of them captive.
• We are bargaining with the salesperson for a
  better deal on the shoes.
• agreeing to do something or trade something

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agent

• Powhatan tried to get the prisoners released,
  but nothing worked until he sent Pocahontas to
  Jamestown as his agent.
• The actors agent helped her get a part in the
  new movie.
• a person who has the authority to act for
  someone else

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relations

• Relations between the Native Americans and the
  colonists worsened.
• Rachels relations with her neighbor improved
  after she paid for the broken window.
• dealings between persons or groups

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startling

• In England, Pocahontas also
  learned
• a startling piece of news,
  John Smith
• was sill alive!
• Luis made the startling discovery
• that his dog had followed him to
• school.
• surprising

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citizen

• At age twenty, he returned to Virginia,
• where he became a popular
• citizen and even helped defend
• the colony against the Native
• Americans.
• Every time I sing our national anthem, I am
  proud to be an American citizen.
• a person born in or legally made a member of a
  country

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Vocabulary

• bargaining agreeing to do something or
  trade something
• agent a person who has the authority to act
  for someone
• relations dealings between persons or groups
• startling - surprising
• citizens a person born in or made a member of
  the country

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Spelling

• -er words-er means more -est words -est
  means most

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If a word ends in e, drop the e before adding
er.

• If a word ends with a short vowel and a
  consonant, double the consonant before adding er.

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If a word ends in y, change the y to i before
adding -er

• chilly chillier chilliest
• dirty dirtier dirtiest
• dizzy dizzier dizziest
• drowsy drowsier drowsiest
• empty emptier emptiest
• gloomy gloomier gloomiest
• heavy heavier heaviest
• hungry hungrier hungriest
• noisy noisier noisiest
• windy windier windiest