SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
© 2015 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
Vol. 31, No. 39
The English language in North
America has adopted words
from other languages. Many
words come from European
tongues. We’ve also borrowed
words from the first Americans.
You may have heard the legend of Pocahontas. But is it true?
Today’s Kid Scoop page explores fact and opinion.
Can you
tell fact
from
opinion?
Sure! It’s a
FACT
that I’m really
hungry!
Underline the differences in each version of the Pocahontas story.
“P art of the legend is true and
part of it is not,” says Chief
Roy Crazy Horse, leader of the
Powhatan people today.
P
ocahontas was the favored daughter
of a powerful Indian chief called
Powhatan.
Hey! I
saw this
worm
first!
Delaware
West
Virginia
Virginia
“But,” he adds, “the story about
Pocahontas saving Captain
Smith from being clubbed by
Powhatan’s men is not true. In
fact, right after his visit with
Powhatan, Smith wrote that he
had been treated in a friendly
fashion as an honored guest.
Maryland
Jamestown
North
Carolina
“Captain John Smith wrote the
story about Pocahontas saving
his life in a report he wrote
17 years after the event was
supposed to have happened,”
says the chief. “In fact, Smith
wrote this report seven years
after Pocahontas herself died.
So there was no way for her to
contradict the story.”
S
ome stories say that when the settlers
ran out of food, Pocahontas helped
them. The most well known story says that
when Captain John Smith, a leader of the
Jamestown settlement, visited with
Powhatan, he was asked to lay on two
rocks. Once he lay down, Powhatan’s men
raised clubs as if to kill him. Pocahontas,
the legend claims, saved his life by
covering him with her own body.
To read the full Powhatan
history of Pocahontas, go to
their website,
www.powhatan.org/pocc.html
An opinion tells what someone
thinks or feels about something.
Different people can have different
opinions about the same thing.
For example, if two baseball teams
play each other, the score tells a fact about the game.
Let’s say one team gets 5 points and the other gets 3
points. One team might say it was a good game and
the other team might say it was a bad game. “Good”
and “bad” are opinions about that game.
The
mountain is
beautiful. I have six
cookies.
Tina is
The dog is 8
popular.
years old.
The dog
These
is weird.
Tina has
cookies are
five friends.
good.
The mountain
is 8,432
feet high.
Look at an ad in
today’s newspaper.
Underline the facts
in red. Underline
the opinions in blue.
Standards Link:
Comprehension: Distinguish
between facts and opinions.
… solving a problem in a
clever or creative way.
P
T
L
I
E
D
D
R
L
K
H
O
Did you know
Pocahontas was
a nickname?
Her real name
was Matoake.
Follow the maze
to find out what
the nickname
Pocahontas
means.
P
C
I
D
A fruit that grows on a vine
and comes in many shapes,
sizes and colors.
Standards Link: Vocabulary: Use context to
find the meaning of unknown words.
Y
O
A long, narrow wooden sled
that curves up in the front.
Look at the following statements.
Underline the facts and circle the opinions.
Standards Link: Comprehension: Distinguish between facts and opinions.
S
A small isolated town, region,
or place regarded as
unimportant.
A nut with a thin, smooth,
oval shell.
Standards Link: Literary Criticism: Evaluate the author’s use of credibility of plot to influence readers’ perspective.
History: Historical Interpretation.
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A small mammal with a long
tail, black rings and a pointed
face sporting black markings
like a mask.
N
The Englishmen built a fort there and
called it Jamestown, after the king of
England.
That’s your
opinion! The
FACT is, I’m
out of here!
Look at the letters that spell
the word above each
definition. On the line above
each letter, write the letter that
precedes it in the alphabet.
EXAMPLE:
“Pocahontas was the daughter
of a chief named Powhatan.
She was about 10 or 11 years of
age when the Virginia
Company of London started the
settlement of Jamestown.
When Pocahontas was about 10 or 11 years
old, an English company called the
Virginia Company of London sailed to
North America, arriving in the Chesapeake
Bay area, close to where Pocahontas lived.
That’s your opinion!
The fact is, there
is one worm and
two of us here.
Break the code and learn
about some Native American
words spoken by North
Americans today.
Pocahontas means:
M
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
Find the words in the puzzle,
POCAHONTAS then
in this week’s Kid Scoop
POWHATAN
stories and activities.
JAMESTOWN
L E E K A O T A M P
FACTS
G E E N D H J A O R
HORSE
J A M E S T O W N N
SMITH
MATOAKE
S Y A L M E H R A E
SEVEN
D T G S I A N D S V
STORY
E R C S T B O R N E
FOOD
P O C A H O N T A S
ENGLISH
S P N E F O R T A K
JOHN
FORT
H S I L G N E Y O U
GAME
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical
BORN
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Famous Women
CONTRADICT
The verb contradict means
to show something is not true,
or that the opposite is true.
The drought contradicts
the idea that we are in a
rainy period.
Try to use the word
contradict in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family.
The Woman I
Most Admire
Pretend you are a newspaper reporter
covering a story about a famous woman.
Write a headline and lead sentence telling
about your person. Explain why this person
would make an interesting news story.
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write brief expository
descriptions about people.
Who is the woman you
most admire? What are
your reasons for this
choice?
ANSWER: Old times, of course!
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