Please make sure you buy this book and have it in class next week! We will begin reading it THIS FRIDAY!
Read the short paragraph below. Get out a piece of paper and pencil. Watch each of the 3 short videos below. After watching each video write down 1-2 important facts from that video. You should bring to class a page with 1-2 facts on each of the 3 videos. 
Please make sure you buy this book and have it in class next week! We will begin reading it THIS FRIDAY! In September 1620, during the reign of King James I, around 100 English men and women–many of them members of the English Separatist Church–set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship. The ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts, two months later, and in late December anchored at Plymouth Rock, where they would form the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England. Though more than half the original settlers died during that grueling first winter, the survivors were able to secure peace treaties with neighboring Native American tribes and build a largely self-sufficient economy within five years.
