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Teacher Resources

This page contains specific resources developed for teachers using this Exploration.


Focusing Event for Entire Unit

Use the Check Your Knowledge About Pocahontas worksheet (Microsoft Word format) to generate interest. The students are to mark true or false next to the statements.

Hopefully there are some misunderstandings or misconceptions about Pocahontas that can be corrected by this unit.

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Exploration 1: Who Were Pocahontas and Squanto?

Focusing event:

Look at the painting, The Baptism of Pocahontas, on the Who Were Pocahontas and Squanto? exploration page or click the picture to the left.

Ask students the following questions about this painting:

  • Who do you think is centered in this painting?
  • Are you surprised to know that it is Pocahontas?
  • What do you think is happening?
  • Where do you think she is?
  • What else do you notice about the painting?
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Exploration 2: Evaluating the Disney film Pocahontas (1995)

Activity 1: Pocahontas

What did Pocahontas look like? Find four contrasting images of Pocahontas and describe the differences in the way she has been depicted. Did the view of the Native Americans change as the Pocahontas images changed?

  • Students can display these images in a presentation or in a word processing document and describe these differences underneath each image.
  • In analyzing the images, pay attention to the dates of the images. What was happening in America with respect to Native Americans during that time?

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