My America: The Starving Time: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary, Book Two

by Patricia Hermes

Hardcover, 2001

Status

Available

Publication

Scholastic Inc. (2001), Edition: 1, 112 pages

Description

Elizabeth Barker continues to write to her "friend," her diary, as disease and lack of food further plague the suffering settlers at Jamestown.

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LibraryThing member embarnes

This book is Elizabeth’s Barker’s journal of the living conditions in Jamestown, Virginia from October 1609 to August 1610. Elizabeth tells her story of how hard life was and what they had to eat to survive during this time period.
I enjoyed reading this book. It provides good insight as to how

people lived and survived. I’m not such that children or adults these days could live this way and survive. The way it is written you could picture it in your mind easily. It takes place in the Fort of Jamestown Virginia during 1609. Will Elizabeth and her family survive the weather until the supplies that they need arrive in the spring from England?
I would give students materials like the ones Elizabeth and Mary used to make gifts, to see how creative they could be with making a gift for someone. I would ask them if they could eat food with bugs in it to survive.

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LibraryThing member wichitafriendsschool

In Pat Hermes' sequel to Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth faces harsher times as she records the colony's daily struggle for survival. The My America series will be relaunched with new covers.The story of the feisty, determined Lizzie of Pat Hermes' Our Strange New Land continues in this installment

with the departure of both Captain John Smith and Lizzie's dear friend, Jessie. Facing new challenges, Lizzie records in her new diary all of the challenges that face the struggling colony. As a result of starvation and disease, Lizzed watches hopelessly as many of the settlers die. She records all of this, but even more, she records the intimate lives of the children who remain there, along with that of her new baby sister.

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