{"id":1333,"date":"2025-02-19T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:19:09","slug":"2-17-blog-post-blood-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/2025\/02\/19\/2-17-blog-post-blood-on-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/17 Blog Post: Blood On The River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! I hope you have had a great couple of days since class, and hope you all enjoy this snowy day! As we have been learning about Jamestown and Virginia\u2019s history, as well as teaching these subjects, we read <\/span>Blood On The River <\/span><\/i>by Elisa Carbone. I found this book to be a very fun and interesting read, that kept me very entertained all the way through. As I did not grow up in Virginia, I never really learned much about Jamestown or other specific Virginia history, so this book, as well as <\/span>Richmond\u2019s Unhealed History <\/span><\/i>were basically the first I had read about this. I found <\/span>Blood On The River <\/span><\/i>to be a much more fun read, and I enjoyed how the book was written from a first-person point of view, with characters that we were able to get to know and form opinions about. I think this aspect in particular would make this book a great read for elementary students, because it could keep them more into the book, while also learning lots!<\/span><\/p>\n

If I were to use this book in my classroom, I think that as an activity I would have my students pick a scene from the book that stood out to them, and have them explain why it stood out, and what it meant to them. A scene that I would pick that stood out to me was when Sam went to Namontack\u2019s home: \u201c<\/span>Namontack is right, <\/span><\/i>I think. <\/span>His home is much better than James Town. <\/span><\/i>There is more food and more joy to be had in one night here than in a whole year in James Town (163).\u201d This scene stood out to me because it really shows how peaceful and joyful the tribes that already inhabited the land were. In U.S. history, they can be painted as violent, and the narrative exists that the land was ours, when really, these tribes were peacefully living in the places they had rightfully discovered, when we took that away from them. I like how this scene shows their happy lives before we took over. I also love how this scene perfectly demonstrates looking at other cultures\/people through a non judgemental lens, with Sam even admitting that this home is better than his own. This non judgemental view is crucial to understand when teaching about other cultures or tribes, and Sam did this very well, and even \u201cadapted\u201d to another culture!<\/span><\/p>\n

Growing up, had you learned much about Virginia history\/ Jamestown history? If so, how did your teachers present and teach this information? Were their strategies beneficial, or how would you have taught it differently? Do you think you would have benefited from reading <\/span>Blood On The River,<\/span><\/i> and do you think you would include this book in your future teaching?<\/span><\/p>\n

What did you think about the first-person point of view in this book? I noted that the first-person point of view was one of my favorite aspects of the book- what was one of your favorite aspects of the way the book was written?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you were to teach this book, would you choose to have the students pick out a scene that stood out to them? What was a scene that stood out to you, and why?<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you so much for taking the time to read and respond to this blog post! I look forward to hearing from all of you! I hope you have a great rest of your week, and I\u2019ll see you all next Monday!<\/span><\/p>\n

Mackenzie Tewksbury<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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