This book is a good example of the genre Historical Fiction.We also have a printable version of this literature guide, for your convenience.
It is appropriate for students in grades 2-6.
This book is appealing for reluctant readers because the characters, historical details, and plot are written in simple language. He describes the native people as peaceful and unfairly terrorized by the Spanish.
Pedro sees Columbus as egotistical and hot-tempered. Pedro's story is told in journal entries about the trip across the Atlantic and the exploration of the Indies. Take note of those people who are so familiar to you, and consider memorizing them for a time when they are gone.Īnd know that if anyone ever says to you, "What will you always remember about this place?" you will know just exactly which story it is that you would tell them.Pedro's Journal, by Pam Conrad, tells the tale of Pedro de Salcedo, a ship's boy aboard the Santa Maria, who accompanies Christopher Columbus on the journey to find the new world. Make sure you notice if the trees meet in an arch over your street, or if there's a certain sound that you hear at a particular time every day. Remember the curve of the sun in your bedroom window late in the day, the way your little brother's hair smelled after his bath, and the sound of your mother and father talking in the kitchen. Keep in mind that you are making memories.Ĭonsider that something you take for granted today may be the one thing you might pine for someday, and there might not be any more of it left, but you'll remember its sweetness. And someday in the future someone will stand there and wonder about you, wonder if there was ever anybody else. “ And no matter where you are right now, you can come on out and stand in the middle of it as the sun is going down, and you can know that right in the spot where you are standing, there used to be someone else, that at some other point in time, someone stood where you are standing, thinking their own thoughts.
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