The teacher is recommended to study sources in preparing her work, making selections where possible, for the pupil's use. Some knowledge of European history (English especially) is essential for understanding our early history, and definite work of this nature on the teacher's part, at least, is earnestly advised. Encourage outside reading by assigning subjects for individual preparation, the results to be given to the class. Let the children keep note books for entering the important points thus given. Map study and map drawing should be constant, but demand correct relations rather than finished drawings. Geographical environment should be emphasized as well as the influence of natural resources and productions in developing the country and in determining its history. In laying out the work on this period the teacher should remember that this part is in the nature of an introduction. II COLONIZATION, 1600-1660 Books for Study and Reading References.--Fiske's _United States for Schools_, 59-133; Eggleston's _United States and its People_, 91-113 (for colonial life); Parkman's _Pioneers_ (for French colonies); Bradford's _Plymouth Plantation_ (extracts in "American History Leaflets," No. 29). Home Readings.--Drake's _Making of New England_; Drake's _Making of Virginia and the Middle States_; Eggleston's _Pocahontas and Powhatan_; Dix's _Soldier Rigdale_ (Pilgrim children); Irving's _Knickerbocker History_; Webster's _Plymouth Oration_; Longfellow's _Myles Standish_; Moore's _Pilgrims and Puritans_. CHAPTER 4 FRENCH COLONISTS, MISSIONARIES, AND EXPLORERS [Sidenote: Settlement of Acadia, 1604.] [Sidenote: Port Royal.] 26. The French in Acadia.--For nearly forty years after the destruction of the colony on the River of May, Frenchmen were too busy fighting one another at home to send any more colonists to America. At length, in 1604, a few Frenchmen settled on an island in the St. Croix River. But the place was so cold and windy that after a few months they crossed the Bay of Fundy and founded the town of Port Royal. The country they called Acadia. [Sidenote: Champlain at Plymouth.] [Sidenote: Quebec founded, 1608.] [Sidenote: Champlain on Lake Champlain, 1609.] [Sidenote: He attacks the Iroquois. _Explorers_, 269-278.]