I used my prior knowledge of Native American objects (Clothing, Weapons, etc...) to understand the book. While the main character, Samuel Collier, is at Jamestown, he meets Native Americans and learns of what they used to hunt, and what clothes they had invented. The tools and objects names used were new to him. My prior knowledge of such things allows me to better understand the book. Samuel’s Native American friend Kainta inspects his shoes and tells him, “My mother will make you moccasins.” Without my knowledge of Native American artifacts, this statement would not have made sense, because I would not have known what moccasins were. It was valuable to have had prior knowledge of Native American objects to better understand this book.
