Untitled 1Students will learn about the valuable contributions Penobscot people have made throughout American history. Teachers will find downloadable biographies of Penobscot people. This unit was designed to be used with the local assessment for the third and fourth grade social studies curriculum called Maine People, Maine Events.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 7, 1604

French cartographer Samuel de Champlain leaves from France with a French nobleman, Pierre Du Gua De Monts, for Maine. They entered the Bay of Fundy by May, and later Champlain would meet Penobscot Chief Bashabez at the mouth of the Kenduskeag Stream on the Penobscot River.