Voices from Colonial America: New France 1534-1763

Readers will meet Samuel de Champlain, the "Father of New France," and travel the waterways with the coureurs de bois, French traders who lived like Indians.

Then watch as attempts to grow the colony fail and wars with the British and Iroquois bring about the fall of New France.National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.