London, 1600

Religion was central to a person's identity. Watch these videos to learn about the Catholics, Anglicans, and Protestants

Now Raleigh is looking to recruit more settlers for Virginia to try again.

The Time Machine takes place in a London tavern, where students portray English people of all walks of life considering going to Virginia. Each student will create a composite character with online helps that give them names, occupations, religions, socio-economic status, etc.

During the Time Machine prepare to do each of the following:

1) Identify yourself by

NAME & FAMILY MEMBERS & AGES
RESIDENCE (NAME THE COUNTY OR CITY IN ENGLAND)

OCCUPATION (FIND OUT FROM AI OCCUPATIONS THAT EXISTED)

SOCIAL CLASS

RELIGION (Catholic/Anglican/Protestant)

2) What would motivate you to go or stay one way or the other based on your station in life? What are the pros and cons of staying put or traveling to America?

3) How does your social status, your religion, and your gender impact your choice?

4) What do you suspect is the future of Virginia?

5) Be prepared to understand and answer these questions:

What appellation dost thou bear?

How dost thou faire?

Art thou wed?

What hast thou ascertained about Virginia?

What hast thou gleaned about the voyage to America?

What queries hast thou about Novus Mundus?

Whither is the optimal locus for a colony in America?

Dost thou fearest sea creatures?

How much property doth Virginia hold?

What dost thou suspectest art the greatest hazards facing he who migrateth? 

Art thou at libertie to journey?

What dost thou Know about the bloody savages?

What is thy suspicion as to the fate of the Lost Colony?

Know thou a humor?

How doth thou regard the transubstantiation of the host?

Wouldst thou fancy to become landed?

What is thy doctrine of salvation?

Art thou willing to produce an abundance of Offspring?

Art thou willing to serve a master for seven yeare?

Dost thou adherest to a belief in purgatory?

Dost thou venerate the mother of our Lord?

What dost thou knowest of the Papist Spaniards?

What dost thou knowest of Tempests?

Which is more abominable: Spaniards or Indians?

Hast thou partaken of Indian Tobacco?

Canst thou skillfully wield a sword?

What intelligence have ye of King Phillip II?

Dost thou prayest unto beads?

Dost thou conduct mass in Latin or English?

Hast thou experienced a Shakespearean drama? Which?

How dost thou remainest healthy?

How long dost a voyage to America spaneth?

Art thou literate?

Wouldst thou deign to procure an indulgence?

How dost the Primogeniture law impact thy endeavors?

From whence dost thou come?

Where doth thou dwell, in what quarters?

What is thy creed?

Dost thou prohibit a clergyman from matrimony?

Who is thy Sov'reign?

Dost thou doubtest the Queen’s assertion of purity?

Who hast the Queen known?

Art the savages perchance subjects yet to be civilized and converted?

Dost thou readest from the Geneva Bible? Or adherest to the Vulgate?

Dost thou succumbest to seasickness?

What are The doctorates: D.D., M.D., J.D., Ph.D.?

Whither dost our holy men acquire their diplomas?

Whither is thy sire?

Whither is thy bride?

Whither art thy babes?

What is thy view of the new Galilean doctrine? GeoCentrism. Dost thou hold that the earth is central or the Sun is central?

Wouldst thou affixest thy signature to a compact agreeing to a voyage to Virginia? Perchance service upon a Privateering vessel?

Vocations: What is?

     An apothecary?

     A chandler

     A wheelwright

     A cooper

A cantor

     A cartographer

     A physic

     A smith

     A midwife

     A barwench

     An alchemist

Diseases: Scurvy, Pox, Melancholy, Gangrene, Plague, Consumption, Lunacy

Animals: cock, kid, steer, steed, feline, serpent, fowl, hound, rodent, equus, ass, doe, bitch, hare, adder

Vocabulary

Spirits/Ale

Jest

Liber

Quill

Harken

Woo

Tis

Fortnight

Hallow

Inebriate

Rod

Err

Fancy

Rosary

Papist

Infidel

Heretic

Sport

Estate

Wherefore

Woe

Court

Nuptial

Pious

Aye

Nay

Perchance

Magistrate

Witchery

Vouchsafe

Thrice

Betwixt

Beseech

Lucrative

Pauper

Jesuit

Design

Lord’s Day 

This Time Machine is designed to help students to understand what type of person would be most likely to migrate in a primogeniture and feudal system.

Here are your principal options:
1) stay put in England with no opportunity for land or gold

2) sign up for the next voyage as an indentured servant

3) sign up to be one of the Queen's Sea Dogs

USE THIS LINK TO KNOW HOW TO TALK:
https://www.polytranslator.com/shakespearean-english/

Before you choose your character, watch this short video.

If you are poor and you want to go to Virginia, you will have to be an indentured servant. Watch these two videos:

If piracy is your ambition, watch this film:

If staying in England is your choice, you are likely a firstborn. Make sure you understand the system of Primogeniture.