Plymouth, 1625
For this Time Machine, each student is assigned an actual person who lived in Massachusetts with the first pilgrims.
During the class period, each student should tell their stories, express their perspective, and answer questions, such as:
1. Who is your king this year?
2. What are your aspirations? Why?
3. What are your greatest worries? Why?
4. What is your favorite thing to do? Why?
5. Who do you fear? Why?
Appropriate answers to the above questions might be:
King James I has just died, his son, Charles I has just taken the throne.
Our hopes are to establish a New Promised Land here in the wilderness of America, where we can worship according to our own beliefs, raise families, and live happy, fruitful, and pious lives.
We are mostly worried about survival. Winters are very difficult. Natives are a daily concern. Food supplies are unpredictable. We worry also about spiritual attacks on our project.
Our greatest contentment comes from our worshipping together. We sing psalms, we pray together, and we listen to sermons. We also take great joy in our vocations: we farm, we build, we hunt.
We are apprehensive about the Indians, although several have become our friends, we have been at war with the Spaniards, and, unfortunately, some of the King’s own prelates.