The Task

You and your family own a trading company in an English colony in the New World. Your company is in desperate need of people to come to the colony to work. Without these additional workers, the work will never get done, your trading company will have nothing to trade, and you and your family will be broke! Oh, terrible ruination! You and your family will be out on the street!

Your task is to create performances designed to advertise the area and bring people to your village to live and work. You will send these performances to England in order to persuade people to travel to the colonies. You must be persuasive! The trip to the colonies is long, dangerous, and deadly. Your performances must contain a great deal of information convincing people to take the great risk of coming to the New World. Some of you will surely perish. Fare thee well!

Your performances must answer the following essential questions:

· Why should people come to your colony?

· Where are the English Colonies? How do people get there from England?

· What is life like in the New England Colonies? You must answer the following questions:

o What is family life like?

o What does the colony and its surrounding area look like?

o What kinds of work are available?

o How is the colony governed?

o What is school like?

o What do homes look like?

o What do colonists do for fun?

o What is religious life like?