Crafting the Mayflower Compact: A Surviving Colony’s Mission
In this engaging group activity, participants will assume the roles of settlers facing the challenges of establishing a new colony without rules or guidelines. Randomly selected leaders will choose their settlers, who must collaboratively create a poetic and elegant compact to ensure survival through the coming winter. The compact must incorporate at least four of the original vocabulary words from the Mayflower Compact, fostering a sense of unity and purpose. The rough draft will lead to a final, signed document dated November 11, 1620, establishing a civil body politic for the group.
Crafting the Mayflower Compact: A Surviving Colony’s Mission
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Your Mayflower Compact Mr. Catullo
Instructions • I will pick leaders randomly. • Those leaders will then pick the settlers they’re traveling with randomly. • You must create a compact as a group. Imagine you are in the place of the settlers with no rules, laws or guidelines. • To survive you must create a compact! You’re off course, there is tension among you and it’s going to be winter! You must keep this new colony alive!
Instructions • Look over the original Compact on page 100. • Your groups compact should not be a list, but written very poetically and elegantly. • You must include at least 4 of the original 7 vocabulary words from the Mayflower Compact (p. 100) • By these presents, covenant, civil body politic, aforesaid, virtue, ordinances, meet
Instructions EVERYONE must contribute at least one rule (hopefully more) to the compact. You must write a rough draft before writing the final compact! All group members must sign off on the compact and the leader should date it November 11, 1620.