The Mayflower Set of Guided Reading Scripts or Class Play
Includes Poem – The Mayflower – written by Sue Russell
From Scrooby, to Amsterdam, to Leyden, to Plymouth in the ‘New World' - hardly the most direct route those Pilgrims could have taken (did they not have Satellite Navigation Systems in those days?!)And it was hardly ‘plain sailing' all the way when they got there - disease, harsh environment, terrible weather - certainly a disappointment for anyone out for a holiday! But after such unpromising beginnings, great things developed -including friendship with the locals, defying all fears previously harbored; and a great Thanksgiving tradition born (minus the turkeys and cranberries - let's try to stick to the facts here!)
This Class Play, written to Readers Theater format, is written in 5 parts:
1. Background
2. Mayflower Voyage
3. First Sight of Land
4. First Winter and Spring
5. First Thanksgiving
with 6 speakers for each part. The play can be used either within the classroom, reading out loud in groups of 6; or as a ‘performance' with the optional inclusion of music and a ‘Mayflower Song'.
Sample Text
1.Background
Speakers:
Narrator
William Brewster (Became religious leader of Plymouth settlement)
William Bradford (Became second governor of settlement - for 36 years)
Dorothy Bradford (Wife of William)
Richard Clyfton (Preacher - stayed in Amsterdam)
John Robinson (Teacher - stayed at Leyden)
Narrator: Our story begins in the year 1606 - in the tiny English village of Scrooby.
Dorothy: Are you men still sitting around talking?
Bradford: Indeed we are!
Robinson: We have so much to discuss, before we depart these fair shores - for Holland.
Dorothy: Are you sure it is necessary for us to make this move?
Clyfton: If it wasn't, we certainly wouldn't be doing it.
Dorothy: I mean, all that upheaval and disruption to our lives and our children's ..
Brewster: We understand just how you feel. But we have no choice.
Bradford: If we stay here we will continue to be persecuted
Clyfton: And for what? What is our crime?
Robinson: Only that of wanting a simpler form of worship
Clyfton: One that doesn't require there to be a priest between us and God.
Extract from ‘Mayflower Song' (set to Bobby Shafto tune)
Just the Mayflower fit to sail
Things went fine until that gale
Then directions them did fail
And sent them too far northward.
Includes Poem – The Mayflower – written by Sue Russell
From Scrooby, to Amsterdam, to Leyden, to Plymouth in the ‘New World' - hardly the most direct route those Pilgrims could have taken (did they not have Satellite Navigation Systems in those days?!)And it was hardly ‘plain sailing' all the way when they got there - disease, harsh environment, terrible weather - certainly a disappointment for anyone out for a holiday! But after such unpromising beginnings, great things developed -including friendship with the locals, defying all fears previously harbored; and a great Thanksgiving tradition born (minus the turkeys and cranberries - let's try to stick to the facts here!)
This Class Play, written to Readers Theater format, is written in 5 parts:
1. Background
2. Mayflower Voyage
3. First Sight of Land
4. First Winter and Spring
5. First Thanksgiving
with 6 speakers for each part. The play can be used either within the classroom, reading out loud in groups of 6; or as a ‘performance' with the optional inclusion of music and a ‘Mayflower Song'.
Sample Text
1.Background
Speakers:
Narrator
William Brewster (Became religious leader of Plymouth settlement)
William Bradford (Became second governor of settlement - for 36 years)
Dorothy Bradford (Wife of William)
Richard Clyfton (Preacher - stayed in Amsterdam)
John Robinson (Teacher - stayed at Leyden)
Narrator: Our story begins in the year 1606 - in the tiny English village of Scrooby.
Dorothy: Are you men still sitting around talking?
Bradford: Indeed we are!
Robinson: We have so much to discuss, before we depart these fair shores - for Holland.
Dorothy: Are you sure it is necessary for us to make this move?
Clyfton: If it wasn't, we certainly wouldn't be doing it.
Dorothy: I mean, all that upheaval and disruption to our lives and our children's ..
Brewster: We understand just how you feel. But we have no choice.
Bradford: If we stay here we will continue to be persecuted
Clyfton: And for what? What is our crime?
Robinson: Only that of wanting a simpler form of worship
Clyfton: One that doesn't require there to be a priest between us and God.
Extract from ‘Mayflower Song' (set to Bobby Shafto tune)
Just the Mayflower fit to sail
Things went fine until that gale
Then directions them did fail
And sent them too far northward.
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