The students in Mrs. McCarthy’s 3rd grade class recently took a trip back in time to write creative essays on the topic, “You have a ticket on the Mayflower…” The students first stained their paper with tea to make it look old then they started the writing process — brainstorming, first draft (a.k.a. “sloppy copy”), final draft. Writing from the point of view of a Pilgrim, they answered questions such as, “How are you feeling about the journey?” “Why are you leaving?” “What are you worried about?” and “What will you take with you?”
When the project was completed, students agreed, “We all were very thankful to God that we have the luxuries of this day and age and not the hardships that the Pilgrims faced in 1620.”
