This set of open ended writing topics takes students back to the time of the initial meeting of Native Americans and European Explorers, the Puritans and the Pilgrims and the swarthy frontier life of early America. Students are asked to defend, challenge, qualify, speculate, model, create, extend and research. Key words- the Great Awakening, genocide, Epicurianism, Stoicism, Witch Trials, the social contract, the new Eden, Puritan Plain Speak