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First, when planning a guide to Pilgrim culture, understand the readers. Are they elementary students, high School students or a college educated crowd and beyond. If for the first and second, you will naturally assume their knowledge of the subject is limited and your guide will hit the high points. You section off your guide into sections by first defining Pilgrim Culture, why it started, when it started and who started it.

Next, you will trace their flight from England to find freedom of Worship in Holland. After showing their unhappiness with their children learning Dutch and drifting away from their beliefs, they immigrated to America. After headlining the main topics, and presenting the basic facts in each, you conclude by a short paragraph summing up what you have written. Some wise one described it this way, tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them and tell them about what you told them.

Or, for a basic guide to Puritan culture could follow a literary outline where you bring in writer's personal opinions telling their own story. In this manner you use excerpts from primary sources such as the writing of William Bradford, Poets Ann Bradstreet and Edward Taylor and others to add a depth to your guide. The excerpts will point the way for you, the writer of the guide, to show how to effectively learn of the Pilgrims in their own way.

By using short paragraphs and then highlighting the key points of the excerpt or events, you permit a hurried online researcher to find their interest or an answer to their question. An example of one such guide follows:

Pilgrim Culture: First beginnings

* England

Why was the Church of England persecuting them? Who among the group lead the revolt against the English Church and therefore had to flee to Amsterdam, Holland for several years. In this section you briefly comment on the questions you ask and show where more information can be found on each particular point you wish to make. After each bulleted area, you leave appropriate directions to find more information. Overall to learn more about the whole topic, this URL: (http://www.pilgrim hall.org/museum.htm)

As you trace their plight from their first church in the section of England now called Pilgrim Country (Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) you tell them of the first leader, Richard Clyfton, who was Pastor of All Saint's Church - church now still standing. Connect this beginning to the later Plymouth community in America by stating, as a comment,

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