You are to create a journal entry as if you are a sailor headed for the New World in the year 1500. The specifics are described in the lesson, so revisit the lesson if you need to. Your entry must be at least 200 words. Review the rubric to see how you will be graded.
Rubric:
Student created an entry that includes all parts of the prompt in a clear manner.
Student provided thoughtful responses with opinions included.
Student used correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.

I am writing from the ship that has brought me to the new world. I am seventeen years old and soon I will find work to raise money for a room at an inn (if they have one) but until then, with no change in my pocket and no place to sleep I find my cubby hole of a room to be of greatest comfort.

            It is the year 1680 and I have presently finished the long journey from my home of England to Jamestown, Virginia. It was a fairly good trip, despite the many months it took, hardly comfortable and never easy, but bearable nonetheless. See I bartered my passage onto the ship with the first mate himself. I offered him my culinary services in exchange for any sort of stay on the ship. See, I was raised by my mother and she insisted on me knowing how to take care of myself, including doing my own cooking, so I have become quite a chef. And as this is a ship full of men, the first mate reluctantly took me aboard, casting me to an empty, abandoned room below deck. The three men I share this room with have become my closest company over the past months, though I couldn't call them my friends. We have decided that our sleeping quarters must have once been a bathroom for there is no other explanation for the smell.

            As for Virginia! What an incredible place. Perhaps it is because of my surroundings in England, or maybe because it is springtime, but I don't believe I have ever seen a more beautiful place. It is so uninhabited and primitive. And to think there could be gold lurking under every rock! That is the real reason I came to Virginia, gold and riches, although it was not by choice that I came.

Explanation:

This is an example figured this would help just a little bit considering i'm terrible at English