Question

2. In the last section of Act I of Our Town, the Stage Manager discusses a time capsule that is being placed in the cornerstone of a local building. He mentions several items that are being placed inside the time capsule, including newspapers, the Bible, the Constitution, and the plays of Shakespeare. He also mentions that he wants to put a copy of Our Town in the time capsule, as well. If you were to bury a time capsule tomorrow for people to unearth in a thousand years, what items would you include? List at least three items and provide your reasons for their inclusion.

Answer 1

Newspaper for current events
phone so people know what technology looked like
a letter about 2017

Answer 2

Answer:

An encyclopaedia

A type of common technology (phone, TV, laptop)

A photo album

Explanation:

These are the items that I would include in a time capsule. If the time capsule is meant to last a thousand years, the world will be very different by the time the items are examined again. I would include an encyclopaedia so that people in the future would know what our knowledge of science, culture and history was like. I would also include some technology, to show our level of development. Finally, I would include a photo album that showed what the city and the country was like.