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English 11
September 12, 2016
Block 5
Agenda - 9/12/2016
►Collect Trickster Tales
►Journal/Vocab
►Puritan Literature Intro
Guided Notes
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
►Vocab
►Worksheet
►Homework: Finish Chapter 1 Vocab Packet and Study…Quiz Next Time!
Writing Prompt –Firsts9/12/2016
There are many firsts in our lives that we don’t remember, such as our first tooth, first step, first word, or first birthday. Firsts from later in childhood come easily to mind: a first pet, a first award, the first day of high school, a first kiss, a first summer at camp. Write about a special first that you remember clearly.
Puritan Literature –Unit Objectives
Students will be able to understand the works produced in Puritan New England and examine religious ideology as it pertains to early American texts. Students will also be able to understand the influence of Puritan sensibility on American culture and relationships between Puritanism and later movements in America.
Essential Questions:
What is the Puritan perspective?
How has the Puritan perspective influenced American literature and thought?
What is the legacy of the Puritan perspective in contemporary American society?
PURITAN LITERATURE
Exploration and Colonization of the New World
Native American Lit. Overview Harmony with Nature
Animals, plants, ancestors all seen as alive, aware, and part of a spiritual whole
Creation Myths (Lord Sun’s Bride)
Explains how the world began
Trickster Tales (How Coyote Stole Fire)
Explains how the world got to be the way it is today
Exploration of the New World
► Christopher Columbus (1492): landed on a tiny island in
the Caribbean
► Columbus calls the people living there “Indians” because
he thought he was in the East Indies
► Columbus accidentally finds North and South America
while trying to find a shortcut to China and India
“Of Plymouth Plantation” by William
Bradford “Of Plymouth Plantation” is about his group of
Pilgrims and their arrival at Cape Cod led by William Bradford himself. Half of his company dies from illness during the first winter due to lack of food, lack of warm shelter, and unfriendly encounters with the Native Americans. In the spring, the company meets a Native American who speaks English well named Squanto. Squanto teaches them how to fish, plant food, and how to survive. The Pilgrims make a peace treaty with Massasoit, the chief of a tribe. The story ends with the Pilgrims harvesting their own crops and writing home with lots of good news about the New World. This is the story of the first Thanksgiving.
A New Population
People immigrated to the New World with many different backgrounds
Slaves: Africans brought to the New World to be used as workers on future plantations that settlers would need to survive. The first slave ship to sail across the ocean is named “The Desire”
Others: Merchants, explorers, and other people seeking freedom from England and the English government (Monarchy)
Puritans: a group of people who separated themselves from the Church of England and came to the New World to find religious freedom from England
Puritan Beliefs
Human beings are inherently evil and so must
struggle to overcome their sinful nature.
Personal salvation depends solely on the grace
of God, not on individual effort.
The Bible is the supreme authority on earth.
Puritan Themes
Didactic Writings (intended to teach,
particularly in having moral instruction as an
ulterior motive)/Instructional
Sermons/Speeches
Everything is based around religion
The individual has no power, society has
power
Puritans and
The Great Awakening
Key Vocabulary
Metaphor
Definition Example
A direct comparison of two
unlike thingsIt’s raining cats and dogs
outside.
Definition
Simile
Example
A comparison of two
things using like or as
She is as beautiful
as a rose.
Allusion
Definition Example
indirect or brief
references to
well-known
characters or
events
Describing someone
as a "Romeo" makes
an allusion to the
famous young lover in
Romeo and Juliet by
William Shakespeare.
Hyperbole
Definition Example
Exaggeration often
used for emphasis
I had so much
homework, I needed
a pickup truck to
carry all my books
home!
Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXOOPsgvC94
Directions:
As you listen to the story, mark where you see
examples of the literary devices we just
reviewed and write them in the box
“Example/Quotation” on your worksheet.
Summary
http://study.com/academy/lesson/sinners-
in-the-hands-of-an-angry-god-by-edwards-
summary-analysis-metaphors.html#lesson