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