UNIT 2PURITAN PARTNER PARAGRAPH

ASSIGNMENT DUE MONDAY 10/7/13

Prerequisites

• In order to work with a partner on this performance task, each student first completed (in class and/or at home) notes on four Puritan texts.

• Link to google site text versions here.

These notes were checked in class Friday 10/4. The notes had two subjects (Rhetorical Strategies and Applied Ideas) and four text examples with student analysis in each of the two subject. Total: 8 notes “entries.”

Sample of Two Notes EntriesRhetorical Strategies (From Jonathan Edwards)

Quote: “Therefore, let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come…Let everyone fly out of Sodom: "Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed."”Page: last paragraph, accessed online, approx. p. 70 in red book) • What is it? allusion to Sodom (city of sin

destroyed by God), imperative/command statements, appeal to fear, reference to mountain top (Moses? Mount Sinai)

• What is its effect on the message/the listeners? I imagine them leaving the sermon with the same fear and haste he talks about – rushing out of the church to pursue righteous living and run from evil. Energized by fear.

Applied Ideas/Values (From William Bradford)

AREA OF LIFE: law/justice AUTHOR/PAGE Bradford p. 52

TEXT QUOTE: “And one of their company being abroad came running in and cried, "Men, Indians! Indians!" And withal, their arrows came flying amongst them. Their men ran with all speed to recover their arms, as by the good providence of God ,they did”• VALUE: cultural superiority? Self-protection?

Occupation of land = ownership of land?• EFFECT: It seems Bradford and the colonial

defenders believed God (providence) was on their side, which in turn justified, in their eyes, taking possession of land already occupied by native Indian peoples. Are there any current American laws and conflicts apply the same type of thinking?

The Next Four Slides Show the Classwork each pair of students completed this week. Need more time? Finish the flow chart (slide 5) at home and you will have enough time during class (10/7) to write your paragraph with your partner.Classwork Task ListChoose a partner to work with who is “as done as you” are.

– If not finished with your notes, choose to work quietly at a completion table, using a red book.

– If finished, read through the assignment handout and follow the steps outlined in short form here:

• Choose a Puritan theme or value• View the image gallery.• Choose three that you believe express or

speak to the theme (even if they speak against or in opposition to the theme)

• Discuss the images you selected with your partner. Answer the three questions by referring to the images as you talk.

• Choose three Puritan texts (quotes from your notes or quotes from the book – Puritan section…. Anything from page 40-80). Choose quotes that speak to your chosen theme/value. Refer to these texts/quotes when answering the three questions on today’s handout.

• Create a diagram, flow chart, or graphic organizer that attempts to explain the connections between the images (contemporary) and the texts (Puritan era/1600s).

(you should complete this part of the task Block Day)• Write a paragraph of 4-5 sentences that explain how

the value has changed in the American consciousness (aware collective mind) or the American discourse (ongoing discussion). Refer to at least one text and one image in your paragraph. Draft the paragraph together. (due by the end of class Friday)

The flow chart’s ideas help you and your partner to draft a paragraph that uses ONLY some of those ideas:

Although the family unit, a Puritan value, remains vital in modern times, a significant break with Puritan family unity is clear

in today's family's focus on the present, rather than the future, and on individual adventure seeking, even when it takes away

from the family. In "To My Dear and Loving Husband", Anne Bradstreet celebrates her husband's absence, due to his governing

duties, because she knows she's got him for all eternity in heaven. Her willingness to rejoice in his absence is due to the Puritan

belief the importance of the hereafter. What's a few weeks when she'll be with him for eternity? But family togetherness and

separation are currently influenced by the value of enjoyment in the present, whether as a family or as individuals. in the Ford

truck ad, a guy risks injury on thrill-seeking adventures and his proud tone indicates he doesn't feel guilty for voyaging out on

these solo trips. Further, a nuclear family appears to enjoy their time in the moment, while the ad's lack of furniture or activity

props suggests that what matters is the people they're with in the present moment. In Mather's testimony , Martha Carrier's

son, Richard, accuses and rejects her because, unlike the carpet family, he is concerned with his eternal life, not his earthly life.

The importance of family may not have significantly changed since the Puritan era. But priorities and how Americans orient their

family time have changed significantly. Today families value time together AND apart based on what will bring them joy in the

here and now. This is a dramatic departure with the Puritan focus on their future heavenly existence, which made protecting

their salvation more significant than keeping close family ties.

Turning In the AssignmentSeparatelyYou will turn in your cornell notes Monday 10/7

TogetherYou will create an assignment cover sheet (see pic at right), your brainstorm/instruction handout, flow chart, and paragraph.