10/19/2022

Bell Work:  We have covered three Native American origin myths (The Earth on Turtle’s Back, When Grizzlies Walked Upright, and from The Navajo Origin Legend), the Iroquois Constitution, two exploration narratives through parts of Texas and Arizona (A Journey Through Texas, Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville), read of Christopher Columbus’ journal of the first voyage to America and additional documents about his life and voyages.  We have also read about John Smith’s documentation from A General History of Virginia, and an excerpt of William Bradford’s On Plymouth Plantation.  Finally, we have read over two examples of Puritan Poetry and sermon given by Jonathan Edwards, and are about to read Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

Through this unit, we have seen various ways that early Americans have tried to make sense of and cope with their world.  Explore this idea by writing some ideas down and be prepared to discuss.

 

 

Activity

• Bell work—discussion
• Video—All About the Puritan New England Colonies—Heimler’s History on YouTube

All About the New England Colonies

10/18/2022

Bell Work:  [Musical Free Write]

Review tone/mood in writing (diction). Tone=implied attitude; Mood=dominant emotion.

• One more time we are strangers. But this time with memories.

 

• Remember Me As A Time Of Day. So when that time comes around you will think of me. And where ever I am, at that same exact moment, I will think of you.

(both prompts are from YouTube user quotes on the “video” of the song)

Song:  Remember Me as a Time of Day by Explosions in the Sky

Agenda

• Bell work and share (10 minutes)
• Finish in small groups (all work) questions #4-8 (p. 97) on your own paper.
• The World’s Easiest Pop Quiz If You’ve Been Paying Any Attention
• Notes on Jonathan Edwards

Big Ideas:

 

• The Puritan Plain Style—Characterized by short words, direct statements, and references to ordinary, everyday objects.  Puritans believed that poetry should serve God by clearly expressing only useful or religious ideas.  Poetry appealing to the senses was viewed as dangerous!
• Apostrophe—a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses a person who is dead or not physically present, a personified object or non-human thing, or an abstract quality or idea.
• Paraphrasing—restating in your own words

 

From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

• Jonathan Edwards gave sermons filled with “fire and brimstone”—a phrase symbolizing the torments of hell
  • His name alone caused 18^th century Puritans to shake in their shoes
  • He also believed in science and reason and saw in the physical world the proof of God’s presence and will.
  • Precocious—academically inclined, and learned to speak Latin, Greek, and Hebrew by 12
  • Entered Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale) at 13 and graduated at 17
• The Great Awakening—a religious revival that swept the colonies in the 1730s-1740s.
• Edwards sermons stimulated religious zeal and sparked conversions, often frenzied
• Instituted disciplinary proceedings against members from reading “improper” books
• Denounced by name those he considered sinners
• Had such a strong opinion that he was dismissed as a pastor from the church
• Moved to Stockbridge, MA and preached to Natives.
• Became president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton)
• His sermons, books, and essays appeal to reason and logic, but also are highly emotional.  Sinners is the most famous work.  It demonstrates his tremendous powers of persuasion and captures the religious fervor of the Great Awakening

 

Sermon—speech given from a pulpit in a house of worship, conveys to audience the speaker’s message or point of view

Oratory—formal public speaking.  The best have these elements:

• Persuasive, inspiring listeners to take action
• Appeals to emotions
• Addresses the needs and concerns of audience
• Includes expressive and rhythmic language

Using context clues—searching the context—surrounding words, phrases, and sentences—for clues to help you understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.

 

10/17/2022

Bell Work:  There are many methods people use to influence the actions or attitudes of others.  What do you find especially effective and why?

Student Objective: Students will read, comprehend, analyze, and critique a sermon.

Student Target: I can understand Puritan Poetry and analyze the examples in our text.

Success Criteria:

• I will take notes from this unit to assist me on our next test.
• I will understand and analyze how/why Puritan beliefs further affected their daily lives.
• I will use context clues to better understand what I read.
• I will utilize my class time effectively to take ownership of my learning.

AGENDA

• bell work—think/ pair/ share
• Read Huswifery, and To My Dear and Loving Husband (92-96)
• Discuss questions (think/pair/share) pgs. 95 and 96
  • Share out to larger discussion
• Answer in small groups (all work) questions #4-8 (p. 97) on your own paper.
• The World’s Easiest Pop Quiz If You’ve Been Paying Any Attention
• Notes on Jonathan Edwards

 

Big Ideas:

 

• The Puritan Plain Style—Characterized by short words, direct statements, and references to ordinary, everyday objects.  Puritans believed that poetry should serve God by clearly expressing only useful or religious ideas.  Poetry appealing to the senses was viewed as dangerous!
• Apostrophe—a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses a person who is dead or not physically present, a personified object or non-human thing, or an abstract quality or idea.
• Paraphrasing—restating in your own words

10/14/2022

Bell Work:  Write a paragraph about a color and make it interesting!

Student Objective: Students will read, comprehend, analyze, and critique nonfiction.

Student Target: I can summarize and identify bias and argument.

Success Criteria:

• I will do a close reading of the text.
• I can participate in a collaborative discussion.
• I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says.
• I will be able to determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

 

AGENDA

• bell work
• Read Revisiting Pocahontas at 20 and annotate.
• Discuss
• Class timeline of events in Of Plymouth Plantation
  • Discussion of style, comparisons of style, purpose, audience, message, etc.

 

Identify author’s direct statements

Purpose?

Bias?

Message?

 

1. What is the purpose of the film?
2. Who is the intended audience?
3. What is the message of the film?
4. How does the film change your understanding of history, of what we’ve read about in both primary and secondary sources?
5. How are the protagonists (main characters) portrayed?
6. What symbolism do you see?
7. This is a serious subject that Disney undertook and ambitious in scope. Is the film successful? 

Revisiting Pocahontas article

 

10/13/2022

Bell Work: “Dance with me and pretend the world doesn’t exist,” he said.

After that, there was no going back.

Student Objective: Students will read, comprehend, analyze, and critique fiction.

Student Target: I can analyze and respond to narrative accounts.

Success Criteria:

• I will take notes from this unit to assist me as our next test will not be open-book, only open-notes.
• I will understand and analyze how/why Puritan poetry fits into their lifestyle, and in context with the Puritans as The Puritan Plain Style.
• I will understand an apostrophe.
• I will be able to paraphrase the poems to better understand them.

 

AGENDA.

• bell work; discuss/share
• Work on questions on page 84: Qs 1, 2 a&b, --we’ll do these together: 3, 4, and 5. 
• Notes on Puritanism
• Puritan poetry reading
• Review notes on Puritanism, Edward Taylor, Anne Bradstreet, and the “big ideas”
  • Tell me one thing about Edward Taylor and one about Anne Bradstreet
• Read Huswifery, and To My Dear and Loving Husband (92-96)
• Discuss questions (think/pair/share) pgs. 95 and 96
  • Share out to larger discussion
• Quick write

 

 

Big Ideas:

 

• The Puritan Plain Style—Characterized by short words, direct statements, and references to ordinary, everyday objects.  Puritans believed that poetry should serve God by clearly expressing only useful or religious ideas.  Poetry appealing to the senses was viewed as dangerous!
• Apostrophe—a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses a person who is dead or not physically present, a personified object or non-human thing, or an abstract quality or idea.
• Paraphrasing—restating in your own words

 

 

Quick Write

In what ways do Taylor and Bradstreet’s diction, imagery, and emotions exemplify the Puritan Plain Style?  In what ways do they differ from the Puritan Plain Style?

10/11/2022

Bell Work:  What do you think was William Bradford’s (Of Plymouth Plantation) purpose in writing his narrative? Explain.

Student Objective: Students will read, comprehend, analyze, and critique narrative accounts and Puritan Poetry.

Student Target: I can analyze a sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.

Success Criteria:

• I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says.
• I will be able to determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

AGENDA

• bell work
• Revisit Pocahontas briefly for discussion
•  Of Plymouth Plantation
  • Discussion of style, comparisons of style, purpose, audience, message, etc.

 

10/10/2022

Bell work:  I would like for this activity to be a written response over the film.  Feel free to tie in elements of John Smith and/or Pocahontas we’ve already read about.  Aim this towards being a bit more analytical in nature and not casual.  Consider anything you noted as you watched the film with a “critical eye”.

Agenda

• Opening activity and share (5 minutes tops)
• Perspectacles

Homework

Homework for Monday 10/10—Of Plymouth Plantation (76-83), narrative timeline of story with a MINIMUM of 10 details; Formulate 2 questions for your classmates and put on timeline. 

 

 

Pocahontas—Watch critically.  Thing about the “big ideas” we’ve studied so far this year:

 

• origin myths (how stories attempt to explain something)
• oral tradition
• recognizing cultural details
• exploration narratives
  • purpose, audience, message
• recognizing author’s purpose
  • bias, slant
• narrative accounts

 

Also, as a film that tells a story, consider the story itself—the characters, themes, plot, conflicts and resolution, etc.

 

No bell work today.  I collected the bell work journals.

 

 

10/5/2022

Bell Work:  Based on our readings of John Smith, both in his own words and in the words of scholars who have written about him, what can you say about historical accuracy of first-hand accounts, such as Smith’s?  How do we know what is “true”? 

Agenda

• Bell work
• Pocahontas

 

Homework

Homework for Thursday 10/10—Of Plymouth Plantation (76-83), narrative timeline of story with a MINIMUM of 10 details; Formulate 2 questions for your classmates and put on timeline. 

 

 

Pocahontas—Watch critically.  Thing about the “big ideas” we’ve studied so far this year:

 

• origin myths (how stories attempt to explain something)
• oral tradition
• recognizing cultural details
• exploration narratives
  • purpose, audience, message
• recognizing author’s purpose
  • bias, slant
• narrative accounts

 

Also, as a film that tells a story, consider the story itself—the characters, themes, plot, conflicts and resolution, etc.