American Lit Q1 Week Five Agenda October 3-7, 2011 Honors American Literature (11 grade) Week 5: Puritan

Colonial Literature Day 1 (90 mins) Tues 10/4 Vocab Quiz- Unit 1 Puritan Colonial literature background, pp.1-12 (Bring Red anthology) Puritan Timeline HO on web Explicating a poem HO on web In class session on how to explicate a poem using Edward Taylors Huswifery p.122 HW: Read the following looking for topics/themes, form/stylistic devices, and tone Winthrops Model of Christian Charity, HO on webpage The NE Primer, pp.82-83 Anne Bradstreet bio, pp.89-90 Edward Taylor bio, p.109 Jonathan Edwards bio, pp.159161 When God Had No Competition HO on webpage Day 2 (90 mins.) Thurs 10/6 Winthrops Model of Christian Charity, HO on webpage The NE Primer, pp.82-83 Anne Bradstreet bio, pp.89-90 Edward Taylor bio, p.109 Jonathan Edwards bio, pp.159161 When God Had No Competition HO on webpage Comparing Spiders Day 3 (45 mins.) Fri 10/7 Socratic Seminar-Whole class Anne Bradstreet,: Before the Birth of One of Her Children pp.102-103 & Upon the Burning of Our House pp.107108 Edward Taylor: Upon a Spider Catching a Fly pp.120-121 Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God pp.172-184
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HW: Prepare you ticket for Colonial Literature considering the following pieces along with pieces covered in class earlier Anne Bradstreet: Before the Birth of One of Her Children pp.102-103 & Upon the Burning of Our House pp.107108 Edward Taylor: Upon a Spider Catching a Fly pp.120 Jonathan Edwards bio, pp.159161 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God pp.172-184

HW: Read the following looking for topics/themes, form/stylistic devices, and tone Read Reason & Revolutionary Lit. background, pp.189-194 Crvecoeur bio, pp.322-323 What is an Am? pp.324-333 Franklin bio, pp.195-196 Autobiography on Moral Perfection, pp.259-262 Jefferson bio, pp.347-348 Query XVIII: Manners pp.358360 Wheatley bio, pp.377-378 On Virtue p.378 & On Being Brought from Africa to America p.379