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Early American Literature digital through edwards

Early American Literature digital through edwards

Early American
Literature

Beginnings Through 1800

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Early American Literature………..3
Chapter 2: Native American Literature…………………………….14
Chapter 3: William Bradford “Of Plymouth Plantation”.......21
Chapter 4: Jonathan Edwards………………………………….……..26
Chapter 5:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Early
American Literature

Objective: Understand historical context of Colonial literature

Assignments for this chapter:
➔ Open the “Notes for Early American

Literature” document in Google Classroom
and complete the fill-in sections as you
read the chapter notes. Be sure to click on
all of the hyperlinks and view all of the
videos:

◆ Picture of the Bering Land Bridge
◆ Bering Land Bridge video
◆ Puritan video (view and answer questions
◆ in EDpuzzle)
◆ Mayflower Compact document
◆ Smallpox images and video

➔ “Share” your notes document with me to
submit your completed chapter notes

➔ Click here to take the open-note quiz

The First Migration: Ice Age Travelers

★ 20-40 thousand years ago, ice age hunters
crossed the Bering Land Bridge from
Siberia to what is now Alaska

★ By the 1490s, numerous groups of
American Indians lived all over North
America

★ Europeans began exploring North America
during the 15th century

Click on the image to view a short video about the Bering Land Bridge:

The Europeans Arrived: The
Explorers

➢ Early explorers promoted America’s
abundant resources, peacefulness and
hospitality of the inhabitants, and the
promise of gold and other riches through
letters, journals, and books

➢ 1528 Cabeza de Vaca landed on the West
Coast of Florida and spent 8 years traveling
through Texas, keeping a firsthand account
of his interactions with various groups of
indigenous peoples

The Puritan Legacy

Before reading about the Puritans, log in to EDpuzzle with your
school login and view the Puritan video/answer the questions. If you
wish to view the video again after completing the assignment, click
here

➢ Puritans were groups of Protestants who
sought to “purify” the Church of England

➢ The Puritans wished to return to the simpler
forms of worship and church organizations as
described in the New Testament

➢ The Puritans thought religion was a personal,
inner experience and that no clergy or
government came between the individual and
God

➢ In many ways, the American character has
been shaped by the moral, ethical, and
religious convictions of the Puritans

➢ The founding of the Puritans in North America
was a business venture as well as a spiritual
one

Puritan Beliefs

➔ Believed that because of Adam and Eve’s
sin, most of humanity was damned for
eternity

➔ A few, known as the elect, would be saved
➔ Since it was unknown who would be saved

and who wouldn’t, the Puritans tried to
lead exemplary lives
➔ They valued self-reliance, industriousness,
temperance, and simplicity

Puritan beliefs, cont.

❖ Believed that a covenant, or contract,
existed between god and humanity

❖ Believed that people should enter freely into
agreements concerning their government

❖ Believed that the saintly elect should have
greater influence on the government;
therefore, their government was not very
democratic and left little room for
compromise

Click on the document to read The Mayflower Compact

The Bible in America

The Puritans believed that the Bible was the
literal word of God; therefore, the ability to
read the Bible was a necessity for all Puritans

The Age of Reason

❖ Rationalism is the belief that humans can
arrive at the truth by using reason-rather than
relying on authority of the past, on religious
faith, or on intuition

❖ While the Puritans saw God as actively and
mysteriously involved in the workings of the
universe, the rationalists felt that God had
created the universe, then left it to run on its
own

❖ Believed everyone had the capacity to regulate
and improve his or her own life

❖ Scientific tinkering and experimenting thrived
in the colonies during this time

Smallpox in the Age of Reason

● Arrived in 1721 in Boston Harbor from a
ship that had sailed from the West Indies

● Spread rapidly, was disfiguring, and was
often fatal

● An inoculation (vaccine) developed by
Cotton Mather kept deaths in Boston at a
relatively low number (about 850 of the
6,000 people who contracted the disease
died) click on the image to view the gallery

And here to watch the video

Deism

❖ The belief that God had made it possible
for all people at all times to discover
natural laws through their God-given
power of reason--not that only a few select
people would be saved



❖ Belief that God wanted his creatures to be
happy, so the best form of worship was to
do good for others



❖ Belief that all people were inherently
(born) good

Self-made Americans

★ Rationalist writings were often in the form
of pamphlets, since literature was intended
to serve practical or political ends

★ The written masterpiece during the Age of
Reason was Benjamin Franklin’s
autobiography

★ Franklin, in his autobiography, took the
Puritan impulse to self-examine and
molded it into the classic rags-to-riches
story—the triumph of the self-made person

Benjamin Franklin

Chapter 2: Native American
Literature

Objectives: read and interpret Native American literature; identify
characteristics of Native American literature

Assignments for this chapter:

➔ Power Thinking Outline

➔ “The Sky Tree” and questions

➔ Creative Writing assignment

➔ “The House Made of Dawn” and questions

➔ “Coyote Finishes His Work” and analysis

➔ Be sure to view the images and video:

◆ The Oral Tradition of Storytelling

Introduction to Native American
Literature

Click on the image to access the introduction
to Native American literature. In Google
Classroom, you will find a document titled
“Native American literature power thinking
outline”. Open the document, read it, and
complete the outline; click on “turn in” when
finished.

Native American literature

View the video on the tradition of oral storytelling:

The Sky Tree

Click on the image to read “The Sky Tree”, an
example of a Native American creation
myth, then follow this link to assess your
learning.

Creative Writing

Now that you are familiar with Native
American creation myths, you will be
writing your own:

Choose something that can be found in
nature and write about how it was created.
You can choose a specific plant, animal,
geographical feature, or a specific part (such
as why bunnies have fuzzy tails or why deer
have antlers, etc.). Your myth should mimic
the Native American myths you read, so it
should not be realistic. Minimum length is
¾ of a page. Your myth is due in two days.

From “The House Made of Dawn”

Click on the image to read an excerpt from a
Native American chant, and then click here
to assess your learning.

Coyote Finishes His Work

Click on the image to read the short story
“Coyote Finishes His Work”.

In Google Classroom, you will find an
assignment labeled “Coyote”; open the
document, complete the chart, and answer
the questions analyzing the story.

Chapter 3: William Bradford

Objectives: Read and interpret a journal; analyze text; examine
primary and secondary sources

Assignments for this chapter:
➔ Sign in to EDpuzzle and view the video on

William Bradford/answer the questions

➔ Read the excerpts from “Of Plymouth
Plantation” and answer the questions on
the handout

➔ Review information about primary and
secondary sources and complete the Google
form questions

➔ Analysis of the Mayflower Compact:
complete the handout

William Bradford Intro

Sign in to EDpuzzle with your school login
and view the video on William Bradford; be
sure to answer all of the questions.

From “Of Plymouth Plantation”

Open the “Of Plymouth Plantation”
document in Google Classroom. Read the
excerpts and complete the analysis.

Primary and Secondary Sources

Click on the first image to read about the
differences between primary and secondary
sources. Click on the second image to assess
your learning.

The Mayflower Compact

Click on the image to view the abridged
document, and then complete the Mayflower
Compact analysis handout.

Chapter 4: Jonathan Edwards

Objectives: Read and interpret a sermon; analyze the use of diction,
imagery, and figurative language

Assignments for this chapter:
➔ Read the biography of Jonathan Edwards

and answer the Google form questions

➔ View a YouTube video of “Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God” and assess your
learning via the Google form

➔ Read the sermon excerpts and complete
the packet questions and chart

➔ Select a vivid image from the sermon and
illustrate it using the media of your choice

Jonathan Edwards

Click on the image to read about the life and
works of Jonathan Edwards:

Then, assess your learning here

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God”

Go to YouTube and find a video of “Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God”; the full version of the
sermon requires a video length of 40 + minutes

Watch at least five minutes of the video, but do not
just start at the beginning and listen to the first
five minutes-slide the progress bar to skip
through and listen to various portions of the audio

Click the image to asses your learning after you
have listened to some of the sermon:

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God”

Get the Edwards packet out of the handout
folder and read a portion of the sermon; be
sure to answer all of the questions in the
packet as you read and complete the chart
on the last page.


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