Titak's 11th grade: Puritans Background

Assignment Directions: Title a piece of lined paper Puritans: Blog Assignment #1. For each section, write the title of the section and number your responses.

Part A: Puritan Plain Style

Directions: Click here to get the definition for Puritan Plain Style. Use the website to answer #1-4 below. 
1. Write the definition of Puritan Plain Style.
2. Why was this writing style favored by Puritans?
3, 4. Read about the two poems described on the website. Write the name, author, and a fact about each poem from what you just read.
5. Infer: Why do you think Puritans wrote poetry? Make an inference based on what you know about Puritans as well as your thoughts on humans, words, and art.

Part B: William Bradford

Directions: Click here  to read about William Bradford. Use the website to answer the questions below. 

1-4. Using the first paragraph, list four important accomplishments that William Bradford made.
5. Where did William Bradford live after moving away from England, but before moving to Plymouth Colony?
6. What was the name of the "first new world social contract"?
7. Who signed the contract mentioned in question 6?
8. Infer: What expectations do you think were mentioned in the document from question 6? Think of at least two.

Part C: Videos

1-5. Put headphones on and watch this video about Puritan myths (incorrect stories). What are the five myths about Puritans discussed in the video?

6. Speculate: What motivations might cause an individual to choose to make the voyage to America as part of the Puritan migration? Think of at least three life factors, personality traits, or goals.

Part D: Plymouth Theme Park

Directions: Click here and scroll halfway down the page to click the button "view the slide show now" to view a slide show of a modern version of Plymouth Plantation.

1. Describe five items that you saw on the slide show.
2. Name two people that you saw on the slide show.
3. Describe three activities that you saw on the slide show.

4. Speculate: Do you think the Plimoth Plantation Visitor's Center would be a good place to get historically accurate information about the Puritans? Explain why or why not.

#3 Regular: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

a Sermon by Jonathan Edwards

Part A: Biography

Visit this link to learn about Jonathan Edwards' life and answer the questions below.

1. When and where was he born? 

2. Where did he attend college? What was remarkable about his college experience? 

3. The second paragraph discusses Edwards' undergoing a change in his beliefs. At first, he had a hard time believing that God was sovereign. 

     a. Look up sovereign on dictionary.com and write the meaning. 

     b. Explain in your own words the change that Edwards went through.

Part B: The Great Awakening

Click here to visit this website, and use it to answer the following questions:
1. What caused The Great Awakening?
2. Who was involved in The Great Awakening?
3. What were the effects of The Great Awakening?

Visit this link to watch a video about The Great Awakening. #4-8 Take five notes on the video. 

#3 Honors: The American Renaissance

1. Click here and look at the first bullet point to copy a definition of American Renaissance.

2. Click here to Google the definition of Renaissance, NOT as it applies to the European Renaissance, but just the word itself. What does it mean in Old French? 

3. Click here to find out when the American Renaissance occurred. What were the approximate years?

4. Click here and write the names of at least six important authors from this time period. What do you notice about their names? 

5. Click here to find out about some important literary and intellectual issues that were going on at the time of the American Renaissance (look at the chart). List them below. Put stars by anything that sounds familiar to you. 

6. Click here to find out about some important cultural and historical issues that were going on at the time of the American Renaissance (look at the chart). List them below. Put stars by anything that sounds familiar to you. 

7. Click here to find out why this period was considered so great (near the bottom of the page). 

8. Click here to find out what American Romanticism is. Read the "In a Nutshell" section. Come up with a definition for American Romanticism based on what you read. What inspired American Romanticism? What values and topics were important to this movement?

9. Click here to find out what Transcendentalism is. Read the "In a Nutshell" section. Come up with a definition for Transcendentalism based on what you read. What did Transcendentalists value? What topics and values were important to this movement?

10. Click here to view this Prezi comparing and contrasting Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Do you think you personally would make a better Transcendentalist or Romanticist? Provide three reasons for your classification of yourself. 

#4 REGULAR: The Revolution!

1. CLICK HERE to answer the following:
List at least three documents from this page with which you are already familiar.

2. CLICK HERE to select a record type of your choice (click on a photo of a person). Select any document. Pull up the original and try to transcribe the first sentence. Write the name of your document, the date, and the first sentence.

3. CLICK HERE . Pick a song and write the title. Explain its message. How does it relate to the Revolution?

4. CLICK HERE to learn about Patrick Henry's famous speech. What is the phrase commonly known from this speech? What was the occasion for his speech? What was Henry trying to convince his audience to do?

5. CLICK HERE to learn about winter at Valley Forge. What happened there? What were the living conditions like?

6. CLICK HERE to learn about The Crisis by Thomas Paine. What was The Crisis? What was its purpose? What did George Washington order to be done with it?

7. CLICK HERE to read about the risk that the signers of the Declaration of Independence took. What specifically could have happened to them for signing? What were their main complaints found in the Declaration?

8. CLICK HERE to read about Benjamin Franklin. Scroll down to the section at the bottom of the page titled "The Constitution". What did Franklin do to try to persuade delegates to sign the Constitution? (look in the third paragraph of this section). Skim the rest of the page and write down three other important things that Franklin accomplished.

#2 Regular: Edgar Allan Poe

1. Click here to look at images from the story "The Masque of the Red Death".
a. Describe what you see.
b. Based on the images, what do you think the story will be about?

2. Google each word to get the definition. Write the definitions.
a. pestilence
b. dissolution
c. dauntless
d. hale
e. ingress
f. egress
g. contagion

3. Based on the words listed above, what do you expect from the story itself?

4. Have you read any Edgar Allan Poe stories or poems? Name them and/or describe what they were about.

5. Go here and read about the theories regarding E.A. Poe's death.
a. Which theory seems most plausible (possible, believable) to you? Why?
b. Which theory seems most implausible (unbelievable, probably not true) to you? Why?

PURITANS- Titak's Class

Assignment Directions: Title a piece of lined paper Puritans: Blog Assignment #1. For each section, write the title of the section and number your responses.

Part A: Puritan Plain Style

Directions: Click here to get the definition for Puritan Plain Style. Use the website to answer #1-4 below. 
1. Write the definition of Puritan Plain Style.
2. Why was this writing style favored by Puritans?
3, 4. Read about the two poems described on the website. Write the name, author, and a fact about each poem from what you just read.
5. Infer: Why do you think Puritans wrote poetry? Make an inference based on what you know about Puritans as well as your thoughts on humans, words, and art.

Part B: William Bradford

Directions: Click here  to read about William Bradford. Use the website to answer the questions below. 

1-4. Using the first paragraph, list four important accomplishments that William Bradford made.
5. Where did William Bradford live after moving away from England, but before moving to Plymouth Colony?
6. What was the name of the "first new world social contract"?
7. Who signed the contract mentioned in question 6?
8. Infer: What expectations do you think were mentioned in the document from question 6? Think of at least two.

Part C: Videos

1-5. Put headphones on and watch this video about Puritan myths (incorrect stories). What are the five myths about Puritans discussed in the video?

6. Speculate: What motivations might cause an individual to choose to make the voyage to America as part of the Puritan migration? Think of at least three life factors, personality traits, or goals.

Part D: Plymouth Theme Park

Directions: Click here and scroll halfway down the page to click the button "view the slide show now" to view a slide show of a modern version of Plymouth Plantation.

1. Describe five items that you saw on the slide show.
2. Name two people that you saw on the slide show.
3. Describe three activities that you saw on the slide show.

4. Speculate: Do you think the Plimoth Plantation Visitor's Center would be a good place to get historically accurate information about the Puritans? Explain why or why not.

HONORS Blog Assignment #1 2018-19: Puritans and Native Americans

DIRECTIONS:
Title a piece of lined paper "Artwork Analysis-Native American/Puritan Relationships"

• Go to google.com and type Puritans and Native Americans into the search box. 
• Click on the word images underneath the search box. You will see hundreds of images. Do NOT use the image from the English 3 blog. 
• Look through several images and choose the image that YOU think best portrays the relationship between Native Americans and Puritans. 
• Click on the image you chose and select visit page. 
• Print your image and attach it to your lined paper for this assignment. 
• Answer the questions below on lined paper. 

1. Identify: What is the source (website title and address) of your image? (Also include the name of the artist if it is available.)

2. Explain: Why did you choose this image as the best portrayal of the relationship between Native Americans and Puritans? Point out at least three details from the image that stand out to you.

3. Background: Where did you get your prior knowledge about the Native American/Puritan relationship? (movies, books, teachers, online, etc.)
4. Infer: What do YOU think the artist of the image you chose would say about Puritan/Native American relations? Use details from the image to explain your inference.