Narrowing Topic Discussion

1. Discuss with partner your potential topic

for Grad. Project

2. Address how you narrowed it down

3. Create a list of support

Grammar Warm-up

Quotation MarksBrackets and Ellipses

Using Quotation Marks and Parenthetical Citation

• If the author's name is used in the text, then cite the page number(s) in parentheses:

According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The original and more potent causes, however, lay in the rare perfection of his animal nature” (16).

• Note: The period goes after the parenthesis.

• If the author's name is not used in the sentence introducing the source material, then include the author's last name in the parenthetical citation before the page number(s).

“The original and more potent causes, however, lay in the rare perfection of his animal nature” ( Hawthorne 16).

• Note: no comma appears between the author's name and the page number(s).

• If there is no author and/or page number, use the title of the selection.

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." ("Impact of Global Warming" 6).

Note: 1. The ellipses references information deleted 2. Do not capitalize quote if it cannot stand

alone .

• Brackets are used to change/insert words within a quote.

According to Smith, “People need the emotional boost to get motivated [in the workforce]” (100).

Practice

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Source: Henry, Patrick. "Speech at the Virginia Convention." Second Continental Congress. St. John's Church, Richmond. 23 Mar. 1775. Speech.

Essential Question

How did historical events and cultural influences of the time period impact early American writing?

Common Core: RL9 Demonstrate knowledge of 18th, and 19th century foundational works

Prior Knowledge

Show your knowledge of the colonial period in America by creating a list of about 5 facts.

-Share these facts with your partner

Early American colonization

Growth of the English Colonies 1620-1700: From Massachusetts Bay to the Carolinas

A Segment of: Growth of the English Colonies 1620-1700: From Massachusetts Bay to the Carolinas

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Unit 1: Early American Writing

1600-1800

Jigsaw Intro to Collec. 1: Early American literature

Task:

1. Read your section and take notes (key ideas and concepts)

2. Create a visual representing the main idea

3. Write a quote from the section that summarizes the main idea (use proper parenthetical citation)

Group 1

Group2

Group3

Group 4

Closing

Do you think that modern-day internet communication serves the same purpose as the political pamphlets of the 1700? (To what extent?) (Ticket Out)

Warm-up 8/30 (place it into quotes)

Use the following information to create a properly formatted direct quote. (You may take all or part of this excerpt.)

For we must consider that we shall be a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.

Source

Winthrop, Robert C. "The Modell of Christian Charity." N.p.: n.p., 1867. N. pag. Print.

Essential Question

How did the historical events and cultural influences of the time period impact early America?

Common Core: RL9 Demonstrate knowledge of 18th, and 19th century foundational works RI1 Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of structure RI6 Determine author’s point of view W3 Write narratives to develop expression

Early American Writing: Historical context

Early American settlers writing: diaries, letters, reports/accounts

Described challenges, environment, and interactions with the Native Americans

Taxation (1776) broke the bond –newspapers, speeches, and pamphlets were used to incite the public.

“Early American literature captures a nation in its infancy” (Holt McDougal Literature: American Literature 23).

Cultural Influences

Puritans – English Protestants “purifying” themselves from the Church of England

Left to escape persecution

Mission: to avoid daily sinBible: exemplar for behavior / life’s actions“Elect” –Those that were saved by God’s grace“Damned” – All othersFlaws: inflexibility and intolerance

According to Holt McDougal: American Literature, “Puritan values directed every aspect of their lives” (24).

Ideas of the Age - MovementsEnlightenment Great Awakening

Reinvigorated the Puritan belief – focus back on a higher power joining people.

How to live ethically

Combined religious beliefs and government’s protection of basic rights and freedoms.

(Foundation for the Declaration of Independence.)

Questioned tradition

and authority

“Both the Enlightenment ideals and [The Great Awakening] contributed to the country’s thirst for independence” (Holt McDougal Literature: American Literature 25).

Early American LiteratureNative American Experience

No written language

Oral Tradition: history, legends, and myths

• Creation stories, migration of people, deeds of leaders

Exploration and Early Settlers

Writing of explorers: journals, diaries, logs, letters, and historical narratives that discussed landscape and challenges

Writings of settlers: letters, reports and chronicles to friends back home

Colonial histories: Some were story like descriptions (not as pure) other narratives showed God’s plan or brutal treatment

Based on the information in unit 1 of Holt McDougal American Literature, “All [early Americans] contributed their own perspectives to our knowledge of this literary period” (26).

The Puritan TraditionThe Bible (Guide for daily life)

Simple writing / Plain languge

Sermons and other writings

Sermons used powerful, vivid language

Histories documented events such as Salem Witch trials and the inoculation of smallpox – Cotton Mathers

Poetry (plain style / vivid images from nature)

Used the Bible as a guide

Used to explore one’s relationship with God

Faith, love, hierarchy

“The direct, powerful, plain language of much of American literature owes a debt to the Puritans” (Holt McDougal: American Literature 28).

The Puritan TraditionRevolutionary Writers

Political writing which focused on government rather than religion; emphasis on natural law; views of the rational Enlightenment

Literary forms include the pamphlet, documents (i.e., Declaration of Independence), poems, and lettersKey writers-Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Phyllis Wheatley, and Abigail Adams

The focus on governmental issues rather than religious matters was a key element of revolutionary writing (Holt McDougal: American Literature 30).

Quickwrite

How does a person’s culture shape his or her identity?

Introduction to Native Americans (Media Study)

Archetype

Memoir

Symbolism

Review of academic VocabularyFound through literature through the ages

Biographical writing that shares personal experiences as well as observations. Often uses understatement, overstatement, repetition , and parallelism

Something that goes beyond its literal meaning.

N. Scott Momaday

Read “The Way to Rainy Mountain” and note the various literary devices Momaday uses to create his history.

1. Discuss with your group/partner how this story shaped Momaday’s identity. Record the support to your response.

2. Explain Momaday’s narrative style by providing examples from the text.

3. Discuss what Momaday was trying to say about the Kiowa through the development of this story.

Homefun - Due 9/5

Create a six word memoir that would sum up one event in your life or your entire life thus far.

If you were a literary critic hired to write a review of Momaday’s memoir, what would you write? (Write a critique of “The Way to Rainy Mountain”. Minimum 4 sentences.)