Monday: Human Nature Socratic Seminar
OBJECTIVE: After annotating passages from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “Discourse on Inequality” students will be able discuss and evaluate Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “state of nature” in a Socratic Seminar to understand European influence of Early American literature.
Essential Question: What is human nature and how does our view of this philosophical concept influence our socio-political systems?
Handouts & Notes: Socratic Seminar Outer Circle
Tuesday: Introduction to Puritan Texts Jonathan Edwards
OBJECTIVE: By writing a reflection on fear and motivation, and compelting Cornell Notes on Jonathan Edwards, students will be able to: 1.) use background knowledge to predict authors’purpose and use of rhetorical devices 2.) explain how these early writers’ views of human nature influenced American identity and political thought.
Essential Question: How did Puritan Writers view HUMAN NATURE? How did SERMONS such as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and poetry by Anne Bradstreet, use imagery to clearly communicate their message about human nature? How did his views influence the United States of America as a political and cultural entity?
Handouts & Notes: Socratic Seminar Reflection, Edwards Notes, & Tone Words
Homework: Read, Annotate, and Summarize Anne Bradstreet’s Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666.
Wednesday: Tone and Imagery “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Close Reading
OBJECTIVE: By reading and annotating for imagery and tone in Jonathan Edwards’ sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, students will be able to: 1.) identify authors’ purpose and use of rhetorical devices 2.) explain how this early writers’ views of human nature influenced American identity and political thought.
Essential Question: How did Puritan Writers view HUMAN NATURE? How did SERMONS such as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and poetry by Anne Bradstreet, use imagery to clearly communicate their message about human nature? How did his views influence the United States of America as a political and cultural entity?
Handouts & Notes: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, pp. 44-49,
Homework: Read, Annotate, and Summarize Anne Bradstreet’s Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666.
Thursday : Imagery and the Aristotelian Triangle in Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God”
OBJECTIVE: By completing a DIALECTICAL JOURNAL that identifies Edwards’ use of imagery and figurative language, students will be able to 1.) identify authors’purpose and use of rhetorical devices to support claim 2.) explain how this early writers’ views of human nature influenced American identity and political thought.
Essential Question: How did Puritan Writers view HUMAN NATURE? How did SERMONS such as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and poetry by Anne Bradstreet, use imagery to clearly communicate their message about human nature? How did his views influence the United States of America as a political and cultural entity?
Handouts & Notes: Dialectical Journal
HOMEWORK: Read, Annotate, and Summarize Anne Bradstreet’s Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666.
FRIDAY: Puritan Writing Progress Check
OBJECTIVE: By completing a progress check students will provide evidence of their ability to 1.) identify authors’purpose and use of imagery, figurative language, and rhetorical devices to support claim 2.) explain how this early writers’ views of human nature influenced American identity and political thought.
Essential Question: How did Puritan Writers view HUMAN NATURE? How did SERMONS such as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and poetry by Anne Bradstreet, use imagery to clearly communicate their message about human nature? How did his views influence the United States of America as a political and cultural entity?
HOMEWORK: Define Archetype & annotate essay by Joseph Bruchac Essay on Native American Oral Traditions based on question: What is the purpose and central claim or his essay? What evidence does he use to defend it?