English 3P: Weekly Updates 9.21-9.28

EdwardsPreachMONDAY:  Jonathan Edwards 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”, use imagery and figurative language 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: N/A

TUESDAY:  Jonathan Edwards Progress Check Peer Revision

OBJECTIVE: By evaluating 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”, use imagery and figurative language 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: Learning Scale, Peer Revision Powerpoint

WEDNESDAY:  Introduction to Olaudah Equiano (Late Start)

OBJECTIVE: By reading and annotating Olaudah Equiano’s “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”, students will be able to: 1.) identify authors’ purpose , claim and use of imagery 2.) explain how these early writers’ views of human nature  influenced American identity and political thought.

Essential Question:  How did author’s of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano view HUMAN NATURE? How did slave narratives such as “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”, use imagery and the Aristotelian Triangle 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:  Olaudah Equiano Notes & Tone Words

 

imagesTHURSDAY:  The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano

OBJECTIVE: By reading and annotating Olaudah Equiano’s “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”, students will be able to: 1.) identify authors’ purpose , claim and use of imagery 2.) explain how these early writers’ views of human nature  influenced American identity and political thought.

Essential Question:  How did author’s of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano view HUMAN NATURE? How did slave narratives such as “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”, use imagery and the Aristotelian Triangle 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:  The Interesting Life of Olaudah EquianoOlaudah Equiano Notes & Tone Words

FRIDAY:  The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano Close Reading

OBJECTIVE: By reading and annotating Olaudah Equiano’s “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”, students will be able to: 1.) identify authors’ purpose , claim and use of imagery 2.) explain how these early writers’ views of human nature  influenced American identity and political thought.

Essential Question:  How did author’s of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano view HUMAN NATURE? How did slave narratives such as “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”, use imagery and the Aristotelian Triangle 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:   The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano, Dialectical Journal Summary Template

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