Assignment: Research background on Puritans Date:Fri, Sep 28, 2007
Periods 2, 3, 5: Work on Powerpoints
Period 7: Webquest: Print out this webquest and answer all the questions & hand in: http://www.natick.k12.ma.us/schools/johnson/pilgrimquest.html
Puritan concept of the day:
Apocalypse - The end of the world as it is prophesied in the Bible, especially in the Book of Revelation. Viewing their experiences through the lens of biblical history, the Puritans understood themselves to be living in the “end time,” with Christ’s Second Coming at hand. They believed that their purity as a nation would actually bring about the Apocalypse, at which time Christ would return and reign for a millennium. Then, the earth would be destroyed, the elect would be ushered into heaven, and all others would be cast into hell. Puritan ministers performed complex analyses of scriptural predictions in order to pinpoint the exact day the Apocalypse would occur.