Assignment: Desperate Crossing III Date:Wed, Oct 31, 2007
Continue watching Desperate Crossing
Assignment: Desperate Crossing II Date:Tue, Oct 30, 2007
English 11Continue watching “Desperate Crossing”
American Dream essay due Friday
First draft:
Must be 5 paragraph (2 pages)
Must include anecdotes from your real life
Must include discussion of readings from class
Assignment: Eng11: Desperate Crossing 1 Date:Mon, Oct 29, 2007
English 11Assign: “My American Dream” essay
In class: Watch and take notes from “Desperate Crossing” (The untold story of the Mayflower)
Assignment: Test over Declaration of Independence Date:Fri, Oct 26, 2007
English 11Test over Declaration of Independence.
Extra credit:
Memorize these words from the Declaration of Independence:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. . .
Assignment: Read and take notes on Declaration of Independence Date:Thu, Oct 25, 2007
English 11Orally, give answers from “words to own” worksheet and give an original sentence using each word.
For tomorrow: Reading and Notetaking: p. 116-123
(Read the Declaration of Independence, taking notes in the form shown on page 115)Use these strategies while reading:
1. paraphrase each paragraph as you finish it. If you have trouble, re-read the paragraph.
2. Use resources: look unfamiliar words up in a dictionary, noting the word’s origins as well as its definition
3. Questioning: If you get confused, ask these questions: What exactly don’t I understand? Is it a word, sentence, paragraph, idea, or purpose?Be ready to answer the “Reading Check” questions, and questions 2, 3, 4 on page 125.
Here is a guide to the ideas in the Declaration (from the Claremont Institute)
This extra credit question will be part of the test over the Declaration of Independence: Explain what the colonists understood “natural rights” to be, and what the role of government should be in relation to such rights. Natural Rights and the Declaration of Independence
Consider these questions: What is a “right”? Are rights real, according to the Declaration of Independence? Where do they come from? What does government have to do with rights?
More Extra credit:
Memorize these words from the Declaration of Independence for Friday’s test:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. . .
Assignment: Test over Thomas Paine Date:Wed, Oct 24, 2007
Answer orally questions 2, 3, 4 page 112
Answer orally “words to own” from worksheetTest over Thomas Paine
For tomorrow: The Declaration of Independence:
1. Read the background on Thomas Jefferson, P. 114-115
2. Do the “Words to Own” Worksheet. Jefferson-Words_to_Own.pdf
3. In addition, use each of the 10 “words to own” in an original sentence:
censures
transient
constrains
expunge
candid
abdicated
confiscation
magnanimity
renounce
acquiesceExtra credit:
Memorize these words from the Declaration of Independence for Friday’s test:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. . .
Assignment: Test over Patrick Henry Date:Tue, Oct 23, 2007
English 11Answer “words to own” worksheet orally.
Answer orally questions 3, 4, 5 on page 105Test over Patrick Henry
For Tomorrow:
Read 105-112 (Thomas Paine)
Be ready to discuss: analogy, anecdote, diction, figurative language, style
Be ready to answer questions 2, 3, 4 page 112
Complete “Words to Own” Paine_Words_to_Own.pdf" title="worksheet">worksheetExtra credit:
Memorize these words from the Declaration of Independence for Friday’s test:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. . .
Assignment: Read Patrick Henry Date:Mon, Oct 22, 2007
Read “Concord Hymn” aloud, p. 99
What role do deeds and heroes from the past play in your feelings about your civic duties, freedom, and the American Dream?
Read and Take Notes: “Speech to the Virginia Convention” p. 100-104. Take 2-column notes (see “Recognizing Modes of Persuasion”, p. 101): in the left column, appeals to logic. In the right, appeals to emotion.
For tomorrow:
1. Be ready to answer questions 3, 4, 5 on page 105
2. Words to Own Henry_Words_to_Own.pdf" title="Worksheet">WorksheetExtra credit:
Memorize these words from the Declaration of Independence for Friday’s test:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. . .
A/V resources:
Recording of Patrick Henrys speech to the Virginia Convention: http://history.org/media/audio.cfm
The actor discusses the character of Patrick Henry: http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biohen.cfm
Assignment: No School (MEA) Date:Fri, Oct 19, 2007
No School: Professional Education Conferences
Assignment: No School (MEA) Date:Thu, Oct 18, 2007
No School
Assignment: The American Dream video Date:Wed, Oct 17, 2007
Watch “American Dream” video
Hand in worksheet at end of period for 10 extra credit points.
The video may be watched on Tuesday, October 23, at 3:20 for those who missed it in class.
Assignment: Early Release 11:45 Date:Wed, Oct 17, 2007
English 11Early release: shortened schedule
Assignment: Test over Franklin (pages 84-97) Date:Tue, Oct 16, 2007
English 11Answer orally “Words to Own” Worksheet (Franklin)
Answer orally questions 2, 4, 9 on Page 97Test: Benjamin Franklin (including “words to own”
For Makeup: Turn in written answers to questions 2, 4, 9 on page 97. This is do the day after you return.
Assignment: Test over Winthrop Date:Mon, Oct 15, 2007
English 11Test over “A Model of Christian Charity” by John Winthrop
For Tomorrow:
1. Read p. 84 - 97 Benjamin Franklin.
2. Do “Words to Own” Worksheet.
3. Be ready to answer questions 2, 4, 9 on Page 97
Assignment: Test over John Winthrop Date:Fri, Oct 12, 2007
English 11Take test over John Winthrop’s ”A Model of Christian Charity.” You may use the notes you took yesterday.
Puritan Concept of the Day:
Puritans, Separatist and non-separating - All Puritans dreamed of creating a purified religious community, free from the hierarchies and worldly rituals they felt contaminated the established Church of England. While non-separating Puritans hoped that they could reform the church from within, the Separatists believed that they needed to break from the Church of England entirely. The Separatists represented a minority among Puritans, and they experienced even greater persecution in England than non-separating Puritans did. In America, the Plymouth colony led by William Bradford was Separatist while the Massachusetts Bay colony led by John Winthrop was non-separating.When you finish the test, write a paragraph explaining what Winthrop argued was the main purpose of the voyage to America to found a new colony. Start with a clear topic sentence: “According to John Winthrop, the main purpose for founding a new colony was. . .” Use at least two direct quotes from his sermon in your paragraph.
Slide presentation on using quotes in writing
Below is a model paragraph using quotes. Study it to be sure you get the punctuation right. Note that the quotes fit the grammar of the sentence. It’s okay to use ellipses (three dots indicating something is left out) and to quote only phrases rather than complete sentences:
Jonathon Edwards believed that true conversion required three steps: first, awakening, or recognition of the precariousness of one’s life and situation; second, humiliation, or experience of backsliding that would lead people to realize the terribleness of their sins and God’s justice in sending them to eternal hell; and third, “if God graciously granted it ... receiving God’s regenerating ‘light,’ or a ‘new spirit created in them,’ “ so that they would truly repent and “sin would no longer reign in them.” Instead, they would have a “glorious change” and be guided by the Holy Spirit “dwelling in them.” He was wary of following spiritual “impulses” instead of the discipline of a rational mind, informed by Scripture, which was the foundation of his own preaching.
Assignment: Read John Winthrop Date:Thu, Oct 11, 2007
English 11Puritan concept of the day:
covenant theology - The Puritans believed that they had formed a “covenant,” or contract with God. Like the Old Testament Hebrews, they felt themselves to be a “chosen nation,” the people through whom God would fulfill his divine plan on earth. Their covenant, however, was not the same as the Old Testament covenant God had formed with the Israelites. The coming of Christ had changed the terms of the contract, enabling them to live under a “covenant of grace.” Right behavior would follow from their acceptance of and faith in the covenant. On an individual level, Puritans agonized over the status of their covenant with God, but as a group they were more confident. Having entered into voluntary church covenants, and thus into a kind of national covenant with God, they were assured of the centrality of their role in God’s cosmic plan.
Read ”A Model of Christian Charity”
In Time magazine’s listing of millennial landmarks the Reverend Peter Gomes identified Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity” as the greatest sermon of the past thousand years.
Use this graphic organizer as a model for creating a web diagram that shows the structure of Winthrop’s argument. This model is not complete--you will need to add additional ovals and rectangles to finish it.
A completed graphic organizer is due at the end of the period.
Assignment: Questions about William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth Plantation” Date:Wed, Oct 10, 2007
English 11Answer one of the following questions with a well-developed and unified paragraph of at least 7 sentences. Include at least one quote, embedded in the paragraph, with proper punctuation.
Slide Presentation on Using Quotations in your Writing
Here is a model paragraph.
1. In Bradford’s mind, what does it mean to be free? What relationship does he suggest between troubles and freedom?
2. Why did the Pilgrims leave England for the Low Countries? Why didn’t they try harder to adapt to life in England?
3. What four reasons does Bradford give for the Pilgrims leaving Holland? Which reason(s) seems particularly “puritan"not something that, say, a typical American would think much about?
4. Before the Pilgrims go to America, what ideas do they have about the natives there? Where do you suppose they got their ideas about those people?
5. Bradford speculates that the Pilgrims might die in an attempt to move their community to America. Given the difficulties and dangers involved, what is his attitude toward the idea?
6. Bradford notes that he omits many things about the voyage. Indeed, his history of the voyage is so brief that he almost certainly is omitting most things. Why do you think he includes the story of John Howland being thrown overboard? How might this be related to the story of “the proud and very profane” young man whose body was earlier thrown overboard? What do the two stories together show about the way Bradford interprets the things that happen?
7. Try to explain Bradford’s readiness to praise the “lovingkindness” of the Lord even though half the Pilgrims died before spring?
8. Bradford provides the text of the Mayflower Compact. He says they feel the document is necessary because some people on this ship are murmuring and mutinous. How does that document give the leaders of the colony authority to make laws and hold people responsible to them? Where do they believe their authority comes from?
9. How did Bradford “set up” the passages where he talks about the care given to the sickest of the Pilgrims by those who were healthier? Use this incident to explain the Puritan understanding of the proper relationship between individuals and the community. (Are the Puritans closer in their views to the tribal councilmen or to Brinder Mather in D’Arcy McNickle’s short story “Hard Riding”?)
Assignment: Test over William Bradford Date:Tue, Oct 09, 2007
English 11Review “embedding a quote” in your writing. This will be needed for Part 2 of the test over Bradford.
Here is an online copy. Test over this reading today, along with these concepts: “covenant theology,” “plain style,” “apocoalypse,” and “typology.”
If you can answer all these questions, you will ace the test:
1. In Bradford’s mind, what does it mean to be free? What relationship does he suggest between troubles and freedom?
2. Why did the Pilgrims leave England for the Low Countries? Why didn’t they try harder to adapt to life in England?
3. What four reasons does Bradford give for the Pilgrims leaving Holland? Which reason(s) seems particularly “puritan"not something that, say, a typical American would think much about?
4. Before the Pilgrims go to America, what ideas do they have about the natives there? Where do you suppose they got their ideas about those people?
5. Bradford speculates that the Pilgrims might die in an attempt to move their community to America. Given the difficulties and dangers involved, what is his attitude toward the idea?
6. Bradford notes that he omits many things about the voyage. Indeed, his history of the voyage is so brief that he almost certainly is omitting most things. Why do you think he includes the story of John Howland being thrown overboard? How might this be related to the story of “the proud and very profane” young man whose body was earlier thrown overboard? What do the two stories together show about the way Bradford interprets the things that happen?
7. Try to explain Bradford’s readiness to praise the “lovingkindness” of the Lord even though half the Pilgrims died before spring?
8. Bradford provides the text of the Mayflower Compact. He says they feel the document is necessary because some people on this ship are murmuring and mutinous. How does that document give the leaders of the colony authority to make laws and hold people responsible to them? Where do they believe their authority comes from?
9. How did Bradford “set up” the passages where he talks about the care given to the sickest of the Pilgrims by those who were healthier? Use this incident to explain the Puritan understanding of the proper relationship between individuals and the community. (Are the Puritans closer in their views to the tribal councilmen or to Brinder Mather in D’Arcy McNickle’s short story “Hard Riding”?)
Assignment: Read William Bradford Date:Mon, Oct 08, 2007
English 11Here is a model paragraph.
Read “Of Plymouth Plantation” in the binders. Here is an online copy. Test over this reading tomorrow, along with these concepts: “weaned affections,” “plain style,” “apocoalypse,” and “typology.”
Look for answers to these questions:
1. In Bradford’s mind, what does it mean to be free? What relationship does he suggest between troubles and freedom?
2. Why did the Pilgrims leave England for the Low Countries? Why didn’t they try harder to adapt to life in England?
3. What four reasons does Bradford give for the Pilgrims leaving Holland? Which reason(s) seems particularly “puritan"not something that, say, a typical American would think much about?
4. Before the Pilgrims go to America, what ideas do they have about the natives there? Where do you suppose they got their ideas about those people?
5. Bradford speculates that the Pilgrims might die in an attempt to move their community to America. Given the difficulties and dangers involved, what is his attitude toward the idea?
6. Bradford notes that he omits many things about the voyage. Indeed, his history of the voyage is so brief that he almost certainly is omitting most things. Why do you think he includes the story of John Howland being thrown overboard? How might this be related to the story of “the proud and very profane” young man whose body was earlier thrown overboard? What do the two stories together show about the way Bradford interprets the things that happen?
7. Try to explain Bradford’s readiness to praise the “lovingkindness” of the Lord even though half the Pilgrims died before spring?
8. Bradford provides the text of the Mayflower Compact. He says they feel the document is necessary because some people on this ship are murmuring and mutinous. How does that document give the leaders of the colony authority to make laws and hold people responsible to them? Where do they believe their authority comes from?
9. How did Bradford “set up” the passages where he talks about the care given to the sickest of the Pilgrims by those who were healthier? Use this incident to explain the Puritan understanding of the proper relationship between individuals and the community. (Are the Puritans closer in their views to the tribal councilmen or to Brinder Mather in D’Arcy McNickle’s short story “Hard Riding”?)
Assignment: Begin slide presentations Date:Tue, Oct 02, 2007
English 11Present group slide shows to class. Each group member must have a speaking part. Each slide show must be 5-7 minutes long, include at least 3 images, and end with 3 multiple choice questions drawn from the presentation.
Makeup: 10 POINTS will be given for listening to the presentations. If you are absent, 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:
plain style - A mode of expression characterized by its clarity, accessibility, straightforwardness, simplicity, and lack of ornamentation. In early America, the plain-style aesthetic had broad cultural relevance, shaping the language of prose and poetry, the design of furniture and buildings, and the style of painting and other visual arts. Rejecting ornamental flourishes and superfluous decoration as sinful vanity, plain stylists worked to glorify God in their productions rather than to show off their own artistry or claim any renown for themselves. This aesthetic appealed to both Quakers and Puritans.
Assignment: Work on slide shows Date:Mon, Oct 01, 2007
Work with a group to create a slideshow (due at the beginning of the period on Tuesday):
1. 5-7 minutes long
2. Use at least 3 images
3. End with 3 multiple-choice test questions drawn from your presentationIf you miss Friday or Monday, you must do an individual written report on some aspect of Puritan history.
Puritan concept of the day:
weaned affections - This Puritan theological doctrine held that individuals must learn to wean themselves from earthly attachments and make spiritual matters their priority. Inappropriate earthly attachments included material possessions such as one’s home, furniture, clothing, or valuables. The doctrine of weaned affections could also proscribe things that we do not usually think of as incompatible with spirituality, such as a love of natural beauty, or a dedication to secular learning, or even an intense devotion to one’s spouse, children, or grandchildren. According to orthodox Puritan theology, anything tied to this world--even relationships with family members--should be secondary to God.