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EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE

EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE. Honors English 10. Introduction. Have you read your “Introduction”?. Archetype. Huron Teton Sioux Nez Perce. Native American Oral Tradition. “ The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky”. “The Sky Tree”. “Coyote Finishes His Work”. “The Earth Only”.

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EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE

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  1. EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE Honors English 10

  2. Introduction • Have you read your “Introduction”?

  3. Archetype Huron Teton Sioux Nez Perce Native American Oral Tradition

  4. “The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky”

  5. “The Sky Tree”

  6. “Coyote Finishes His Work”

  7. “The Earth Only”

  8. “Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666” • Anne Bradstreet

  9. From A Narrative of the Captivity • Mary Rowlandson

  10. Jonathan Edwards Images of God I II III IV “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

  11. Olaudah Equiano Middle Passage from The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano

  12. from “To the Right Honorable…” • Phillis Wheatley

  13. Notes Prelude to the American Revolution

  14. Notes on American Revolution

  15. fromThe Autobiography • Benjamin Franklin

  16. fromPoor Richard’s Almanack • Aphorism • Implied metaphor

  17. “Speech to the Virginia Convention” • Patrick Henry

  18. Thomas Paine

  19. fromThe American Crisis # 1 Spot Passages

  20. Thomas Jefferson

  21. The Declaration of Independence Memory Passage 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. Due Date:

  22. William Bradford

  23. from History of Plymouth Plantation

  24. Edward Taylor

  25. “Huswifery” • Conceit or extended metaphor

  26. William Byrd

  27. fromThe History of the Dividing Line

  28. Extra Notes

  29. Conclusion

  30. Assessment • Test will include: • Multiple choice • Fill-in-the blank • Spot passages • Short answer • Essay

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