American Literature

1. American Literature

2. Learning Target RI.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitlyas well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

3. Opening Activity Write down a flaw you have and would like to change but do not share it with a classmate and do not write your name on it. I will be reading these aloud.

4. How did Puritan beliefs influence their writing; what characterizes Puritan writing? Unit 1

5. Metaphor Copy This!!! A comparison of 2 unlike things without using “like” or “as”

6. Conceit Copy This!!! A conceit is an extended metaphor

7. Apostrophe Copy This!!! • An apostrophe is speech to someone or something that can’t respond.

8. Writing Assignment Most people have flaws about themselves that they would like to change. Are our flaws what make us unique or should we always strive to be better human beings even though we will never be perfect? Use text support from Taylor and Turner to explain and defend your answer.

9. Edward Taylor • Before his emigration to America, Edward Taylor worked as a teacher in England. • Upon arriving to Boston in 1668, Taylor entered Harvard College as a sophomore and graduated in 1671. He later became a minister and physician in Westfield, Massachusetts • He is generally regarded as the best of the North American colonial poets. • Because he thought of his poetry as form personal worship, he only published 2 stanzas.

10. Edward Taylor Bio page 81 ‘Huswifery’ page 82 10 EOCT styled Multiple Choice Questions

11. Tina Tuner’s Wish

12. Writing Assignment Most people have flaws about themselves that they would like to change. Are our flaws what make us unique or should we always strive to be better human beings even though we will never be perfect? Use text support from Taylor and Turner to explain and defend your answer.