EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE

Honors English 10

Introduction

• Have you read your “Introduction”?

Native American Oral Tradition

• Archetype • Huron

• Teton Sioux

• Nez Perce

“The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky”

“The Sky Tree”

“Coyote Finishes His Work”

“The Earth Only”

“Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666”

• Anne Bradstreet

From A Narrative of the Captivity

• Mary Rowlandson

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

• Jonathan Edwards • Images of God

• I

• II

• III

• IV

from The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano

• Olaudah Equiano • Middle Passage

from “To the Right Honorable…”

• Phillis Wheatley

Prelude to the American Revolution

• Notes

Notes on American Revolution

from The Autobiography

• Benjamin Franklin

from Poor Richard’s Almanack

• Aphorism

• Implied metaphor

“Speech to the Virginia Convention”

• Patrick Henry

Thomas Paine

from The American Crisis # 1

Spot Passages

Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of IndependenceMemory 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.

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William Bradford

from History of Plymouth Plantation

Edward Taylor

“Huswifery”

• Conceit or extended metaphor

William Byrd

from The History of the Dividing Line

Extra Notes

Conclusion

Assessment

• Test will include:

– Multiple choice– Fill-in-the blank– Spot passages– Short answer– Essay