Unit 1 Part 2 A gathering of voices

1. Unit 1 Part 2A gathering of voices Literature of Early “America” Beginnings to 1750

2. Outline of what we’ll be covering… • Readings • 6 Selections • Literary Terms • 6 Literary Terms This Week • Reading Strategies • 5 Reading Strategies

3. I. Readings for this week • A Journey Through Texas • Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca • from Journal of the First Voyage to America • Christopher Columbus • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God • John Edwards • To My Dear and Loving Husband • Anne Bradstreet • Excerpts from To Be A Slave • Julius Lester

4. Our Authors From Left (clockwise): John Edwards, Christopher Columbus, Captain John Smith, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, 1750s Slaves, and Anne Bradstreet

5. II. Literary Terms Introduced This WeekNarrative Accounts • Defining Narrative Accounts • Exploration Narrations • Journal Accounts • Historical Narrative • Captivity Narrative • Slave Narrative • Puritan Plain Style and Sermon

6. A. Definition Narrative Accounts pg. 56 • Tell the story of real life events. Considered nonfiction. • Classified as FIRSTHAND or SECONDHAND • FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS • Created by people who lived through significant historical events • These texts are considered PRIMARY SOURCES • Can be subjective or biased AKA “one-sided perspective” • SECONDHAND ACCOUNTS • Written by researchers who did not DIRECTLY see or experience • Are SECONDARY SOURCES

7. A. Defining Narrative Accounts • Features of Narrative Accounts • Main purpose of narrative accounts is to provide info about events and experiences • Distinctive Style • Narrative Accounts include writer’s personal observations and feelings. • Style: writer’s characteristics way of writing • Tone: writer’s attitude toward the audience and subject.

8. B. Exploration Narrative • Records information about the writer’s own travels to an unfamiliar place. • Provided information to the people back home in Europe.

9. C. Journal Accounts • Individual’s day-by-day account of events • Reveals as much about the writer as it does the historical events • As you read, from Journal of the First Voyage to America, look for details that reveal Columbus’s values, hopes, and reactions • Not a reliable record of facts • POINT OF VIEW • Attitudes about the topic/audience; may color the telling of events

10. D. Historical Narrative • Firsthand accounts by people who lived through significant historic events • Firsthand historical accounts are subjective; express the writer’s opinion & bias.

11. E. Captivity Narrative • Records events and personal feelings during the writer’s captivity • FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT

12. F. Slave Narrative • Records the injustices of slavery and often tells how the writer escaped or was freed. • Documents a slave’s experiences from his or her own point of view • Reaches the reader through EMOTIONAL APPEALS

13. G. Puritan Plain Style and Sermon • Writing style of the Puritans reflected that of their lives • Spare, simple, straightforward • Uses short words, direct statements, and reference to the everyday • APOSTROPHE – Speaker directly addresses a person who is dead, personified object, non-human thing • Sermon • Speech given from a pulpit in house of worship • In colonial America’s religious climate, sermon MOST POPULAR LITERARY FORM • Believed poetry should serve God • Poetry appealing to senses or emotions = dangerous

14. II. Reading Strategy • Recognize Signal Words • Used to follow order of events • Signal words HIGHLIGHT relationship among ideas • TIME and CONTRAST (usual examples in writings) • Recognize Author’s Purpose • Why a work was written • Why words, details, and events were chosen and included. • Breaking Down Sentences • Looking at a complex sentence and separate the essential parts (WHO and WHAT) • Paraphrasing • Restate in your own words • Use Context Clues • Surrounding words, phrases, sentences – clues that will help you understand meaning of unfamiliar words.