1. Warming up with the gravestones of a two famous Americans together
Step 1: Create a Google folder called ______(your last name only) American Lit
Step 2: Share it with me at kleclaire@lps.k12.co.us
Step 3: Within your American Lit folder, create a "1st Semester" folder.
Step 4: Within your 1st Semester folder, create a "Cultural Hysteria" folder.
Step 5: Within that "Cultural Hysteria folder, create a doc called "Puritans" (or something similar).
[Random Step: Sign up for our class Remind account by clicking HERE.]
In your "Puritans" doc, you need three sections, but the organization is up to you.
*If you'd like a note catcher, click HERE and make a copy. Otherwise, experiment until you figure out what works for you. *
Basically, here's what you need:
- What I'm observing about the Puritans and their gravestones
- What I want to know / questions I have about Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials
- What I'm inferring about Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials
3. Walking through a Puritan graveyard with a focus on observing, questioning, and inferring
4. Close reading a Puritan Primer in small groups
- What is the purpose of the primer? What is this thing?
- Besides grammar, what patterns are you noticing? What kinds of words does the primer use? What you make of these words?
- What does the Puritan Primer reveal about the Puritans?
So far, what do you think the Puritans feared? What might they have done to feel safe?
HW:
1. For TOMORROW:
- Post one big, important, unanswered question about Puritans or the Salem Witch Trials on today's class blog (underneath this post, there's a link that says "Comment(s)"--make sure you're logged into Google, then click on that link, write your question, and post it).
- Please ask your parents/guardians to read and sign the course syllabus by Wednesday, August 22.
- Sign up for success! Click HERE to join our class Remind account.
2. If you have not yet done so, please complete the survey I e-mailed to you, linked HERE. Urge your parents to complete theirs, too (linked here). They're not due until Friday, August 24, but the sooner you fill yours out, the sooner I can be a better teacher to you.
3. Make sure you bring your charged LAPTOP to class each day, starting today.
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They are predestined to go to heaven or hell when they are born, so they have to say you live either as you were heading to heaven or hell.
DeleteWhat purpose did the detail on the gravestone serve as?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of death in their religion?
ReplyDeleteWhy do they spell certain words differently? Is their a meaning behind them spelling them like that?
ReplyDeleteDo the belive in a pgan religion? And if so, how to the gravestones relate to it?
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ReplyDeleteWhat kind of punishment do the Puritans believe in? Whatever punishments they believe in, does it reflect on their headstones?
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ReplyDeleteWhat caused the puritans to use the skulls instead of a full being or something with a more personal vibe?
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ReplyDeleteWhere do the Puritans originate from, and did they transfer some of their lands culture on their tombstones?
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ReplyDeleteDo the symbols stand for something in the gravestone?
ReplyDeleteThere are a bunch of different skulls so what makes them choose a certain one?
ReplyDeleteIs there a reason that some of the skulls are different on the gravestones or does it not have any meaning to it?
ReplyDeleteIn MJ's and JW's memorial gravestones there are stories about what they devoted their life to- why on the Puritan's gravestones do they not have something resembling what that specific person devoted their life to?
ReplyDeletewhy do all the puritan gravestones look the same, and why are they not personalized for the person who died?
ReplyDeleteIs there different meaning so the different types of skulls on the gravestones or are they just different designs that don't have a meaning to their social class?
ReplyDeleteAre the puritans trying to show the dark and light side of the person buried through symbolism?
ReplyDeleteWhy do puritans not have the same imagery for death/gravestones as other catholic societies?
ReplyDeleteWhy do the puritans engrave a skull and wings as oppose to one or the other?
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ReplyDeleteWas there a type of social class which made the designs so intricate or were they all equal?
ReplyDeleteIs the reason why they are all the same is due to the high death rate?
ReplyDeleteDo the different designs on the gravestones have different meanings.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Puritan's purpose in life?
ReplyDeleteWhy does there seem to be no remorse for their dead at all?
ReplyDeleteWhy did the Puritans mark exact dates of death on gravestones, yet only used general terms for age instead of a date of birth?
ReplyDeleteWhy do some stones have angle wings and some have bones? Does that mean the people with the wings are the people "going to heaven" and the people buried are the ones "going to hell"?
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