BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Theme

Essential Questions

The New World / A New Nation

The New World ● Which infuences shaped Colonial America?

● How did Native American and British colonists culturally clash? ● How did the Protestant Reformation infuence colonial immigration? ● What were the main motivating factors of British colonists for coming to America? ● What role did religion, particularly Puritanism, play in developing American culture? ● How can understanding literary devices help modern readers better understand colonial American writers? A New Nation ● How did the philosophy of the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason infuence the founding of America? ● How do the founders use rhetorical devices to persuade others? ● What are the most effective devices to use in argumentation? ● “The Iroquois Constitution” ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 24) ● “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 54) ● “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” by Olaudah Equiano ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 62) ● “The Mayfower Compact: A frst step on the road to independence” by History.com (Newsela) ● “Speech in the Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 80) ● Common Sense by Thomas Paine ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 87) ● Declaration of Independence, National Archives ● Bill of Rights, National Archives ● “Letter to John Adams by Abigail Adams ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 101) ● “The Salem Witch Trials” by EyeWitness to History ● “Freedom of Religion in the New World” by National Geographic Society (Newsela) Media Texts ● The Crucible directed by Nicholas Hytner ● Primary Source Documents for the Salem Witch Trials - University of Virginia Informational Texts

Literary Texts

Unit 1 in Mirrors and Windows : American Tradition . Novels ● The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 71) Native American Myths ● “The Osage Creation Account” ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 11) ● “The Navajo Creation Myth” ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 12) ● “Coyote and the Earthy Monster” ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 21) Plays ● The Crucible by Arthur Miller Short Stories ● “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving Poetry ● “Song of the Sky Loom” ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 15) ● Excerpts from The

● Iroquois Creation Myth, BigMyth ● Navajo Creation Myth, BigMyth

● “Prayer to the Pacifc”

( Mirrors and Windows , p. 17)

● “On Being Brought from

Africa to America” by Phillis Whatley ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 66)

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