Flashback: Visual Rhetoric Skills Notes and Practice: Purpose and

Annotation Historical Context Notes: the Puritan period Assign homework

By the end of class today, we will identify purpose and perform annotation. We will also explain the context surrounding Puritan culture and rhetoric.

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answer the journalist’s questions for this image:

As we read the passage, begin thinking about our journalist’s questions: who, what, when, where, and why.

Mark the prompt and passage as you listen. Make a mark when you think:“I know this means something or answers one of the journalist’s questions!”“I don’t understand this!”

Let’s review . . . We’ll go through the prompt and passage carefully.

Who? – Where did you make marks to answer this question? What types of marks did you make?

What? . . .

When? . . .Where? . . .

Why? . . .

You just completed two of the most important components of rhetorical analysis (or understanding and explaining how an argument works to create meaning)!

PURPOSE – why an author writes . . . you must always find this first!

ANNOTATION – marking important and questionable moments in a prompt and passage as you read . . . We want to look for what parts of the passage stand out the most for the reader.

Puritan: term referring to a number of Protestant groups that (beginning around 1560) sought to “purify” the Church of England. Sometimes referred to as “Separatists”.

Basic desires: Simpler forms of worship and church

organization Religion seen as a personal experience Did not believe the clergy (religious officials) or

government should act as a mediator between a person and God

Individuals formed personal covenants with God (like Adam in the Old Testament)

Pilgrims: a term referring to the first English settlers of the “new world,” specifically the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts

Timeline: Left England for the Netherlands Left the Netherlands for the New World Created the Mayflower Compact on the way Settled Plymouth Colony

Not all Puritans = Pilgrims, but all Pilgrims = Puritans

The Bible equals the literal word of God

All Puritans viewed reading the Bible as necessary

Valued education; why? Established Harvard

College in 1636, originally to train Puritan ministers

Theology = Calvinism

Ideas Morality governs all Protest and rebellion to preserve rights Value of work and education

Events Protestant Reformation in England (to form the Church of

England) Founding of Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay

Colony in the New World Salem Witch Trials

Authors William Bradford Jonathan Edwards Mary Rowlandson

Born in England No formal education Became a Separatist Settled Plymouth

Colony (1620) Elected governor,

served until five years before his death

Mather’s quote about Bradford (p. 58)

Good readers acknowledge a lack of understanding and seek to continually learn.

Your vocabulary this semester will be directed by you and for you.

Don’t make this easy—make it genuine. No easy words!

For Grammar this year, we will be doing flipped classroom learning.

You watch the videos at home. We practice together in class.

Links to lessons are on the class website. http://bshswarren.weebly.comOr on the YouTube station BSHS Neely

Read pages 58 – 61 and 74 and 75 of Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation to answer the following questions:

Who? (1 Complete Paragraph) What? When and Where? Why? (2-3 Complete Sentences per question)

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