Visions and Voyages EA Notes Encounters and Foundations to 1800

Essential Questions Mayflower Compact 1. Why is the Mayflower Compact one of the great documents of American history? 2. How does the American narrative tradition continue to inform and influence people today? 3. How does one’s beliefs influence the way he/she copes with obstacles that come in life? 4. How does a person’s view of the world affect his/her chances of survival in a challenging situation? 5. How could one’s belief/faith affect the way he/she interprets a reading passage or poem?

“[We] covenant…ourselves together…to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws…for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.”

Essential Questions Of Plymouth Plantation - William Bradford 1. What are the themes that Bradford incorporates within this historical narrative? 2. How does the use of plain style affect the message Bradford wishes to convey? 3. How does Bradford link his experiences with God’s plan in this narrative?

Of Plymouth Plantation - William Bradford Bradford video Notes on Of Plymouth Plantation William Bradford Notes Theme Listen to William Bradford’s account of the Mayflower’s Voyage Chapter 9 textbook p Listen Take notes on the main themes and details to answer the essential questions

I. MAJOR THEMES of Of Plymouth Plantation: 1. God's Providence: Just as God provided for the Israelites fleeing bondage in Egypt, Bradford said God would provide for the Pilgrims fleeing religious persecution in England. a. "And I may not omit her a special work of God's __________________" (chapter 9: A non-Pilgrim sailor bragged that he would throw most of the Pilgrims over the side of the Mayflower for they would die in the voyage. However, this mocking __________ was overcome by disease, and he himself ironically was the _______________ thrown overboard. 2. Total dependence on God: As the Pilgrims near America, Bradford meditates on the Pilgrims' bleak situation (chap. 9): a. "But here I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand half amazed at this ____________ ________________ present condition. [...] Being thus passed the vast ____________, and a sea of ________________ before [them...] they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their _____________________ bodies." Those who will meet them are "savage ________________" ready "to fill [the Pilgrims'] sides full of ______________" (chap. 9). b. The season is also against them since it is "_____________.” Bradford said that in front of them was a "savage" "wilderness" and behind them a "mighty ocean" separating them from "the ___________ parts of the world." In such a miserable condition, Bradford asks, "What could now sustain [the Pilgrims] but the ___________ of God and His _____________?" (chap. 9); in the same way, Bradford answers, God had sustained the Israelites in the Wilderness. 3. The Mayflower Compact (chap. 11) is the first New World document based on the concept of a democratic government: a. "We [...] _______________ and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body ____________ [...] to enact [...] such just and equal ____________ [...] as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general ____________ of the colony" (chap. 11). 4. Half of the Pilgrims died during the first winter, a time of starving (chap. 11). a. Captain Miles Standish is praised. Through the help of a friendly Indian, Squanto--who is called "a special _______________ sent of God" to help the Pilgrims (chap. 11)--the Pilgrims draw up a peace treaty with the ____________. The first _______________ (1621) is celebrated (chap. 12).