Restoration Era

Objectives and Skills  CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).  CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text. 

Objectives and Skills  SL Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks.   W 12.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis or substantive topics or texts using valid reasoning and relative, sufficient evidence.  Skills:  Satire  Irony,  Central Idea,  Point of View

Restoration AKA  AUGUSTAN AND NEOCLASSICAL  Refers to real and imagined similarities between England and its literature in this period (Restoration) and Ancient Rome and its literature.  REASON AND ENLIGHTENMENT  Reveals how people gradually changed their view of themselves and the world.  Prior to the Enlightenment, people were superstitious about earthquakes, eclipses, comets, etc. In the Enlightenment, people began to question the science of such events.

History  CHANGES IN RELIGION  - Deism was born.  Despite scientific curiosity, the masses remained religious.  Christian religion exercised undiminished power over most of Europe.  RELIGION AND POLITICS  Religion determined people’s politics, and vice versa.  Charles II restored the official Church of England and outlawed puritan and independent sects.  WRITERS AND RELIGION  Most writers belonged to the Church of England.  Two dissenters, Bunyan and Defoe, were Catholic.

Swift  Pope and Swift were very influential writers of the 18 th century.  Irony is that this time period is named after its two biggest critics.  Pope and Swift’s writings show that they were appalled by the squalor in art, manners, and morals of the Augustan life.  They were against commercialism and materialism of the time