1. Unit 1 Part 2 A gathering of voices
Literature of Early “America”
Beginnings to 1750

2. Outline of what we’ll be covering…
Readings
6 Selections
Literary Terms
6 Literary Terms This Week
Reading Strategies
5 Reading Strategies

3. I. Readings for this week
A Journey Through Texas
John Edwards
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Anne Bradstreet
from Journal of the First Voyage to America
Excerpts from To Be A Slave
Christopher Columbus
Julius Lester
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

4. Our Authors
From Left (clockwise): John Edwards, Christopher Columbus, Captain John Smith, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, 1750s Slaves, and Anne Bradstreet

5. II. Literary Terms Introduced This Week Narrative Accounts
Defining Narrative Accounts
Exploration Narrations
Journal Accounts
Historical Narrative
Captivity Narrative
Slave Narrative
Puritan Plain Style and Sermon

6. A. Definition Narrative Accounts pg. 56
Tell the story of real life events. Considered nonfiction.
Classified as FIRSTHAND or SECONDHAND
FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS
Created by people who lived through significant historical events
These texts are considered PRIMARY SOURCES
Can be subjective or biased AKA “one-sided perspective”
SECONDHAND ACCOUNTS
Written by researchers who did not DIRECTLY see or experience
Are SECONDARY SOURCES

7. A. Defining Narrative Accounts
Features of Narrative Accounts
Main purpose of narrative accounts is to provide info about events and experiences
Distinctive Style
Narrative Accounts include writer’s personal observations and feelings.
Style: writer’s characteristics way of writing
Tone: writer’s attitude toward the audience and subject.

8. B. Exploration Narrative
Records information about the writer’s own travels to an unfamiliar place.
Provided information to the people back home in Europe.

9. C. Journal Accounts Individual’s day-by-day account of events
Reveals as much about the writer as it does the historical events
As you read, from Journal of the First Voyage to America, look for details that reveal Columbus’s values, hopes, and reactions
Not a reliable record of facts
POINT OF VIEW
Attitudes about the topic/audience; may color the telling of events

10. D. Historical Narrative
Firsthand accounts by people who lived through significant historic events
Firsthand historical accounts are subjective; express the writer’s opinion & bias.

11. E. Captivity Narrative
Records events and personal feelings during the writer’s captivity
FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT

12. F. Slave Narrative
Records the injustices of slavery and often tells how the writer escaped or was freed.
Documents a slave’s experiences from his or her own point of view
Reaches the reader through EMOTIONAL APPEALS

13. G. Puritan Plain Style and Sermon
Writing style of the Puritans reflected that of their lives
Spare, simple, straightforward
Uses short words, direct statements, and reference to the everyday
APOSTROPHE – Speaker directly addresses a person who is dead, personified object, non-human thing
Sermon
Speech given from a pulpit in house of worship
In colonial America’s religious climate, sermon MOST POPULAR LITERARY FORM
Believed poetry should serve God
Poetry appealing to senses or emotions = dangerous

14. II. Reading Strategy Recognize Signal Words Recognize Author’s Purpose
Used to follow order of events
Signal words HIGHLIGHT relationship among ideas
TIME and CONTRAST (usual examples in writings)
Recognize Author’s Purpose
Why a work was written
Why words, details, and events were chosen and included.
Breaking Down Sentences
Looking at a complex sentence and separate the essential parts (WHO and WHAT)
Paraphrasing
Restate in your own words
Use Context Clues
Surrounding words, phrases, sentences – clues that will help you understand meaning of unfamiliar words.