Remember to chose something you like and to let me know if you are having problems with choosing something.
Read the text - 1) give an overview of what the text is about (this is a detailed summary but should also relate to why the author wrote the piece); 2) List and a explain a major theme of the text; and 3) discuss how the text fits the particular period of literature.
Early
American Writing 1491-1800
Unit
Learning goal: Students will demonstrate knowledge of sixteenth-nineteenth century
foundation works of American Literature by choosing one of the four subsections
of this Unit (Native American Experience, Early Explorers and Settlers, The
Puritan Experience, and Writers of the Revolution) researching and reading an
additional story, essay or speech of their choice and creating a video
discussing the theme and how the work fits its particular period.
Scale/Rubric
relating to learning goal:
4 – The student can create a video that explores two or
more of the subsections of this unit and relate it to a theme and time period.
3 – The student can create a video that explores one of
the subsections of this unit and relate it to a theme and time period.
2 – With some direction/help from the teacher the student
can create a video that explores one of the subsections of this unit and relate
it to a theme and time period.
1 – Even with help from the teacher the student is unable to can create a video that explores one of the subsections of this unit and relate it to a theme and time period.
Boston Tea Party - Eye Witness
Ethan Allen and Ticonderoga
The Iroquois Constitution
from "The Crisis" on page 248.
"Letter to John Adams" on page 262
"Letter to the Reverend Samson Occom" by Phyllis Wheatley on page 260
"from the Defense of the Constitutions" by John Adams on page 292
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