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Unit 1: Pre-Colonial/Colonial Test Review English III

“Upon the Burning of our House” by Anne Bradstreet

  • Anne Bradstreet is known as the first accomplished American poet.

  • She lived in Salem with a puritan family.

  • Her brother-in-law secretly published her poems.

  • A puritan wanted to purify the Church of England in 1560.

  • Puritans favored a plain style of writing—inversion (yoda-talk), which sentences with words out of order.

  • In the fire, she lost 800 unpublished writing works, a significant portion of her writing career.

  • End of poem turning point: Shouldn’t be valuing materialistic things, should keep eyes upon God & house in heaven.


“A Narrative of her Captivity” by Mary Rowlandson

  • She was captured by Native Americans and on the verge of starvation.

  • She was held captive for twelve weeks (3 months).

  • The Bible was the aid to her survival. (Hence, the large number of Biblical references within the story).

  • Cooking and sewing helped pass the time.

  • The Wampanoag warriors gifted her a knife.

  • She has three children; the youngest died, and the other two children were sold to others.

  • She was “auctioned” at redemption rock and freed.


“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards

  • The sermon brought about the Great Awakening.

  • His audience had great emotions, such as crying and feeling.

  • John Calvin created Calvinism (predetermination/predestination)

  • The sermon was preached in Enfield, MA, on July 1741.


“The Autobiography” by Benjamin Franklin

  • Aphorisms - morals to live life by

  • Revolutionary ere = age of reason

  • Due to the spread of smallpox on the ships, Cotton Mather created vaccines (which he gave himself). He wrote the first essay on medicine and was a puritan minister and historian.

  • Puritans hated the idea of the vaccine, as it would interfere with God’s plan.

  • All factual information, not creative writing. Ben was a comic writer.

  • Ben left to go to Philadelphia, brothers’ contract.

  • Franklin’s aphorisms/virtues were more complicated than “what you learned in kindergarten.”


“The Crisis No. 1” by Thomas Paine

  • Sixteen pamphlets → Urged Americans to join the fight.

Persuasive writing needs a balance of facts and emotion.

  • Ethos: Ethics/Credibility

  • Pathos: Emotions

  • Logos: Logic & Reasons (Facts)


“Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry

  • The Great Awakening → Speech against Stamp Act."

  • Patrick Henry is known for “Give my Liberty or Give me Death.”

  • Grandson wrote down the speech, pieced parts back together, and published.


Middle Passage Olaudah Equiano

  • The Middle Passage was the trade of raw goods, finished products, and enslaved people between America, Europe, and Africa.

  • Equiano was named after Gustava Vassa, who was a Swedish king.

  • Equiano was taught how to read and write, among the circumstances on the slave ships.

  • Oxygen levels were low in the slave ships; enslaved people thought they would be boiled and eaten, and the bathroom was troubling on the lower decks.

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Unit 1: Pre-Colonial/Colonial Test Review English III

“Upon the Burning of our House” by Anne Bradstreet

  • Anne Bradstreet is known as the first accomplished American poet.

  • She lived in Salem with a puritan family.

  • Her brother-in-law secretly published her poems.

  • A puritan wanted to purify the Church of England in 1560.

  • Puritans favored a plain style of writing—inversion (yoda-talk), which sentences with words out of order.

  • In the fire, she lost 800 unpublished writing works, a significant portion of her writing career.

  • End of poem turning point: Shouldn’t be valuing materialistic things, should keep eyes upon God & house in heaven.


“A Narrative of her Captivity” by Mary Rowlandson

  • She was captured by Native Americans and on the verge of starvation.

  • She was held captive for twelve weeks (3 months).

  • The Bible was the aid to her survival. (Hence, the large number of Biblical references within the story).

  • Cooking and sewing helped pass the time.

  • The Wampanoag warriors gifted her a knife.

  • She has three children; the youngest died, and the other two children were sold to others.

  • She was “auctioned” at redemption rock and freed.


“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards

  • The sermon brought about the Great Awakening.

  • His audience had great emotions, such as crying and feeling.

  • John Calvin created Calvinism (predetermination/predestination)

  • The sermon was preached in Enfield, MA, on July 1741.


“The Autobiography” by Benjamin Franklin

  • Aphorisms - morals to live life by

  • Revolutionary ere = age of reason

  • Due to the spread of smallpox on the ships, Cotton Mather created vaccines (which he gave himself). He wrote the first essay on medicine and was a puritan minister and historian.

  • Puritans hated the idea of the vaccine, as it would interfere with God’s plan.

  • All factual information, not creative writing. Ben was a comic writer.

  • Ben left to go to Philadelphia, brothers’ contract.

  • Franklin’s aphorisms/virtues were more complicated than “what you learned in kindergarten.”


“The Crisis No. 1” by Thomas Paine

  • Sixteen pamphlets → Urged Americans to join the fight.

Persuasive writing needs a balance of facts and emotion.

  • Ethos: Ethics/Credibility

  • Pathos: Emotions

  • Logos: Logic & Reasons (Facts)


“Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry

  • The Great Awakening → Speech against Stamp Act."

  • Patrick Henry is known for “Give my Liberty or Give me Death.”

  • Grandson wrote down the speech, pieced parts back together, and published.


Middle Passage Olaudah Equiano

  • The Middle Passage was the trade of raw goods, finished products, and enslaved people between America, Europe, and Africa.

  • Equiano was named after Gustava Vassa, who was a Swedish king.

  • Equiano was taught how to read and write, among the circumstances on the slave ships.

  • Oxygen levels were low in the slave ships; enslaved people thought they would be boiled and eaten, and the bathroom was troubling on the lower decks.